Show L- L MILITARY MEDICINE TAUGHT IN PLAN OF PREPAREDNESS Physicians and Surgeons Sur Sur- Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals Hos Hos- geo geons s Collected Inventoried B By W W. S. S Gifford GiRard Supervising Director of Field Work Committee on Industrial Prep Preparedness Prepared Prepared- redness red red- ness United States Naval Consulting Board In an interview with Harper Leech s must be bc based basell on organization or organization or- or not on a vague theory atwan of at wan wants ts We must think not only onh In terms of or Sh ships ps r and men of oC vast bodies of ot troops and waving flags but we must apply appl the all an our energies to ordinate co-ordinate sources from front which all nil these things spring More Ioro than Inventories of the thc larger Jarger manufacturing plants are on file In the office of oC the tho council of national defense These reports contain con con- conI I taro tain the information one ono manufacturer would want ant before tying up with an another another another an- an for tor other on a long Jong term contract supplies Wo We know what plants are arc able to supply the needs of the army and navy and what plants could be converted Into a line IIno of ot work necessary for lor th the army and nn navy nave It It-Is' It Is possible to to know from these re reports reports reports re- re ports how man many toolmakers ers there are and where they are aro located what concerns con- con cerns have made mado supplies for lor this and other governments ov A fundamental step to enable plants to turn to quantity production of munitions Is the preparation of ot proper detailed drawings and specifications besides having ready proper gauges and dies l io to start production imme Imme- latel A munitions standards ls board of at experts has been formed to gather necessary InformAtion and expert knowledge regarding reg requirements for quantity production essential to the preparation of the proper drawings and specification by bJ the war department Records of more than physicians phy ph- and surgeons have been collected collected col col- d and hospitals and nurses have been inventoried of military medicine have been heen established In about fifty medical schools and a com eom- committee mItte has been formed for tor the standardization of surgical surg-Ical ments On transportation the American Railway association has formed a comI committee com com- com t I to work worl under supervision of ot Daniel Willard This committee has hasl l learned from General Kuhn president of the war college and Colonel Baker Dalter of the quartermasters quartermaster's department of or orthe the army something as to the probable needs reeds of or the government go in time of war wan al Four subcommittees are working with each ach military department commander com coin i mander so 50 proper plans ma may be definitely deti- deti definitely I completed in advance of any I actual emergency Similar committees covering telephone telegraph and motor transport will bo ho organ organized Im Im- im- im mediately Samuel Is studying the tho proper method of building up an In Industrial in- in reserve through tho the means of which skilled labor will be kept on the Job and not sent to the fighting front As regards raw materials minerals I and metals and supplies Including i food clothing etc we are arc finding ou out t i ithe the approximate amount of or materials I needed to put an assumed force torce of or a million men In tho the field With this as a basis basis it it will be possible possible possible pos pos- sible to estimate the amounts of raw materials needed and to discover weak I points To get these supplies for tor the government gOVernment government gov gOV- I the council proposes to or organize organize or- or I every industry and from these organizations o obtain the expert advice and service necessary to obtain most cheaply every item needed I If an emergency occurs before belore these organizations arc are completed it Is planned to organize In ever every city a small committee of business men to operate co with the quartermasters quartermaster's department of the thc army in getting supplies |