Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-08
Research Division Of the Counsel of National Defense Offers All Its
Facilities to Aid in Reorganization of Industry and
Resumption Of Trade-Burden of Reconstruc-
ton Must Fall on Industry.

Washington-The council of national
defense announces its readiness to
place at the command Of the business
world the information contained in
the yoluminous collection of data
brought together, classified, indexed,
and partly digested by its reconstruc-
tion 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
lOf industry and the resumption OF
trade, or which may in any other
manner promote progress in the recon
Estruction.
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 point
of contact with disqualification or re-
construction, and to possess first-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
activity in the land. A digest is kept
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.
Domestic Business Background-The
division has official contact with all
the war administration boards, bu-
reaus. and investigation commission as
well as with the federal 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unpublished information, ranging all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 advices 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 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 8
survey must tend to yield more relia.
Bile impressions as to what the flu.
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.
imation-The division has it's own clip
ping bureau, supplemented by the
service Of the chief commercial clip
ping bureaus. Thus it is enabled tc
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 financial organization or trade
paper that chooses to tap this resource
will no doubt find unexpected stores
Of information. From the siftings O,
It's incoming information the division
issues a daily digest Of reconstruction
news, intended primarily for the us,
Of the council and government bu
reaus, but available also to other in
stitutions whose relations to recon
struction problems are such as to en-
title them to the service.
In thus proposing to extend it's serv
ice, the council opens to the bushes
public probably the largest and mos
complete assembly Of up-to-the-minut
reconstruction information in exist
ence. The undertaking also implie
the prefer to industry and commerc