The Pulaskian., 1919-05-09
oeoarc Division the Council of National Defense Offers All It's Facilities to Aid in Reorganization of Industry and Resumption of Trade-Burden of Reconsruc
 ton Must Fall on Industry

or the services of an organization that TOT many months has been establish. ing connections and perfecting facili- ues Tor the securing of every sort ot vital information at the earliest possi- ble moment 1t is available. Through the fact that the council of national defense itself consists of six secre- tarles of administrative departments or 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 we'll as public bodies, the reconstruction research division has been from it's inception possessed ot invaluable contacts in all directions.
 The material and staff 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- tion. The beginning of the councils researches into reconstruction and re- adjustment matters in this and for elgn countries followed upon a memo randum addressed to the six cabinet members forming the council by Gros- Venor B. Clarkson, it's director, on May 6, 1918. The president of the United States received a copy of this memo randum, and shortly afterward author 1zed the council to begin its studies.
 In the memorandum in question MT. Clarkson, after defining the prime problem as being that of industrial reconstruction-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:
 Tt Is elementary that after the war America will not be the same Amer lea. Already she has in many direc- tions broken with her past and she is being hourly transformed. Tine meta morphosis is going on as much in the thought of the country as it is in the structure; the same thing will be true in the period after the war. New conditions and relationships ere ate new problems for nations as well as for individuals; and, let me add, the change will be as great in the thought and ideals of the nation as it will be in it's strictly material prob lens, whether these be military, com mercial, or those having to do with labor.
 Let us grant that we shall gain military success. Let us then not fall into the danger-trap of allowing the material effects of such success to ov- ershadow consideration of the higher values which give nation its life. The civilized world today, as we know that world, may be said to be one great altar of sacrifice. If that is not true now, it certainly will be true if the war continues for another year. It is our duty in any adequate intel leetual conception of the task to see to it that the gains to the moral as we'll as the material well-being of the nation shall square with the sacrifice. A little reflection will convince one that this aspect of reconstruction is the fundamental aspect and that upon it must be predicated all successful plans in this direction.
 "A year ago we were great, lazy democracy. Lincoln said A fat hound won't hunt That sentence illumined our national disease. The transfor- nation from that condition is already under way. Soon the spirit of the na- tion will be a burning flame. There. will be sioughed off the scales fostered by love of luxury and the loose and boastful thinking that have been our curse in the last generation. Out of the turmoil and the sacrifice will come discipline and orderly living and think ing; and, therefore, with sequential and irresistible logic will come de mands for new conditions of living commensurate to the new ideals. Again I repeat, here is the fundamental re- construction to which the American government should address itself, and orlv herein can be found the policy which shall be the groundwork of any