The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-05-23

ready for reference. The industrial
or financial organization or trade
naper that chooses to tap this resource
will no doubt find unexpected stores
OF information. From the Siftings of
its incoming information the division
issues daily digest Of reconstruction
news, intended primarily for the use
of the council and government bu-
reauS, but available also TO other in.
situations whose relations TO recon
structlon 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 NEST
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 pertecting faclli'
ties for the securing of every sort OF
vital information at the earliest posi-
bic 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, ana by virtue Of
the further fact thar 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 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 Informal
ton. Tie beginning of the councils
researches into reconstruction and re-
adjustment matters in this ard for
eign countries followed upon memo
randum addressed TO the six cabinet
members forming the council by Gros-
venor B. GARRISON, its director, On May
6, 1918, The president of the United
States received copy Of this memo
randum. and shortly afterward author
lied the council to begin its studies.
In the memorandum in question Mr..
Infi Iva
problem as being that Of industrial
reconstruction--in broad terms, lhc
reconversion of industry from the
war basis back to the p2ace-time basis
and the reahsorption into industry OF
the labor employed in the service of
the United States-Said:
A Changed America.
st is elementary that after the war
America will not be the same Amer
lea. Already she has in many direc-
tons broken with her past and she
is being hourly transformed. The meta
norphosis 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 II
will be in its strictly material prob
lens, whether these be military, com
mercaI, 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 oy-
ershGdow consideration of the higher
values which give a nation it's life
--~H-a-- ~ know