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Show WAR I1E0RMATI0N IS BEING GATHERED IN OGDEN Lieutenant R. E. Davis, Engineers, United States 'Army, and staff, having offices in the Forest Servico building, have, during the past four months, complied Information of military value on some twenty-five thousand square miles in surrounding states; Tho Ogden Og-den office is under the iujisdiction of tho western departmentejyith headquarters head-quarters in San Francisco. Lieutonant Davis reports that requests re-quests made by the war department to individuals and corporations are everywhere met with a remarkable spirit of co-operation, and the data, collection of which entails no small amount of labor, is cheerfully and promptly furnished to the war department. depart-ment. Tho work, necessitating as it does a minuto study of the resources the country, should bo of value, not only to the combatant and non-combatant branches of the United States army in time of war, but should bo an important im-portant source of information for those who are already at work in Washington Washing-ton considering problems of tho after-war after-war period of reconstruction. A letter recently received by Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Davis from Dr. F. M. Newell, former director of the United States Reclamation, service, and now. vice-chairman vice-chairman of the committee on reconstruction, recon-struction, national research council, indicates that reconstruction or rebuilding re-building along normal peace lines of tho activities, mental and physical, which prevailed before the war, with such improvement or advance in Ideals, methods and machinery as has been made possible by our increased commercial activity and other war experiences, ex-periences, is already receiving attention atten-tion by this body of picked scientists of the nation. It is quite as necessary that a nation be prepared for peace as that it be prepared for war, and it is to bo expected that when the United Unit-ed States emerges from this world war, sho will avoid the period of depression de-pression that has In the past almost Invariably followed a great conflict. |