Show DATA am LU research division of the council of national defense offers offer s all it its facilities to aid in reorganization of industry and resumption of trade burden of reconstruct tion must fall on industry yn wit hington the april hilll of derenak Us to plu ift at the ho of tile business ha virld ird tho information con tallied it in tile voluminous olum inous collection of tinta brought together indexed Ind iMd timi partly liy its reconstruction research division it also offers tile the services tf a t f this thin divi division glon lit in the procurement of such midi further special information million its may ile bo desired find may aid in ili the ho of industry atilt tile hie of trade or may inn in tiny 1111 other promote noto pro progress grens lit in the ali recon lelon just what lint the lie information litro hero of derod consists of lc ile bv lust st by b reference to home of its ith sources find liy hy mention of a few subjects tinder findur which lie material Is 14 information alio tho llio division hits has undertaken to chart till nil the fell fed prill fill bodies that have mc it point of contact midi or recoil st 1 loll 1011 atilt to possess linstid up to o date information us its to and plans of each such body or bureau furthermore Ill liioi rough igli in beld servI ev branching out into biliti 18 i state county and community or 01 including ollie 1000 units the bo diff damon sIon Is ena enabled bleI to direct contact with etli every sort soil of and local reconstruction activity lit in the hl land A figest la Is kept of state reconstruction foreign tho divi slon blon ling its access to every important report of foreign reconstruct loil activity proposed or accomplished that reaches it ills s count corinti r Y Dom domecle emle Bacic bound ground the hit lini olli cial contact with nil the var mir boards rd bit tle alid investigation its well ell na its with etli the ani federal departments thus it lins has access to it great emit deal dc ail of statistical find other unpublished information ranging nil it e way ay from prices dnton and it I 1 it production estimates avage ngo data labor supply problems to notes on forel gik production the foreign labor nail emigration orran foreign orr ln market conditions and ce efio hilvi slon advises advices ns as to and which sections of oc our country couii try me are big up lip out giitl making their reconstruction st readjustments the moro more of courna such a ann amro 0 of information covering physical resources find available goods the lo 10 money and credit outlook relative cirice pi ice find bilco pilco tendencies for foreign eigil prospects find tile trend of actual bu business development ns as represented by reports of nt current cm rent projects till and undertakings throughput lite united states huoh a survey must tend to yield more rella blo ble impressions ns to what lint the future way inny ile bo expected to bring than lion can bo be derived from lite lie moro more restricted basis of judgment of the average business group croup devices of clipping Bure bureaus auts public opinion atilt general fintor mation tim the division hns hits its own clipping burean supplemented by thol service of the chief commercial cliv ping bur taug thus it la is toi to sift practically everything in III public print that lint lina n bearing upon fifty phase ot all this inn bertal is 3 indexed nail emilu for or reference the itil or organization or wido anver that chooses to tup top tills will no doubt ind find storm of front from tin lie ot of its incoming lite division im lisuch bics a dally finlly digest ll 11 1 C n aws wal intended for tile liy ina taw of tit abc council and bureaus but available also to lo other tir lit stI tullon i dioso whose to 0 o arn st ruction problem saro such kinh us its to td en tit tallo 1 I them to the service it in thus aluis to ostend tend its service th file council opens to tile tie public probably tile lie largest still complete or of up tip to illo rt rc construction in i irit ence the tilso implies the ali proffer to industry tind find collina ervo of the pen services ices or of nn an for funny v months tills lilen iny ing connections and perfecting ang antill flici ll tl for tile securing of every cury lort hoit ot it vital information nt at tho the ml lest 1 poil 0 llo lite moment it Is available through oili h the flirt fact that tit the council of defense itself consists cons lita of six sit seart tarlok of administrative of tile lie government ind find by bi virtue it tho further fact that for than two years ilia council tins has imen een i in il in the ali closest operation cooperation co cc with national state and local cles or private ns well LH P ri public bodies tin the reconstruction research division ani been from its incel inception blell tlell possessed 1 sed ot of contacts lc t s 1 in n 1111 nil thiv material find now flow nt at we HIP service of business as was originally ln lind primarily for use list anti they will of course c alt 1 I 1 11 I 1 to function hellon fil its tio tile I 1 clar 1 i 1 11 r ink house of tion the beginning of ilia coll council nells researches into reconstruction and tc ro matters in ili this and for eign countries followed upon ti memo addressed to tho the six ca biliet Wern wernberg bers forming tho the council by gros gerior clr it clarkson its director on may mn 0 6 1018 1918 the president of lie united states received n copy of tills memo inn luin and shortly afterward author iced lite council to begin its studies in the memorandum lit in question mr clarkson Clark sun after defining tile prime loin nn fig being that of industrial reconstruction in broad terms dihe llio of industry Ind from the llie war ar basis lack buck to tile lie pence thile baals and tile the in to industry Indu str of lie file labor employed in the service of tile united states sald it Is elementary that after tho the war Ani ameci erlen crt will not be the same america already site hns has lit in ninny many directions c brokett with lier her past and she Is being hourly tita ineta Is 19 going on ns as much in lie thought of the country ns as it t Is til ili thoi structure tho the same thing will bo be truc in ili file period lifter after the war now new conditions and relationships eren lite to now new problems pio blenia for nations ns as well ns as for individuals and let nio lite odd add change will bo be ns as gren creot in iho 1110 thought and of tho as ift will lo be 10 in its strictly material problems whether iother Ml these bo be military corn coal iner clat or those having to do with labor let us na grant that lint we shall gaen military success let ua its then not fall into hie file danger trap of allow ins the effects of such success to a ov er shadow consideration odthe higher values which lil cli give a nation its life tile tho civilized world orld today ns its we ve know that lint world inny bo be split to bu be itic che i tic grant attar of if that Is not truo true now it certainly will be true it if tile the ilar continues for another yvor pir it la Is our duty in art anny adequate intellectual 0 11 of af tile tho to ter see to it that the tit gains to an tile the moral ns as well us its tho the veli beang of uio tile clintion shall ri liture with etli the A little reflection will convince ono lint tills 1111 aspect of reckons recons traction Is UK lite fundamental that alint upon it duft niu bo bd predicated nil all buce e plans lit in this direction A avar ago anro ve e were it i great brent lizy loncoln suld A fill hound wont hunt that alint sentence Illum illet our national tile the illation from that lint condition Is already under avny soon tile spirit of hie 1110 nation viii lu be it hurning burning flanick there will be sloughed ort oft tho scales fostered liy by it love loc of luxury and the lie loose bild boastful thinking that hint hillve libin nan ue eurse in taw lust last gen craVon out of the lio turmoil find the flee will coma ome find orderly HIIR find thin lih hig and with end if logic will come IP if itin nils for new diew conditions of living to tho hr new ideals again I 1 ic ft pint here afi alio re f I ilat loll 1011 to tile lie Alli erlea h tiddie 4 itself alid only herein inn call ile bo found tit alir policy mach i 1 shall ile be tile or of tiny 1 for recon michon mi cUon history records lint but rew few fruitful g I 1 I 1 ngen cles that JAI not have h n ve it firm alrin and penetrating quality ill iii the base tile framework ir thet lie 1 Is merely it mutter matter of lite 1110 clu tides lit in organization in wo K meantime tile council find AdviN advisory ory 1111 should nil of fiel ii llen I 1 lure bearing upon tills quen que i 1 nil I find form forin it into it working ith i n i ry it amny ile bo that ng as the hiir war n licurs eairs tta its mla imla i find ns as tile ho issue between ati l lounicy find democracy becomes over ever I 1 nail more terrible tile lio elvi civilized civilised civili 11 ac sed d w 11 id will di ninna that immediately a ui 1 hie 1 1 L wars till nil reconstruction 0 il 1 ilic 1 1 worlds World jC affairs lio be ined upon IL il it ictus of uncoil lincoln that lint no to ninn man Is good K canough to govern iny any other man phout laut lu ut tint lint other ninnis consent to tle 10 lo pud bild of the proper readjustment of it national internal tl onil find metal relationships I 1 offer this though thoi it not for the purpose of injecting in a discussion chero undue accent of it does not heimi g but to emphasize anew that lint none ra or us 8 ann cnn an see the lie enal of tile road atilt filat therefore nil all ahins for reconstruction should ile be so a ns 9 to po permit bulit of flexibility of action nail c elii t I 1 of minor policy nt fit tiny given little the thing now Is to como come to concrete thinking nil ond study of the entire problem Ol rector clarkson immediately began lie organization of a stan staff of experts including 0 ht W V pengue pr ngue of flit anco find barild ng nt at arid Il herbert etbert N shenton of columbia out of tills this staff work grow the reconstruction research division which was organized on 3 1019 with mr Sli shenton enton as its chief tile ilie reconstruction research division said charles 11 II chase a member has s come to feel more find more us its the reconstruction lias hits progressed that its information service should bo be maue made available to the lie lenders leaders of private enterprise just ns as it Is made responsive spon sive to the lie needs of governmental cines the problems find responsibilities ties of reconstruction tend na time goos goes on to fall more and more 1 heavily upon the shoulders of business busin find relatively less upon governmental n machinery of tile ho two grand divisions of reconstruction demobilization tio nand and reorganization tile tho former belongs chiefly toi td the government and the devolves mainly upon private enterprise the former tends tenda f 14 beadily toward its c conclusion tile alio latter broadens bro adena into the foundation of nn an indefinitely expanding future and though the government lias has and will continue to have important responsibilities in connection with the economic reorganization of the nation it must the bo acknowledged that those thos who are to benl acal enl with these aliese problems hand to hand annd are tile directors of bustness business ga undertakings it must be recognized also th that tit we havo have come out upon n new world in ft sense in emerging from the world war our industrial and coin commercial luer elal reorganization must bo be effected under conditions that have undergone considerable alteration during the struggle glo not only price leve levels I 1 s but price ratios also have been changed and tit in ninny funny acnes permanently so new industries have arl arisen markets haic lin e been altered In intern ternA ft dional economic relations are modified fled menus menns of transportation tin und denvon antton havo have been partially revolutionized izadi hut lit nothing lins lias undergone greater change than our social viewpoint find and tile the viewpoint of Ia lolor bori thero there are new opportunities and new atilt promising outlooks out looks hut hilt they are not quite like those of prewar pre war var times the tills liaa been beef shaken some boino of tile alio cher chessmen calell have hn c disappeared abille tille icer veral nl ethem have been moved to arvard or buckward buck ward a little not only have purely buAn business esq factors tours but new duties have it arisen the social responsibility of the ae business enterprise csc has become a much inoria more serious matter than it used io to ile be in III tile the 1 light agh of world developments it Is obvious 3 it that 1 at our bu system 8 1 I el i I 1 ink must st prove its resourceful nesa item it must demonstrate hitherto vent il cal capacity calmelat melt V for I 1 readjustment ent dijt I 1 s if iten t it must show it a disposition to meet bifid satisfy certain pe cles of expectation vilich have recognition during henwar and can no longer be un cire ly ignored or suppressed As secretary redfield says we cannot lio be a law unto ourselves tiny impre fic reri cral and continuous prosperity 1 must munt lie he underwritten under written and if our in ions fire it to avoid tho rit n n trial ot at the bur of public of thullin flap liable to prove inadequate in ili tills this period ini loil or of nothing short 0 of mort open revil by pom poh jessian cs ion of the he fullest available anfor matton matlon will serve in ili view of iliew filets the bu world Is to tile the fullest measure of i that governmental are pre arf pill pared ml to corender render it it Is in the ilia sparl of tant ilia ahn ile hr flies of ilia HIB reconstruction research div 1 now thrown open to the bubb nass public inay bo be ronde by written by telephone or by rio should ile ho to the reconstruction division council of t not nn dional defense find 1 I N 4 ly W washington D n 1 1 |