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Ir AGE FOUR WashingtonThe council of national defense announces Its readiness to place at the command of the business world the Information contained In the votominous collection of data brought together, classified, indexed, and partly digested by Its reconstruct tlon research division. It also offers the services of this division In the procurement of such further special Information as may be desired and which may aid In the reorganisation of industry and the. resumption of trade, or which may in any other manner promote progress In the recon struction. Just what the information here of fered consists of may be Indicated best by reference to some of Its sources and by mention of a few subjects under which the material subdasstfied: Official InformationThe division has undertaken to chart all the fed eral official bodies that have a point of contact with demobilisation or re construction, and to possess first-hand, up-to-date information as to accom plishments and plans of each such body or bureau.' Furthermore, through its "field service," branching out into 184,- 000 state, county, and community oft sanitations. Including some 1,000 worn? en's units, the division is enabled to maintain, direct contact with every sort of state and local reconstruction activity in the land. A digest Is kept of state reconstruction news. Foreign Beconstructlon-The divi sion has access to every Important re port of'foreign reconstruction activity, proposed or accomplished, that reaches: this country. It also has access to the: best information there is on foreign, commercial, Industrial, and financial conditions and prospects. A digest Is kept of foreign reconstruction news. Domestic Business BackgroundThe division has official contact with air the war administration boards, bu reaus, and investigation commission, as well as with the federal departments themselves. Thus It has access to a great tfeu of statistical and other unpublished Information, ranging all the way from domestic prices data and production estimates, wage data, labor supply- problems to notes on 'foreign production, the foreign labor ?and emigration situation, foreign mar ket conditions, and finance. The divi sion has advices as to which Industries and which sections of our country are picking up and making their recon struction readjustments the more 'promisingly. Of course such a range of Information, covering physics! re sources snd available goodsv the taoney: and credit outlook, relative price and price tendencies, foreign prospects, and the trend of actus! business develop ment as represented by reports of current projects and undertakings throughout the United States-Tsuch a survey must tend, to yield more rella ble. impressions as to what the fu ture may be expected to bring than can be derived'from the more restrict ed basis of Judgment of the average business group. Devices of Clipping Bureaus. Efublic Opinion and General Infor- mationThe division has Its own clip ping bureau, supplemented by the service of the chief commercial clip ping bureaus. Thus it is enabled to sift practically everything in public print that baa a bearing upon any phase of reconstruction. All this ma terial Is classified, indexed, and made ready for reference. The industrial or financial organization or trade paper that chooses to tap this resource will no doubt find unexpected stores of information. From the sittings of Its incoming Information the division issues a dally digest of reconstruction news, Intended primarily for the use of the council and government bu reaus, but available also to other In stitutions 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-theml|rat reconstruction Information In exist ence. The undertaking also implies the proffer to Industry and commerce of the services of an organisation that for many months has been establish ing connections and perfecting facul ties for the securing of every sort ot vital Information at the earliest possi ble moment it 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 gaged in the closest co-operation with national, state, and local agencies of private as well 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 at the service of business was originally Intended primarily for governmental use, and they will, of course, continue to function as the governmental clear ing house of reconstruction informa tion. The beginning of the council's researches into reconstruction and re adjustment matters in this and for* .elfjo countries followed updn a Si.Ss.an*^ COMMAND OF THE BUSINESSWORLD Research Dmnon of the Courfcil of NationalDefense, Offer* All IU Facilities to Aid iiiReoiBfairitkm of Industry and i Resumptionof TradeBurden of R*cqntruc tion MustFall on Industry. ^^IPP^PS&PHW mmu random addressed' to the six cabinet members forming the council by Gros venor B. Clarkson, its director, on. May J8, IOia The president of the United States received a copy of this memo randum, and shortly afterward author ized the council to begin its studies. In the memorandum In question Mr. (Clarkson, after defining the prime problem- as being that of Industrial, reconstruction-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 Statessaid: A Changed America. "It Is elementary that after the war America will not be the same Amer ica. Already she has in many direc tions broken with her past and she. is being,hourly transformed. The meta morphosis is going on as much In the thought of the country as it is In the structure the same thing will be true in the period after the war. New condition* and relationships cre mate new problems for nations as well as for individuals and. let me add, ithe change will- be- a* great in the* {thought and ideals of the nation as it jwlll be In its strictly material prob Uems, whether these be military, com mercial, or those having* to do with (labor. .:V,-:-:/^V-VX .VA "Let ufc grant that we shall gain military success, I*s* ua- then not fait: Into the dan^e&trap of allowing- the sOMtedsletfects ot such, iuccesa to QV erahadfew conspiration of the hlghes values whtctt give a nation: Its life. The civilized, world today as we know that world, may be said to be one great altar of sacrifice. It that is not true now, It certainly will be true If the war continues for another year. It is our duty In any adequate intel lectual conception of- the task- to see to it that the gains to the moral as weH as the material well-being of I he nation shall square with the sacrifice. A little reflection will convince one that this- aspect of reconstruction is the fundamental aspect and that upon, it must be predicated all successful' plans in this direction. "A year ago we were a great, laxy democracy. Lincoln said, 'A fat bound, won't hunt.' That sentence illumined: our national disease. The transfor mation from tlwt condition Is already under way. Soon-the spirit of the na tion wHi- be a burning flame. There wHl be-alojighed off the scales fostered by a love of luxury and tbe loose and boastful thinking that have been our curse in the last generation. Out of the turmoil and the sacrifice will come discipline and orderly living and think ing and, therefore, with sequential and irresistible logic will come de mands for new conditions of living commensurate to the new ideals. Again I repeat, here is the fundamental re construction to which the American government should address itself, and only herein can be found the policy which shall be the groundwork of any enlightened organisation for recon struction. "History records but few fruitful governmental agencies that did not have a firm and penetrating quality at the base. Raising the "framework" for the task is merely a matter ot me chanics In organization. In the meantime the council and advisory commission should accumulate all of the literature bearing upon this que.* tlon and form It into a working li brary. It way be that as the war nears its ends and as the issue between au tocracy and democracy becomes ever sharper and more tjerrible, the civilized world will demand that immediately at the war's close all reconstruction of the world's affairs be based upon the dictum of Lincoln that no man is good enough to govern any other man without that other man's consent, to the end of 'approaching the proper readjustment of national, interna tional, and racial relationships. I offer this, though, not for the purpose of Injecting idealism in a discussion where undue accent of It does not be long, but to"emphasise anew that none of us can see the-end of the road and that therefore all plans for re construction etoutd e bufided so as to permit at eexfeiaty of action and even of minor policy, at any given time. The main .thing now is to come to concrete thinking and study of the entire preblem,'' Director Clarkson immediately be gan the organisation of staff of ex perts, including O. M. "W. Sprague, professor of finance and banking at Harvard, and Herbert N. Stents* 4xf Columbia. Out of this staff work grew the reconstruction research division, which was organised en February 8, 1W9, with Mr. Shentew as "%-&- rtta &1t1rtrtrtotMr(r&trirh1itrtrtib^ chief. Burden dies for Business. "The reconstruction research divi- sion," said Charles, EL Chase, a mem ber* "has come to feet more and move, as the reconstruction *a progressed, that its Information service should be made available to the leaders of pri vate enterprise. Just *s It is made re sponsive to the needs governmental agencies. The problet w* respon- on sibilities of reconstruct0 0 tend iota on, to fin a w** and -jaw* THE BEMITWl DAILY PIONEER heavily upon the SUOBWWS of busi ness and relatively less upon govern mental* machinery. Of the two grand divisions of- reconstruction, demobiliza tion and reorganisation* the former be longs chiefly to the government- and tun- latter devolves mainly upon- pri- vate enterprise. Tea former tends steadily toward Its conclusion tbe latter broadens into the foundation of an indefinitely expanding future. And though, the. government has* and will continue to have, important* re spensibilitlen in connection with the economic reorgantsatioo of the.nation, it must ber acknowledged that those* who am to deal? with these problems handftorband?attbedirector* of. bjosi ness undertaking* "It mpst' be^Mwojnjaenv also, that we have coajfr out upon a. new world, in a sense* In emergiojk from the world wan Our tndnamai and* com mercial reorganisation must be effect ed under conditions that have under gone considerable alteration during tbe struggle. Not only price levels, but price ratios also, have been changed, and In many cases perma nently so. New Industries hare arisen markets have been altered interna tional economic rdatfonsvar* modified means of transportation and-communi cation have been partially revblutiou Ixed hut. nptbJuftbaa undergone great er change than our social "Viewpoint, and especially the viewpoint of labor. There are new opportunities and new and promising outlooks, but they, are not quite like those of. pre-war times. The chessboard-has- been-sbaken some of the chessmen have disappeared, while several other* have been moved forward- or backward a little. Not only bavepureiy business,fao tore altered but new duties have arisenthe socialresnonrtbiUtyrOftbe business enterpriseihas become a much mora serious matter than Ifc used to be. In the light o$ world develop ments it is otwteas t&a* our business system muse prove its. reeourceful hess it must! demonstrate hitherto tmrevealsd capacity for readjujtment .it must show a dlspositip^*) meat aad satisfy certain species of expectation which: have gained recognition durinj the^ war and can h Ioo|er be uncere moniously ignored or snppwssed. As Secretary Redfield says: We cannot be a law unto ourselves any more.' General and continuous prosperity must he underwritten and guaranteed, If Our institutions are to avoid the risk of a trial at the bar of public discontent. Rules of thumb are liable to prove inadequate in this, period of readjustment. Nothing short of alert open-mlndedness, reinforced by pos session of the fullest available infor mation, will serve, in view of these facts the business world Is entitled to the fullest treasure oL. assistance thai governmental agenctijr are pre pared to render It. It Is in the spirit of timt principle that tbe,files of ihe couuctl's reconstruction research divi sion are now thrown openJto the busi ness public." 5^^ -Inquiries may be made- by written communication:, by telephone, or by personal reprtelentstive. Bequests should be addressed to the Reconstruc tion Research Division, Council of Na tional Defense*- 18th an4r .streets, N. W., Washington. D. Doctor Thinks He Has Diabetes Cure. New TorlcDr. Thomas WetH ster Edgar, 786 West End ave nue, asserted that he had dis covered a cure for diabetes. "First," he said, "I convinced myself that diabetes is caused by-, functional, defects to.Jhe pancreasby the failure of es sential parts ot the pancreas to do their work. "I tried the blood of rabbits and found what I wanted. In obtaining the blood I first put the rabbit upon a treadmill and keep It there until It reaches a stage of'fatigue. Then I draw the blood, and after heating It to 60 degrees centigrade sepa rate the. corpuscles from the serum. When the serum has been treated after the method I have discovered, I inject It immediately subcutaneously. "I have attained success in 65 per cent of my cases and I have had 100 cases. I do not say that the cure is infallible, but I am now certain that It will work in most cases, particularly when the patient observes the rules laid down an,d undergoes i faithful treatBaent., i BUPpega9JttWW9PWWWHH COFFEE PRICE MOT DECLINING Witt Oo to-SO Cents er Higher, Roasters' Head Says at Clave land Convention. I Cleveland, O.The price of coffee fef not going to be cheaper for a whBe according to a statement by Carl W. Brand ef Cleveland, president of the National Coffee Roasters' association, who presided at a sectional meeting here of 75 coffee roasters from Ohio, western Pennsylvania, Indiana and etrtbera Michigan. Coffee has ad vanced In price on account of a severe frost in Brasil. Mr. Brand said, and he would not be surprised to see good coffee retail at 50 cents a pound and perhaps higher in thp near future. i* xAHr-^A .*S *s ..-fci-efcttsj*"1- Sc^so. ie*tj* Boy Kills Wolf. Toronto. Kan.Lloyd Jamison, four killed a wolf with a stone and a clttb. while htmttag rabbits. The carcass was vm heavy to carry hoaeev but hn auccetfeW h* dragging It, Prosaic Ispahan, One, of the most tenacioo.n land marks of greatness Is the mosque col lege nt Ispahan, Persia. Here wise men and students come to occupy little cells and ponder on the complexities of Mohammednh culture. Jn its first years the college attracted men of such distinction that the titled lady who en dowed it considered it a privilege to come each week with hey court at tendants and cart away the laundry of the learned men. Unfortunately the popularity of the college waned, pos sibly due to the fact that the titled lady eventually ceased managing the college wash. The only place la 'Ispa han where affairs of today thrust themselves forward Is the bazar., it is not. a romantic bazar, compared to others of the East. ,Any reasonable de. sire can be fulfilled in the Ispahan shopping district. To buy a tooth brush-or teacup from a turbaned sales man, and in proximity to an evil-eyed camel is. an interesting, sometimes an exciting experiment' E When you feel all-itt, no ap petite, no ambition, almost wiah you were dead. Your diges tive system is upset, stored up poisons are sapping your vital ity, your energy is strangled. Nature-and science hftve pro duced a real lremody, "Hoiiis ter*S ifocky Mountain Tea,'' a combination of life-giviiig herbs for the relief of constipa tion, stomach and bowel trouble, Expelling the poisons and creating new vigor. You will feel your old self again, vagorous and happy. Cost trifling, benefit surprising. Get a package today. SAVE ithe Leather KeepYourShoesNeat tlQUIOS ANDPA5TCS FOR BIACK VWHITE,TAN ANDOX-BICOO (DARK BROWN)SHOES sJMt r.CDAUXVCOS^OItCflOHS irg See here,* I want to remind you about that small chew of this good tobacco. It tastes better because it's good tobacco. Its quality saves you part of your tobacco money. It goes further and lasts longer. a the Goo THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW^ Put ut in two style* RIGHT GUT is a short-cue tobacco W-B GUT is along fcne-cut ^tobacco 4-J^-^ tj.'Jt^W 1 judge ^mm~ Starving in the Acid-Stomach Steals Strength and Good Feelings From Millions One of Hie worst features of acid stomach is that very often it Iiterauy starves its victims in the midst of plenty. And the strange thing about it is that the people vrth acid stomachs seldom know what their trouble really is. No matter how good or wholesome the food may be, or hovr much they eat, they do not gain in strength. This is clearly explained by the fact that-an acid-stomach cannot properly digest food. Instead of healthy, normal digestion, the excess acid causes the food te sour and fer ment. Then when this mass of sour, fermented food, charged with excess acid, passesinto the Intestines, it be comes the breeding place for all kinds of germs and toxic poisons, which in turn are absorbed into the blood and in this way distributed throughout -the entire body. And that is exactly why it is that so many thousands of people eat and eat andkeep on eating and yet are literally starving the midst of plenty. Their acid-stomachs make it absolutely impossible for them to get the full measure of nour ishment out of their food. And it doesn't take long for this poor nour ishment to show its ill effects a weakened, emaciated body. Youmay say: "My stomach doesn't hurt me. That may be true because many victims of adoVetomach do not actually suffer stomach pains. Then again, there are millionswho dosuffer aS kinds of aches and painshead aches, rheumatic twinges, gout, lum bago, pains around the heart and in the chestwho never dream that an acid-stomach is the real cause of the trouble. Naturally, the sensible thing to do is to strike right at the very cause of this trouble and clean the excess acid out of the stomach. There is a quick, easy way to do this. A wonderful new remedy quickly removes the excess acid without the slightest dis comfort. It is E ATONIC. Hade in the form of tabletsthey are good to eatjust like a bit of candy. They literally absorb the injurious excess acid and carry it away through the intestines. 'They also drive the bloat out of tiie bodyin factyou can fairly feel itwork. Makea testof E ATONIC in your own case today. Get a big box of EATONIC from your druggist. See for yourself how surely it brings quick relief in those painful attacks of indigestion, bitterheartburn, belch ing, disgusting food repeating, that awfui bloated, lumpy feeling after eating and other stomach miseries. Banish all your stomach troubles so completely that you forget you have a stomach. Then you can eat what you luce and digest your food in com fort without fear of distressing aftereffects.* If EATONIC does notrelieve you, it will not cost you one penny. You can return it to your druggist and get your money back. Soil you have the slightest question about your health if you feel you are rot getting all the strength out of your foodif you are not feeling tip-top,ready for your work, full of vim and vigordo give EATONIC a fair trial this very day aad see howmuchbetteryouwiDfeel r\kiirTo. jM in TUESDAY EVENJtfliG, MA^ft 6.J&& D$ i "*f riwii mm PROFESSIONAL DOCTOR* DR. L. A. WARD fy% Physician and Surgeoia^ Bemldjl, Minn. MW* DR. H. A. 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