The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21

place at the command of the business
world the information contained in
the vOluminous collection of data
brought together, classified, indexed,
and partly digested by its reconstruc-
ton research division. 1t also offers
the services of this division in the
procurement of such further special
information as may be desired and
which may aid in the reorganization
Of industry and the resumption of
trade, or which may in any other
manner promote progress in the recon
struction.
Just what the information here Of
fered consists Of may be indicated best
by reference to some of its sources and
by mention of a few subjects under
which the material is subclassifed:
Official Information-The division
has undertaken to chart all the fed
eral official bodies that have a point
of contact with rehabilitation or re-
construction, and to possess tirst-hand,
up-to-date- information as to accom-
plishments and plans of each such body
or bureau. Furthermore, through its
field service" branching out into 1884,
600 state, county, and community or
CARNATIONS, including some 1000 wom-
ems units, the division is enabled to
maintain direct contact with every
sort of state and local reconstruction
tU in iS
of state reconstruction news.
Foreign RecOnstruction-The divi-
sion has access to every important re-
port of foreign reconstruction activity,
proposed or accomplished, that reaches
this country. 1t also has access to the
best information there is on foreign,
commercial, Industrial, and financial
conditions and prospects. A digest is
kept of foreign reconstruction news.
Domestic Business Background-Th
division has official contact with all
the war administration boards, bu-
reaus, and investigation commission, as
well as with the fed4al departments
themselves. Thus it has access to
a great deal of statistical and other
unpublished information, ranging all
the way from domestic prices data
and production estimates, wage data,
labor supply problems; to notes on
foreign production, the foreign labor
and emigration situation, foreign mar
ket conditions. and finance. The divi-
sion has adviees as to which Industries
and which sections of our country are
picking up and making their recon-
Struction readjustmentS the more
promisingly. Of course such a range
of information, covering physical re-
sources and available goods, the money
and credit outlook, relative price and
price tendencies, foreign prospects, and
the trend of actual business develop
ment as represented by reports of
current projects and undertakings
throughout the United States-such
survey must tend to yield more relia-
BILE impressions as to what the fu-
ture may be expected to bring than
can be derived from the more restrict
ed basis Of judgment of the average
business group.
Devices of Clipping Bureaus.
Public Opinion and General Infor-
mation-The division has its own clip
ping bureau, supplemented by the
service of the chief commercial clip
ping bureaus. Thus it is enabled to
Sift practically everything in public
print that has bearing upon any
phase of reconstruction. All this ma
terial is classified, indexed, and made
ready for reference. The industrial
or fin rciaI organization or trade
paper that chooses to tap this resource
will no doubt find unexpected stores
of information. From the siftings of
its incoming information the division
issues a daily digest of reconstruction
news, intended primarily for the use
of the council and government bu-
reauS, but available also 10 other in
situations whose relations to recon
struction problems are such as to en-
title them to the service.
In thus proposing to extend its serv-
ice, the council opens to the business
public probably the largest and most
complete assembly of up-to-the-minute
reconstruction information in exist
ence. The undertaking also implies
the proffer to industry and commerce
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 it is 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 or
invaluable contacts in all directions.
The material and staff now placed at
the service of business was originally
Jp4ended primarily for governmental