The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-05-09
Research Division of the Council Of National Defense Offers All Its
Facilities to Aid in Reorganization Of Industry and
Resumption Of Trade-Burdei Of Reconstruc-
ton Must Fail on Industry.

Of the services of an organization that
for many months has been establish.
Ing connections and perfecting faclli.
ties for the securing OF every sort OF
vital information at the earliest posi-
BILE moment 1t Ia available. Through
the fact that the council. of national
defense itself consists Of six secre-
taries of administrative departments
Of the government. and by virtue Of
the further fact that for more than
two years the council has been en-
gagged In the closest cooperation with
national, state, and local agencies of
private as well as public bodies, the
reconstruction research division has
been from its Inception possessed OF
invaluable contacts In all directions.
The material and stair now placed at
the service Of business was originally
intended primarily for governmental
use, and they will, Of course. continue
to function as the governmental clear
ing house Of reconstruction informa-
ton. The beginning Of the councils
researches into reconstruction and re.
| adjustment matters In this and for.
eign countries followed upon a memo
randum addressed to the six cabinet
members forming the council by Gros-
venor B. Clarkson, Its director, on May
6, 1918. The president Of the United
States received a copy Of this memo
randum. and shortly afterward author
lied the council to begin its studies.
In the memorandum In question Mr..
Clarkson, after defining the prime
problem as being that of Industrial
econstruction-in broad terms, the
reconversion of industry from the
war basis back to the peace-time basis
and the reabsorption into industry Of
, the labor employed in the service Of
the United States-said:
ut is elementary that after the war
J / America will not be the same Amer
) lea. Already she has In many direc-
} tons broken with her past and she
r is being hourly transformed. The meta
mOrphosis is going on as much in
a the thought Of the country as 1t Is
!, In the structure; the same thing will
n be true in the period after the war
r New conditions and relationships ere
: ate new problems for nations as wei
l. as for individuals; and, let me add
s the change will be as, great in thu
e thought and ideals of the nation as 1
l. will be in its strictly material prob
e lens, whether these be military, com
e mercial, or those having to do witt
e. labor.
y LET US grant that we shall gail
d military success. Let us then not fal
ID into the danger-trap Of allowing in
D. material effects of such success to oy
Of ershadow consideration Of the highe
Is values which give a nation its Lift
a The civilized world today, as we kno'
a. that world, may be said to be cil
u great altar of sacrifice. If that Is nc
IN true now, it certainly will be true
It. the war continues for another yea
,e 1t is our duty in any adequate int
lectual conception Of the task to sc
to it that the gains to the moral 9
,r- well as the material well-being Of tn
10 nation shall square with the sacrific
he A little reflection will convince or
p- that this aspect Of reconstruction
to the fundamental aspect and that upc
lie 1t must be predicated all successf
ny plans in this direction.
Ia. "A year ago we were great. la;
de democracy. Lincoln said, "A fat hour
ial won't hunt That sentence illumin'
de our national disease. The transfC
'ce nation from that condition is alrea,
res under way. Soon the spirit Of the n
of tion will be burning flame. The
on will be sloughed off the scales foster
on by love Of luxury and the loose al
Use boastful. thinking that have been o
bu. curse in the last generation. Out
in. the turmoil and the sacrifice will cor
on. discipline and orderly living and thin
en-. ing; and, therefore. with sequent
and Irresistible logic will come I
nv. mands for new conditions of livi
ESQ commensurate to the new ideals. Aga
ost l repeat, here is the fundamental
ute construction to which the AmeriC
list. government should address itself. a
lies only herein can be found the pol
rec which shall be the groundwork of a