The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-06-20
PLACES REIMBURSEMENT DATA At
COMMAND OF THE BUSINESS WORLD
Research Division of the Council of National Defense Offers All It's
Facilities to Aid in Reorganization of Industry and
.i Resumption Of Trade-Burden of Reconstruc.
ID a ton Must Fall on Industry

paper that chooses to tap this resource
will no doubt find unexpected stores
of information. From the slftings OF
its incoming information the division
issues a daily digest of reconstruction
news, intended primarily for the use
of the council and government bn-
reaus, but available also TO 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 prefer to industry and commerce
of the services of an organization that
FOR many months has been establish
ing connections and perfecting faclll.
ties for the securing of every sort OF
vital information at the earliest posi-
BILE moment 1t 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 we'll 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 nj
the service of business was originally
Intended primarily for governmental
use. and they will, of course, continue
to function MS 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 memo
members forming the council by Gros-
yenOr h. Clarkson, its director, on May
G, 1913. 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.,
Clarkson. after defining the prime
problem as being that OF Industrial
reconstIuctlon-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-sald:
A Changed America.
ut is elementary that after the wal
America will not be the same Amer,
lea. Already she has In many dlrec
lions broken with her past and she
is being hourly transformed. The meta
morphosls Is going on as much II
the thought Of the country as 1t 1,
In the structure; the same thing vii
be true in the period after the war
New conditions and relationships ere
ate new problems for nations as wei
as for individuals; and, let me add
the change will be as great In IN,
thought and ideals of the nation MS 4
will be in It's strictly material prob
lens, whether these be military, com
merclOl, or those having to do will
labor.
LET us grant that we shall gail
military success. Let us then not fal
into the dangertrap Of allowing ih'
material effects Of such success to ov
ershadow consideration of the higho
values which give nation It's life
The civilized world today ms we know
that world, may be said to be ON,
great altar Of sacrifice. If that Is no
true now, IL certainly will be true |
the war continues for another year