Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

|been any tendency on the part of the
council to cling to activities which
could best be directed elsewhere. That
policy has been consistently maintain
ed and is in harmony with one OF the
councils prime functions, namely, to
act as sort of proving ground for
problems dealing with the public and
respect of the national defense
The contribution of the government
of the councils great war time field
organization, wholly non partisan in
make-up was SO remarkable in the pic
ture II presented of powerful citizen
ship alert and ever busy in the support
of its armies, that there is set down
sent to the states by the director of the
THE ARMIES AT HOME
Here at home there have been arm
les. too. And they have performed a
mighty task. They We're created with
out mandates: they were welded into
cohesive form by suggestion rather
than by order: they were galvanized
from beginning to end by the mighty
force of voluntary cooperation; and
they went into the home stretch with
power which nothing could have stop
ped. These We're the armies of pro-
duction--productio not alone of guns
and steel plates and soldiers shoes,
not alone of visible things, but pro-
duction of energy. OF thought that made
the sword a flaming thing; of opti-
mism to offset the stupid pessimism
of people who criticized but who had
nothing tangible TO contributes; of the
immortal spirit of ''carry on OF. above
all, unifica ton. For it has only been
within the past year that this nation
has completely realized that after ali
it is, properly introduced to itself, but
a partnership of 100.000.000 persons
Out of all this has grown one of the
great lessons of the war to America;
the interpendency of social effort, the
effort which in the last equation must
keep nation wholesome in peace and
which must furnish the continuing
tireless force behind the cutting edge
in time Of war
This, then, was broadly our task
here at home.
Sin the vast work of unification. in
the carrying from Washington to the
people the messages and mea sures OF
the national government, and in the
transmission back to Washington OF
the moods and aspirations of a people
at war; the council of defense system
with its more than 100000 units, set
down In almost every hamlet of the
country, played definite stirring and
highly fruitful part. One of the phras-
es with which congress created the
council OF national defense is this: The
creation of relations which will render
possible in time of need the immediate
concentration and utilization of the re-
sources of the nation 1t was under
this authority that the nation wide
council OF defense system was brought
into being. just as it was possible as
well as necessary for the council under
under the same authority to bring
about the mobilization Of our indus
trial, labor, and scientific forces for
the national defense-which is another
story.
During the period covered by the re-
port the council itself, composed of the
secretaries of war, navy, interior, ag-
riculturc, commerce and labor, held an
average of two meetings month
Shortly after the armistice was signed
the council held its 143d meeting since
its preliminary organization in The
winter of 1916.
DIVERSE ACTIVITIES
Aside from it's regularly constituted