Show I I TACKLE FACKLE GREAT PROBLEMS OF WAR What Members of Advisory Committee Committee Com Corn of Defense Have Undertake Undertaken Un Un- to Do BIG MEN GIVING SERVICES Co the Industries of the Country So That Each Ca Can Render Ren Ron der tier the Limit of Its Potential Service to Government By EDWARD B. B CLARK LARK Washington Probably Probably a thousand times s a day n this question Is asked ed by visitors to Washington What Is the tile Council of National Defense It Is apparent also from letters that are arc received In the capital that th the exact nature of f the council counci and of Its Its great advisory committee Is not generally generally gen gen- nor nOlO thoroughly understood The Thc I Council of National Defense Itself consists consists consists con con- simply of six cabinet officers the secretaries of war Avar nn navy Interior agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture commerce nn anti and labor The Thc advisory ad ml- committee of national defense which Is affiliated with the Ole council council consists of a commission of seven busIness business business busi busI- ness In men inen en with the departments assigned assigned- to them are as follows Daniel Villard transportation and communication president ft Ohio railroad chairman Howard E. E Coffin munitions and manufacturing Including ln I standardisation and ana Industrial relations vice president Hudson Motor company Julius supplies including lug ing clo clothing etc president Sears Roebuck Co 00 M. M 1 raw materials minerals and und m metals banker Dr Godfrey engineering and education president Drexel Institute Samuel Gompers labor lubor Including cons conservation of health and welfare of workers president Amerl American 1 n Federation Federa Federa- don tion of Labar Dr Franklin Martin medicine and surgery Including general sanitation secretary General American College of Surgeons Chicago All Fre Freely ly Undertaken Upon these men devolved the task of so or co-or co the Industries of the time country countr that each ench and all nil figuratively figura figura- speaking could render to the government the tile limit of its potential service at fit the pressing of of ot ota ofa a button Less than thun salaried persons persons are working for the time government under the advisory committee of national defense de dc- de- de of of the members of the committee committee com corn Itself only one or two have even cven r rendered expense bills From to men whose Incomes from their business ranges from to more than a year are are giving their services Ices to the government that the United States ma may perform Its share of of winning the the theDr war Dr against Ger Gel many ny The vital thing tiling of nj first filst was to ascertain ascertain as as- certain the needs of the thc country countr to learn the things Industry must supply to put our soldiers Into the field and keep them there and to supply the needs of ourselves and our allies A dozen lozen major subjects Instantly suggested suggested sug sug- geste l themselves when the business businessmen men began to put their heads together er the best use to be made of the Ule railroads both for tor the transportation of troops and of material to keep our Industries Ies going and our citizens fed the part the waterways should play pIn In I the scheme of or transportation the thc mobilization mo mo- mo- mo m of military and industrial resources the time increase of agriculture and manufacture to meet the time abnormal abnor abnor- mal mai demands Incident to war the thc building of or ships and und the time compilation of or an nn enormous normous mass of data from fram which till any reasonable question wl wi h li reference to military and Industrial Capacity Capacity Ca Ca- u- u could be answered S R an and ano Telephones Already the time miles of or ra railroad rail l- l road rond In the time United States have hern benn virtually llly commandeered by the thc adIS adI adU- S sory 1 committee which through Chairman Clint Chair r man Willard can cnn issue to the them ll more arbitrary orders than thun President Wilson Wil Wil- son ion son under the thc most drastic law probably nb ably would d care to Issue This is a voluntary service of the time railroad and admittedly possibly is Intended ns as in tn answer to some of time the railroad criticisms IS In congress One man also now governs the time telephone tele tele- phone Theodore phone Theodore N. N Vail president of oC the time Telephone and Telegraph Telegraph Tele Tele- graph company For time the first firt time In iii telephone history regulars and Independents Inde pen are nrc working side by side for time good of or the country More than miles of or wire have been set aside for the time special use of the time army and auth the time navy and some of the other departments Modern methods for Cor using the telephone are being Introduced Introduced introduced Intro Intro- and new s systems stems installed one of which will cover completely the time sl signal nal service In ill the time field Washington Washing ton Is being taught how ho hoto to to use the telephone properly and a new central office with a n capacity of lines Is being provided In In the mobilization camps and among the tIme lighthouses and coast coust guard stations new new telephone facilities are being created requiring miles of or submarine cn cable lc of pole anti and more than timan miles of wire The soldiers of the National Guard Guari who are gum guarding railroad bridges and water supply systems shave been put In touch with headquarters If secrets could be told the time story tory of the extension of the time telephone s service In Inthe Inthe inthe the navy would make the people sit situ u up |