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 U. S. LIBRARY OF 
 CONGRESS. DIVISION 
 OF BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 THE UNITED STAIES AT 
 WAR: ORGANIZATIONS 
 AND LITERATURE
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
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 LOS ANGELES
 
 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
 THE 
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR : 
 
 ORGANIZATIONS 
 AND LITERATURE, 
 
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 COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 
 HERMAN H. B. MEYER 
 
 CHIEF BIBLIOGRAPHER 
 
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 THE LIBRARY STAFF 
 
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 PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 This publication is an attempt to furnish condensed infor- 
 mation concerning the war activities of tlie United States. 
 It gives briefly the organization and activities of the various 
 Vv bodies, governmental and other, which the war lias called into 
 
 Y^ existence and points the way to fuller information where it 
 
 N. is desired. In the Introiiuction is given an outline of the 
 
 ^ organization of the Federal Government. A Chronological 
 
 N. summary of the events leading up to the entrance of the United 
 
 States into the war, followed by a similar Chronology of the 
 activities of the United States in the war up to June 1, 1917, 
 is then given, and, lastly, a summary of the miscellaneous 
 associations which have perfected some sort of an organization. 
 ^ The body of the work consists of an alphabetical arrange- 
 
 ^ ment of organizations and subjects. Under the names of or- 
 
 O^ ganizations the lieadquarters address, origin, membei'ship, or- 
 \j ganization, functions, publications, and references to descriptive 
 
 literature are given where possil^le. Under the subjects the 
 3*" work of the various organizations is mentioned and reference 
 
 is made to some of the literature. No attempt has been made 
 h at bibliographical fullness. The references given are selected 
 
 '^ from such literature as has been found useful in the Library 
 
 of Congress, with particular note of Covernment publications. 
 The material here brought together has been assembled 
 during a period of transition. As the President expressed it, 
 democracy is on trial, and democracy resiiondod to the tirst 
 call by proffering its services, as another high official has said, 
 through a perfect welter of organizations. The first task is 
 to give all these organizations a place in the great machine 
 which is to carry on the war. This is being done rapidly 
 ^ through the Council of National Defense. Whatever state- 
 
 ^ ments are made concerning organizations and activities during 
 
 ^ this period of coordination and rearrangement are subject to 
 
 instantaneous change. Almost necessarily, therefore, have mis- 
 rs, statements and errors crept in, but no pains have been spared 
 
 to make the statements accurate up to June 1. the time of 
 going to press. 
 
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 4 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 For information concerning subsequent developments, see es- 
 pecially the Official Bulletin, published daily by the Committee 
 on Public Inforaiation, 10 Jackson Place, Washington, D. C. 
 Sent free to libraries. 
 
 Other sources of information are " Information " and " Public 
 Affairs Information Service Bulletin." 
 
 The bulk of the work has been done by assistants in the 
 Division of Bibliography. Special acknowledgments are due 
 to Dr. H. J. Harris, Mr. William A. Slade, and Miss A. C. Laws, 
 of the Library of Congress staff, and to Mr. Richard H. Johns- 
 ton, librarian of the Bureau of Railway Economics ; to Miss 
 C. R. Barnett, librarian of the Department of Agriculture ; 
 Miss A. G. Cross, librarian of the Department of Commerce; 
 and particularly to Mr. E. L. Crawford, of the Council of Na- 
 tional Defense, for his patience in answering innumerable 
 questions. 
 
 H. H. B. Meyee, 
 
 Chief Bibliographer. 
 
 Hekbeet Putnam, 
 
 Librarian of Congress. 
 
 Washington, D. C, June 1, 1017.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WAR ORGANIZATION. 
 
 The war organization of tlie United States Government given 
 below has been reduced to its lowest terms. The war organiza- 
 tion is necessarily based on the ordinary peace organization, with 
 the notable addition of the Council of National Defense and its 
 Advisory Commission, through which the President has se- 
 cured the services of experts in business organization and scien- 
 tific and technical knowledge. 
 
 It would be easy to mention additional auxiliary organizations 
 aiding the Government, but to do so would be misleading. Take, 
 for example, the work of women. There are thousands of organi- 
 zations, but they are being rapidly coordinated, and the work is 
 being divided among them through the Committee on woman's 
 defense work of the Council of National Defense. It is the 
 same with other spheres of activity. The Chamber of Com- 
 merce of the United States of America is acting as the Coopera- 
 tive committee on purchase of Army supplies of the Council of 
 National Defense. In finance the member banks of the Federal 
 Reserve System all over the coiuitry are receiving subscrip- 
 tions for the liberty bonds and forwarding them to Washington 
 through the 12 Federal reserve district banks. 
 
 Note. — For details of the organization and functions of the 
 regular departments of the Government see the Congressional 
 Directory. For information concerning the newly formed bu- 
 reaus and organizations see the paragraphs corresponding to 
 numbers within the parentheses. 
 
 THE EXECUTIVE. 
 
 The President : 
 
 Council of National Defense. (35) 
 
 Advisory commission. (35) 
 Committee on Public Information. (112)
 
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 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. 
 
 State Department : 
 
 Division of Foreign Information. (64) 
 
 Neutrality Board (ceased to exist May 4, 1917). (102) 
 
 FINANCE. 
 
 Treasury Department : 
 
 Bureau of War-Risk Insurance. (154) 
 
 Division of Loans and Currency. 
 
 Federal Farm Loan Bureau. (50) 
 
 Office of Treasurer of the United States. 
 Federal Reserve Board. (51) 
 
 MILITARY AND NAVAL AFFAIRS. 
 
 War Department : 
 
 Three new medical divisions coordinated under one head 
 have been created in the Office of the Surgeon General — 
 Division of Sanitary Inspection. 
 Division of Hospital Construction. 
 Division of Medical Military Instruction. 
 Medical Training Camps — 
 Fort Riley, Kans. 
 Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind. 
 Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 
 Cantonment construction under Col. I. W. Little, assisted by 
 
 volunteer technical experts. 
 Federal commission on training camp activities. (139) 
 .Joint Ai-my and Navy board on aircraft. 
 Board to investigate the Government maniifacture of arms, 
 etc. (69) 
 Navy Department : 
 
 Naval Consulting Board. (100) 
 
 Commission on Navy Yard and Naval Stations. 
 
 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 
 
 RELIEF. 
 
 Governmental : 
 
 American National Red Cross. (123) 
 
 Red Cross War Council. (124) 
 Auxiliary : 
 
 American Red Star Animal Relief. (10) 
 
 War Relief Commission. (153)
 
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 POSTAL AFFAIRS. 
 Post Office. (107) 
 
 COMMERCE AND TRANSPORTATION. 
 
 Commerce Department. 
 Federal Trade Commission. 
 Interstate Commerce Commission. 
 United States Shipping Board. (130) 
 
 Emergency Fleet Corporation. (42) 
 
 Board of survey for interned German vessels in New Y()rl< 
 Harbor. 
 Auxiliary : 
 
 Special Committee on National Defense of the American 
 Railway Association. (116) 
 
 INTERNAL AFFAIRS. 
 
 Interior Department : 
 
 Section of geology of iron and steel alloy metals (under 
 Geological Survey). 
 Agriculture Department: (4) 
 Special war bureaus — 
 
 Two new assistant secretaries appointed — 
 . Dr. B. T. Galloway to act as representative of the 
 department in matters connected with the Coun- 
 cil of National Defense. 
 Dr. R. A. Pearson to keep in touch with State 
 boards of food production and conservation. 
 Committee on seed stock. 
 Bureau of Animal Industry — 
 Has two new divisions : 
 
 Tuberculosis eradication division. 
 Tick eradication division. 
 Joint Labor Committee of the Departments of Agriculture 
 and Labor. (47) 
 Labor Department: 
 
 Joint Labor Committee of the Departments of Agriculture 
 
 and Labor. (47) 
 United States Employment Service to enroll and place 
 workers. 
 
 Special agent in charge of mobilizing ship workers. 
 Justice Department.
 
 I. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS LEADING UP TO ENTRY 
 OF THE UNITED STATES INTO THE WAR WITH GER- 
 MANY. 
 
 1914. 
 
 August 4. Proclamation by the President of the United States 
 of neutrality of the United States. 
 
 November 13. Proclamation by the President of the United 
 States of neutrality of the Panama Canal Zone. 
 
 1915. 
 
 January 20. American neutrality explained and defended by 
 Secretary of State Bryan. 
 
 January 28. American merchantman William P. Frye sunk 
 by German cruiser Prinz JEitel Friedrich. 
 
 February 4. Germany's proclamation of " war zone " around 
 the British Isles after February 18. 
 
 February 10. United States note holding German Government 
 to a " strict accountability " if any merchant vessel of the United 
 States is destroyed or any American citizens lose their lives. 
 
 February 16. Germany's reply stating " vpar-zone " act is an 
 act of self-defense against illegal methods employed by Great 
 Britain in preventing commerce between Germany and neutral 
 countries ; disclaims all responsibility for such accidents and 
 their consequences. 
 
 February 20. United States sends identic note to Great Britain 
 and Germany suggesting an agreement between these two pow- 
 ers respecting the conduct of naval warfare. 
 
 February 28. Germany's reply to identic note. 
 
 March 28. British steamship Falaba attacked by submarine 
 and sunk ; 111 lives lost ; 1 American. 
 
 April 8. Steamer Harpalyce, in service of American commis- 
 sion for aid of Belgium, torpedoed ; 15 lives lost. 
 
 April 22. German Embassy publishes a warning against em- 
 barkation on vessels belonging to Great Britain. 
 
 April 28. American vessel dishing attacked by German aero- 
 plane. 
 
 May 1. American steamship Gulflight sunk by German sub- 
 marine ; two Americans lost. 
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 May 7. Cunard Line steamship Luisitania sunli by German 
 submarine; 1,198 lives lost, 124 being Americans. 
 
 May 9. Germany's note in regard to treatment of neutral ves- 
 sels in war zone. 
 
 May 10. Message of sympathy from Germany on loss of Amer- 
 ican lives by sinking of Lusitania. 
 
 May 13. American note protesting against submarine policy 
 culminating in the sinking of the Lusitania; expects Germany to 
 disavow such acts and declares United States Avill not be ex- 
 pected to " omit any word or any act " necessary to maintain 
 the rights of its citizens. 
 
 May 25. American steamship Nebraskan attacked by sub- 
 marine. 
 
 May 28. Germany's answer to note of May 13 on the subject 
 of the impairment of American interests by German submarine 
 war. 
 
 June 1. Supplementary note from Germany in regard to the 
 Gulflight and Gushing. 
 
 June 8. Resignation of William J. Bryan, Secretary of State. 
 
 June 9. United States sends second note on Lusitania case. 
 
 July 8. Germany sends reply to note of June 9, and pledges 
 safety to United States vessels in war zone under specified con- 
 ditions. 
 
 July 9. English passenger steamer Orduna attacketl without 
 warning by a German submarine ; not hit. 
 
 July 15. Germany sends memorandum acknowledging sub- 
 marine attack on Nebraskan, and expresses regret. 
 
 July 21. Third American note on Lusitania case declares 
 Germany's communication of July 8 " very unsatisfactory." 
 
 July 25. American steamship Leelanaw sunk by submarine; 
 carrying contraband ; no lives lost. 
 
 August 19. White Star liner Arabic sunk by submarine; 16 
 victims, 2 Americans. 
 
 August 24. German ambassador sends note in regard to 
 Arabic. Loss of American lives contrary to intention of the 
 German Government and is deeply regretted. 
 
 September 1. Letter from Ambassador von Bernstorlf to Sec- 
 retary Lansing giving assurance that German submarines will 
 sink no more liners without warning. 
 
 September 4. Allan liner Hesperian sunk by German sub- 
 marine ; 26 lives lost, 1 American. 
 
 September 7. German Government sends report on the sink- 
 ing of the Arabic. 
 
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 September 14. United States sends svimmary of evidence in 
 regard to Arabic. 
 
 October 5. German Government regrets and disavovi's sinking 
 of Arabic and is prepared to pay indemnities; orders issued to 
 German submarine commanders are so stringent tbat a similar 
 incident is out of tlie question. 
 
 October 20. German note on the evidence in the Arabic case. 
 
 December 4. United States Government demands recall of Capt. 
 Karl Boy -Ed, naval attache, and Capt. Franz von Papen, mill-, 
 tary attache, of the German Embassy, for " Improper activities 
 in naval and military matters." 
 
 December 10. United States Government renews demands of 
 recalls and urges immediate action. 
 
 December 10. German ambassador informs Secretary of State 
 that the Emperor has been pleased to recall Boy-Ed and Von , 
 Papen. 
 
 December 30. British passenger steamer Persia sunk in Med- 
 iterranean, presumably by submarine. 
 
 1916. 
 
 January 7. German Embassy issues a memorandum stating 
 submarines in Mediterranean have received orders to conform, 
 to general principles of international law. 
 
 January 18. United States Government addresses informal 
 and confidential notes to diplomatic representatives of allies 
 setting forth a declaration of principles regarding submarine 
 attacks and asking whether the Governments would subscribe 
 to such an agreement. 
 
 February 10. Germany sends memorandum to neutral powers 
 that armed merchant vessels will be treated as warships and 
 will be sunk without warning. Asks neutral powers to warn 
 their citizens not to intrust their lives or property on such 
 vessels. 
 
 February 15. Secretary Lansing makes statement that by in- 
 ternational law commercial vessels have right to carry arms in 
 self-defense. 
 
 February 16. Germany sends note acknowledging her liability 
 in the Lusitania affair. 
 
 February 24. President Wilson replies to letter (February 24) 
 of Mr. Stone, chairman of Committee on Foreign Relations, 
 Senate, in which he refuses to advise American citizens not to 
 travel on armed merchant ships because this would renounce 
 the inalienable rights of American citizens.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 11 
 
 March 8. German ambassador communicates memorandum re- 
 garding U-boat question, stating it is a new weapon not yet 
 regulated by international law, 
 
 March 23. Diplomatic response of allies declining to accept 
 proposals contained in Secretary Lansing's note of January 18. 
 
 March 24. French steamer Sussex is torpedoed without warn- 
 ing; about 80 passengers, including American citizens, are 
 killed or wounded. 
 
 March 2,5. Department of State issues memorandum prepared 
 by direction of President in regard to status of armed merchant 
 vessels in neutral ports and on the high seas. 
 
 March 27, 28, 29. United States Government instructs Amer- 
 ican ambassador in Berlin to inquire into sinking of Sussex 
 and other vessels. 
 
 April 10. German Government replies to United States notes 
 of March 27, 28, 29, on the sinking of Sussex and other vessels. 
 
 April 18. United States delivers what is considered an ulti- 
 matum, that unless Germany abandons present methods of sub- 
 marine warfare United States will sever diplomatic relations. 
 
 May 4. Reply of Germany acknowledges sinking of the Sussex 
 and in the main meets demands of United States, announcing new 
 orders issued to its naval forces, but continues it would expect 
 the United States to demand and insist that Great Britain ob- 
 serve the rules of international law. 
 
 May 8. United States Government accepts Germaii position 
 as outlined in note of May 4, but makes it clear that the fulfill- 
 ment of these conditions can not depend \ipon the negotiations 
 betw^een the United States and any other belligerent Government. 
 
 October 8. German submarine appears off American coast and 
 sinks British passenger steamer Stephnno. 
 
 October 28. British steamer Marina sunk without warning, six 
 Americans lost. 
 
 November 6. British liner Arabia torpedoed and sunk without 
 warning in Mediterranean. 
 
 December 12. Germany and her allies offer to enter into peace 
 negotiations. 
 
 December 14. British horse transport ship Russian sunk in 
 Mediterranean by submarine, 17 Americans lost. 
 
 December 16. President Wilson transmits German peace note 
 of December 12 to entente powers. 
 
 December 18. President Wilson's peace note sent to belligerent 
 powers. 
 
 December 26. Germany replies to President Wilson's peace 
 note.
 
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 December 30. Reply of the entente allies to the central powers' 
 note of December 12. 
 
 1917. 
 
 January 10. Entente powers reply to President Wilson's note 
 of December 18. 
 
 January 22. President Wilson addresses the Senate, giving his 
 Ideas of steps necessary for world peace. " Peace without vic- 
 tory." 
 
 January 31. Germany's note announcing her intention of ruth- 
 less use of submarine, outlining barred zones and prescribing 
 conditions for American vessels. 
 
 February 3. President Wilson addresses joint session of Con- 
 gress on the German submarine order and announces the break- 
 ing of diplomatic relations with Germany. 
 
 February 3. Dismissal of German ambassador. 
 
 February 3. American steamship Hotisatonic torpedoed and 
 sunk by submarine after warning. 
 
 February 4. President Wilson notifying neutrals of break 
 with Germany ; hopes they " can find it possible to take similar 
 action." 
 
 February 7. Senate indorses President Wilson's position in 
 severing diplomatic relations. 
 
 February 10. American Ambassador James W. Gerard leaves 
 Germany. 
 
 February 13. American schooner Lyman M. Law torpedoed in 
 the IVIediterranean, presumably by Austrian submarine. 
 
 February 14. German Ambassador von Bernstorff sails from 
 New York. 
 
 February 24. Cunard liner Laconia torpedoed and sunk with- 
 out warning ; 12 persons, including 2 American women, lose their 
 lives. 
 
 February 26. President Wilson addresses joint session of Con- 
 gress, recommending " armed neutrality." 
 
 February 28. Associated Press makes public a proposed alli- 
 ance between Germany and Mexico in the event of war between 
 United States and Germany. 
 
 March 1. Resolution introduced in the Senate relating to the 
 authenticity of the " Zimmermann " letter. 
 
 March 2. Authenticity of the note signed " Zimmermann " at- 
 tested by President Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing. 
 
 March 9. Proclamation by the President of the United States, 
 calling an extra session of Congress on April 16. 1917.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAB. 13 
 
 March 12. United States gives formal notice that it has de- 
 cided to place an armed guard on all American merchant vessels 
 sailing through barred zone. American steamship Algonquin 
 sunk without warning by German submarine. 
 
 March 16. American steamship Vifjilnncia sunk without warn- 
 ing by German submarine ; five Americans lost. 
 
 March 17. American tanker Illinois sunk by German sub- 
 marine. American freighter City of Memphis sunk by German 
 submarine ; eight lives lost. 
 
 March 21. Proclamation by the President of the United State.s. 
 calling an extra session of Congress on April 2, 1917. American 
 steamship Hcaldton sunk in safety zone without warning; 21 
 persons lost, 7 being Americans. 
 
 March 24. United States orders withdrawal from Belgium of 
 Minister Brand Whitlock and members of American Relief Com- 
 mission. 
 
 March 26. United States refuses Germany's proposals to inter- 
 pret and supplement the Prussian treaty of 1799. 
 
 April 1. American steamer Aztec (armed) sunk without 
 warning. 
 
 April 2. President Wilson addresses joint session of Congress 
 on the existence of a state of war. 
 
 April 3. Executive order (No. 2571) constituting the Public 
 Health Service a part of the military forces of the United 
 States. 
 
 April 5. Executive order (No. 2584) of the President of the 
 United States establishing defensive sea areas and regulations 
 for carrying this order into effect. 
 
 April 5. American steamer Missourian (unarmed) torpedoed 
 and sunk without warning. • 
 
 April 6. Resolution of Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, de- 
 claring that a state of war exists passed and signinl by the 
 President. 
 
 April 6. Proclamation by the President of the United States, 
 declaring war and defining the status of alien enemies.
 
 2. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS OF THE WAR. 
 1917. 
 
 April 6. Proclamation by the President of the United States 
 declaring war and defining the status of alien enemies. Proc- 
 lamation by the President of the United States relating to 
 agencies in the United States of German insurance companies. 
 Executive order (No. 2585) of the President of the United 
 States taking over radio stations needed for naval communi- 
 cations and closing all other stations. Seizure of all German 
 ships interned in American ports. 
 
 April 7. Executive order (No. 2587) directing that the Coast 
 Guard operate as a part of the Navy. 
 
 April 9. Austria severs diplomatic relations with the United 
 States. 
 
 April 10-11. Conference of the agricultural representatives of 
 32 States met with the Secretary of Agriculture in St. Louis. 
 
 April 11. American steamer Seicard torpedoed and sunk with- 
 out warning in Mediterranean by German submarine. 
 
 April 13. Executive order (No. 2594) creating a Committee on 
 Public Information. 
 
 April 14. Executive order (No. 2597) establishing additional 
 defensive sea areas. 
 
 April 15. President Wilson addresses an appeal to the Amer- 
 ican people calling upon all to do their part in the war, and 
 pointing out the partf each can take. 
 
 April 16. Proclamation by the President of the United States 
 relating to treason and misprision of treason. 
 
 April 17. Congress passed general deficiency bill, which con- 
 tained an emergency fund of $100,000,000 to be used at the dis- 
 cretion of the President for war purposes. 
 
 April 19. Gunners on American Line's steamship Mongolia 
 fired on German submarine and probably destroyed it. 
 
 April 21. British commission to international war conference, 
 headed by Arthur J. Balfour, British foreign secretary, reaches 
 America. Last call for aliens to surrender arms. 
 
 April 22. British commission arrives in Washington. 
 
 April 24. Congress authorizes an issue of bonds ($7,000,000,- 
 000) to meet expenditures for the national security and defense. 
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 UNITED STATES AT WAE. 15 
 
 April 25. French commission to international war conference, 
 headed by Viviani and Joffre, arrives in Washington. Loan of 
 $200,000,000 made to Great Britain. 
 
 April 28. Congress votes for conscription. Executive order 
 (No. 2604) relating to censorship of submarine cables, telegraph, 
 and telephone lines. 
 
 April 29. British and French commissions pay tribute at the 
 tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon. 
 
 April 30. American oil-carrying steamship Vacuum torpedoed 
 and sunk, 31 Americans lost. 
 
 May 2. Conference of governors and representatives of State 
 councils of national defense met in Washington. Loan of $100,- 
 000,000 made to Italy. 
 
 May 3. Marshal Joffre and M. Viviani leave Washington for a 
 tour in the Middle West. 
 
 May 4. Count Tarnowski, Austrian ambassador, leaves the 
 United States. 
 
 May 5. Conference of presidents and representatives of col- 
 leges and universities held in Washington, D. C. 
 
 May 8. Loan of $100,000,000 made to France. 
 
 May 9. Belgium and France get joint loan of $75,000,000 to 
 buy food. 
 
 May 9. Railroad comnii.ssion to Russian Government left 
 Washington. United States buys interned Austrian vessels for 
 $6,778,000. 
 
 May 10. First issue of the Official Bulletin, published daily 
 by Committee on Public Information. Red Cross war council 
 created by the President of the United States. 
 
 May 11. Allies adopt a united buying s<.'heme in the United 
 States, in charge of a commission under governmental super- 
 vision. General munitions board of Council of National Defense 
 appointed. 
 
 May 12. Members of special diplomatic mission of the United 
 States to Russia announced by Department of State. Red Cross 
 Building dedicated. 
 
 May 14. American mission to Russia receives final instruc- 
 tions from the President. Campaign to sell liberty-loan bonds 
 is begun by Treasury Department. Minister Enrico Arlotta. 
 member of Italian war commission, arrives in Washington. 
 Great Britain receives $2."').000,000 installment on loan, luaking 
 $75,000,000 of $100,000,000 agreed to be loaned to Great Britain 
 for purchases during May. Secretary of Treasury invites sub- 
 scriptions for $2,000,000,000 of the bond issue authorized by 
 Congress April 24.
 
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 May 15. President Wilson's address to labor leaders, called 
 together by Samuel Gompers, chairman of the commission on 
 labor, advisory commission. Council of National Defense, to 
 meet English representatives of labor and welfare work. 
 Fi'ench war connnission leaves United States for France. 
 
 May 16. American destroyers reach British waters. United 
 States Government extends credit of $100,000,000 to Russia. 
 Woman's liberty-loan committee organized. Secretary McAdoo 
 leaves Washington for tour of the West in interest of the lib- 
 erty loan. 
 
 May 17. Secretary of War announces first draft call for 
 troops will not be made until about September 1. Army bill 
 passed by Congress, authorizing increase of Regular Army to 
 maximum war strength, drafting into Federal service the Na- 
 tional Guard imits. conscription of 500,000 men between ages of 
 21 and 30, inclusive, four divisions of volunteer infantry (Roose- 
 velt amendment). 
 
 May 18. President signs the selective-draft bill ; declines to 
 give Roosevelt his division to France. Proclamation of the 
 President of the United States, fixing June 5 as the day for 
 Army registration. The President has directed an expedition- 
 ary force, under command of Gen. John .J. Pershing, to proceed 
 to France at as early a date as practicable. Treasury Depart- 
 ment announces issue of $200,000,000 more certificates of in- 
 debtedness. 
 
 May 19. Announced that the President would appoint Herbert 
 O. Hoover food administrator for the duration of the war. 
 Regiment of marines to be sent to France. 
 
 May 20. Two American nurses killed, one injured, by defec- 
 tive shell on American steamship Mongolia, bound for France. 
 Pension Bureau designates the present war as " The War of 
 1917." 
 
 May 21. Italian war commission, headed by Prince Ferdi- 
 nando di Savoja, of Udine, lands in the United States. 
 
 May 22. President signs naval bill, increasing personnel to 
 150,000 men and the Marine Corps to 30,000. 
 
 May 23. Italy's war commission arrives in Washington. 
 House passes the $1,800,000,000 war-revenue measure. Secre- 
 tary Lansing refuses issue of passports to Socialists to attend 
 the Stockholm conference, the official view being that the con- 
 ference is a German plot. 
 
 May 23. Proclamation by the President of the United States 
 declaring the rules and regulations, management, and protec- 
 tion of Panama Canal and maintenance of its neutrality.
 
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 May 24. Trejisury amioiiiictN .$2()().()()0,(KtU ll] per t-enr c-er- 
 tificates of indebtedness haw l)eon ()versnl)s<ril)e(l 50 [ter cent. 
 
 May 20. rro<-Ianiation by President of the United States 
 proclaiming the \\eel< of June 25 as Red Cross \veel<. and calls 
 lor sul).'<criptions. (!reat Britain obtains jinotlier loan of 
 $75,000,000. Proclamation l)y the President of the United 
 States warning against evasion of registration, published June 
 1. State Department in again refusing to issue passports for 
 Socialists to attend the Stockliolm conference made it known 
 that one of the peace terms of this comitry is going to be the 
 restoration of Belgium. 
 
 May 27. Attorney (xeneral ({regory annoiuu-es that jier.sons 
 who interfere with the registration .lune 5 are to be pro.secuted 
 to the limit of the law. Connnittee on pul)iic information i.ssues 
 censm-ship rules. Secretary McAdoo returns from western 
 tour. He denies that Liberty Loan has l)een oversul)Scril)ed, and 
 warns against too much optimism. Prince of Udine and others 
 of the Italian mission visit Mount Vernon, where the prince 
 lays a Roman hero's wreath on the tomb. 
 
 May 28. War Department officials hurry plans for the draft ; 
 Gen. Crowder indicates that jury wheels will be used to select 
 the 500,000 men for the Army. 
 
 May 29. Secretary Daniels issues report declaring that the 
 killing of the nurses on the Mongolia was an imavoitlable acci- 
 dent. Department of Justice informed of suspicion that Ger- 
 man agents are behind Nation-wide registration disorders, 
 issues instructions to United States officials to crush such ac- 
 tivities. Secretary Daniels gives out Admiral Sims's letter 
 saying Berlin papers printed stories of United States destroy ei's 
 going to England four days l)efore they arrived. 
 
 May 80. President Wilson in Memorial Day address at Arling- 
 ton says that the soldiers of the Civil War created the instru- 
 ment for liberty which is to-day being used to crush German 
 autocracy. French scientific mission arrives in Washington. 
 
 May 31. Department of Justice makes numerous arrests on 
 charges of treason in antidraft activity. Three American sail- 
 ing vessels. Franccn M.. JUnhtira. and Diiiiio. sunk by German 
 submarines; one life lost. 
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 3. AUXILIARY AND VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS. 
 
 The following presentation does not profess to be complete or 
 accurate, but represents the best information available to June 
 1, 1917. 
 
 Aero Science Club of America, 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 Ambulance Chirurgical Mobile No. 1. Directoi-, Mrs. Borden- 
 Tui'ner, Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., New York City. 
 
 American Academy of Political and Social Science, Thirty- 
 sixth and Woodland Avenue, I'hiladelphia, Pa. (7) 
 
 American Ambulance Field Service in France, 14 Wall Street, 
 New York City. William II. Hereford, treasurer. 
 
 American Ambulance Hospital Fund. .T. P. IMorgan & Co., 
 23 AVall Street, New York City. 
 
 American Ambulance Millinery Branch, Samu<'l /a<kcr, chair- 
 man, 15 West Forty-fourth Street, New York City. 
 
 American Armenian Relief Fund. Brown Bros., f);) Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 American Artists' Committee of 100 relief fund for the fii mi- 
 lies of French soldier-artists. William B. Fnxson, treasurer, 
 215 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City. 
 
 American Association for Labor Legislation, 131 East Twenty- 
 third Street, New York City. (78) 
 
 American Boys' Naval and Marine Scouts, 51 ( 'hambers Street. 
 New York City. 
 
 American - British - French - Belgian Permanent Blind - Relief 
 War Fund for Soldiers and Sailors, Frank A. Vanderlip, hon- 
 orary treasurer, .590 Fifth Avenue. New York City. 
 
 American Commission for Relief of Babies in Belgium, 542 
 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, Charles 
 R. Crane, treasurer, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City, 
 
 American Committee for Training in Suitable Trades the 
 Maimed Soldiers of France, Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, treasurer, 
 Biltmore Hotel, New York City. 
 
 American Committee of British Red Cross, C. S. Le Poer 
 Trench, clinirmau: Edwin S. Marston, treasurer, 27 William 
 Street, New York City. 
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 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 19 
 
 American Committee on War Finance, Amos Pinchot, chair- 
 man, 60 Broadway, New Yorlc City. 
 
 American Defense Rifle Club, 133 West Forty-fourth Street, 
 New Yorli City. 
 
 American Economic Association, Allyn A. Young, secretary, 
 Ithaca, N. Y. (8) 
 
 American Food Conservation League, Mrs. Mary H. Gregory, 
 New Rochelle, N. Y. 
 
 American Fund for French Wounded, 122 Madison Avenue, 
 New Yorli City. 
 
 American Girls' Aid for the Collection of Clothing for Victims 
 of the European War in France, Miss Gladys HoUingsworth, 
 chairman ; A. Seaton Post, jr., treasurer, 293 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 American Hostels for Refugees in Paris, Mrs. Edith Wharton, 
 21 Quai de Bourbon, Paris ; 21 East Eleventh Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 American Huguenot Committee, Rev. Dr. Charles S. Macfar- 
 land, treasurer, 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York City. 
 [Aiding the Huguenot churches in France.] 
 
 American Institute of Architects has listed and cross indexed 
 all the architects of the United States who wish to make their 
 services available to the United States, and this information is 
 on file in its office. The Octagon, Washington, D. C. 
 
 American .Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the 
 War, 20 Exchange Place, New York City. 
 
 American McAll Association, Mrs. A. R. Perkins, treasurer, 
 1710 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 American National Committee for the Encouragement of the 
 Democratic Government of Russia, Charles R. Flint, Equitable 
 Building, New York City. 
 
 American Peace Society, Colorado Building, Washington, D. C. 
 
 American Pediatric Society, Howard C. Carpenter, secretary, 
 1805 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Reports to Council of 
 National Defense what it can do to care for children during war 
 time. 
 
 American Polish Relief Couunission, Miss Ada Sterling, sec- 
 retary, 14 East Forty-sixth Street, New York City. 
 
 American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans, 120 
 Broadway, New York City. (11) 
 
 American Students' Committee of the Ecole des Beaux Ajts, 
 Henry R. Sedgwick, treasurer, 107 East Thirty-seventh Street, 
 New York City.
 
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 AiiieriCfiu Women's League for Self-Defense, 33 West Forty- 
 second Street, New York City. 
 
 Arcliitectural League of New York. Agricultural Corps. 
 
 Association for International Conciliation, American branch, 
 407 West One hundred and seventeenth Street, New York City. 
 
 Barnard Committee of Undergraduate Preparedness, Katherine 
 narrower, chairman. 
 
 Belgian Children's Fund, Literary Digest, New York City. 
 
 Belgian Relief Fund, 431 West Forty-seventh Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 Belgian Soldiei's' Tobacco Fund, Flatlron Building, New York 
 City. 
 
 Le Bien-etre du Bless§, care .John :\Iunroe & Co., 200 Fifth 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Boy Scouts of America. 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 (13) 
 
 British-American AVar Relief Fund, Henry J. Whitehouse, 
 treasurer, 5 East Fifty-ninth Street, New York City. 
 
 British Red Cross Society, Edwin S. Marston, treasurer, 12 
 Bridge Street, New York City. 
 
 British War Relief Association (Inc.), 542 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 Canadian Club of New York. [For the purchase of supplies 
 for the Red Cross organization of Canada.] 
 
 Cardinal Mercier Fund, care J. P. Morgan & Co., 23 Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through 
 the War. 03 Park Row, New York City. 
 
 Le Cerrle Rochambeau, 25 West Forty-tifth Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 Charpeutier Fund for the Fraternal League of the Children 
 of France, Mrs. A. D. Thomas, treasurer, 27 Ivanhoe Terrace, 
 East Orange, N. J. 
 
 Children of America's Arnjy of Relief. 142 Berkeley Street, 
 Boston, Mass. (21) 
 
 Children of Flanders Rescue Committee, 21 Quai de Bourbon, 
 Paris; 21 East Eleventh Street, New York City, Mrs. Edith 
 Wharton. 
 
 Civilian Committee, Naval Training Cruise, 52 William Street, 
 New Y'ork City. 
 
 Civilian Relief Committee of the New York County Chapter 
 of the American Red Cross. 
 
 College Men's Training Corps, 19 West Forty-fourth Street, 
 New I'ork City.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 21 
 
 Columbia University Cominitteo for Women's War Work. 
 
 Columbia University, Division of Intelligence and Publicity. 
 (26) 
 
 Columbia War Hospital, to be erected by popular .subscription 
 upon the old Columbia Oval, New York City. 
 
 Comforts Committee of the Navy League, 509 Fifth Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 Commission for Relief in Belgium, 120 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 Commission for Relief of Belgian Prisoners in Germany, 
 James A. Blair, jr., 360 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Committee for Men Blinded in Battle, 17 East Thirty-eighth 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 Committee of Mercy, August Belmont, treasurer, 200 Fifth 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Committee of Sixty to Conserve the Grain Supply in War Time 
 by Diverting it from the Manufacture of- Intoxicants, Irving 
 Fisher, of Yale, president. (Ill) 
 
 Committee of the American Ambulance in Russia, Hamilton 
 Fish jr., chairman ; William H. Hamilton, treasurer, 11 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 Committee on Amelioration of Hardship of Families of Physi- 
 cians Called Into National Service, J. Bentley Squier, treasurer. 
 
 Committee on Food Gardens in the Greater City, a clearing 
 house for food organization. 
 
 Committees of Safety. See National Committee of I'atriotic 
 and Defense Societies. 
 
 Dardanelles War Relief Fund, A. H. Benjamin, chairman. 
 435 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Dollar Christmas Fund for Destitute Belgian Children, Henry 
 Clews, treasurer, 66 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 Duryea War Relief (Secours Duryea), 259 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 Emergency Service Connnittee of the Women's University 
 Club, New York City. 
 
 Farm-Boy Cavaliers, University Farm, University of Minne- 
 sota. 
 
 Farm Cadet Bureau, organized under Military Training Com- 
 mission, State of New York, Arthur Payne, executive secretary, 
 68 William Street, New York City. 
 
 Farnese Relief Fund, George C. Lee. 44 State Street, Boston. 
 
 The Fatherless Children of France Branch. 665 Fifth Avenue. 
 New York City.
 
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 Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 105 East 
 Twenty-second Street, New York City. (49) 
 
 Franco-American Committee for Protection of Cliildren of 
 the Frontier, Frederic R. Coudert, treasurer. 2 Rector Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 Franco-Serbian Field Hospital of America, Henry B. Brit- 
 ton, treasurer, 17 West Thirtieth Street, New York City. 
 
 French and Belgian Artists Fund, 15 West Thirty-eighth 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 French Flotilla Committee, 38 West Thirty-ninth Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 French Heroes' Fund, James A. Blair, jr., treasurer, 360 Madi- 
 son Avenue, New York City. 
 
 French Tubercular War Victims' Fund, Charles H. Sabin, 
 treasurer, 360 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 " Friends of the German Republic " Association, .J. Koettgen, 
 organizing secretary, New York City. 
 
 Fund for the American Ambulance Hospital of Paris, care 
 J. P. Morgan & Co., 23 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 General Italian Relief Committee, Long Acre Building, West 
 Forty-second Street, New York City. 
 
 Girls' National Honor Guard, 34 West Twenty-eighth Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 High-School Volunteer Camps, Culver, Ind. 
 
 High-School Volunteers of United States, Everybody's Maga- 
 zine, New York City. 
 
 Home Club War Relief Work, Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, chair- 
 man. Home Club, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Home Defense Corps, New York State. 
 
 Home defense leagues. See National Committee of Patriotic 
 and Defense Societies. 
 
 Hospital Supply and Clothing Committee. Auxiliary of Polish 
 victims' relief fund, 33 West Forty-second Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 Housewives' Army for National Defense, Mrs. Julian Heath, 
 head of the Housewives' League, major general. 
 
 Irish Relief Fund Committee, Thomas H. Kelly, treasurer, 
 26 Cortlandt Street, New York City. 
 
 Jewish League of American Patriots. Warheit Building, 163 
 East Broadway, New York City. (72) 
 
 Jewish People's Relief Committee of America. Congressman 
 Meyer London, chairman; Shepard Goldberg, treasurer. (72) 
 
 Junior Naval Reserves, 25 West Forty-fifth Sti-eet, New York 
 City.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAE. 23 
 
 Lafayette Fund. Francis Roche, treasurer. The A aiulerbilt 
 Hotel, New Yoik Cit.v. Devoted to the immediate relief of the 
 French soldiers in the trenches. 
 
 Lawrence Honu-. MiUhrook, Dutchc-ss ('ounty. N. Y. For con- 
 valescents of the T'nited States Navy. 
 
 League for World Peace. International iicadciuariei-s. \Vr>od- 
 ward Building. Washington, D. C. 
 
 League of ('atholic Women for Civic Social Reform. 154 
 p]ast Thirty-eighth Street. New York City. 
 
 Lithuanian- American Relief Committee, 37 F.ist Twenty- 
 eighth Street, New York City. 
 
 Lithuanian Central War Relief ('oinniittec Flatiron Uiiild- 
 ing. New York City. 
 
 Long Island Foo<l Iteservc r>altalion Instruction Train. Can- 
 ning kitchens and canning clubs organize*]. 
 
 Marine Scouts, .51 Chambers Street, New York City. 
 
 Mayor IMitchel's Food Garden Committee, New Y'ork City. 
 
 Merchants' Association of New York, Woolworth Building, 
 233 Broadway, New York City. Has undertaken to mobilize 
 the country banks of New York State to assist the farmers to 
 raise larger crops this year. 
 
 Military Engineering Connnittee of New York. 29 West 
 Thirty-ninth Street. New York City. J. S. Langthorn, secre- 
 tary ; Joseph Struthers. office manager. (85) 
 
 Military Training Camps Association, 19 West Forty-fourth 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 Militia of Mercy, 4 West Forty-ninth Street, New York City. 
 To care for families of naval militia and naval recruits. 
 
 Montenegrin Relief Association of America, James Stewart 
 Cushman, treasurer, 105 West Forty-ninth Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 National Aerial Coast Patrol Commission. 
 
 National Allied Relief Committee, James A. Blair, jr.. 
 treasurer, 360 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 National American Woman Suffrage Association, 171 Madi- 
 son Avenue, New York City. Organizing clubs to train women 
 in agricultural work, to provide employment, and teach loyalty 
 to immigrants. 
 
 National Board for Historical Service, 133 Woodward Build- 
 ing, Washington. D. C. (96) 
 
 National Board of Underwriters, 76 William Street, New York 
 City. Placed at the disposal of the Government the services of 
 a veritable army of investigators and a fund of classified in- 
 formation concerning the Nation's resources and industrial 
 capabilities.
 
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 National Child Labor Comniittee, ]()"> East 'I'wenty-secoiul 
 Street, New Yorlc City. Efforts to s])aro cliildrcMi fi-om war's 
 blight. (19) 
 
 National Committee for INIental Hygiene. Undertakes the 
 organization and equipment of p.sycluatric units to be attached 
 to Army and Navy base hospitals to care for soldiers whose 
 minds have become affected from poison gas, shell fire, shock, 
 or other war causes. Cliffoi-d W. Beers, secretary, 50 Union 
 Square, New York City. 
 
 National Committee of Patriot ic .•uid Defense Societies, 929 
 Southern Building, Washington. D. C. To coordinate the efforts 
 of 28 or more patriotic and defense organizations, such as 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, National civic associa- 
 tion. Army League, Navy League, etc. Information concerning 
 home defen.se leagues, committees of safety, etc. 
 
 National Consumers' League, 289 Fourth Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 National Council of Women. Coordinating the work of 
 societies, such as National Association Opposed to Woman Suf- 
 frage, Woman's ('hristian Temperance Union, General Federa- 
 tion of Women's Clubs. CoTigress of Mothers, etc. 
 
 National Electric Light Association, 29 West Thirty-ninth 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 National Housewives' League. 25 West Forty-fifth Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 National League for Women's Service, 259 Madison Avenue, 
 New York City. Registration of women for industrial service; 
 to train girl students for farming and dairying. 
 
 National Rifle Association of America, 1.502 H Street, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 National School Camp, 1 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 National Security League, 31 Pine Street, New York City. 
 Active campaign for home defense leagues in all parts of the 
 country. 
 
 National Soldiers' Comfort Packet Committee, 66 West 
 Thirty-ninth Street, New York City. Provides and distributes 
 comfort packets to soldiers on their departure for the allied 
 trenches. 
 
 National Special Aid Society, 259 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 National War Relief Committee, 42 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 Naval Training Association of the United States, 26 Cort- 
 landt Street, New York City. 
 
 New York Committee of the Fatherless Children of France, 
 563 Park Avenue, New York City.
 
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 New York Surgical Dressings Coininitlee. 10 East Forty- 
 ninth Street, New Yorlv City. 
 
 Old Clothes War Relief Clul) (hranch of the Secretariat Fran- 
 gais des Villages I.iheres), Miss Marie Louise Fontaine, 4 East 
 Seventieth Street, New York City. 
 
 Organization Committee of the Motor Truck Club, 1790 liroad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 Orphelinat des Aniiees, Miss L. A. Leland, cli;iirrnaii. .1. \\ 
 Morgan & Co., 23 Wail Street, New York City. 
 
 Patriotic Agricultural Service Committee, New York City. 
 
 People's Relief Conimillee for Jewish War Sufferers. 171 East 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 Persian War Relief Fund, Edward M. Bulkeley, treasurer, 
 25 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 Pilgrims of Plenty. Free enlistment offices for persons who 
 wish to spend their vacations doing farm work, at 1790 Broad- 
 way, Exchange Place, Whitehall, and the Pennsylvania Station, 
 New York City. 
 
 Polish Hospital Supply and Clothing Committee, IMiss Eleanor 
 Blodgett, chairman, fifth floor, GSl Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Polish Victims' Relief Committee, 33 West Foriy-eecond 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 Preparedness League of American Dentists, 576 Fifth Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 Red Cross European War Relief Fund, 130 East Twenty-second 
 Street, New York City ; National Red Cross headquarters, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 Roumanian Relief Committee of America, Henry Clews, treas- 
 urer, 43 Cedar Street, New York City. 
 
 Russian-American Relief Association, Flatiron Building, New 
 York City. 
 
 Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, American 
 branch, 20 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 Secours National Fund, 16 East Forty-seventh Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 Serbian Hospitals Fund, Otto T. Bannard, treasurer, 1 Madi- 
 son Avenue, New Y'"ork City. 
 
 Serbian Relief Committee of America, 70 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 Siberian Regiments' American Ambulance Society, Flatiron 
 Building, New York City. 
 
 Sicilian Relief Fund, Mrs. Frederick Crowninshield, treasurer, 
 Stockbridge, Mass. 
 
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 Special Aid Society for American Preparedness, 601 Boylston 
 Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Stage Women's War Relief, Racliel Grothers, national chair- 
 man. 
 
 Surgical Dressing Committee, 1826 Massachusetts Avenue, 
 Washington, D. C. ; 10 East Fifty-eighth Street, New York City. 
 
 Ukrainian War Kelief Fund. Simon Va<llowsky, treasurer, So 
 Grand Street, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 L'Union des Arts, 712 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Con- 
 tributes to the assistance and protection of artists, painters, 
 sculptors, and literary men who are victims of the war. 
 
 Union Nationale des Eglises Reformes Evangeliques de 
 France, Emergency Relief Fund, Alfred R. Kinil)all, treasurer, 
 10r> East Twenty-second Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 United Irish League Branch of the New York County Chapter 
 of the American Red Cross, 624 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 United States Boy Scouts, 7 Maiden Lane, New York City. 
 
 United States Branch of the Prince of Wales National Relief 
 Fund, R. M. Stuart Wortley, treasurer, 25 Broad Street, Phila- 
 delphia, Pa. 
 
 United States Guild for Soldiers' Comforts (British), Mrs. 
 Arnold Schramm, 150 West Ninety-fifth Street. New York City. 
 
 University Grants Committee of the Polish Victims' Relief 
 Fund, 33 East Forty-second Street, New York City. 
 
 Vacation War Relief Conmiittee, 122 Madison Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 War Baby's Cradle, 42 Broadway, New York City. To pro- 
 vide a bed, food, and 10 days' nursing- and care during the con- 
 finement of the poor, destitute French women. 
 
 War Children's Relief Fund. Miss Eva McDonald \'alesh, 
 chairman, 35 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City. 
 
 War Committee of the Lawyers' Club, New York City. 
 
 War Relief Clearing House for France and her Allies, Thomas 
 W. Lament, treasurer, 40 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 War Relief Commission, 61 Broadway, New York City. (153) 
 
 War Relief Department of the Needlework Guild of America, 
 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Watchmaking. Eugene Tanke to found a school of watch and 
 clock repairing for the benefit of soldiers permanently crippled 
 at the front. 
 
 Woman's Farming Class, Columbia University. 
 
 Woman's Federated Council of Employment for the District 
 of Columbia, Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, acting superintendent, 
 1826 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. O.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 27 
 
 Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, INIrs. W. G. McAdoo, clmir- 
 man, Wasliington, D. C. 
 
 Woman's Relief Corps, 1917 Colfax Street, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Woman's Section of the Navy League, 160G Twentieth Street, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Woman's Department, National Civic Federation, 1 Madison 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Woodcraft League. Establishing potato clubs all over the 
 country. . 
 
 Yomig Men's Christian Association, National War Work ('oun- 
 cil, 124 East Twenty-eighth Street, New York City. 
 4. Agriculture, Department of. 
 
 At a conference of agricultural representatives of 32 States 
 with the Secretary of Agricvdture held in St. Louis, April 10 and 
 11. 1917, the following program was adopted : An emergency ap- 
 propriation of .$2.5,000,000 to l)e made available inmiediately for 
 the use of the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the extraordi- 
 nary needs of agriculture: an urgent call to all farmers to in- 
 crease production and to housewives to avoid all food waste; 
 the mobilization of over 2,000,000 unemployed boys between the 
 ages of 15 and 19 years for service on the farms and in the pro- 
 duction of food supplies and munitions; the enlistment of men 
 unfitted for military service as an officially recognized force 
 for the production of necessities ; a complete survey of the food 
 supply ; national systematic publicity of food prices ; effective 
 control of agencies for the manufacture and handling of foods 
 and price fixing, if necessary. 
 
 The conference decided to deal with the whole subject under 
 four divisions and appointed a committee of 1."). and this com- 
 mittee appointed from its membership the following subcom- 
 mittees to deal with each of the four problems : 
 
 1. Production and labor. — H. .1. Waters, P^ugene Davenport. 
 J. A. Wade, Jewell Mayes, G. A. StaufEer, W. A. Taylor. 
 
 2. Economy. — .1. .M. Hamilton, H. K. Bryson, W. H. .Jordan. 
 
 3. Distribution and prices. — Clarence Ousley, .T. N. Hagan, 
 Kenyon L. Butterfield, Charles .T. Brand. 
 
 4. Organization. — W. O. Thompson, Charles S. Wilson, H. L. 
 Russell, D. F. Houston. 
 
 See the American Food .Journal. May, 1917, pages 24.">-247. 
 
 The Weekly News Letter, published by the U. S. Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture, subscription price 50 cents per year, sent 
 to libraries free on application, contains information on all im- 
 portant measures taken by the department in relation to con-
 
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 serving and increasing the food supply. The issue for May 2, 
 1917, for instance, contains the report of the Secretary of Agri- 
 culture made in re.sponse to a request of the Senate for a compi-e- 
 heusive plan for increasing the food supply of the United States. 
 
 Other activities of the Department of Agriculture are indi- 
 cated under the heading Crops (36), Food (58), etc. 
 5. Agriculture, International Institute of. 
 
 Headquarters. — Rome, Italy. 
 
 Organization. — The International Institute of Agriculture was 
 established under the International Treaty of June 7, 1905 
 (ratified by the United States July 7, 1906). See "Treaties, 
 conventions, international acts, protocols, and agreements be- 
 tween the United States of America and other powers. 1796- 
 1909," V. 2, p. 2140-2144. 
 
 Membership. — It is composed of delegates selected by the 
 signatory governments, and its affairs are carried on through 
 a general assembly and an executive committee. The officers 
 are Marquis Raffacle Cappelli, president; M. Louis Dop, vice 
 president ; Prof. Giovanni Lorenzoni, general secretary. 
 
 Funds. — The institute is under the patronage of the King of 
 Italy, who has endowed it with revenues amounting to about 
 $60,000 annually. It receives, also, contributions from the ad- 
 hering countries. 
 
 Functions. — The chief object of the organization is to furnish 
 the various countries prompt and reliable estimates and statis- 
 tics of agricultural production and distribution, general infor- 
 mation regarding the progress of the industry and means for its 
 improvement, and matters pertaining to the economic and socio- 
 logical aspects of agriculture. The institute has made special 
 efforts to secure the most accurate crop statistics in the bellig- 
 erent countries. 
 
 Publications. — Among the various publications of the institute 
 are the following : 
 
 International crop report and agricultural statistics. 
 Monthly. 6 francs annual subscription. 
 
 International review of the science and practice of agricul- 
 ture. Monthly. 18 francs annual subscription. 
 
 International review of agricultural economics. Monthly, 
 Annual subscription, 18 francs. 
 
 International yearbook of agricultural statistics. 5 francs. 
 
 International yearbook of agricultural legislation. 10 francs. 
 
 Although no articles in the above publications deal specifi- 
 cally with the war, yet the information which they contain on
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 29 
 
 the practice of agriculture and the statistics which they give 
 concerning the food supplies of the world are particularly 
 valuahle at this time. 
 
 References. — Information concerning the institute is to be 
 found in the following : " The International Institute of Agri- 
 culture," Rome, 1915, published by the institute, 1 franc; 
 " David Lubin's plan for peace and plenty," the Survey, .Tanu- 
 ary 16, 1915, volume 33: 413; "New Internationalism in Agri- 
 culture " by H. C. Price, Scientific American supplement, 
 August 14, 1915, volume 80 : 109 ; " The World's Department of 
 Agriculture," Current Literature, June, 1912, volume 52 : 
 659-660. 
 
 6. Aircraft Production Board. 
 
 A board of the Council of National Defense. Howard E. 
 Coffin, chairman. (3.1) 
 
 7. American Academy of Political and Social Science. 
 Headquarters. — Southwest corner Thirty-sixth Street and 
 
 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia. 
 
 The Academy has devoted a number of its recent publications 
 to matters relating to the war. It happened that volume 54 of 
 the 1914 issues was on the " International relations of the 
 United States," largely taken up with the Monroe doctrine, and 
 the Mexican situation; it contained papers on "American citi- 
 zens in foreign countries," " The policy of the United States in 
 the Pacific," and " The elements of a constructive American 
 foreign policy." 
 
 The issues for 1915 and 1916 included — 
 
 Volume 59. " The American industrial opportunity," includ- 
 ing papers on " The resources," " Importance of research," 
 " Government regulation of business," " Waterways," " Foreign 
 trade." 
 
 Volume 60. "American interests as affected by the European 
 war," including "American merchant marine," " Trade relations 
 in Latin America as affected by the European war," "America's 
 financial position as affected by the European war," "American 
 neutrality and the European war." 
 
 Volume 61. "America's interests after the European war," 
 including "America's industries as affected by the European 
 war," "American industrial supremacy," " Industrial conserva- 
 tion through world peace," "An international court." 
 
 Volume 63. " National industries and the Federal Govern- 
 ment," including papers on " The Federal Trade Commission,"
 
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 " The Federal Reserve Board," " The Intei-state Commerce 
 Commission," etc. 
 
 Volume 66. " Preparedness ;ind America's international pro- 
 gram," including " The basis of a durable peace," " The effect 
 of a large military and naval establisluuent on our domestic 
 institutions and policy." 
 
 Volume 68. "America's changing investment market," includ- 
 ing " International investments before the European war," 
 " Influence of the European war," " Capital needs of the near 
 future," etc. 
 
 8. American Commission to Russia. 
 
 McmbcrsliiiJ. — On April 26, 3917, the State Department an- 
 nounced that Elihu Root had been appointed chairman of a 
 special diplomatic mission to Russia and on May ll, 1917, the 
 personnel of the Mission was given out: Chairman, Elihu Root; 
 Charles R. Crane, John R. Mott, Cyrus McCormick, Samuel R. 
 Bertron, James Duncan, Charles Edward Russell, Maj. Gen. 
 Hugh L. Scott, and Rear Admiral James H. Glemion. 
 
 Function. — The purpose of the Mission is to transmit to the 
 Russian people the pleasure which Americans have in Russia's 
 overthrow of autocracy, and to let it l)e known that the United 
 States stands ready to help Russia in any way that will con- 
 tribute to her permanent welfare. 
 
 References. — Articles dealing witli the members of the Com- 
 mission appear in the afternoon newspapers of May 11 and 14, 
 1917, and in the morning papers of May 15 and 16, 1917. 
 
 9. American Economic Association. 
 Secretary, AUyn A. Young, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 The association proposes to organize committees at a meeting 
 of the executive committee to be held June 2, as follows : 
 
 A. Finance and currency. 
 
 B. Agriculture and food production. 
 
 C. Labor and labor legislation. 
 
 D. Conservation of natural resources. 
 
 E. Corporation finance and regulation. 
 
 F. Cost accounting on Government contracts. 
 
 G. Control of war prices and combinations and the distribu- 
 tion of products. 
 
 H. Distribution of income and wealth as affected by the war. 
 
 The association, in connection with the United States Civil 
 Service Commission, expects to take a census of economic 
 experts.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 31 
 
 The Economic Review, the organ of tlie association, has been 
 printing a number of papers on topics connected with the war. 
 The March issue, for example, contains the papers and pro- 
 ceedings of the twenty-ninth annual meeting and includes " The 
 situation of the United States . . . witii special reference 
 to the gold supply," by G. E. Roberts ; " Loans and taxes in 
 war tinance," by O. M. W. Sprague; and "The redistribution of 
 the labor now employed in producing war supplies," by H. H. 
 Lund. 
 American National Red Cross. 
 
 See Red Cross. American National. (123) 
 
 10. American Red Star Animal Relief. 
 
 Hendqttarters.— 287 State Street, Albany. X. Y. ; E. Eveleth. 
 corresponding secretary. 
 
 Oryanization and membership. — On May 22, 1916, the Secre- 
 tary of War, Newton D. Baker, invited the American Humane 
 Association to prepai'e and organize a relief service for animals 
 used in the United States Army, which should do for them what 
 the American Red Ci'oss is prepared to do for the soldiers. On 
 June 27, 1916, in accordance with that request, the American lied 
 Star Animal Relief was organized. Dr. William O. Stillman, 
 president of the National Humane Association, is the dii'ector 
 general, with offices at 287 State Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 The organization is supported by private contributions of 
 money and supplies. Branches are being established through- 
 out the country by the local chapters of the American Humane 
 Association, the local societies for tlie prevention of cruelty to 
 animals, and by groups formed especially for this new work. 
 
 Fmvction. — The Red Star has started a volunteer veterinary 
 corps, in which it is recruiting veterinarians of approved veter- 
 inary colleges, and experienccnl blacksmitlis and stable hands, 
 for war service. 
 
 Publieations. — The official reports of the work of the American 
 Red Star Relief appear in the National Humane Review, Albany, 
 N. Y. Four numbers of the Red Star News Bulletin have ap- 
 peared as supplements to the National Humane Review. A 
 bulletin of information and a circular are also available free. 
 
 Contributions should be made payable to Edgar McDonald, 
 treasurer of the American Red Star Animal Relief, and mailed to 
 William O. Stillman, director. 
 
 11. American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans. 
 Headquarters. — 120 Broadway, New York City. William D. 
 
 Guthrie, president ; Snowden Fahnestock. secretary.
 
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 Function.- — To raise funds to help the French war orphans 
 and families of dead and incapacitated sokliers. 
 
 Puhlications. — The society has issued one display poster and a 
 great many leaflets and circulars, amons which are the " Objects 
 of the society and plan of organization " ; " Certificate of in- 
 corporation and by-laws " ; "America's debt to France," by 
 W. D. Guthrie ; Ex-President Roosevelt's letter to the president 
 general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, indorsing 
 the work of the society and a reprint of an article from the 
 New York Sun, February 4, 1917, " Little-known facts of our 
 alliance with France." Contributions should be made payable 
 to the American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans 
 or to Thomas Cochran, treasurer. 
 
 12. Bibliography of the War. 
 
 Of comprehensive schemes, mention should be made of the 
 plan of the municipal library of Lyons, which began almost 
 coincident with the outbreak of the war to collect material, 
 with a view to a future catalogue. A similar enterprise has 
 been started in England by Mr. Alex. J. Philip and has the 
 support of the Central Committee for National Patriotic Or- 
 ganizations, 62 Charing Cross, London, W. C. This is planned 
 on the most comprehensive lines to include not only books and 
 pamphlets, but posters, handbills, circulars, letters, leaflets, 
 and ephemeral literature of every kind. A catalogue on cards 
 is planned, of which only seven sets are to be made, one set 
 only being deposited in any country. See the article in The 
 Field, Lond., February 17, 1917. Another comprehensive under- 
 taking is being carried out by the Deutsche Buecherei, Leipzig. 
 
 National lists. — The more important national lists are the fol- 
 lowing, not all limited, however, to national publications : 
 
 British. — Great Britain, Stationery Ofl^^ce. List of publications 
 issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office in connection with 
 events arising from the state of war. London, H. M. Stationery 
 Office, Harrison and Sons, printers, 1916. 70 pages. Continued 
 by the Monthly and Quarterly List of Parliamentary publica- 
 tions. 
 
 French. — Cercle de la librairie, Paris. Catalogue. Publica- 
 tions sur la guerre 1914-1.5. Livres — estampes — albums illus- 
 tres — revues — journaux du front. Paris, Cercle de la librairie, 
 1916+ 
 
 German. — Hinrichs, firm, booksellers, Leipzig. Die deutsche 
 Kriegsliteratur von Kriegsbeginn . . . Teildruck aus den 
 Registern zu Hinrichs' Halbjahrs-katalog der iin deutschen
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAE. 33 
 
 Bucliliaudc'l ersclucnenon Biu/lier, Zeltsclirif'ti'ii, T.iunlkarten, 
 usw. Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1915+ 
 
 Itolian. — Hoepli, firm, booksellers, Milan. (lOl.j. Ulrico 
 Hoepli.) Opere pubblicate in Italia suUa guerra luondiale 
 1914+ con speciale riguanlo agli interossi Italian!. Milano 
 [1915] + 
 
 Scandiiiocian. — Doitbnianske bibliotek, Christiana. Literatur 
 oni verdenskrigen. Kristiania, C). F. Aruosens bok- & alvciden- 
 strykkeri, 1916+ 
 
 United states. — The best statement of the literature i)ublished 
 in the United States will be found in the publications of the 
 H. ^^'. Wilson Co., " Cumulative book index " and " Readers' 
 guide to periodical literature," 1914-date. 
 
 General lists have appeared in the New York Times Book 
 Review, April 15, 1917, pages 152-154, covering the past six 
 months. Sheip's " Handbook of the Eui-opean war," published 
 by the H. W. Wilson Co., White Plains, N. Y., is a collection of 
 essays, extracts from books, speeches, etc., of which a second 
 volume by Bingham has appeared. Miss Corinne Bacon's list 
 appears in the first volume and has been reprinted as " Best 
 books on the war; an annotated list." (25 cents.) The most 
 extensive general list in English is that edited by F. W. T. 
 Lange and W. T. Berry, " Books on the great war ; an annotated 
 bibliography of literature issued during the European conflict," 
 published by Grafton & Co., London. Five parts have so far 
 appeared. Mention should also be made of " List of publica- 
 tions bearing on the war," published by the Central Committee 
 for National Patriotic Organizations mentioned above. Three 
 of these, compiled by Mr. G. W. Prothero, have appeareil, the 
 third with the assistance of Mr. Alex. J. Philip. 
 
 Library reading lists (to mention only a few by way of ex- 
 ample) have been issued by Bridgeport, Conn. ; Cambridge, 
 Mass. ; Case Library, Cleveland, Ohio ; Jacksonville, Fla. ; Pratt 
 Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Syracuse, N. Y. ; Washington. D. C. 
 
 A special bibliography has been issued by the Library of Con- 
 gress on " Europe and international politics " dealing with the 
 preliminaries leading up to the war and with various interna- 
 tional question incident to the war. 
 
 Peace literature will be found in J. R. Mez. " I'eace literature 
 of the war," published by the American Association for Inter- 
 national Conciliation, 1916. 
 
 Military literature will be found in the International Military 
 Digest, a monthly review [with quarterly and annual cumula- 
 tion] of the current literature of military science published by 
 102734—17 5
 
 34 LIBEAKY OF CONGEESS. 
 
 the Cumulative Digest Corporation, 241 West Thirty-seventh 
 Street, New York City, at .$3.50 per year, with the annual cumu- 
 lation, $5. This is more than a bibliography, as it digests the 
 articles in over SO periodicals, mostly military. 
 
 United States. General Staff. War College division. ;Montlily 
 list of military information carded from books, pei-iodicals. and 
 other .sources . . . Fort LeaAenworth, Kans.. Press of the Army 
 Service Schools, 191-5 + 
 13. Boy Scouts of America. 
 
 National headquarters. — 200 Fifth Avenue, New Yorlv City. 
 
 Establishment. — The Boy Scouts of America received a char- 
 ter under the laws of the District of Columbia Februax\v 8, 
 1910. A Federal charter was granted by act of Congress June 
 15, 191G. 
 
 Organization (iiid )neinbcrf<hii). — Local councils, of which there 
 are now about 700. receive their charter from the pai-ent 
 organization. The national officers are: Honorary president, 
 Woodrow Wilson; honorary vice president, William H. Taft ; 
 honorary vice president, Theodore Iloosevelt ; active president, 
 Colin H. Livingstone ; national scout commissioner, Daniel C. 
 Beard. Any boy in the United States over 12 years of age is 
 eligible for membership. 
 
 Purpose. — " To organize the boys of the United States into 
 units and to systematically teach them patriotism, discipline, 
 obedience, courage, self-reliance, self-control, gallantry, cour- 
 tesy, thrift, usefulness, helpfulness, and cheerfulness." 
 
 War tvork. — -Immediately upon the declaration of war the 
 services of the Boy Scouts vi^ere offered to tlie Government : to 
 the Navy to assist in watching tlie coast; to the Red Cross to 
 secure members for that organization and to make bandages, 
 etc. ; to the Department, of Agriculture to help increase the food 
 supply. The slogan " Every scout to feed a soldier " has been 
 adopted. The Boy Scouts have also undertaken to distribute 
 12,000,000 circulars directing attention to the Liberty Loan. 
 
 Publications. — For matter relating to the war service of the 
 Boy Scouts see Boys' Life, the official publication of the organi- 
 zation, issued monthly from national headquarters, 10 cents a 
 copy. The newspapers devote space to such matters also. 
 
 14. Boys' Working Reserve. 
 
 See United States Boys' Working Reserve. (142) 
 
 15. Budget, Great Britain. 
 
 Under the heading "The coming budget" The Statist, Lon- 
 don, for MarcJi 81, 1917, pages 532-538. gives " Estimated
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAK. 35 
 
 expenditures for 1917-18 and 1916-17," " Great Britain's 
 revenue and expenditures," " Great Britain's war bill," 
 " Britisli debt." See also issues of April 5 and May 7, 1917. 
 The Times, Loudon, May 3, 1917, page 7, column 5, under 
 tlie heading " The budget," outlines the new taxes and revenues 
 and gives a statement of the revenue and expenditure for 
 1917-18 taken from a white paper just issued. The statement 
 of Mr. Bonar Law, the chancellor of the exchequer, is given oa 
 page 8, columns 3-6, and page 10, columns 1-2. The budget 
 debate is summarized in the issue for May 4, 1917, page 10, col- 
 umns 1-4, and is published in full in Parliamentary Debates, 
 May 2, 1917. The Statist, May 5, 1917, under the lieading " The 
 budget," gives a statement of the yearly expenditures 1913- 
 1918 (estimated). 
 
 16. Business in the War. 
 
 The Nation's Business, published by the Chamber of Com- 
 merce of the United States of America, Riggs Building, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, at $2 per year, reflects the point of view of the 
 business man. Recent numbers have contained articles on 
 " Sugar," " Railroads," " Hotels," " Shipping," " Industrial effi- 
 ciency," " Iron and steel," " Wool," and the " Monthly survey 
 of the Nation's business." 
 
 Business in every conceivable aspect is covered by " Business 
 digest, a current digest of business progress." It is published 
 by the Cumulative Digest Corporation, 241 West Thirty-seventh 
 Street, New York City, at .$6 per year, or $10 per year with 
 quarterly cunudation issues complete. This digests about 50 
 business, financial, and economic journals under an alphabetical 
 arrangement of subjects. 
 
 17. Catholics and the War. 
 
 The Catholic archbishops of the United States have pledged 
 the whole church organization to the service of the Govern- 
 ment. See article including letter to the President in New 
 York Times, April 20, 1917, page 5, columns 4-5. 
 
 18. Chemical Industries. 
 
 An article in The Annalist, January 22, 1917, page 146, by 
 T. H. Norton, of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- 
 merce, with the title " Our chemical industries " shows the 
 progress made toward independence of foreign products aud 
 utilization of waste. 
 
 See also Dyestutfs (39), Platinum (106), Potash (108).
 
 36 LIBEAEY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 19. Children in War. 
 
 The National Child Labor Committee, 105 East Twenty-second 
 Street, New York City, is directing attention to the need for 
 conservation and care of children. It has published the three 
 following pamphlets : 
 
 Pamphlet 276. What shall we do for ebiklren in time of war? 
 
 Pamphlet 277. A war measure: Children in farm work and 
 school gardens. 
 
 Pamphlet 278. Safeguarding childhood in peace and w^ar, by 
 Owen R. Lovejoy. (In press.) 
 
 Copies of these may be purchased from the committee at $2..50 
 per 100 for the first two and 5 cents for No. 278. 
 
 See also an article in the New Republic, May 5, 1917, page 10, 
 " Children in war," and the New York Times, April 1.5, 1917, 
 section 1, page 4, column 4. 
 
 The experience of England will be found in the Reports of the 
 British Health of Munitions Workers Committee, and in Cecil 
 Leeson's " The child and the war," being notes on juvenile de- 
 linquency, London, P. S. King; 1 shilling.. 
 
 See also Bulletin 223 of the United States Bureau of Labor 
 Statistics "" Employment of women and juveniles of Great 
 Britain during the war," April, 1917. 
 
 20. Children, France. 
 
 The American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans 
 has its principal office at 120 Broadway, New^ York, to w^hich 
 office inquiries for information and literature should be directed. 
 
 See also (11). 
 
 21. Children of America's Army of Relief. 
 
 Headquarters. — 142 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass. General 
 secretary, Horace G. Turner. 
 
 An organization whose object is to enlist the children of 
 America for the relief of children in Avar-devastated countries. 
 
 22. Churches of Christ in America, Federal Council of the. 
 
 See Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. 
 (49) 
 
 23. Civic and Educational Cooperation, Division of. 
 
 A division of the Committee on public information whose duty 
 it is to use existing education and civic agencies to stimulate 
 public opinion concerning the issues of war and disseminate 
 information on the issues at stake. See Public Information, 
 Committee on. (112)
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 37 
 
 24. Coal. 
 
 A report, dated May 19, 1917, on the coal situation has been 
 submitted to Congress by the Federal Trade Commission. It 
 is based on information presented liy operators, transportntion 
 lines, and large consumers*, and covers the f-auses of the lack 
 of supply and high prices, inadequate transportation facilities, 
 labor conditions, cost of production and distribution, lack of 
 storage, and speculation. Remedies suggested in improved 
 transportation facilities, labor conditions, storage facilities, 
 and Government regulation of distribution. 
 
 The i-eport has been printed as Sixty-fifth Congress, first 
 session, House Document No. 152. 
 
 Current information as to the shipment of coal is given In 
 a montldy statement puhlis'hed in the daily Commerce Reports 
 issued by the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
 Commerce. (27) 
 
 25. Coal Production, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of the Council of National Defense. F. S. Pea- 
 body, chairman. (35) 
 
 26. Columbia War Papers. 
 
 A series of pamphlets on tlie problems and duties of American 
 citizens in meeting the national needs in the present world 
 conflict, published by the Division of intelligence and publicity 
 of Columbia University, Walter B. Pitkin and Roscoe C. B. 
 Brown, editors. Columbia University, New York City. Sent 
 free to libraries ou request. 
 Series I : 
 No. 1. Enlistment for the farm. By John Dewey. A mes- 
 sage on how school children can aid the Nation. 
 No. 2. German subjects within our gates. By the Na- 
 tional Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. 
 Some notes on the possibilities of internment. 
 No. 3. Mobilize the country-home garden. By Roscoe C. B. 
 Brown. An appeal to the owners of c<mntry 
 estates. 
 No. 4. Our headline policy. By Henry Bedinger Mitchell. 
 An appeal to the press to recognize in their news 
 presentation our unity with our allies. 
 No. 5. Deutsche Reichsangehorige hier zu Lande. Vom 
 Nationat-Ausschuss fiir Gefangnisse und Gefang- 
 nisarbeit. Bemerkungen iiber die Moglichkeiten 
 der Internierung. Zweisin-jichige Ausgabe (Eng- 
 lisch inid Deutsche von Nummer 2 oben.
 
 38 LIBRAEY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 No. 6. Food preparedness. By H. R. Seager and R. E. 
 Chaddock. A survey of the basic facts in llie 
 for»d situation. 
 
 No. 7. How to finance tlie war. By Edwin R. A. Selig- 
 man and Robert Murray Ilaig. An attempt to 
 construct an equitable program for loans and 
 taxation. 
 
 No. 8. Farmers and speculators. By B. M. Anderson, jr. 
 A discussion of prices as a stimulant to produc- 
 tion and of tlie uses of speculation in war finance. 
 
 No. 9. A directory of service. Compiled under the direc- 
 tion of John .J. Coss. Tells how and where to 
 enlist for different kinds of work for the country. 
 
 No. 10. City gardens. By Henry Griscora Parsons. Prac- 
 tical instructions for the use of small city plots. 
 
 No. 11. Bread bullets. By Roy S. INIacElwee. Concerning 
 agricultural mobilization in the United States. 
 
 No. 12. Rural education in war. By Wan-en H. Wilson. 
 How to organize high-school boys for farm work. 
 
 No. 13. Why should we have universal military service? 
 Compiled from the writings of Munroe Smith, 
 Franklin H. Giddings. Frederic L. Huidekoper, 
 and Gen. Emory Upton. 
 
 No. 14. How Canada organized her man power. By .T. D. 
 Sears. 
 
 No. 15. Wheat substitutes. By Robert E. Chaddock, Henry 
 C. Sherman, Mary D. Schwartz Rose and May B. 
 Van Arsdale. 
 
 No. 16. The House revenue bill. By Edwin R. A. Seligman. 
 
 27. Commerce. 
 
 Current information concerning commerce, regulations on im- 
 portation and exportation, etc., will be found in the daily Com- 
 merce Reports published by the United States Bureau of 
 Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D. C. 
 
 This publication may be secured by subscription ($2.50 per 
 year) from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, 
 D. C. (38) 
 
 28. Commerce, Effect of War upon. 
 
 The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the De- 
 partment of Commerce publishes Commerce Reports, a daily 
 paper giving consular and trade reports. Many of these deal 
 with the effect of the war upon commerce and trade in the vari- 
 ous countries. A quarterly index to the reports is issued.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 39 
 
 Commerce Reports may be obtained from the Superintendent 
 of Documents for 5 cents a single number, or for $2. HO for a 
 year's subscription. (38) 
 
 29. Commerce, Great Britain. 
 
 Under the heading " Our foreign trade " Tiie Stati.st for 
 January 27, 1917, pages 140-142, gives a comparative statement 
 of the " Value of foreign trade of the United Kingdom in 1913 
 and 1916." 
 
 Under the same heading in the issue for February 10, 1917, 
 pages 230-231, there is a statement showing " Course of our 
 foreign trade since 1900 in value and quantity " with " Principal 
 articles imported." 
 
 Current information concerning the commerce and trade of 
 Great Britain is given in the Board of Trade Journal, London. 
 
 30. Commercial Economy Board. 
 
 A board of the Council of National Defense. A. W. Shaw, 
 chairman. (35) 
 
 31. Cooperation, Great Britain. 
 
 The New Statesman (London) has published a number of 
 special supplements on cooperative associations of every kind, 
 chiefly in Great Britain. These discuss the number and organi- 
 zation of such societies and their influence in controlling pro- 
 duction, distribution, prices, and professional services. 
 
 The first report on " Cooperative production and profit shar- 
 ing " appears as a special supplement to the issue of The New 
 Statesman of February 14, 1914. The second report on " The 
 cooperative movement " is largely devoted to consumers asso- 
 ciations in Great Britain and Germany and was a special sup- 
 plement to the issue for INIay 30, 1914. The third report was 
 on " State and municipal enterprise," and appeared with the 
 issue for May 8, 1915. The fourth report was on every variety 
 of " Professional associations " and was published in two parts 
 as special supplements to the issues for April 21 and 28, 1917. 
 
 32. Cooperative Committees on Purchase of Army Supplies (United 
 
 States Chamber of Commerce). 
 A committee of the Council of National Defense. Harry P. 
 Fowler, chairman. (35) 
 
 33. Cost of Living. 
 
 The Federal Trade Commission has just published a report, 
 " High cost of living. Conference with delegates appointed by 
 governors of States in re food and fuel supply and price,"
 
 40 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 whicli may bo obtaiiu'd by libraries on ai>i)licati()n to the 
 coiuniission. 
 
 An article by A. B. Adams, ou " Inefficient food distribution," 
 in The Annalist. March 26, 1917, page 431. discusses the 
 influence of our faulty methods of distribution on the cost of 
 living. 
 
 The Division of Bibliography, Library of Congress, published 
 in 1910 a " Select list of references ou cost of living and 
 prices," and in 1912 a supplementary list was published. These 
 are sent free to libraries, and copies are for sale by the Super- 
 intendent of Documents for 15 cents each. (88 > 
 
 34. Cotton. 
 
 The following publications contain the current statistics of 
 <'otton : American Wool and Cotton Rejiorter. Boston ; Brad- 
 street's, New York; Dun's Review. New York; Kcononiist, 
 London ; and the New York Journal of Commerce. 
 
 An article by "W. L. Johnson " The cotton market panic pre- 
 venter." in The Annalist, February 12. 1917. page 242. describes 
 the influence of the Clearing Association in stabilizing condi- 
 tions and preventing gnmliling and failures. 
 
 The same page contains a statement of the visil)]e supply, 
 followed by cotton statistics and quotations. 
 
 35. Council of National Defense. 
 
 HearlQiiarters. — Munsey Building, Penn.sylvania Aveime. 
 Washington, D. O. 
 
 Created by section 2 of Army appropriation act of August 
 29, 1916 (64th Cong., public act 242, H. R. 17498). To get this 
 act see (38). 
 
 Membeeship and Organization. 
 
 cou>\cil of national defense. 
 
 Secretary of War. Newton D. Raker, chaii-inan. 
 
 Secretary of Navy. .loscidms Daniels. 
 
 Secretary of Intorior, Franklin K. Lane. 
 
 Secretary of Agriculture. David F. Houston. 
 
 Secretary of Couunerce. William C. Redfield. 
 
 Secretary of liabor. William B. Wilson. 
 Director of council and advisoi-y ronnnission, Mr. Walter S. 
 
 Gifford. 
 Secretary of <-onncii and advisoi-y coniniission. Grosvenor B. 
 Clarkson.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 41 
 
 Sections aud boards of council : 
 
 Aircraft production l)oar<l. Howard K. (Jolliii, cliairinan. 
 Munitions staadards board, Frank A. Scott, chairman. 
 
 Suliconimittee on Anii.v and Xavy :irtillci\ . S. M. N'aii- 
 
 claiu, chairman. 
 Subconnnittee on Army and Navy projectiles, II. W. 
 
 Van Dervoort, chairman. 
 .Subcommittee on fuses and detonators. K. A. Deeds, 
 
 chairman. 
 Subcommittee on gauge.s, dies, etc., F. (,'. I'ratt, chair- 
 man. 
 Subconnniltcc on opiiciil jnstruiiicnts, I"'. A. Scott, chair- 
 man. 
 Suhconnnittee on small arms and nunutions, J. E. 
 Otterson, chairman. 
 General munitions board, Franl< A. Scott, cliairman. 
 
 Suhconnnittee on price problems, Frank A. Scott, chair- 
 man. 
 Suhconnnittee on ai'uiored cars, Col. .7. H. Rice, chair- 
 ma n. 
 Subcommittee on Army vehicles, William P>utter\vorth, 
 
 chairman. 
 Suhconnnittee on emergency construction jtnd con- 
 tracts. W. A. Starrett, chairman. 
 Subcommittee on machine guns, B. W. M. Hanson, 
 
 chairman. 
 Subcommittee on optical glass, Dr. R. A. Millikan, 
 
 chairman. 
 Subcommittee on ]u-iority. Gen. J. B. Aleshire, chair- 
 man. 
 Subcommittee on storage facilities, M. L. Cook, chair- 
 man. 
 Subcooperative connnittee — Defense committee of 
 American Institute of Accountants, E. S. Suffern, 
 chairman. 
 Commercial economy board, A, W. Shaw, chairman. 
 Interdepartmental advisory committee: 
 Committee on shipping, William Denman, chairman. 
 Committee on women's defense work. Dr. Anna Howard 
 
 Shaw, chairman. 
 Committee on coal production, F. S. Peabody, chairman. 
 Section of cooperation with States, George F. Porter, chair- 
 man. 
 
 1027.34— 17 6
 
 42 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 Advisory commission, noiiiinated ))y couueil, appointed by the 
 President : 
 
 Daniel Willard, chairman. 
 Howard E. CoflBn. 
 Dr. Hollis Godfrey. 
 Julius Rosenwald. 
 Bernard 31. Baruch. 
 Samuel Gompers. 
 Dr. Franklin H. Martin. 
 Committees and cooperative committees of the advisory com- 
 mission : 
 
 Transportation and comnninication. Daniel Willard. chair- 
 man. 
 
 Telegraplis and telephones, Theodore N. Vail, chainnan. 
 Railroad trans])ortation, Fairfax Harrison, chairman. 
 Siibconmiittee on car service, C. M. Sheaffer, chair- 
 man. 
 Subcommitree on express. D. S. Elliott, chairman. 
 Subcommittee on military equipment standards, 
 
 J. T. Wallis, chairman. 
 Subcommittee on military transportation account- 
 ing. A. H. Plant, chairman. 
 Subcommittee on military passenger tariffs, E. L. 
 
 Bevington, chairman. 
 Subconnnittee on military freight tariffs, L. Green, 
 
 chairman. 
 Subcommittee on materials and supplies, H. B. 
 Spencer, chairman. 
 Cars, S. M. Vauclain, chairman. 
 Locomotives, S. i\f. Vauclain, chairman. 
 Electric railroad transportation, Gen. George H. Har- 
 ries, chairman. 
 Munitions, Howard E. Coffin, chairman. 
 
 Automotive transport, Karl W. Zimmerschied, chair- 
 man. 
 Gas and electric service, John W. Lieb, chairman. 
 National industrial conference board, L. A. Osborne, 
 chairman. 
 Engineering and education. Dr. Hollis Godfrey, chairman. 
 Subcommittee on general engineering. Dr. Hollis God- 
 frey, chairman. 
 Subcommittee on production engineering. Dr. Hollis 
 Godfrey, chairman.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 43 
 
 Committees ami (•()<ii)erativ(' coinmit tecs <>f the advisory (.•oin- 
 mission — Coiitimied. 
 
 Engineerini: ami ('(hication, etc. — Continued. 
 
 SubcMJimiiittee on universities and c-olle<^es, r>i-. II<iilis 
 
 Godfrey, chairman. 
 Subcommittee on secondary and normal schools. Dr. 
 HoUis Godfrey, chairman. 
 Supplies, Julius Ro.senwald, chairman. 
 
 Cotton goods, Lincoln Grant, chairman. 
 Woolen manufacturers, John P. Wood, chairman. 
 Shoe and leather industries, J. F. McElwaln, chairman. 
 Knit jroods, Lincoln Cromwell, chairman. 
 Raw materials, Bernard M. Baruch. chairman. 
 Alcohol, Horatio S. Rubens, chairman. 
 Aluminum, Arthur V. Davis, chairman. 
 Asbestos, magnesia, and roofing. Thomas F. .Manville, 
 
 chairman. 
 Brass, Charles F. Brooker, chairman. 
 Cement, John E. IMorron, chairman. 
 Chemicals, Dr. William H. Nichols, chairman. 
 Acids, H. R. Grasselli. chairman. 
 Alkalies, J. D. Pennock, cliairman. 
 Coal tar by-products. William H. Childs. chairman. 
 Electro chemicals, J. J. Riker. chairman. 
 Fertilizers, Horace Bowker, chairman. 
 Miscellaneous chemicals, Edward Mallinckrodt, jr.. 
 
 chaii-man. 
 Pyrites. A. 1>. Ledoux. chairman. 
 Sulphur, Henry Whilon, chairman. 
 Copper, John D. Ryan, chairman. 
 Lead, Clinton H. Crane, chainnan. 
 Lumber. R. H. Downman. chairman. 
 Mica, L. W. Kingsley, chairman. 
 Nickel, Ambrose Monell, chairman. 
 Oil, A. C. Bedford, chairman. 
 Rubber, H. Stuart Hotchkiss. chairman. 
 Steel and .steel products, Elbert H. Gary, chairman. 
 Alloys. .Tnmes A. Farrell. chairman. 
 Pig tin, John Hughes, chairman. 
 Sheet steel. W. S. Horner, chairman. 
 Steel distribution. James A. Farrell, chairman. 
 Scrap iron, Eli Joseph, chairman. 
 Ferro-manganese. Arthur A. Fowler, chairman. 
 Tubular products. James A. Campbell, chairman.
 
 44 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 Committees and cooperative committees of tlie advisory com- 
 mission — Continued. 
 Raw materials — Steel and steel products — Continued. 
 Tin plate, J. I. Andrews, chairman. 
 Pig iron, Iron ore, and lake transportation, H. G. 
 Dalton, chairman. 
 Wool, Jacob F. Brown, chairman. 
 Zinc, Edgar Palmer, chairman. 
 Labor, Samuel Gompers, chairman. 
 
 Wages and hours, P^rank Morrison, chairman. 
 Mediation and conciliation, V. Everit Macy, chairman. 
 Welfare work, L. A. Coolidge, chairman. 
 
 Industrial safety, L. R. Palmer, chairman. 
 Sanitation, Dr. William A. Evans, chairman. 
 Dust and fumes. Col. Levels T. Bryant, chairman. 
 Lighting, L. B. Marks, chairman. 
 Structural safety, Robert D. Kohu, chairman. 
 Fatigue. Dr. Thomas Darlington, chairman. 
 Public education in health matters. Dr. Alvah H. 
 
 Doty, chairman. 
 Vocational education, H. E. Miles, chairman. 
 Women in industry, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, chair- 
 man. 
 Information and statistics, Frederick L. Hoffman, 
 
 chairman. 
 Press, Grant Hamilton, chairman. 
 Publicity, Dr. Edward T. Devine, chairman. 
 Cost of living, domestic economy. S. Thurston Ballard, 
 chairman. 
 Medicine and .^urgeiy. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, chairman. 
 General medical board. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, chair- 
 man. 
 Cooperative connnittee of manufacturers. 
 Standardization of medical and surgical supplies and 
 equipment. Dr. Frank F. Simpson, chairman. 
 Function. — To coordinate the industries and resources for the 
 national security and welfare, by investigations resulting in 
 recommendations to the President and heads of the executive 
 departments, concerning railroads, waterways, and other means 
 of transporting troops and supplies, the increase of domestic 
 production of needed supplies, development of seagoing trans- 
 portation, and the gathering and dissemination of information 
 concerning these matters. 
 
 A2)iJ7'opriations.—:)f,200,000 to carry on investigations by spe- 
 cially engaged experts.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 45 
 
 Publications. — Has not issued any piiljlk-atioiis (June 1) ex- 
 cepting certain press noti<'es duly printed in the newspapers, 
 and a six-page pamphlet, " Information regarding correl!ite<l 
 activities of Council of National Defense and Advisory commis- 
 sion, medical dei)artnients of (Government and (Committee of 
 American physicians for medical preparedness." Sent free to 
 libraries. Act provides for special reports and an annual report 
 to Congress. 
 
 References. — Set articles in Engineering Magazine, Septem- 
 ber, 1916, descriptive of the work of the Committee on in«lus- 
 trial preparedness of the Naval Consulting Board, which led to 
 the formation of the Council of National Defense ; World's 
 Work, April, 1917, descriptive, including outline of problems to 
 be met ; Iron Trade Review, January 11, 1917, historical and 
 descriptive, touches on work of related organizations ; Survey, 
 March 17, 1917, historical and descriptive, with comment on 
 future effect; Everybody's Magazine, June, 1917, contains an 
 article, "The sweat of war,'" liy (Jeorge Creel, which deals with 
 the work of the council. In the (':;ongressi()nal Record for June 
 8, 1917, pages 3502-3507 there is a complete statement of the 
 personnel of all the connnittees and subcommittees. This has 
 been revised and printed separately and may be had on appli- 
 cation to the council. 
 
 The work of the council has been made the subject of a hear- 
 ing before the subconnnittee of the House Committee on Appro- 
 priations. This has been printed but may be obtained only 
 through a Member of Congress. 
 
 36. Crops, Statistics. 
 
 The Monthly Crop Report, distributed free by the Department 
 of Agriculture, contains statistics on acreage, conditions, yield, 
 and prices, including fruits and live stock ; gives also some index 
 figures. 
 
 A statistical discussion of crop statistics is found in the An- 
 nalist, March 5, 1917, page 332, entitled " Poor crops in league 
 with war," and includes a diagram " Long-range comparison of 
 Dun's Index of Food and Connnodity Prices." 
 
 See also (5). 
 
 37. Diplomatic Relations and Correspondence. 
 
 Official prints of diplomatic correspondence relating to the 
 war are issued from time to time by the Department of State. 
 W^hen a sufficient number of these have been issuivl to form a 
 volume, the separate items are compiled into a consolidated 
 volume and issued under the title " Diplomatic correspondence
 
 46 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 with belligerent Governments relating to neutral rights and 
 commerce." The separate prints are not for general distribu- 
 tion, but the compilations may be purchased from the Superin- 
 tendent of Documents (No. 1, 50 cents; Xo. 2, 75 cents; No. 3, 
 $1). (38) 
 
 (a) The first number, printed and distributed May 27, 1915, 
 covers the correspondence from the beginning of the war and 
 contains the correspondence of the belligerent Governments on 
 their attitude to the provisions of the Declaration of London as 
 applied to naval warfare; papers relating to articles listed as 
 contraband of war by Great Britain. France, Russia, Germany, 
 Austria-Hungary, and Turkey; cori-espondence (Dec. 26, 1914, to 
 May 13, 1915) relating to restraints on commerce; foodstuffs 
 cargo of the American ship Wilhelmina in British prize court ; 
 and the beginning of the correspondence (Mar. 31 to Apr. 28, 
 
 1915) with Germany on the destruction of the American mer- 
 chantman William P. Frye by the German cruiser Prinz Eitel 
 Friedrich. 
 
 (&) European war No. 2, printed and distributed October 21, 
 
 1915, contains the President's proclamations of neutrality; cor- 
 respondence relating to violation of neutrality, Panama Canal ; 
 violations of neutrality by belligerent warships ; defensive arma- 
 ment and the right of departure from neutral ports of belliger- 
 ent merchant ships to arm at sea ; internment of the German 
 ships Geier and Locksun; correspondence between Secretary of 
 State and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign 
 Relations on questions relating to neutrality ; transmission of 
 mail of American diplomatic and consular officers ; censorship of 
 telegrams transmitted by cable and wireless ; Belgian relief ; 
 attempt of German ship Odenwald to sail without clearance 
 papers ; detention by Great Britain of the American merchant 
 ship Seguranca and steamship Wico; internment of the German 
 ship Prinz Eitel Friedrich, the German cruiser Kronprinz Wil- 
 helm, and the German prize ship Farn; detention of August 
 Piepenbrink ; noncontraband character of hydroaeroplanes ; dual 
 nationality of Ugo Da Prato ; circular instructions and corre- 
 spondence relating to the issuing of passports ; correspondence 
 (May 28 to July 31, 1915) relating to restraints on commerce; 
 destruction of American merchantman William P. Frye (June 7 
 to Aug. 10, 1915) ; and correspondence with Austria-Hungary on 
 the sale of munitions of war to belligerents. 
 
 (c) European war. No. 3, printed and distributed August 12, 
 
 1916, contains in addition to the papers (June 3, 1915-May 10, 
 
 1916) relating to British restraints on commerce, papers re-
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 47 
 
 latiiig to British contraband lists ; case of the American steam- 
 ship Joseph ir. Fordncy in British prize court ; correspondence 
 concerning hovering of Britisli warships near the territorial 
 waters of tlie United States; interferences by belll;^erents with 
 mails; correspondence with belligerent govMrinnents reganllng 
 submarine interferences with commercial vessels and regard 
 ing the status of armed merchantmen ; case of the British 
 steamship Arabic torpedoed by a German submarine; de- 
 struction of American steamship LceUnuiic by a German sub- 
 marine; papers relating to the torpedoing of the steamship 
 Sussex; additional correspondence (Sept. 2()-Dec. 2, 1915) on 
 destruction of American nierchantnuin Willidiii P. Fryc; recall 
 of Dr. Constantin Theodor Duniba, Austro-Hungarian amba.s.sa- 
 dor at Washington ; recall of Capt. Von Papen, military attach^ 
 and Capt. Boy-Ed, naval attach^, of the German embassy at 
 Washington ; case of the British steamship Appam, captux'ed by 
 German naval forces and brought by a prize crew into an Ameri- 
 can port ; escape of officers and men from German ships interned 
 in the Uniteil States ; status of American consular officers in 
 belligerent territory occupied by enemy troops ; and the papers 
 relating to the dual nationality case of Frank Ghiloni. 
 
 (d) On Octolier 10. 1916, the Department of State printed for 
 distribution the papei's on attitude of the United States as to the 
 status of belligerent submarines in neutral waters. 
 
 (e) On April 4, 1917, the Department of State printed for 
 distribution the papers relating to maritime danger zones and 
 the placing l)y belligerents of mines in the high seas. 
 
 (/) The diplomatic correspondence noted above {a to c) has 
 also been published by the American So<'iety of International 
 Law, as special supplements to the American .Tournal of Inter- 
 national Law, July. 191;". and October. 1916. These can be 
 purchased from the publishers. Baker. Voorhis & ('o., New York, 
 for $1.25 each. 
 
 (g) Attention should also be directed to a document by S. D. 
 Fess on " The problems of neutrality when the world is at war ; 
 a hi.story of our relations with Germany and Great Britain as 
 detailed in the documents that passed between the United States 
 and the two great belligerent powers." This is issued in two 
 parts : Part 1. The submarine controversy ; Part 2. Restraints 
 of trade controversy. This is printed as House Document No. 
 2111, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, and can be pur- 
 chased from the Superintendent of Documents for 15 cents 
 each. (38)
 
 48 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 On the (liploniatif history of the war, see — 
 
 Beck, James T. The evidence in the case. 1914. 
 Billiard. A! The diplomacy of the great war. 1916. 
 Price, M. P. The diplomatic history of the war. 1914. 
 Stowell, E. C. The diplomacy of the war of 1914. Vol. 1, 
 191.5. 
 The documents have been issued by the respective Govern- 
 ments and are also available in collected form in J. B. Scott's 
 " Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the Euro- 
 pean War " ; two volumes, Oxford, 1916, $5. The American Asso- 
 ciation for International Conciliation has published a series of 
 pamphlets, " Documents regarding the European War," which 
 may be secured by libraries on application to the office of the 
 as.sociation, 407 West One Hundred and seventeenth Street, 
 New York City. • 
 
 See also Cramb. .1. A. Germany and England. 1914. 
 Weyl, W. E. American world policies. 1917. 
 
 38. Documents, Superintendent ot. 
 
 The Superintendent of Documents at Washington is the official 
 with whom rests the distribution and sale of Government pub- 
 lications not otherwise provided for by law. He does not han- 
 dle publications which are not Government documents. In mak- 
 ing remittances to him in payment for documents send a postal 
 money order, express order. New York draft, or coupons. Cur- 
 rency may be sent at the sender's risk. Do not send postage 
 stamps ; he can not use them. Being a Government official, he 
 uses the frank in sending material through the mail. He can 
 not turn the stamps in to the post office, because for sanitary 
 reasons stamps once sold are not sold again. The coupons men- 
 tioned above may be purchased from the Superintendent of 
 Documents in sets of 20 for $1, good until used. They form a 
 convenient and safe method of making remittances to those who 
 have frequent occasion to send small amounts. 
 
 The Superintendent of Documents issues a number of price 
 lists free on application. The following are of interest in the 
 present crisis : 
 
 11. Foods and Cooking. 4.5. Roads. 
 
 16. Farmers' Bulletins. 51. Health, disease, etc. 
 
 19. Army and militia. 62. Commerce and manufactures. 
 
 25. Transportation. 63. Navy. 
 
 28. Finance. 65. Foreign relations. 
 
 33. Labor. 67. Immigration. 
 
 38. Animal Industry. 68. Farm management.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 49 
 
 He !ils(» piihlislif's m Alontlily (•:ilal<i;_'iic of riiilt'il StaU's 
 (locuiiienls (•(tvcriii.u- all (lovci'iiiiieiit piiitiicatiitiis. Suhsfriiiliuii, 
 $1.10 JHM- year. iiicliKliiifi index. 
 
 The LAWS of Ilie I'liiled Sl.iles afe printed ;'.< soon as po.s- 
 sible at'ler llieir approval liy I lie I'resjdent .nnd dislrihwled to 
 siiljscfilx'fs l)y tlie Siipefintendenl of 1 >o<-uinents. Siiijile laws, 
 unless mnisiially Ioiil;. are ."> cents pef copy. SiiUscript Ions for 
 laws itassed at each session of < 'on^ress. .$1. 'I'ln* sejtarale laws 
 in the tifst form in wiiicli they are jirinted are known as "slii) 
 laws": a collection of all the laws for a sinj^le session of Coii- 
 f^ress are known as " session laws." 
 
 At the chtse of the final session of each Congress the '"session 
 laws" are reedited, their indexes consolidated and i»iihlislied in 
 Ixiiind volumes under the title " Statutes at Lar^^e."' the price of 
 these Viiries from $2 to .$8.2o, dependin.y ui)on the size. 
 
 COXCJUESSIONAL RKCOUl) will he furnislied hy mail to 
 subscribers free of posta.sje f<»r Jfl..")!) ))er month, payable in ad- 
 vance: single coi)ies of 24 i)ai;«>s or less, ."{ cents each ; each ad<li- 
 tional S i)aiies, 1 cent extra. 
 39. Dyestuffs. 
 
 Tlie cuttin;;' off of lOurope.in sources of dyestuffs has stimu- 
 lated acti\ilies in the I'ldled States botli Lroverinnental and 
 private. 
 
 The IVitartment of Commerce has published tliree monojrraphs 
 on dyestuffs prepared by Thomas l\. Norton, commercial agent 
 of the department, ••l>yeslulT Situniioii in the Fnited States 
 November. lOl.")." ".Viiificia! Dyestuffs Fsed in the I'nited 
 States: (^unmiiy and value of foreign imports and of domestic 
 l)roduction during the fiscal year lDlM-14." and " Dyestuffs for 
 American Textile and Other Industries" (gives a history of the 
 (ierman coal-tar dye industry and shows what may be done in 
 America along similar lines). These may i)e obtained from the 
 Superintendent of Dociiments foi- .". :!(). and Id cents, re.sjjec- 
 tively. (38) 
 
 The .same department has prepared under the title "Aniline 
 Coloi- Industry " information relating to tlie sui)ply of dyestuffs 
 for American textile and other industries. This was printed for 
 the use of Members of Congress as Senate Document 952 (63d 
 Cong., 3d sess.). and may be obtained only through a Member of 
 Congress. 
 
 40. Economic Conference of the Allies. 
 
 A conference of the entente allies for discussion of economic 
 and commercial questions was held in Paris April 20, 1916. The 
 1027.S4— 17 7
 
 50 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 principal topic of discussion was tlie mutual exchange of com- 
 modities under a tariff system favorable to the allied nations. 
 
 From June 14 to 17, 1916, the economic conference of the 
 allies held sessions in Paris, at which a permanent economic 
 committee was formed. The recommendations adopted by the 
 conference were divided into three periods consisting of: A. 
 Measures during the war; B. Transitory measures for the 
 period of connnercial, industrial, agricultural, and maritime i-e- 
 construction of the allied countries ; and C. Permanent measures 
 of mutual assistance and collaboration among the allies. These 
 recommendations have been published by Great Britain Board 
 of Trade as Great Britain Parliament Papers by command (Cd. 
 8271). They are also printed in The Statist (London) for 
 June 24, 1916, and in the Information Annual, 1916, pages 6 to 7. 
 The recommendations, with comments, were published in Harold 
 Storey's " The Paris Conference and the Trade After the War," 
 London, 1916. They were also discussed in an article "A com- 
 mercial league of defense," published in the July, 1916, issue of 
 the Edinburgh Review. A series of articles by P. Sinceny on 
 the economic entente of the allies was printed in the Reforme 
 Economique, Paris, March 24, April 7 and 21, 1916. An article 
 by J. A. R. Marriott on " Mitteleuropa and the meaning of the 
 Paris pact " is published in the Nineteenth Century and After 
 for November, 1916. See also an article on the " Fruits of the 
 Paris conference " in The Annalist for July 17, 1916, p. 75. 
 " European Economic Alliances," a compilation of information 
 on international commercial policies after the European war and 
 their efEect upon the foreign trade of the United States, also an 
 analysis of European and united commercial interdependence 
 and treaty relations. Published by the National Foreign Trade 
 Council, India House, Hanover Square, New York City. 
 
 41. Education, Bureau of. 
 
 The Bureau of Education has published a circular dated May 
 8, 1917, on the work of American colleges and universities dur- 
 ing the war. Sent free to libraries. 
 
 The bureau is also issuing a series of Home Economics Letters, 
 of which No. 22 has just appeared. It outlines "A brief course 
 in food economy for colleges," etc., making abundant use of 
 references to publications of the Department of Agriculture. 
 These and other letters of importance in connection with the 
 schools and the war are also sent free to libraries. 
 
 42. Emergency Fleet Corporation, United States Shipping Board. 
 Headquarters. — Munsey building, Pennsylvania Avenue, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. ,
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 51 
 
 On April 17, 1917, the United States Sliipping P.oard incor- 
 porated under the laws of the District of Columbia the United 
 States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, with a 
 capital stock of $50,000,000, the total amount which Congress 
 authorized for new ships. The chairman of the board of trus- 
 tees is Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals. 
 Emergency Legislation. 
 
 See War legislation (145-151). 
 
 43. Engineers, Military Books for. 
 
 The Engineering and Mining Journal for May 12. 1917, con- 
 tains a list of books stated to have the authority of the Secretary 
 of War, It consists of 62 items under the headings " Military 
 policy," " Conduct of war," " Military history," " Permanent 
 fortifications," " Field engineering," " Periodicals." 
 
 See also (88). 
 
 44. Exchange Rates. 
 
 An article on the " Depreciation of exchanges, 1915 and 1916 " 
 was printed in The Statist, London, for .January 6, 1917, pages 
 18-19. It gives the rates with illustrative diagram from .Tanuary, 
 1915, to December, 1916. between New York and London, Paris, 
 Rome, and Berlin. 
 
 45. Exports, Statistics of. 
 
 Statistics of exports from the United States to foreign coun- 
 tries are to be found in the following publications of the Depart- 
 ment of Commerce: 
 
 Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States, issued 
 annually. This is a complete report of exports and imports of 
 the United States, both merchandise and gold and silver. It 
 also contains a record of the number of and tonnage of vessels 
 entered and cleared in the foreign trade. It may be obtained 
 from the Superintendent of Documents for $1. (38) 
 
 Parts of Foreign Commerce and Navigation are issued sepa- 
 rately, as follows: 
 
 Table 5. Exports ot Domestic IMerchandise from the United 
 States by Articles and Countries (5-year tables). It may be 
 obtained from the Superintendent of Documents for 35 cents. 
 (38) 
 
 Monthly Summary of the Foreign Commerce of the Unite<l 
 States. This covers the same ground for one month that Foreigh 
 Commerce and Navigation covers for the year. It may be ob- 
 tained from the Superintendent of Documents. Single copies, 15 
 cents; yearly subscription. $1.50. (38)
 
 52 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 St.itistical Abstract of the United States. A section is <levote(l 
 to the foreign commerce of the United States, based on tlie For- 
 eign ('onnnerce and Navigation of the United States. It may be 
 obtained from tlie Sni»erintendent of Docnments for oO cents. 
 (38) 
 
 Trade of the United States with the World. 1914-15. Imports 
 and exports of merchandise into and from the United States by 
 countries and principal articles during the years ending .Tune 30. 
 1914 and 191.5. It may be obtained from the Superintendent of 
 Documents for L*0 cents. (88) 
 
 Bulletin of Exports of Domestic Breadstuffs, Meats and Dairy 
 Products. Food Animals. Cotton and Mineral Oils. This is issued 
 monthly and may be obtained from the Bureau of Foreign and 
 Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, upon request. 
 
 Total Values of Imports and Exports of tlie Unitetl States. 
 This is a monthly statement, and may be obtained from the 
 Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Connnerce. Department of Com- 
 merce, upon request. 
 
 An article, " High i)i'ices swell export values," The Annalist, 
 February 26. 1917. page 803. shows the influence of high prices 
 in expanding export statistics. 
 
 46. External Communications, Division of. 
 
 .\ division of the Connnittee on public information, whose'duty 
 it is to (■oii.--or cables ;ind watch the Mexican border. See Public 
 ini'ormal loll, coniiiiirtce nii. (112) 
 
 47. Farm Labor. 
 
 The I>eparIuH'nr of .Xgriculture and the Depai'tnient of Labor 
 will act in cooperation through a .Joint labor connnittee of the 
 Departments of Agriculture and Labor to prociire and send city 
 workers to the farms. The Ignited States employment service 
 will be used for this work. See Official Bulletin, No. 4, May 14, 
 1917. page 8. (104) 
 
 The Itural New Yorker in its current issues is devoting much 
 space to farm labor. In the issue for April_^28, 1917, page 623. is 
 an article on •' The patriotic agricultural service commission " 
 appointed by Gov. Whitman, its organization, and the names 
 and addresses of the county agents. 
 
 The Annalist. May 7, 1917. page 624, has an article " Finding 
 lf}bor for work on the farms," describing the enrollment of fac- 
 tory employees in large cities for vacation service with pay. 
 
 48. Federal Commission on Training Camp Activities. 
 
 See Training camj) activities. Federal commission on. (139)
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 53 
 
 49. Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. 
 Hcadquiirtcrn. — 011-filL' United Cliarides r.iiilrlin- l(i:{ Ksist 
 
 Twenty-second Street, New York City. 
 
 The WashiiiKton ofTir-e of the Federal Council and Iteliuious 
 Welfare League of the Army and Navy is 1112 Woodward 
 Buildinj;:. corner i'Mfteeiitli and H Streets Northwest, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 This organization had its origin ai)oul 1005 in a ni(ivenient to 
 bring the Christian bodies of America into united service and 
 cooperation. 
 
 A special meeting was held in Washington May 8-9. 1917 (see 
 The Churchman, May 19. 1917. ii. r)7<)-r)S(»), at which was pre- 
 sented a message on the " Duty of the Church in this hour of 
 national need," and which was sent to all the clergymen in its 
 constituency (100,000). It is .summarized in The Churchman 
 mentioned above. Announcement was also made of a handbook 
 in press entitled "The churches in time of war" (50 cents). 
 Besides giving suggestions regarding specific methods by w-hich 
 the churches may aid the (Jovernment during the war, it treats 
 such subjects as " Red Cross and European relief," " Works of 
 mercy," " The social evil," " Child welfare," " Food economy," 
 " Industrial standards," " Justice in bearing the costs," " Pre- 
 servation of democracy." " National vitality," " Community 
 leadership," " Army and Navy chaplains and Young Men's 
 Christian Association." " Love of enemies," " Freedom of con- 
 science," " The end of militarism," and " Spiritual values." 
 
 The council has also published three volumes on the ("nui-cli 
 and interna tiouiil relations. .$1 each. 
 
 50. Federal Farm Loan Bureau. 
 
 The Federal Farm Loan Bureau and Federal Farm Loan 
 Board were created by the Federal farm loan act of July 17. 
 1916. wdiich is to be found in the Unitetl States Statutes, Sixty- 
 fourth Congress, first session, volume 38, part 1, chapter 245. 
 pages 360-384. (38) It is also published separately as Senate 
 Document No. 500 — as sudi it can only be obtained through a 
 Member of Congress — and as Circular No. 4 of the Federal Farm 
 Loan Bureau, free upon request. 
 
 The Federal Farm Loan Bureau is under the general super- 
 vision of the Federal Farm Loan Board, which consists of five 
 members, including the Secretary of the Treasury, who is chair- 
 man ex officio, and four members appointed by the President by 
 and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The members 
 of the board are: Chairman (ex otticio). William G. McAdoo,
 
 54 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 Secretary of the Treasury ; Farm Eoan Commissioner and execu- 
 tive officer, George W. Norris ; Herbert Quick ; W. S. A. Smith ; 
 Charles E. Lobdell. 
 
 The purpose for which the bureau has been created is to pro- 
 vide capital for agricultural development, to create standard 
 forms of investment based upon farm mortgages, to equalize 
 rates of interest upon farm loans, to furnish a market for 
 United States bonds, to create depositaries and financial agents, 
 etc. Toward this end Federal land-bank districts and Federal 
 land-bank cities have been selected as follows : 
 Federal land-bank cities : 
 
 District No. 1. Springfield, Mass. 
 District No. 2. Baltimore, Md. 
 District No. 3. Columbia, S. C. 
 District No. 4. Louisville, Ky. 
 District No. 5. New Orleans, La. 
 District No. 6. St. Louis, Mo. 
 District No. 7, St. Paul, Minn. 
 District No. 8. Omaha, Nebr. 
 District No. 9. Wichita, Kans. 
 District No. 10. Houston, Tex. 
 District No. 11. Berkeley, Cal. 
 District No. 12. Spokane, Wash. 
 Federal land-bank districts. 
 
 District No. 1. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- 
 setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. 
 
 District No. 2. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 
 West Virginia, and District of Columbia. 
 
 District No. 3. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and 
 Florida. 
 
 District No. 4. Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. 
 District No. 5. Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 
 District No. 6. Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. 
 District No. 7. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North 
 Dakota. 
 
 District No. 8. Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. 
 District No. 9. Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. 
 District No. 10. Texas. 
 
 District No. 11. California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. 
 District No. 12. Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho. 
 Up to date the Federal Farm Loan Bureau has issued the fol- 
 lowing circulars, which may be obtained from the bureau free 
 upon request:
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 55 
 
 ('mnh;y No. 1. Xatiitnal luriii loan associations. Orfianiza- 
 tion, management, powers, and limitations. 
 
 Circuhir No. 2. How farmers may form a national farm loan 
 association. 
 
 Circular No., 3. New mortgages for old. A story illustrating 
 the practical application of the Federal farm loan act. 
 
 Circular No. 4. The Federal form loan act. 
 
 Circular No. 5. The farm loan primer. (Contains in brief 
 form answers to the questions most frequently asked about the 
 Federal farm-loan act.) 
 
 Farmers' Bulletin 792, of the United States Department of 
 Agriculture, entitled " How the Federal Farm Loan Act Benefits 
 the Farmer," can be had from the Superintendent of Documents, 
 AVashington. D. C, for 5 cents. 
 
 Among the more important books and magazine articles upon 
 the Federal farm-loan system may be mentioned Herbert 
 Myriclv's The Federal Farm Loan System, published by the 
 Orange Judd Co., of New York, for $1, and the following : 
 
 Bulkley, R. J. Federal Farm Loan Act. Journal of Political 
 Economy. (February, 1917, v. 25, 129-147.) 
 
 Collins, P. V. The Rural Credits Act as Enacted. American 
 Review of Reviews. (September, 1916, v. 54, 303-304.) 
 
 Harger, C. M. Rural Credits on Trial. Nation. (Mar. 8, 
 1917, V. 104, 290-292.) 
 
 Herrick, M. T. The Federal Farm Loan Act. Atlantic 
 Monthly. (February, 1917, v. 119, 222-232.) 
 
 Norris, G. W. The Farm Loan Bill. Outlook. (Sept. 13. 
 1916, V. 114, 69-70.) 
 
 Putnam, G. E. The Federal Farm T^oan Act. Economic Re- 
 view. (December, 1916, v. 6, 770-789.) 
 
 Quick, Herbert. Borrowing from Your Uncle. Saturday 
 Evening Post. (Feb. 17, 1917, v. 189, No. 34, 18+.) 
 
 AVilliams, N. B. Activities of the Federal Farm Loan Board. 
 Lawyer and Banker. (February, 1917, v. 10, 46-49.) 
 
 51. Federal Reserve Board. 
 
 Headquarters. — Treasury Building, Washington. D. C 
 The Federal Reserve Board is an independent bureau ; that is, 
 not under the Department of the Treasury, nor is it a special 
 war bureau. The special war functions which it is performing 
 are of the greatest importance. It is the chief agency through 
 which the Liberty Bond issue is being placed, and it has circu- 
 lated short-term Treasury notes to the extent of $200,000,000. 
 Ordinarily its function is to exercise a broad supervision over
 
 56 LTBKARV OF CONGRESS. 
 
 tlie 12 Federal reserv(> liaiiks and [icitMrm ntlicr hankiiif-- 1'imc- 
 tioiis assigned to it l)y law. 
 
 Tlie Federal Reserve Board lias published since .May, 191."), the 
 Federal Iteserve Hulletin, devoted 1<» matters relatiiift" to the 
 Federal Reserve System. It may be obtained from the Federal 
 Reserve Hoard, Pennsylvania Avenue and Fifteentli Street NW., 
 Washington, D. C, at $2 per year. 
 
 The Bulletin gives the informal rulings of the board, the opin- 
 ions of the law department, tlie circulars and regulations, press 
 statements, general business conditions of the Federal reserve 
 banks, acceptances, distribution of discounts, gold imports and 
 exports, and statistics of their resources and liabilities. 
 
 Recent numbers have contained articles on "' War loans of for- 
 eign countries" (January, 1917, p. 10). "Condition of four lead- 
 ing European banks of issue" (March, 1917. p. 284). "Gold re- 
 serves and note circulation of principal European banks of issue " 
 (April, 1917, p. 329), "War financing" (May, 1917, p. 340), 
 "Foreign war loans" (same, p. 349), "German war loans" 
 (same, p. 351), " National banks and war loans " (same, p. 353). 
 " Foreign exchange rates in belligerent, neutral, and silver- 
 standard countries" (same. p. 404). 
 
 52. Finance. 
 
 The National C'ity Hank of New York publishes a monthly 
 circular or bulletin devoted to " Economic conditions, govern- 
 mental finance, and United States securities," which is sent to 
 libraries on request. An index covering the numbers for the' 
 year 1916 has been i.ssued ; al.so sent on request. 
 
 The numbers for January -May, 1917, contain brief articles 
 on the influence of the " IVace proposals," " Genei-al business 
 conditions." " The UKmey market." " Exports," " CJold," " ( Jov- 
 ernment finance," "Price regulation," "Profits," "Exchanges." 
 "Foreign loans," "Federal Reserve System." "Railroads," 
 " ('ro])s," "Food situation." 
 
 The National Bank of Connnerce of New York lias publislied 
 a " War finance primer," which may be had by libraries on 
 application. It contains .sections on " British war-loan adver- 
 tisements " ; "How to finance the war," b.v Prof. Seligman : 
 "Financial management of a war." by Prof. Adams; and 
 "Bonds and taxation." "The wai" finance act (Liberty Loan 
 act)" is i)rinted at the end. 
 
 53. Finance, Investments. 
 
 The Standai'd Financial Digest Service, i)ublislied by Stand- 
 ard Statistics Co. (Inc.), 47-49 Wall Street. New York, is
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 57 
 
 (lovoted to financial matters from the investor's point ol' view. 
 Volume 4, November 1, 191G, to April 1, 1917, taking the place 
 of loose-leaf pages 1299-1802, is just out. The infornuMion is 
 classified under the headings "War," "Legislation," "Hank- 
 ing," " Business courts," " Foreign," " P"'oreign trade," " I/atin 
 America," "Railroads," " Security markets," " Internal reve- 
 nue." 
 
 The volume contains a comprehensive index, a digest of the 
 financial and commercial year 1916, and a chart showing an 
 index of banking conditions, stock prices, and business extend- 
 ing from January. 1903, to February, 1917. 
 
 Similar material appears in the Market Letter, published by 
 Charles A. vStoneham »& Co., 41 Broadway, New York ; Moody's 
 Investors Service, published by John Moody, 35 Nassau Street, 
 New York ; and the Barometer lietter, etc., prepared by Bab- 
 son's Statistical Organization (Inc.), Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
 
 54. Finances, Great Britain. 
 
 Under the heading "The national accounts" in the Statist 
 for April 7, 1917, statements are given concerning the revenue 
 and expenditure, last four years. There is a " Condensed 
 financial statement." a table of the " War borrowings," and 
 of the " British debt, March 31, 1917." 
 
 55. Finances, War Loans. 
 
 A statement of the " Foreign loans made by the United States 
 since the vi^ar began " is made in the Statist, London, for April 
 14, 1917, page 631, at the end of an article on " Financing the 
 war." This covers the advances made to the allies up to the 
 entrance of the United States into the war. Details of the 
 " French borrowings in United States " are given in the issue 
 for March 31, 1917, page 536. The Mechanics & Metals Na- 
 tional Bank of the City of New York has published a pamphlet 
 on "War Loans and War Finance," which is an analysis of the 
 war costs, war loans, and Government indebtedness of Europe 
 in their relation to the world at large. The Guaranty Trust 
 Co., of New York, has just published " War Loans and the United 
 States." These may be had on application by libraries. Sec 
 also the Bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board for January and 
 May, 1917. 
 
 56. Finances, War Loans, Germany. 
 
 In the Statist, London, April 21, 1917, page 668, there is an 
 article on " The German loan " which gives the amounts of the 
 six loans and the number of small and large subscribers of the 
 first five. See also the Bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board 
 for May, 1917, page 351. 
 
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 57. Finances, War Loans, Russia. 
 
 A Statement of the " Russian internal war loans " is given in 
 the Statist, London, for March 31, 1917, page 537. See also the 
 Bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board for January and May, 
 1917. 
 
 58. Food. 
 
 The Weekly News Letter published by the Department of 
 Agriculture at 50 cents per year is of general interest on 
 matters pertaining to farming, stock raising, poultry raising, 
 and dairying. The current numbers contain much matter relat- 
 ing to war conditions. Gives advice on seed selection and dis- 
 infection, spraying, and the control of insects and pests, storing, 
 canning, drying, and preserving the surplus. 
 
 The more important articles are frequently reprinted sepa- 
 rately and distributed free. Among these are " Food crops 
 must be increased," " Program for food production and con- 
 servation," " Food production report submitted to the Senate," 
 " Spray to save the fruit crops from insects and diseases." 
 
 The Department of Agriculture has also issued a series of 
 display circulars sent to libraries free on application, useful on 
 bulletin boards and even on hoardings. These give advice and 
 directions to farmers, gardeners, and householders concerning 
 raising and using food. 
 
 A series of articles on the food situation in the United States 
 by E. M. King is running in the New York Evening I'ost. The 
 first article appears in the issue of May 2, Section 1, page 8, 
 columns 1-3, and is a statement and plan of the series ; No. .II 
 (May 3, p. 9, columns 1-2) is devoted to the problem in New 
 York City and what is being done there; No. Ill (May 4, p. G. 
 columns 1-6) treats of the organization for food control in New 
 York State; No. IV (May 7, p. 16, columns 1-2) discusses the 
 situation in Washington; No. V (May 8, p. 7, columns 1-6) be- 
 gins the statements of those concerned in the food situation, 
 the farmer, commission agent, railroads, wholesaler, etc., each 
 from his own viewpoint; No. A^I (^lay 10, p. 7, columns 1-2) 
 deals with tlie produce broker's connection with the marketing 
 of tlie farmer's crop; No. VII (May 15, p. 6, columns 1-3) deals 
 with the relations of the railroads to the food problem ; No. 
 
 VIII (May 19. Sec. I, p. 12, columns 1-2) is on what the whole- 
 saler has to say about his relation to the food situation ; No. 
 
 IX (May 28, p. 5, columns 1-3) in which the jobber tells his 
 side of the food situation; No. X (.Tune 4, p. 7, col. 1-3) the 
 retail grocers' views; No. XI (June 5, p. 6, col. 3^) deals with, 
 the consumers; Summary (June 9, p. 1, col. 1, p. 11. col. 3-7).
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 59 
 
 A number of hearings on the productiun and conservation of 
 food supplies have been held before the Committee on Afjri- 
 culture and Forestry of the Uinted States Senate. These relate 
 to all the proposals which have been made for increasing the 
 production, improving the distribution, and promoting the con- 
 servation of fo(xl supplies in the United States. Five parts have 
 been printed for the use of the committee, copies nia.v be ob- 
 tained only through a Member of Congress. Similar hearings 
 have been held before the Committee on Agriculture of the 
 House of Representatives, of which also tive parts have been 
 " printed. 
 
 See also Hunt, T. F. " Some fundamental considerations 
 affecting the food suppl.v of the United States," published as 
 Circular No. 163, Universit.v of Californlti, College of Agricul- 
 ture, Berkeley. Sent to libraries free. 
 
 59. Food Conservation. 
 
 The Department of Agriculture has issued a " Food Thrift 
 Series," Nos. 1-8, with more to follow, which may be had by 
 librarians on application to the department. The series give.s 
 advice on care and use of foods, prevention of waste and loss 
 through decay, cheap substitutes for more expensive foods show- 
 ing, for example, the value of milk, corn meal, rice, how to im- 
 prove dairy products in small plants, economy in food fats, 
 selection of foods, canning fruit without sugar, cooperative can- 
 ning, planning of daily meals, .soups that nourish, food combina- 
 tions. 
 
 The Division of Bibliography of the Library of Congress has 
 prepared a mimeographed " List of references on the conserva- 
 tion, production, and economic use of foods," copies of which 
 are sent to libraries free on application. 
 
 60. Food Control. 
 
 The Council of National Defense on the 7th of April adopted a 
 resolution calling upon Herbert C. Hoover, head of the Amer- 
 ican commission for relief in Belgium, to accept the chairman- 
 ship of a Committee on food supply and prices. After accept- 
 ing the chairmanship of this committee. Mr. Hoover made a 
 statement in which he said that he had immediately started an 
 inquiry in France, England, and Italy, in cooperation with the 
 respective Government departments, into the existing food situ- 
 ation, the prospects of the coming harvest, import necessities, 
 and the methods of regulating food control as at present in op- 
 eration. Owing to the complete data in the hands of the vari- 
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 for the correlation of all essential matters. For the complete 
 statement of Mr. Hoover see the Commercial and Financial 
 Chronicle for April 23, 1917. In the New York Times for April 
 20. 1917. page 11. column 4, is a dispatch from Mr. Hoover sug- 
 gesting that the Boy Scouts raise beans as their contribution to- 
 the food supply. 
 
 It was announced on May 19 that the President would ap- 
 point Mr. Hoover as food administrator. See the New York 
 Times, May 20, Section 1, page 1, columns 6-8^ for statements 
 concerning the administration's food-control program. On the 
 same page H. C. Hoover outlines a plan of procedure. 
 
 In the March. 1917, issue of the Monthly Review of the United 
 States Bureau of Labor Statistics is the first of a series of arti- 
 cles on '• Government control of food supplies in European coun- 
 tries." C»wing to the difficulty of obtaining official publications 
 these articles are based mainly on consular reports, correspond- 
 ence of the daily press, and articles in foreign and American 
 magazines. The March number is devoted to a summary of food 
 control in Great Britain and gives as an appendix the Orders in 
 council, dated November 16, December 5 and 22, 1916, amend- 
 ing the regulations under the Defense of the realm con.solidation 
 act, 1914. For later orders see the London Gazette, January 
 13, 1917, and current numbers of the Great Britain Board of 
 Trade Journal, the Great Britain Journal of the Board of Agri- 
 culture, and the Solicitor's Journal and Weekly Reporter. 
 
 The April number contains a summary of conditions in 
 France, based on articles in the Journal Officiel de la Republique 
 Frangaise, and an article by Charles Gide on "Provisioning of 
 France and the measures taken by the Government to that end," 
 published in the March. 1916, issue of the Economic Journal. 
 See also an article " The French solution of the bread problem," 
 by Edith Sellers in the Nineteenth Century and After, for IMay, 
 1917, pages 1028-1042. 
 
 The May issue contains articles on food control in Germany 
 and Italy. In the absence of official sources for Germany the 
 bureaii has made liberal use of an article by Prof. Alonzo 
 Englebert Taylor, published in the Saturday Evening Post 
 (i.ssues of Feb. 17, 24, and Mar. 3, 1917). Prof. Taylor was in 
 Germany until the end of October, 1916, and at first hand made 
 a study of food-supply conditions in that country. 
 
 The article on the control of food supplies in Italy contains 
 information concerning the production and importation of the 
 principal foodstuffs, embargoes on foodstuffs, milling and bread 
 regiilations. the establishment of a food-supply commission, and
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAH. 61 
 
 the nieasdres ol" cooperation willi the Covciiiiiii r.i .'uloittcd l)y 
 the inunicipalities of Genoa, Milan, and Rome. 
 
 The Monthly Review of the United States Bureau of Labor 
 Statistics can be had free on application to the Bureau of Labor 
 Statistics, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Popuhir articles on food control in the various countries are 
 listed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. 
 
 The New York Evening Post is publishing a symposium of re- 
 plies to a query sent out l\v tiie Evening I'ost from the governors 
 of the various States as to the part they are taking in connec- 
 tion with tlie control of foofl prices, conservation, etc. Seven 
 articles have appeared so far, as follows: May 12, Section I, 
 page 16, columns 1-2; May 14, page 5, columns 1-2; May 18, 
 page 14, columns 1-3 ; May 22, page 9, coUunns 1-3 ; May 24, 
 page 14, cohnnns 1-3-: May 20, j)age 8. columns 1-2: .June 1, 
 page 14, colunms 1-2. ' 
 
 61. Food Prices, Great Britain, Index Number. . 
 
 In Tlie Statist (London) April 21, 1917, page 669, there is an 
 article on tlie " Course of retail food prices," which gives index 
 numbers of retail prices June 30, 1914 = IOC). Includes num- 
 bers for co.st of living (food. rent, light, clothing, etc.). 
 
 62. Food Production. 
 
 Tlie I'resident's address of April 15 to the American people 
 on the need for increased production of foodstuffs has been 
 published by the Department of Agriculture and may be ob- 
 tained on application to the department. The Department of 
 Agriculture has also issued a series of display posters quoting 
 from the President's address. These are sent free to libraries 
 on application. 
 
 63. Foreign Correspondents and Foreign Language Publications, 
 
 Division of. 
 A division of tlie Coiiiniittee on pui)li<' information, whose duty 
 is keeping in touch with the sentiment of the foreign press and 
 the American press in foreign languages. See Public infor- 
 mation, committee on. (112) 
 
 64. Foreign Information, Division of. 
 
 A Division of Foreign Information has been created by order 
 of the Secretary of State to be the only source of information 
 besides the Secretary himself. This division takes the place 
 of the six existing divisions dealing with foreign affairs, so 
 far as the function of supplying information is concerned.
 
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 65. France, Rebuilding of Devastated Area. 
 
 The plans made for rebuilding the war-ravaged districts of 
 France are described in an interview by W. H. Cole, technical 
 director of the project, printed in the New York Times, May 
 20, 1917, section 8, page 8, columns 1-3. 
 
 A movement among university and college students to aid in 
 this work is outlined in the Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 
 1917, page 3, column 7. 
 
 Information on this subject may be obtained from Ralph 
 Adams Cram, 8 Beacon Street, Boston. 
 
 66. General Munitions Board. 
 
 A board of tlie Council of National Defense. Prank A. Scott, 
 ch. (35) 
 
 67. Geological Survey. 
 
 A Section of the Geology of Iron and Steel Alloy Metals 
 has been created, as a special war subdivision. 
 
 An address, "Geology and public service," delivered by G. O. 
 Smith, Director of the ITnited States Geological Survey, at the 
 twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Geological Society of Amer- 
 ica, at Albany, N. Y., December 27, 1916, appeared in the An- 
 nual report of the director of the State Museum (New York) 
 for 1916 and in the Scientific Monthly, February, 1917, and has 
 been reprinted from each separately. 
 
 See also, " What a geologist can do in war," prepared by 
 R. A. F. Penrose for the geological committee of the National 
 Research Council. Publislie<l by J. B. I^ippincott Co., Philadel- 
 phia, 1917. 10 cents. 
 
 68. Gold. 
 
 The Statist for February 17, 1917, pages 276-277, under the 
 heading, " The world's gold output," give^ statistics by years 
 and countries and prints a diagram, " Gold production of the 
 world since 1851." 
 
 An article in the Annalist for January 8, 1917, page 37, " Our 
 golden problem," discusses the economic dangers arising from 
 the great inflow of gold, and what can be done to overcome 
 them. 
 
 69. Government Manufacture of Arms, etc., Board to Investigate. 
 Created by section 121 of National defense act of June 3, 
 
 1916 (64th Cong., public act So; also in statutes of the United 
 States, 1st sess. 64th Cong., Part I, p. 214). To get this act, 
 see (38). 
 
 Membership consists of two civilians and three Army officers. 
 Col. Francis J. Kernan, chairman.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 63 
 
 Function to investigate and report on the feasibility, etc., of 
 the Government manufacturing arms, etc. 
 
 Publicn lions. — Has published a report on the Government 
 manufacture of arms, munitions, niid ecjuipmont. To get this 
 for 10 cents, see (38). 
 
 References. — See article in Iron Trade Review, January 11, 
 1917, c'ritical comment. 
 
 70. Government, United States, Organization. 
 
 In the New York Times, magazine section, May 6, 1917, Sec- 
 retary Lane of the Interior Department gives an outline of the 
 organization of the Government with a diagram showing the 
 interrelations of the departments and bureaus. He points out 
 the need of a Priority board to determine what shall be done 
 first and which department has the greatest need for any com- 
 modity the amount of which is limited. 
 
 An article in the New Republic for May 12, 1917, points out 
 the need for departments dealing with munitions, food control, 
 and .shipping. 
 
 The normal organization of the Government is best described 
 in the official Congressional Directory revised for each session 
 of Congress. This may be obtained from the Superintendent of 
 Documents for 60 cents (38). Descriptive accounts of the 
 'Government of the United States will be found in — 
 
 Ashley, R. L. The American Federal State. 1911. Part 11. 
 Government. 
 
 . Beard, C. A. American Government and Politics, 1914. Part 
 II, Federal Government. 
 
 Bryce, James. American Commonwealth. 1910. Part I, Na- 
 tional Government. 
 
 Fairlie, J. A. The National Administration of the United 
 States of America. 1905. 
 
 Haslvin, F. J. The American Government, 1912. 
 
 Wilson, W. Congressional Government. 1913. 
 
 Wilson, W. Constitutional Government in the T'^nited States. 
 1913. 
 
 Young, .Tames T. The New American Government and Its 
 Work. 1915. 
 
 71. Grain Crops, Statistics. 
 
 " Statistics of grain crops, 1916," reprinted from the Year- 
 book of the Department of Agriculture. 1916, may be obtained 
 from the Superintendent of Documents for 10 cents (38). In- 
 cludes corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, flour, and rice 
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 64 LIBEARV OF CONGRESS. 
 
 72. Hebrews, American. 
 
 American Jewry through its various orjiauizatioiis lias en- 
 tered energetically into war relief work. The Joint Distribu- 
 tion Connnittee, 356 Second Avenue, New York City, repre- 
 senting the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central 
 Relief Committee, and the People's Relief Committee is the 
 chief organization engaged in this. The committee consists of 
 Felix M. Warburg. Julian ^I. Mach, J. Walter Freiberg, E. W. 
 Lewin-Kpstein, Cyrus Adler, Louis D. Brandeis, Leon Sanders, 
 Louis Marshall, Harry Fischel. J. L. Magnes, INI. Engelman, 
 Albert Lucas, M. Z. Mai'golies, Peter Wiernick, Sholum Asch, 
 Paul Kaplan, and Morris Rothenburg. The American Jewish 
 Relief Committee publishes a bulletin telling of its activities. 
 Information is also to be had in the American Jewish Yearbook. 
 1916-17, issued by the .Tewish Publication Society. Philadelphia. 
 $1. and in the American Hebrew, April 6. 1917, volume 100 : 6S(;. 
 
 Other organizations engaged in war relief work are: 
 
 The Council of Jewish Women, National League for Woman's 
 Service, National Jewish Board for Welfare Work in the 
 United States Army, W^omen's Proclamation Society, Young 
 Men's Hebrew Association, Young Women's Hebrew Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 Material concerning these organizations may be obtained by 
 addressing the American Jewish Committee. 356 Second Avenue, 
 New York City. The American Hebrew and the American 
 Jewish Chronicle make mention of the work in their weekly^ 
 issues. 
 
 Historical Service, National Board. 
 
 See National board for historical service. (96) 
 
 73. Imports, Statistics of. 
 
 Statistics of imports into the United States from foreign 
 countries ai'e to be found in the following i)ublications of the 
 Department of Commerce : 
 
 B'oreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States. 
 Issued annually. This is a complete report of imports and ex- 
 ports of the United States, both merchandise and gold and 
 silver. It may be obtained from the Superintendent of Docu- 
 ments for .$1. (38) 
 
 Parts of Foreign Commerce and Navigation are issued sep- 
 arately, as follows: 
 
 Table 3. " Imports of merchandise into the Unitetl States, by 
 articles and countries" (5-year tables). It may be obtained 
 from the Superintendent of Documents for 30 cents. (38)
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 65 
 
 Tables 9 jiikI 10. " Imported iiiercliiiiwlisc entered for coii- 
 suiuption ill t;lie Uiiilcd States and duties collected thereon, and 
 total values by customs districts." It m.i.v be obtained from Hit- 
 Superintendent of Documents for 15 cents. (38) 
 
 Iniijorted merchandise entered for consumption in the I'liiteil 
 States and duties collected theiccm. Issued (juarterly. It may 
 be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, single copies 
 W to 25 cents, annual subscrijjtion 75 cents. This covers the 
 ground for the (piarler that the previously mentioned report 
 does for the year. 
 
 Monthly Sunnnary of the l^'oreign (!oimnerce of the Uinted 
 States. This covers the same ground for one month that For- 
 eign Connuerce and Navigation does for the year. It may be 
 obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, single cojties 
 15 cents, yearly subscription $1.50. (38) 
 
 Statistical Abstract of the United States. A section is de- 
 voted to the foreign commerce of the United States, based on 
 the Foreign Conimei-ce and Navigation of the United States. It 
 may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents foi- 50 
 cents. (38) 
 
 Trade of the United States with the World, 1914-15. Im- 
 ports and exports of merchandise into and from the I'nited 
 States by countries and principal articles during the years end- 
 ing June 30, 1914 and 1915. It may be obtained from the Super- 
 intendent of Documents for 20 cents. (38) 
 
 Total Values of Imports and Exports of the United States. 
 This is a monthly statement and may be obtained from the 
 Bureau of Foivign and Domestic ("ommei-ce, De}>artineni of 
 Connuerce, upon request. 
 
 74. Income Tax. 
 
 An article on incidents of income tax ai»pears in the Annalist, 
 .January 8. 1917. page 3(3, with title " The tax dodger as the 
 Treasury sees him." Contains a table showing the yield of the 
 graduated tax for 1915 and 1916. 
 
 75. Index Numbers. 
 
 The Statist, London, prints at monthly intervals under the 
 heading " Increasing cost of living — the Statist's index number 
 of prices," in continuation of Sauerbeck's figures. These cover 
 the wholesale prices of 45 commodities, the average for 11 
 years, 1867-1877, being 100. Shows also the course of prices 
 monthly since the war began. (See the issues for .Tan. 13. 1917.
 
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 p. 03-65 ; Feb. 10, p. 228, 229, price and index number of silver ; 
 Mar. 10, p. 412; Apr. 7, p. 587, 588.) 
 
 The Annalist prints regularly in each number a diagram en- 
 titled " Curve of the cost of living," showing the fluctuations 
 in the average price of 25 food commodities, representing a theo- 
 retical family's food budget. Under the heading, "Another 
 record for commodity prices," Bradstreet's for May 12, 1917, 
 page 306, price movements are set forth in a table in which are 
 given the index numbers, based on the prices per pound of 96 
 articles for 13 years, 1904-1917. An exhibit names the articles 
 that advanced, declined, or remained unchanged during a month's 
 time — May 1, 1917, compared with April 1, 1917; May 1, 1917, 
 compared with May 1, 1916. 
 
 The Monthly Review of the United States Bureau of Labor 
 Statistics includes retail prices of food in the United States. 
 These are summarized from time to time and printed with much 
 detail and additional matter in the bulletin of the bureau, 
 '• Retail prices and cost of living " series. 
 
 76. Interdepartmental Advisory Committee. 
 
 A committee of the Council of National Defense. (35) 
 
 77. International Institute of Agriculture. 
 
 See Agriculture, International Institute of. (5) 
 
 78. Labor. 
 
 The Auiericau Assuciatiuu for Labor I^egislatiou has issued 
 '• Labor Laws in War Time, No. 1, Special Bulletin, April 
 1917," 4 pages, which may be obtained from the association, 131 
 P^ast Twenty-third Street, New York City. 
 
 The bulletin is to be issued from time to time in advocacy 
 of the retention of the standards of labor protection. Tlie first 
 issue contains a summary statement of the minimum require- 
 ments essential to the welfare of wage earners as to safety, 
 sanitation, hours, wages, child labor, women's work, social 
 insurance, administrj^tion, etc. 
 
 The Bureau of Labor Statistics has published as Bulletin 222, 
 " Welfare Work in British Munition Factories," reprints of the 
 memoranda of the British health of munition workers' committee. 
 This covers general supervision, industrial canteens, construc- 
 tion and equipment, food, washing and bathing facilities. Sent 
 free to libraries. An appendix lists other bulletins relating to 
 labor in foreign countries as affected by the war. See especially 
 Bulletins 221 and 223.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 67 
 
 The Monthly Review of the United States Bureau of Labor 
 Statistics gives current inforniation concerning labor matters, 
 especially the relatiotis of the Government to wage earners, 
 labor legislation in the States, and labor matters in foreign 
 countries. Libraries may secure copies by applying to the 
 United States Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 The National Consumers' League, 289 Fourth Avenue, New 
 York City, has issued a number of circulars, leaflets, and letters, 
 to be had on application, directing attention to the danger of 
 bi'eaking down the safeguards of labor concerning long hours, 
 sanitary conditions, women, and children, etc., which years of 
 hard work have brought into existence. (See also 47.) 
 
 79. Labor, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of the Atlvisory commission of the Council of 
 National Defense. Samuel Gompers, chairman. (35) 
 
 80. Land Cultivation, Great Britain. 
 
 The official notices and circulars in regard to land cultivation 
 are printed currently in the Journal of the Board of Agricul- 
 ture, Tvondon. The board of agriculture, under the authoriza- 
 tion of the food controller, has charge of the acquisition of 
 land for cultivation to aid the food supply. 
 
 The Agricultural policy subconunittee of the recon.struction 
 committee of the board of agriculture, which was appointed 
 August, 1916, to consider and report upon the methods of 
 effecting an increase in the home-grown food supplies, having 
 regard to the need of such increase in the interest of national 
 security, has just issued Part I of their report as Parliamentary 
 papers by command (C!d. 8506), for sale by T. Fisher Unwin, 
 London, VV. C, price 3d. 
 Legislation, Emergency. 
 
 See War legislation (145-151). 
 Liberty Bond Issue. 
 
 See Treasury Department (141). 
 
 81. Life Extension Institute. 
 
 Headquarters. — 25 West Forty-fifth Street, New York City; 
 branch, 615 Fourteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Purpose. — The Life Extension Institute was incorporated in 
 Nev.- York City in January, 1914, with the object "To lengthen 
 life by applying modern science." The means by which this is 
 being obtained are, first, a hygiene reference board of nearly a
 
 68 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 liuiidrcd leading experts on matters relating: to hetiltli, which 
 aims to settle, as far as possible, the many dispnted questions 
 of personal hygiene and to solve such problems as " how to 
 ventilate our homes and to clothe and feed our bodies " ; second, 
 a system of health inspection of individuals. 
 
 Orqaniziifion and mcmhrrHhii). — The officers of the institute 
 ai-e Elmer E. Rittenhouse, president: Harold A. Ley, vice presi- 
 dent; James A. Lennehan, secretary: Eugene L. Fish, director 
 of hygiene. Prof. Irving Fisher is chairman of the hygiene 
 refei'ence board, composed of nearly 100 prominent persons, in- 
 cluding such names as William H. Taft ; Dr. (leorge H. Sim- 
 mons, of the American Jledical Association ; Dr. AVilliam H. 
 Welch, of Johns Hopkins ; IMahel Boardman : and Harvey W. 
 Wiley. 
 
 Puhliraiiovfi. — Hitherto the bulletins issued by the institute 
 have dealt with matters pertaining to hygiene, etc., but on May 
 25. 1917. the organization entered into the campaign for in- 
 creased food ]iroduction by devoting its " Monthly News Letter " 
 to tlint subject. The news service of the institute costs $3 a 
 year. Libi-aries and other public organizations may obtain it 
 on an exchange basis, however. Address the New York office. 
 
 Referenceft. — The objects, organization, and personnel of the 
 Life Extension Institute are contained in a prospectus issued 
 by the institute. Articles on the organization are to be found 
 ill the following: Nation, January 8. 1914. volume 98, 27-8; 
 Survey, January 24. 1914. volume 81. 483-4. 
 
 82. Life Insurance Rates. 
 
 At the National Convention of Insurance ('oiiiuiissioiiers. Des 
 Moines. April 17-18. 1917, a committee was appointed to take 
 up witii life insurance companies the question of uuiforni wht- 
 service regulations. (New York Times. May 6, p. 8. col. 1-5.) 
 
 Information as to action taken can be secured from the chair- 
 man of the committee on this subject. ^Ir. Burton Mansfield, 
 insui'ance commissioner. New Haven, Conn. 
 
 83. Medical Section. 
 
 A section of the Council of National Defense. Dr. Frank F. 
 Simpson, chairman. (35) 
 
 84. Medicine and Surgery, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of The Advisory commission of the Council of 
 National Defense. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, chairman. (35)
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 69 
 
 85. Military Engineering Committee of New York. 
 Headquarters. — 29 West Thiriy-iiintli Street, New York City. 
 
 J. S. Langthorn, secretary ; .Joseph Struthers, ofFice manager. 
 
 Memhrrship made up of some of the past and pre.sent officer.s 
 of the national engineering societies of the TJnited States. 
 
 Function. — Its purpose is to aid the Government in organizing 
 engineering regiments for the war, and afford opportunities for 
 instruction by lectures on military engineering, regular cour.ses 
 of studies, and drill. 
 
 86. Military Laws of the United 'States. 
 
 "The Military Laws of the United States," 191.5, fifth edition, 
 may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Wasli- 
 ington, D. C, for .$1.10. (38) 
 
 It contains a complete index. A new revision and codification 
 was authorized by the act of August 29, 3916. See a circular 
 published by the ^)ftice of the .Fudge Advocate General, " Revi- 
 sion and Codification of Military Laws, Dec. 15, 1916." 
 
 The new edition has just appeared and costs .$1..50. It con- 
 tains the additional laws grouped at the back. 
 
 87. Military Railroads. 
 
 The Corps of Engineers, United States Army, has just pub- 
 lished, as Professional Paper 32, Maj. W. D. Connor's " Military 
 Railways, revised edition, 1916," which may be obtained from 
 the Superintendent of Documents for .50 cents. It supplements 
 that part of the Engineers' " Field ilanual " known as " Part 4, 
 Railroads." The manual was issued in 1912, and may also be 
 obtained from the Superintendent of Documents for .$1 per copy. 
 (38). See also (116-120). 
 
 88. Military Science, Bibliography. - 
 
 The United States :\Iilitary Academy at West Point has pub- 
 lished a " Classified list of works on military and professional 
 subjects reconuneuded to the graduating class. United States 
 Military Acailemy, by a board of oflicers, revised 1916." This 
 may be had by libraries on request. 
 
 The list is arranged under the headings "Administration." 
 *' Tactics," " Horses and horsemanship," "Art of war," " Trans- 
 portation and supply," " Signaling," " Military topography," 
 " Military engineering," " Fortifications," " Military hygiene," 
 " Oi'dnance," " Coast Artillery," " Law," " Civil engineering." 
 " River and harbor work," " Military history and biography." 
 " Periodicals."
 
 70 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 The War College Division, General Staff. United States Army, 
 has piiblished since October, 1915. "A monthly list of military 
 information carded from books, periodicals, etc." This is now 
 being s^ent to a limited list of libraries. 
 
 The " International Military Digest," a monthly review (with 
 quarterly and annual cumulations) of the current literature of 
 military .science is publishei^l by the Cumulative Digest Corpora- 
 tion, 241 West Tldrty-seventh Street, New York, at $3.50 per 
 year, with the annual cumulation $5. This is more than a 
 bibliography as it digests the articles in over 80 periodicals, 
 mostly military. See also (43).* 
 
 89. Military Training, Universal. 
 
 An address by C. W. Hetherington, professor of physical edu- 
 cation and recreation, University of Wisconsin, with the title, 
 '•Shall military training be given our youthV" has been pub- 
 lisher! as Senate Document No. 22, Sixty-fifth Congress, first 
 session, and may be obtained, on application, 'from Members of 
 Congress. It considers the physical, moral, and social qualifica- 
 tions required by those entering the military service and how 
 universal military training fosters these. 
 
 90. Militia. 
 
 Under the title " The Militia," Dr. James Brown Scott has 
 brought together extracts from the Journals and Debates of the 
 Federal Convention, the State constitutional conventions, the 
 Congress, the Federalist, together with other papers relating to 
 the militia of the United States, which has been printed as 
 Sixty-fourth Congress, second session. Senate Document No. 695, 
 and is to be obtained only through a Member of Congress. 
 
 The Library of Congress has prepared a typewritten " List of 
 References on the Militia." copies of which may be obtained from 
 the Public Affairs Information Service. White Plains, N. Y., for 
 the cost of copying, 25 cents. 
 
 91. Mobilization of Industries, Great Britain. 
 
 The World's Work, London, has printed a series of articles bj' 
 Fred A. Talbot on " How Britain Went to War," tlescriptive of 
 the methods worked out to adapt the industries of the Empire 
 to supplying the allies with munitions. I, October, 1916, pages 
 397—408 (raw material and labor, razors, barbed wire, sand 
 bags) ; II, November, 1916, pages 481^96 (housing and tents) ; 
 III. January, 1917, pages 122-138; IV, February, 1917, pages 
 238-246 (both on lumber) ; V, March, 1917, pages 326-345 (boots 
 and shoes) ; VI, April, 1917, pages 420-433 (wool, flax, clothing, 
 Russian Government sole buyer and seller of flax) ; VII, May,
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 71 
 
 3917. pajies r)2G-r)37 (clotliiu^', kliaki, socks, gloves for barbed 
 wire). 
 
 92. Mobilization of Industries, United States Board on. 
 Authorized by section 120 of act of June 8. 1910 (G4th (^ong,. 
 
 Public Act 85, H. R. 1276G.) (38) 
 
 The act autJKirized the I'l'csidont in bis discretion to appoint 
 a board on mobilization of industries essential for military pre- 
 paredness. The act covered the control of manufjicturing plants 
 capable of turning out arms, ammunition, equipment, and sup- 
 plies. No action taken to date, the functions falling within the 
 scope of the Council of National Defense. (35) 
 
 93. Munitions, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of the Advisory commission of the Council of 
 National Defense. Howard E. Coffin, chairman. (35) 
 
 94. Munitions, Statistics of Exportation. 
 
 Statistics of the exportation of munitions from the United 
 States are to be found in the export statistics published by the 
 Department of Commerce. For a list of the Department's export 
 publications .see the heading " Exports, Statistics of." (45) 
 
 95. Munitions Standard Board. 
 
 A board of the Council of National r)efense. Frank A. Scott, 
 chairman. (35) 
 
 96. National Board for Historical Service. 
 
 Headquarters. — Woodward Building, Washington. D. C, 
 Waldo G. Leland, secretary. 
 
 Originated at a meeting of writers and teachers of history 
 held in Washington April 29-30, 1917. 
 
 ilembcrsMi) consists of Victor S. Clark, Robert D. W. Connor, 
 Carl R. Fish. Charles D. Hazen, Charles Hull. Gaillard Hunt, 
 AValdo G. Leland, James T. Shotwell, Frederick J. Turner. 
 
 Function. — To bring into useful operiition the intelligence and 
 skill of the historical workers of the comitry ; to suggest plans 
 of work and organization to workers in various localities ; and to 
 serve as a central exchange for collecting ideas and furnishing 
 Information. 
 
 Publications have not been issued, but plans are under con- 
 sideration for pamphlets or small popular books similar to those 
 issued in other countries. 
 
 References. — See article " Historians and the War," in the 
 Dial for May 17. 1917. pages 427-428 ; and an article by James 
 T. Shotwell in the History Teacher's Magazine, June, 1917, p. 
 199-200.
 
 72 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 97. National Institute of Efficiency. 
 
 Headquarters.— 119 West Fortieth Street, New Yoi-k City. 
 
 Origin. — The Natioual Institute of Efficiency was incorporated 
 under the educational law^ of tlic District of Columbia Feb- 
 ruary 12. 1916. 
 
 Organization. — Tlie governors of tlie institute are: Gutzon 
 Borgluni, INIelvil E. Dewey, William F. Dix. Dr. Henry Sturgis 
 Drinlver," John H. Finley, Philip H. Gadsden, John Hays Ham- 
 mond, Job E. Hedges, Henry B. Joy. Curtis J. Mar, J. Horace 
 McFarland. Emerson McMillan, Truman H. Newberry, Ray- 
 mond B. Price, Alton B. Parker, Admiral Robert E. Pear.v, 
 Herbert W. Rice, John A. Stewart, Conrad H. Syme, Richard 
 B. Watrous, AVilliam R. Willcox, Henry A. Wise Wood, Maj. 
 Gen. Leonard Wood. The officers ai-e : President, INIelvil K. 
 Dewey; vice president, Alton B. Parker: secretary. Richard It. 
 Watrous ; treasurer, Herbert W. Rice. 
 
 Membership open to anyone upon the payment of .$.5 yearly. 
 Each member receives a years' subscription to the Independent 
 and four monographs upon efficiency and (at the present time) 
 upon war. 
 
 F'unetion. — " To promote efficiency in the individual, to popu- 
 larize its practice, and to develop personal efficiency as appllea 
 to every problem of life." Accordingly it aims " to make avail- 
 able and of practical value to the average man the best results 
 attending the work of experts iu the universities, factories, 
 studios, and even the plajing field of the country." At the 
 present time the institute is directing its attention almost 
 exclusively to matter pertaining to the efficient conduct of the 
 war, and to the furtherance of it lias organized a war-service 
 bureau. 
 
 Publications. — The Independent is the official organ of the 
 institute, and Edward Earle Purintou, chairman of the edi- 
 torial board, conducts a department in that periodical. 
 
 At this time plans are being made for a series of authorita- 
 tive handbooks of the war. As announced, the first is to be 
 written by Henry Woodhouse, governor of the Aero Club of 
 America, and entitled " The Eyes of Our Army and Navy." 
 Others of the series are to be " Efficiency and Naval Defense," 
 by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske ; " Efficiency and National 
 Defense," by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood ; and a monograph, by 
 E. St. Elmo Lewis, dealing with the business organization of 
 the war. 
 
 References. — Further information concerning the National 
 Institute of Efficiency is to be found in the following numbers
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAE. 73 
 
 of the Independent: March 27, 1916, volume 85, 445; Ajiril 14, 
 1917, volume 90, 144; May 19, 1917, voltune 90, 33U. 
 
 98. National Research Council. 
 
 Headquarters. — 29 West Tliirty-uinth Street, New York City; 
 O. T. Hutchinson, secretary. 
 
 Originntcd in a unanimous vote of tlie National Academy f»f 
 Sciences, passed April 19, 191(5, to offer its services to the Presi- 
 dent of the United States in the interest of liational prepared- 
 ness. This resulted in a request from President Wilson that 
 the academy carry its offer into effect. Steps were at once 
 taken to organize the National Research Council. July 24 
 President Wilson offered the cooperation of the departments 
 of the Government. 
 
 Membership consists of a number of leading scientists of 
 ihe country and representatives of the scientific research bu- 
 reaus of the Government. For list of members see Proceedings 
 of the National Academy of Science. October, 1916, volume 2, 
 page 608, and Science, October 20, 1916, page .562. 
 
 Fvnction. — To prepare an inventory of research, equipment, 
 and men; to promote cooperation, especially with educational 
 institutions, research foundations, and Government bureaus; 
 all to strengthen the national defense and to render the United 
 States independent of foreign sources of supply liable to be 
 affected by the war. 
 
 Funds of the engineering foundation have been placed at its 
 disposal for one year. 
 
 PuhlicationH. — RepcM't of the organizing committee in Proceed- 
 ings of National Academy of Science, 1916, volume 2, pages 
 507-510. First annual report in same for October. 1916, pages 
 602-608. 
 
 References. — Science, August 25, reprints the report of the 
 organizing committee, and October 20 tlie report of the first 
 meeting of the council. See the Nation, October 19, 1916, page 
 369, for article descriptive of its purpose. 
 
 99. National Service Reserve. 
 
 Plans were submitted by George W. I'epper to the Council 
 of National Defense for a great national association to corre- 
 late the numerous organizations offering services in various 
 fields, thus " lifting this burden from Government officials and 
 giving all an opportunity to serve without duplication or waste 
 of energy." ( New York Times, May 4, 1917. p. 1, col. 7 ; p. 2, 
 col. 7.)
 
 74 LIBRARY OP CONGRESS. 
 
 100. Naval Consulting Board. 
 
 Haulquartcrs. — Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Organized by Mr. Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, on October 
 6-7, 1915. 
 
 Membership. — Members elected by 11 engineering societies, as 
 follows, with Thomas A. Edison, chairman : 
 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Frank Julian 
 Sprague and Benjamin G. Lamme. 
 
 American Institute of Mining Engineers, William L. Saunders 
 and Benjamin B. Thayer. 
 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, William Le Roy 
 Emmet and Spencer Miller. 
 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, Andrew M. Hunt and 
 Alfred Craven. 
 
 American Chemical Society, W. R. Whitney and L. H. Baeke- 
 land. 
 
 American Electrochemical Society, .Joseph W. Richards and 
 Ijawrence Addicks. 
 
 Inventors' Guild, Peter Cooper Hewitt and Thomas Robins. 
 
 American Society of Aeronautic Engineers, Henry A. W. 
 Wood and Elmer A. Sperry. 
 
 American Society of Automobile Engineers, Howni-d E. Coftin 
 and Andrew L. Riker. 
 
 American Aeronautical Society. Mathew B. Sellers and Hud- 
 son Maxim. 
 
 American Mathematical Society, Robert S. Woodward and 
 Arthur G. Webster. 
 
 Function.. — Originally to study the question of preparedness 
 and to increase the efficiency of the Navy. Examines inven- 
 tions relating to naval warfare. Through its committee on in- 
 dustrial preparedness the board has made an inventory of the 
 industries which can produce Army and Navy supplies; has 
 worked out a plan for placing educational orders with manu- 
 facturers whereby they can get the experience needed to fill 
 Government orders for arms, munitions, etc., and has demon- 
 strated that skilled labor must be kept enrolled so that it can not 
 enlist, but must be kept at work in the industrial plants. From 
 the activities of this committee, under its chairman. Howard E. 
 Coffin, has developed the Council of National Defense. 
 
 Publication.^. — Industrial Research Stations. 1916. 
 
 References. — Engineering Magazine, September, 1916, descrip- 
 tive. Including methods of securing information; Iron Trade 
 Review, .January 11, 1917, historical and descriptive; Scientific 
 American. October 2, 1915, pages 301 and 326 ; and Engineering
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 75 
 
 Mii;,'aziiio, November, lOlo, Rives biographif.-jil sketches of the 
 members. See also Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, 
 October 15, 1915, for organization and functions. 
 
 101. Navy Department. 
 
 An article, " How the Navy Department is organized," in the 
 Engineering Magazine, November, 1915, gives three diagrams 
 showing the present organization, the organization under Secre- 
 tary Meyer, and the arrangement under an ab.solute monarchy. 
 
 102. Neutrality Board. 
 
 The Neutrality board was formed to advise the State Depart- 
 ment on questions relating to the neutrality of the United States 
 in the European war, and was composed of James Scott Brown, 
 chairman. Rear Admiral Oliver, and Rear Admiral Knapp. 
 (On his death Capt. Fletcher took his place.) On May 4, 1917, 
 Secretary of State Lansing informed Mr. Brown that the serv- 
 ices of the board were no longer needed. 
 
 103. Officers Reserve Corps. 
 
 " Special Regulations No. 43," just issunl by The Adjutant 
 General, United States Army, and to be obtained on application 
 to that oflfice, contains information on the duties and re<iuii'e- 
 ments of the corps, examinations, appointments, etc. 
 
 104. Official Bulletin, Division of. 
 
 A division of the Committee on public information, whose 
 duty it is to publish a daily paper. See Public Information. 
 Committee on. (112) 
 
 Has published daily since May 10 the Official Bulletin. Sub- 
 scription rates, 1 year $5. 6 months $3. 10 Jackson Place, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 105. Pictures, Division of. 
 
 A division of the Committee on pul)!ic information whose dut.v 
 concerns motion pictures, wews photographs, posters, and illus- 
 trations. See Public Information. Committee on. (112) 
 
 106. Platinum. 
 
 The vital position of platinum in the production of chemicals 
 entering into the manufacture of explosives has emphasized the 
 scarcity of the metal and called forth from the Geological Survey 
 the following, which may be obtained from the Publication Divi- 
 sion of the Geological Survey on application : 
 
 " Gold-platinum-palladium lode in southern Nevada," by 
 Adolph Knopf, April 12, 1915. (Bulletin 620 A.)
 
 76 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 " Platinum and allied metals in 1914 and 1915," by James M, 
 Hill. (Two advance sections of Minei-al Resources of the 
 United States, 1914 and 1915.) 
 
 "Platinum," by James M. Hill. (Advance section of Bulletin 
 666, entitled " Our mineral supplies." It is issued as Bulletin 
 666-(7. 
 
 Among other sources of information are The Mineral Indus- 
 try during 1915, New York. 1916. .$10, pages 572-.583 ; En- 
 gineering and Mining Journal, April 6, 1917, volume 103, pages 
 4-6. • 
 
 Substitutes. — Among books and periodical articles dealing with 
 substitutes for platinum are " Development of practical substi- 
 tutes for platinum and its alloys," by F. A. Fahrenwald, pub- 
 lished by the American Institute of Mining Engineers, New York, 
 191G, 25 cents; "The minei-al industry during 1915," New York, 
 1916, $10, pages 582 and 583 ; " Silver-palladium alloy, substitute 
 for platinum, patented by P. R. Heyl," Metallurgical and Chem- 
 ical Engineering, February 1, 1916, volume 14, page 164. 
 
 War uses. — An article entitled " War importance of platinum " 
 appears in the Engineering and Mining Journal for August 26, 
 1916, volume 102, pages 385-386. See also New York Times, 
 May 29, 1917, page 5, columns 3-4. An article on the uses of 
 platinum entitled " Why platinum is in .such demand," appeared 
 in the New York Times May 13, 1917, section 2, page 8, columns 
 5-6. See also " Nation's need of platinum," the Annalist, 
 April 23, 1917, page 557 ; " The hunt for platinum," the Annal- 
 ist, May 7, 1917, page 606. 
 
 107. Post Office Department. 
 
 A statistical account of the operations of the Post Office De- 
 partment under existing abnormal conditions is printed in the 
 Annalist, January 15, 1917, pages 116-117, with the title " Uncle 
 Sam's Itillion-dollar business." 
 
 108. Potash. 
 
 The cutting off of the potash supply from Germany has 
 resulted in extensive investigations into possible sources of 
 •supply within the United States by the Government, notably 
 the Department of Agriculture and the Geological Survey. 
 The Geological Survey has reprinted from its Mineral Re- 
 sources for each year " Potash salts summary " which may be 
 had free on application to the Survey. It has also reprinted for 
 free distribution advance chapters by H. S. Gale from its "Con- 
 tributions to economic geology." Tliese deal with " Our min- 
 eral supplies," "Potash and other salines," and "The search
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR, 77 
 
 for potash In the United States." rnun the same source is 
 reprinted a chapter l)y James H. Han<e <>ii ' I'otash in western 
 saline deposits." Attention shouhl also he directed to United 
 States Geological Survey Bulletin No. 530, 1913, which contains 
 "The searcli for i>otash in the Desert liasin Region," l)y H. S. 
 (Jale, pa;;es 295-312. and '• Occurrence of i)()tasli salts in the 
 bitterns of the eastern United States," l)y W. C. Plialeii, pages 
 313-329, 30 <ents jtaper, 45 ciMits cloth; and td I'.ulletin No. 512, 
 " Potasli-bearing rocks of the Ueucite Hills. Sweetwater County, 
 Wyo.," by Alfred R. Schultz and Whitman Cross, 5 cents. 
 
 The Department of Agriculture has i)uhlislieil a number of 
 circulars and bulletins dealing with particular regions and 
 minerals. Particular attention slioidd l)e directed to the fol- 
 lowing: " Possil»le sources of ]»otash in the United States," by 
 Prank K. Cameron, published in the Agricultural Yearbook, 
 1912. pages 523-536 ($1), and also i)ublished as a separate, 5 
 cents; "Potash from kelp." by the same author, published as 
 Report No. 100 of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
 $2; "The use of feldspathic rocks as fertilizers," hy Allerton S. 
 (jushman, published by the Bureau of Plant Industry as Bulle- 
 tin No. 104, 5 cents; and " Fertili/ei- vcsuurci's i.f the United 
 States," published as Sixty-second Congress, second session. 
 Senate Document 190. 75 cents. 
 
 The Department of (\)tnmerce has contributed a report by 
 T. H. Norton, "Potash iiroduction in California and potash 
 from kelp," 5 cents. 
 
 All of the above-meiitiotu'd puitlicatioiis may be purcliase<l 
 from the Superintendent of Documents. ;it tlie prices Mimexed. 
 (38) 
 
 See also " Mobilization of iM»tash resources," by W. Kiitzleb, 
 in The Annalist. May 7, 1917, page G2S, which descril)es a 
 possible production of 2,000,000 tons a year as a by-i)roduct of 
 cement plants, marketable at $15 a ton. In the lUilletin of 
 the American Institute of Mining Engineers for January 1917, 
 No, 121, pages 1-32, R. J. Wy.sor tells of work wliich is l)eing 
 done in the making of potash iis a by-product of the Idast 
 furnace. 
 
 The First National Baidc of Boston called attention on April 
 18, 1917. to the fact that In 1910 20,000.000 pounds of potash, 
 having a value of .$3,500,000, were produced, and authorities 
 are quite unanimous in the opinion that future results will be 
 materially better. The value of the 1910 product was more 
 than ten times that of 1915, and about t\vo-an<l-;i-half times the 
 amount of 18G0, the previous high figure. Both ipiantily and
 
 78 LIBEAKY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 value of productions for the year just closed exceeded, respec- 
 tively, thcise of tlie imported product for the first time since 
 1905, the earliest period for which both production and import 
 figures are strictly compnr.nble. 
 
 109. Poultry Raising. 
 
 The Department of Aj^riculture has published a "Back-yard 
 poultry leaflet." to be had on application to the department. It 
 gives instructions for the care of a snuill flock of hens, housing 
 and feeding of poultry for home consumption, feeding of young 
 chicks, destruction of poultry mites, care of setting hens, brood- 
 ing chickens, preserving eggs, winter eggs, and special feeds. 
 
 110. Prize Cases, Great Britain. 
 
 The reports of the prize cases have been published separately 
 under the following title : " British and colonial cases, reports 
 of prize cases decided during the present war in the courts of 
 Great Britain and the over-seas dominions." So far seven parts 
 have been issued. I'art 1-5, forming volume 1, contains the 
 cases of 1914-15 ; parts 6-7 contain the cases down to April. 
 191G. These are published by Stevens & Sons, London. Price, 
 7/6 each. (v. 1, cloth, £2.) 
 
 The prize cases also appear currently in the Law Times Re- 
 ports and Law Reports, probate division. 
 
 111. Prohibition in War. 
 
 The Committee of Sixty, with Prof. Irving Fisher as presi- 
 dent, has undertaken to conserve the grain supply by diverting 
 it from the manufacture of liquors. A joint meeting with a 
 committee of the American Brewers' Association was ar- 
 ranged to discuss the problem. See New York Times, May 3, 
 1917, page 6. column 4. For the results of the conference see 
 New York Times, May 15, page 12, column 8. 
 
 The prohibition of the use of grain for distilling purposes has 
 been made the subject of hearings before the Committee on 
 Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, and parts 1-2 
 of the hearings have been printed for the use of the committee. 
 These can only be obtained from INIembers of Congress, for whose 
 use a limited edition is printed. 
 
 Two articles in the New York Evening Post May 19, 1917, Sec- 
 tion I, occupy the most of pages 4 and 5. They cover " British 
 restrictions in alcoholic drinks," showing what restrictive meas- 
 ures have been adopted, and " Prohibition gaining in Great 
 Britain." showing the effects of the restrictive measures, eco- 
 nomic as well as hygienic.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 79 
 
 The National Institute of Social Sciences has taken a mail 
 vote on prohibition during the war — 360 affirmatives. G2 nega- 
 tives. 46 favoring a number of partial schemes. See New York 
 Evening Post, May 2G. 1917, page 11. column 5. 
 
 112. Public Information, Committee on. 
 
 Headquarters. — 10 Jackson Place, Wasliington, D. C. 
 
 Created b.v Executive order April 14, 1917. 
 
 Mctnbersliip and organizatio)i. — The conniiittee consists of the 
 Secretaries of State, War, and Navy, and Mr. George Creel, 
 civilian chairman. The work of the committee is at present 
 handled by seven divisions. ' 
 
 Division of external communications, lo censor cables and 
 watch the Mexican border. 
 
 Division of publicity, to gather news from various Govern- 
 ment departments and disseminate it to the newspapers. 
 
 Division of visg, covering the reading of daily, weekly, and 
 monthly publications and the telegraphic agencies. 
 
 Division of foreign correspondents and foreign language pub- 
 lications, keeping in touch with sentiment of foreign press and 
 American press in foreign languages. 
 
 Division of pictures, .covering motion pictures, news photo- 
 gi'aphs, posters, and illustrations. 
 
 Division of Official Bulletin, publishing daily paper. 
 
 Division of civic and educational cooperation, to use existing 
 education and civic agencies to stimulate public opinion concern- 
 ing the issues of war and disseminate information on the issues 
 at stake. 
 Fimction: 
 
 EXECUTIVE ORDER. 
 
 I hereby create a Committee on Public Information, to be 
 composed of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War. the 
 Secretary of the Navy, and a civilian who shall be charged with 
 the executive direction of the committee. 
 
 As civilian chairman of the committee I appoint Mr. George 
 Creel. 
 
 The Secretary of State, the Secretary of War. and the Secre- 
 tary of the Navy are authorized each to detail an officer or 
 officers to the work of the conmiittee. 
 
 WooDROW Wilson. 
 
 April 14, 1917.
 
 80 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 Letter to the President : 
 
 (The I'rosideufs action in creating tlie Conmiittee on Public 
 Information was based on the following letter signed by the 
 Secretaries of State, War, and Navy:) 
 
 April 13, 1917. 
 
 Dear Mk. President: Even tliough the cooperation of the press 
 has been generous and jiatriotic, there is a steadily developing 
 need for some authoritative agency to assure the publication of 
 all the vital facts of national defense. Premature or ill-advised 
 announcements of policies, plans, and specific activities, whether 
 iiniocent or otherwise, would constitute a source of danger. 
 
 While there is much that is properly secret in connection with 
 the departments of the Goverimient, the total is small compared 
 to the vast amount of information that it is right and proper 
 for the people to have. 
 
 America's great present needs are confidence, enthusiasm, and 
 service, and these needs will not be met completely unless every 
 citizen is given the feeling of partnership that comes with full, 
 frank statements concerning the conduct of the public business. 
 
 It is our opinion that the two functicms — censorship and pub- 
 licity — can be .ioined in honesty and with profit, and we recom- 
 mend the creation of a Committee on Public Information. The 
 <'hairman should be a civilian, preferably some writer of proved 
 courage, ability, and vision, able to gain the understanding co- 
 operation of the press and at the same time rally the authors 
 of the country to a work of service. Other members should be 
 the Secretary of State, the StM-retary of War, the Secret;iry of 
 the Navy, or an officer or officers detailed to the work by them. 
 
 AVe believe you have the undoubted authority to create this 
 Committee on Public Information without waiting for further 
 legislation, and because of the importance of the task and its 
 pressing necessity we trust tliat you will see fit to do so. 
 
 The committee, upon appointment, can pi-oceed to the framing 
 of i-egulations and the creation of macliinery that will safeguard 
 all information of value to an enemy, and at the same time open 
 f'vcry department of Covcrnment to the inspection of the people 
 as far as possible. Sucli i-egulntions and such machinery will, 
 of coui'se, be submitted for your ni)provnl Ix'fore becoming effec- 
 tive. 
 
 Respectfully. 
 
 Robert Lansing. 
 Newton D. P>akek. 
 .Tosephts Daniels.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAB. 81 
 
 Appropriation.— Oiwvuihiii ou the budget of the Executive 
 office. 
 
 rubUcat i on. s.—Ofl\c\ a \ r.ulh'tiii, duily. (104) The followiufi 
 publications have just appeared and can )«; had on application : 
 "Preliminary statement to the i)ress of the United States,' 20 p. 
 "War messajie and facts bcliind it. Delivered before Con^res.s 
 April 2, 1917, with annotations giving the leading facts on which 
 the rupture with Germany was developed, the issues of inter- 
 national law, and contrasting the spirit of Prussiauism and 
 Americanism." IG p. 
 
 References. — Sec New York Evening Post, May 24, 1917, page 
 7, columns 1-2, descriptive, and the Bulletin of the Authors' 
 League of America, April, 1917, pages 3-5, touches upon the 
 duties of writers. 
 
 113. Publicity, Division of. 
 
 A division of the Committee on Public Information, whose 
 duty it is to gather news from various Government departments 
 and disseminate it to the newspapers. See Public Information, 
 Committee on. (112) 
 
 114. Radio Telegraphy. 
 
 The Bureau of Navigation of the Department of Commerce 
 publishes the following concerning radio communication in the 
 United States, which may be obtained from the Superintendent 
 of Documents at the prices Indicated. (38) " Radio commu- 
 nication laws and regulations of the United States." 15 cents. 
 " Radio stations of the United States." Issued annually. This 
 Is a list of both land and ship stations. Amateur stations are 
 Included. 15 cents. "Radio service bulletin." This contains 
 tables of new stations, amendments to or changes in the radio 
 laws, etc. Amateur stations are not referred to. Issued 
 monthly, 5 cents a single copy, 25 cents a year. " Important 
 events in radiotelegraphy." 5 cents. 
 
 115. Railroad Commission to the Russian Government. 
 
 The United States Railroad Commission to the Russian Gov- 
 ernment, consisting of five prominent railroad engineers, left 
 Washington on May 9. 
 
 Membership. — John F. Stevens, chairman ; W. L. Darling ; 
 Henry Miller; George Glbbs; and J. P. Griuer. The chairman 
 has been made a special minister plenipotentiary. 
 
 Function. — To study the railroad situation in Russia, with a 
 view to furnishing the Russian national authorities with roll-
 
 82 LIBRAKY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 ing stock and othfer material needed to increase the efficiency of 
 tlie Russian and Siberian railroads. See New York Times, May 
 10, 1917, page 8, columns 1-2. 
 
 116. Railroads. 
 
 In accordance with a resolution adopted by the presidents 
 of the railroads April 11, in order to produce a maximum of 
 national trtinsportation efficiency during the war, the direction 
 of the railroads of the United States has been placed in the 
 hands of an Executive committee of the Special Committee on 
 National Defense of the American Railway Association. 
 
 From time to time this committee pul)lishes bulletins of their 
 activities, and to date have published five numbers. Copies can 
 be procured by libraries on application to the American Railway 
 Association, Conference Committee on Car Efficiency, Room 66, 
 Kellogg Building, Washington, D. C. 
 
 No. 1, issued April 20, deals with the organization of the work, 
 and contains the names and addresses of the members of the 
 various committees, subcommittees, and general agents ; No. 2, 
 issued April 27, gives statistics of the railroad equipment needed 
 to move an army, and outlines the relations between the Army 
 and the railroads; No. 3, issued April 30, gives the action of 
 the committee in ordering all railroads of the United States to 
 give coal and iron ore preference over all other traffic; No. 4, 
 issued May 9, is an appeal to the railroads to increase their 
 efficiency, and points out how the railroads can do more work 
 with existing facilities; No. 5, issued May 24, outlines a plan 
 of the Railroads War Board, organized especially to opei-ate all 
 the railroads of the country as one system for purposes of na- 
 tional defense, whereby the fuel supply of the railroads will be 
 conserved. The plan of the Railroacls War Board for American 
 railroads to help the railroads of France is also given. 
 
 The Library of the Bureau of Railway Economics has pre- 
 pared an extensive " List of references on the use of railroads 
 in war." This was first printed in the November, 1914, issue of 
 " Special libraries," volume 5, pages 134-143. The list was 
 later extended and issued in minleograplied form August 2, 191.5, 
 and libraries desiring copies can secure them on application to 
 the Library of the Bureau of Railway Economics, 429 Homer 
 Building, Washington, D. C. The Division of Bibliography, 
 Library of Congress, has prepared a mimeographed " List of re- 
 cent references on railroads in war," which deals more espe- 
 cially with the present war, with i>articular reference to the 
 United States. This may be had by libraries on application.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 83 
 
 See also Edwin A. Pratt's " The rise of rail power in war and 
 conquest, 1833-1914," published by P. S. King & Son, Loudon, 
 1915, which contains a bil)lograpliy on pages 37(>-397 ; an 
 article by C. H. Grusty, "Epochal changes in train of war," 
 New Yorlj Times, May 1, 1917. page 12, c<iluiuns 7-8; also 
 the New York Times Magazine Section, May 13. 1917, page 7, 
 "America's railways in single system for war." 
 
 317. Railroads, Canada. 
 
 Tlie " Report of the Royal Coinmission to inqyire into railways 
 and transportation in Canada," printed in 1917 as sessional 
 paper. No. 20g, deals with the i-elation of the Dominion Govern- 
 ment to the railroads, the crisis being partly due to the stress of 
 war conditions. Recommends the creation of a special board to 
 manage nil lines except the C.uiadian Pacific. This is for sale 
 by the government printer, J. de L. Tachg, Ottawa, price 15 
 cents. 
 
 118. Railroads, Great Britain. 
 
 The Annalist, May 7, 1917, page 62.5, contains an article " War 
 operations of English railroads," by W. M. Acworth. Describes 
 the operation of English railways by an executive committee of 
 general managers under Government guaranty of revenue. 
 
 119. Railroads, Car Shortage. 
 
 An article by H. M. Frazer. " Cutting out dead weight trallic," 
 in The Annalist, February 2G, 1917, page 300. suggests a remedy 
 for car shortage by a larger use of package cars for small ship- 
 ments. Includes a brief statement of cases and causes of con- 
 gestion of railway traffic. 
 
 120. Railroads, Publications of the American Railway Association. 
 The following list of the various publications of the associa- 
 tion and its committees since June, 1916, which deal with the 
 military transportation has been prepared by the Bureau of 
 Railway Economics, 429 Homer Building. Washington, D. C. : 
 
 National Railways Corporation. 30 East Forty-second Street. 
 New York City. 
 
 Railway preparedness bulletin: Volume 1: No. 1, March 
 1, 1917, 8 pages; No. 2, April, 1917, pages 9-16: No. 3, 
 May. 1917, pages 17-24. 
 American Railway Association : 
 
 Circulars [mimeographed and printed] — 
 
 No. 1698. June 22. 1916. [Cards used in shipments of 
 army supplies].
 
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 American Uailway Associatiun — Coutiuued. 
 
 Circulars [mimeographed and printed] — Continued. 
 
 No. 1700. June 24, 1916. [Card used in sliipments of 
 army suppli(?s]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 1701. June 24, 1916. [Special committee on co- 
 operation with the military authorities, representa- 
 tives of this committee to be stationed at militia 
 mobilization camps]. 2 pages. 
 
 No. 1703. June 29, 1916. [Letter of President Wilson 
 to association]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 1707. July 21, 1916. [Pi-eliminary report of spe- 
 cial committee on cooperation with the military au- 
 thorities]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 1795. February 17, 1917. [Change of name of 
 committee to special committee on national defense, 
 with membership]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 1845. May 8, 1917. [Cooperation between rail- 
 ways subscribing to action of railway executives 
 on Apr. 11, 1917]. 6 pages. 
 Oar Service Commission : 
 Circulars [printed] — 
 
 No. 1. December 11, 1916. [Announcement]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 2. December 11. 1916. [Cars loaded with com- 
 pany material]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 3. December 16, 1916. [Redistribution of box 
 cars]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 4. December 20. 1916. [Cotton shipments]. 1 
 page. 
 
 No. 5. December 18, 1916. [Requesta to railways with 
 respect to return of equipment to owning com- 
 panies]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 6. December 22,' 1916. [Per diem rules amend- 
 ments]. 1 page. 
 
 No. 7. December 22, 1916. [Reports of box cars inter- 
 changed]. 1 page. 
 Bulletins [printed] — 
 
 No. 1. December 7, 1916. [What the railroads are 
 doing to relieve the car shortage]. 4 pages. 
 
 No. 2. December 13, 1916. [Interstate Commerce 
 Commission on the car shortage]. 7 pages. 
 
 No. 3. December 19, 1916. [What the railroads are 
 doing to relieve car shortage : To enlist public opin- 
 ion against delinquent roads]. 3 leaves.
 
 UNITED STATLS AT WAE. 86 
 
 American Railway Association — ContinutMl. 
 Car Service Commission — fjontinued. 
 Bulletins [printed]— Continue'!. 
 
 No. 4. December 23, 1916. [What the railroads are 
 doing to relieve car shortage : Delinquent railroads 
 are named by commission on car service]. 4 pages. 
 No. 5. January 3, 1917. [Moving troops to the Mexi- 
 can border, from the Army viewpoint]. 4 pages. 
 No. 6. February 6, 1917. [What the railroads have 
 lost in 10 years from car idleness and car short- 
 age]. 8 pages. 
 No. 7. March 1, 1917. [What the railroads are doing 
 to relie\e cur shortage : A statement by the 
 Interstate Commerce Commission issued Feb- 
 ruary 24, 1917.] 4 pages. 
 No. 8. March 7. 1917. [What the railroads are doing 
 to make " embargoes " helpful to the public] 
 4 pages. 
 No. 9. March 28, 1917. [What the railroads are do- 
 ing to clean up old freight.] 4 pages. 
 Special Committee on National Defense : 
 Bulletins [printed] — 
 
 No. 1. April 20, 1917. [How the railroads will be 
 
 operated during the war.] 8 pages. 
 No, 2. April 27, 1917. [How much railroad equip- 
 ment is needed to move an army?] 4 pages. 
 No. 3. April 30, 1917. [Railroads, in interest of the 
 Nation, to give preferred movement to ship- 
 ments of iron and coal.] 4 pages. 
 No, 4. May 9, 1917. [The railroads' supreme patriotic 
 duty to the Nation : Efficiency of existing 
 railroad facilities must be increased.] 7 
 pages. 
 No. 5. May 24, 1917. [Steps to conserve fuel supply.] 
 4 pages. 
 Special Committee on Cooperation with the Military Au- 
 thorities, later the Special Committee on National 
 Defense. 
 Bulletins [printed] — 
 
 No. 1. .Tune 24, 1916. [Circular No. 1701 of Ameri- 
 can Railway Association.] 2 leaves. 
 No. 2. June 27, 1916. [Bulletin for the information 
 of the railways : Re movements of troops 
 to mobilization points.] 2 leaves and chart.
 
 86 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 Aiiicriciin Itailwiiy Assdciiitioii — C'dntiimcnl. 
 
 SiJi'ciiil Couiuiittee on (Jooperation willi Tlic Military Au- 
 tliorities. etc. — Continued. 
 Bulletins [printed] — ( 'ont iiiiu'd. 
 
 No. 3. June 29, 1916. [Bulletin lor the information 
 of the railways : Re interruptions to sche- 
 dules of troop trains.] 1 page. 
 
 No. 4. July 1, 1916. [Code words for telegrams to 
 committee.] 1 page. 
 
 No. 5. July 6, 1916. [Corps of Inspectors to coop- 
 erate with railway and Army officials.] 1, 
 page. 
 
 No. 6. January 2, 1917. [Extracts from Quarter- 
 master General's annual report for 1916.] 
 8 pages. 
 
 No. 7. January 25, 1917. [Transportation of troops 
 from Mexican border.] 1 sheet [mimeo- 
 graphed.] 
 
 No. 8. March 27, 1917. [Outline of relations between 
 representatives of the American Railway 
 Association and the military authorities, in- 
 cluding extract from Handbook of Trans- 
 portation by Rail and Commercial Vessels 
 of the Quartermaster General of the United 
 States Army.] 14 pages, with 1 sheet letter 
 accompanying. 
 
 No. 9. April 16, 1917. [Organization of Special Com- 
 mittee on National Defense.] 4 pages. 
 Supplement No. 1 to Bulletin No. 9. May 9, 
 1917. [Additional assigned to various de- 
 partments and subcommittees.] 1 page. 
 
 No. 10. April 26, 1917. [Special order governing use 
 and handling of gondola and hopper cars.] 
 2 pages ; and 
 
 No. 11. April 26, 1917. [Approval of proposed rules 
 and regulations to govern handling of 
 freight cars, including general order No. 
 C. S. 1.] 2 pages. 
 Nos. 10 and 11 printed together. 
 
 No. 12. May 4, 1917. [Increase the efficiency of the 
 railroads.] 4 pages. 
 Supplement to No. 12. May 22, 1917. [Re- 
 quest to railways to report monthly freight 
 operations.] 1 sheet and form.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR, SI 
 
 American Railway Association — Continued. 
 
 Special Committee on Cooperation wirli tlu' .Military Au- 
 thorities, etc. — Continued. 
 Bulletins [printed] — Continued. 
 
 No. 13. May 9, 1917. [Transportation of officers, en- 
 listed men, and inspectors.] 1 page. 
 No. 14. May 17, 1917. [Designation of Reserve Corps 
 training camps.] 1 page; 
 
 121. Raw Materials, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of the Advisory coimiiissioii of the Council of 
 National Defense. Benianl M. lianich, chairman. (35) 
 
 122. Recruiting Exemptions. 
 
 The Council of National L)efen.se is studying the question of 
 exemptions from recruiting in certain trades where special skill 
 is required or which are essental to the production of munitions 
 and supplies. See New York Times, April 15, section 1, page 3, 
 column 3, which gives al.so a list of P>ritish trades exempted. 
 
 123. Red Cross, American National. 
 
 Headquarters. — Seventeenth Street, between D and K Streets 
 NW., Washington, D. C. 
 
 Created. — Incorporated by Congress January 5, 1905, by an 
 act entitled "An act to incorporate the American National Red 
 Cross." The act will be found in Statutes at Large, Fifty- 
 eighth Congress, third session, volume 33, part 1, chapter 23, 
 pages 599-602. 
 
 Organization. — The governing body coiisists of a central com- 
 mittee numbering IS per.sons. appointed in the manner follow- 
 ing: Six by the incorporatoi's, six by the representatives of the 
 State and Territorial societies, and six by the Pi-esident of the 
 United States, one of whom shall be designated by him as 
 chairmah, and one each to be named by him from the Depart- 
 ments of State, War, Navy, Treasury, and Justice. The central 
 committee appoints an executive committee of seven persons 
 from its own members. At present tiie national officers are: 
 President, Hon. Woodrow AVilson ; vice president, Robert W. 
 DeForest ; treasurer, Hon. John Skelton Williams ; counselor, 
 Hon. John W. Davis ; secretary, Charles L. INIagee ; chairnuin 
 central committee, Hon. William Howard Taft ; vice chairman, 
 Eliot Wadsworth. 
 
 The work of the society is carried on under the following 
 departments : 
 
 Department of Chapters. Kdgar H. ^^'ells. director.
 
 88 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 Department of Civilian Relief. W. Frank rer>si)ns. director 
 general. 
 
 Department of Military Relief, Col. .Teffer.son R. Kean, di- 
 rector general. 
 
 Bureau of Medical Service, Maj. Clarence H. Connor, director. 
 
 National Committee Red Cross Nursing Service, Miss Jane A. 
 Delano, chairman. 
 
 Bureau of Nursing Service, Miss Clai*a D. Noyes, director. 
 
 Bureau of Red Cross Supply Service, T. W. Farnam, di- 
 rector. 
 
 Membership. — Every resident of the United States is eligible 
 to Red Cross membership. Annual membership is $1, subscrib- 
 ing membership $2. sustaining membership .$10, life member.ship 
 $25, patron membership, $100. 
 
 Functions. — The purpo.ses of the National American Red Cross 
 are: 
 
 1. To furnish volunteer aid to the sick and wounded in time of 
 war. 
 
 2. To act in matters of voluntary relief and in accord with the 
 military and naval authorities as a medium of communication 
 between the people of the United States of America and their 
 Army and Navy. 
 
 3. To carry on a system of national and international relief in 
 time of peace, and to apply the same to mitigating the sufferings 
 caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great na- 
 tional calamities. 
 
 Funds. — The society is supported by voluntary contributions 
 of money and supplies. 
 
 Publicatioiis. — The annual report of the American National 
 Red Cross is published as a Government document and may be 
 obtained through one's Congressman. The Red Cross Magazine 
 is the official organ of the Red Cross. It is published monthly 
 by Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y., at $2 a year ; 20 
 cents a copy. A $2 membership in the American National Red 
 Cross Society entitles one to the magazine. 
 
 Among the other publications of the Red Cross are the Ameri- 
 can Red Cross textbook on first aid, by Maj. Charles Lynch, 
 which is issued in four editions, Woman's, Miner's, Railroad, 
 and Police and Firemen, at 30 cents each. These are abridged 
 from a comprehensive textbook entitled "American Red Gross 
 Textbook on First Aid and Relief Columns," price $1. There 
 has also been published " Elementary hygiene and the home 
 care of the sick," by Jane A. Delano and Isabel Mclsaac, 50 
 cents, cloth $1 ; and the "American Red Cross textbook on home
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 89 
 
 dietetics," by Ada Z. Fisli, $1. Tliese may be obtained from P. 
 Blacliiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Pliiladelphia. 
 
 References. — A " List of references on tlie work of the Ameri- 
 can Red Cross in the European war," prepared by the Division 
 of Bibliography, Library of Congress, has been published by the 
 Red Cross Society and may be obtained upon request from the 
 Bureau of Publications of the Department of Chapters of tlie 
 American National Red Cross, Washington, D. C. 
 
 The President's address at the dedication of the Red Cross 
 Building in Washington on May 12, 1917, is printed in the 
 Oflicial Bulletin for May 14, No. 4 (104), and also in the Con- 
 gressional Record for May 18, 1917, page 265. (38) 
 
 124. Red Cross War Council. 
 
 UeadquartevH. — Seventeenth Street, bet\\"een D and E Streets 
 NW., Washington, D, C. 
 
 Created. — The Red Cross War Council was created by Presi- 
 dent Wilson May 10, 1917, and consists of the following per- 
 sons: Henry P. Davison (chairman), William H. Taft, Edwin 
 N. Hurley, Cornelius N. Bliss, jr., Charles D. Norton, Grayson 
 M. P. Murphy, and Eliot Wadsworth. It is the outgrowth of a 
 meeting of prominent business men called by President Wilson 
 April 21, 1917, to lay plans for a Red Cross fund-raising cam- 
 paign. It has undertaken to raise money for the relief of the 
 dependent families of United States soldiers and the residents 
 of those parts of France from which the Germans have been 
 recently driven. 
 
 Publications. — The council has not published anything as yet, 
 confining itself thus far to notices in the daily press. The 
 Survey, May 19, 1917, volume 38, pages 162^, has an article 
 concerning it, entitled " The Red Cross civilian relief plan." 
 
 References. — In the Survey have appeared, also, two series 
 of articles dealing with civilian relief; the first, by Paul U. 
 Kellogg, entitled "A Canadian city in war time," issues of 
 March 17, 24, 31, and April 7, 21, 1917 ; the second, by Karl de 
 Schweinitz, based upon lectures delivered in New York by 
 Porter R. Lee, of the New York School of Philanthropy, with 
 the sanction of the American Red Cross, entitled " The task of 
 civilian war relief," issues of April 21, 28. May 5, 12, 19, 26, 
 1917. The former series has been published by the Survey 
 Associates (Inc.), 112 East Nineteenth Street, New York City, 
 as a pamphlet. Terms upon which both series can be supplied 
 may be obtained by writing to them.
 
 90 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 125. Red Star Animal Relief, American. 
 
 See Aiuoricaii Red Star Animal Relief. (10) 
 Russia, American Commission to. 
 
 See American Commission to Russia (S). 
 
 126. Science and Research, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of the Advisory commission of the Council of 
 National Defense. Dr. Hollis Godfrey, chairman. The com- 
 mittee also includes engineering and education. (35) 
 
 127. Shipping, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of tlie Council of National Defen.se. William 
 Denman, chairman. (35) 
 
 12S. Shipping, Government Aid. 
 
 The Department of Commerce has published the following 
 book by Grosvenor ]\r. .Tones ui»on Government aid to merchant 
 shipping: 
 
 " Government aid to merchant shipping. Study of subsidies, 
 subventions, and other forms of State aid in principal countries 
 of the world." It may be obtained from the Superintendent of 
 Dociunents for 25 cents. (38) 
 
 129. Shipping, Merchant Vessels of the United States. 
 
 The Department of Commerce publishes an annual list of the 
 merchant vessels of the United States with the official numbers 
 and signal letters awarded them. It may be obtained from the 
 Supei'intendent of Documents for 75 cents. (38) 
 
 The Biu-eau of Navigation of the Department of Commerce 
 has i.ssued separately part six of its annual list of the merchant 
 vessels of the United States under the title " Seagoing vessels 
 of the United States with official numbers and signal letters." 
 It may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents for 
 25 cents. (38) 
 
 130. Shipping Board, United States. 
 
 Hcadqiinrter.s. — Munsey Building, Pennsylvania Avenue. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Created by act of September 7, 1916. 
 
 Membership consists of William Denman, chairman, Theodore 
 Brent, vice chairman, R. B. Stevens, John C. Donald, John B. 
 White. 
 
 Function. — To encourage, develop, and create a naval auxiliary 
 and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the require- 
 ments of the United States and to regulate carriers by water. 
 The board has power to construct and equip, purchase, lease, or
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 91 
 
 charter vessels for use as naval auxiliaries in time of war. It 
 is also empowered to orf,'anize one or more corporations to pur- 
 chase, lease, charter, and operate the vessels authorized to he 
 constrncted by this act. 
 LSI. Ships, Standardization. 
 
 The Department of Connnerce has i)ul)lished a pampldet by 
 E. Piatt Stratton, entitled " Standardization in the construction 
 of freif^ht ships" (iron ships only). To be obtained from the 
 Superintendent of Documents for 5 cents. (38) 
 
 132. Silver. 
 
 In The Statist, London, February 24. 1917, pages 313-315, 
 there is an article " Silver ; world's production since 1860," 
 which gives quantities by countries, production 1851 to 1916, 
 and yearly highest and lowest prices. 
 
 133. Speculation. 
 
 An article by William H. Kent, " Future trading and the 
 farmer," The Annalist, February 26, 1917, page 306, illustrates 
 the beneficial influence of commercial exchange speculation in 
 marketing agricultural products, and shows the advantage over 
 the old system of carrying on the business through middlemen 
 and conuuission men. 
 
 See also "Patten on speculation," by James A. Patten, the 
 Annalist. April 23, 1917, page 60. 
 
 " Ending speculati(m in food stuffs," by C. S. Duncan, the 
 Annalist, May 7, 1917, page 623 (argues that legal enactment 
 must provide for the farmer the functions of the middleman, if 
 the specxilator is eliminated ) . 
 
 134. Submarines. 
 
 An article entitled " The limitations of submarines described 
 by Admiral Sims" is printed in New York Times, May 20, 1917, 
 section S, i»age 1, columns 1-3. It outlines the methods of attack 
 and defense. On the status of the submarine and the question 
 of armed merchant vessels there is a pamphlet by A. Pearce 
 Higgins, " Defensively armed merchant ships and submarine 
 warfare," London, Stevens & Sons (I^td.), 1917. price 1 shilling. 
 
 135. Supplies, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of the Advisory commission of the Council of 
 National Defense. Julius Rosenwald, chairman. (35) 
 
 136. Supplies, Purchase of. 
 
 An article in the New York Times, May 12, 1917, page 1, 
 column 4, discusses a plan for the creation of one purchasing 
 board to purchase all supplies for the allies.
 
 92 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 137. Taxation. 
 
 A " Memorial of American economists to Congress regarding 
 war finance" appears in tiie Congressional Record (to get it 
 see 38) for May 10, 1917, page 2136. It strongly urges the ad- 
 vantages of taxation as a means of raising war revenue on tlie 
 ground that it is practicable, prevents price inflation, is just, 
 and will inci'ease war efficiency. Suggests forms of taxation 
 during war. 
 
 An article, "Otto H. Kahn criticises the war-tax proposals," 
 is printed in the New York Times, I\Iay 21, 1917, page 10, columns 
 6-8. Points out differences between conscripting men and 
 wealth, the danger of a confiscating income tax, the advantage 
 of a tax on incomes over a tax on business, draws examples 
 from England's experience, and defines the position of the well- 
 to-do in war. This has been reprinted, with additions, as a 
 separate, and may be obtained by libi'aries on application to the 
 author, .52 William Street, New York City. 
 
 See also " Financing the war," by C. J. Bullock, in the Quar- 
 terly Journal of Economics. May, 1917 (v. 31, p. 357-79) ; " Our 
 power to finance a .war," The Annalist, February 12, 1917 (p. 
 237) ; "Would finance war through taxes," by H. J. Davenport, 
 The Annalist, March 5, 1917 (p. 334) ; " Taxation v. bonds," by 
 Irving Fisher, The Annalist, March 26, 1917 (p. 439) ; " Should 
 wealth be conscripted? " by B. M, Anderson, The Annalist, April 
 16, 1917 (p. 524) ; " Loans and taxes in war finance," by O. M. 
 W. Sprague, in American Economic Review, March, 1917 (p. 
 199-223) ; and " How to finance the war," by Profs. Seligman 
 and Haig, in Columbian War Papers, series 1, No. 7. 
 
 Referendum No. 20 of the Chamber of Commerce of the 
 United States of America on " Financing the war " discusses 
 taxation and bond issues and gives tables of possible taxes and 
 the amounts they might produce. 
 
 138. Tin Plate, Committee on the Conservation of. 
 
 At the call of fhe Secretaries of Commerce and Agriculture, 
 committees representing the tin plate and can manufacturers 
 and the canning industry, together with the president of the 
 National Wholesale Grocers' Association, met in conference May 
 1, 1917, at the Department of Commerce to plan for the con- 
 servation of tin plate in order to insure a full pack of all 
 products of the canning industry. At that time a subcommittee 
 was appointed by the conferees to report upon the situation, 
 the subcommittee consisting of Dr. C. L. Alsberg, Chief of the 
 Bureau of Chemistry. Department of Agriculture ; Dr. E. E.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 93 
 
 Pratt, Chiel' of the Bureau of Foreign and Uomestir- (.'omnierce, 
 Department of Coniniei-ce ; J. E. Andrews, Anierif-an Steel & 
 Tin I'iate Co.; H. W. Piu'lfts, American Can Co.; Henry Borden. 
 presi(Ient of tlie National Caiuiers' Association ; W. F. Burrows, 
 president of Libby, McNeill ^: Libl^y ; Theodore Whitmarsh, 
 president of the National Wholesale Grocers' Association. 
 
 Tliis subcommittee embodied its report in recommendations 
 to the Secretaries of Commerce and Agriculture, which were 
 published in the newspapers of May 8, 1917. Copies of the 
 reconnnendations were sent to all the interested parties. 
 
 A discii.ssion of the tin-plate shortage and of the report of 
 the Committee on the conservation of tin plate is to be found 
 in the Canning Trade for April 2, 1017 (p. 20-27), and May 
 14. 1917 (p. 24). 
 
 Tlie report of the Connuittee on the con.servation of tin plate 
 may be obtained from the Department of Commerce on request. 
 
 139. Training Camp Activities, Federal Commission on. 
 
 Hcadcjaartcrs. — General Land Office Building, Eighth and F 
 Streets NW., Washington, D. C. 
 
 Organization and mcmhcrsJiip. — On May 5. 1917, the Secretary 
 of War. Newton D. Baker, announced the formation of a com- 
 mission to be known as the Federal Commission on Training 
 Camp Activities, the members being: Chairman, Raymond B. 
 Fosdick, fornieiiy connnissioner of accounts of New York ; 
 Joseph E. Raycroft, professor of hygiene and director of physi- 
 cal education at Princeton University ; Joseph Lee. president 
 of the Playground Association of America ; John R. Mott, of 
 the International Y. M. C. A. ; Lee F. Hanmer, of the Russell 
 Sage Foundation ; Charles P. Neill, formerly of the Bureau of 
 Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor; 
 Thomas J. Howells, of Pittsburgh; Malcolm L. McBride, of 
 Cleveland : and Ma.j. Palmer E. Pierce, of the United States 
 Army. 
 
 FunctionH of the connni.ssion are: First, to keep the Secretary 
 of War informed as to the moral conditions in training camps 
 and the zones surrounding them ; second, to coordinate the 
 various agencies that are seeking to serve the soldiers. 
 
 References. — Information concerning the commission is con- 
 tained in an article appearing in the magazine section of the 
 New York Times, May 20, 1917 (p. 5), entitled "Making vice 
 unattractive in soldiers" camps." An elaborate program has 
 already been mapped out. See the OfRcial Bulletin. May 24, 
 1917, No. 13 (p. 8). (104)
 
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 140. Transportation and Communication, Committee on. 
 
 A committee of the Advisory commission of tlie Council of 
 National Defense. Daniel Willard. chairman. (35) 
 
 141. Treasury Department. 
 
 The Treasury Department has issued a number of circulars 
 and leaflets relating to the Liberty Bond issue. Among these 
 are department Circulars Nos. 78-79, 81-82, Weekly Press Mat- 
 ter l-3a, and two pamphlets. Liberty Bond Sunday and Liberty 
 Loan Bonds — what they are and what they stand for and how 
 to buy them. These documents relating to this important finan- 
 cial undertaking may be had free, and should be in the hands 
 of all librarians. 
 
 142. United States Boys' Working Reserve. 
 
 Headquarters. — United States Department of I-aboi-. ]\Iills 
 Building, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Origin. — The Secretary of Labor, William B. Wilson, an- 
 nounced on May 5, 1917, the organization of the United States 
 Boys' Working Reserve, to be under the supervision of the De- 
 partments of Labor and Agriculture. 
 
 Organisation. — William Edwin Hall is the director, and the 
 work is carried on through a committee composed of the gov- 
 ernors of the States and the heads of representative boys' or- 
 ganizations. 
 
 Function. — The object of the Reserve is to enlist boys be- 
 tween the ages of 16 and 21 for work upon farms and in ship- 
 yards. 
 
 Publications. — No literature has been issued as yet, aside 
 from a prospectus, which may be obtained from the Depart- 
 ment of Labor upon request, and certain notices given to the 
 press. 
 
 References. — A statement concerning the organization ap- 
 pears in The Survey for May 26, 1917 (v. 38: 195), under the 
 title " Federal enlistment of boys for farms." 
 
 143. University Extension. 
 
 What can be done by university extension divisions is shown 
 by a mimeographed circular issued by the University extension 
 division of the University of Wisconsin, entitled " War emer- 
 gency service available through the university extension divi- 
 ison." This may be obtained from the University Extension Di- 
 vision, University of AVisconsin, Madison, Wis. 
 
 The circular enumerates the equipment in employees and 
 appliances available for war work, and outlines the services
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 95 
 
 that can be rendered in distributing information, making sur- 
 veys, or taking a special census, training instructors in relief 
 and other work, conserving pul)lic health, replacing nurses, etc., 
 looking after welfare of soldiers and sailors in training and 
 service camps. Enumerates the services which can be rendered 
 by individual instructors and professors in special intensive in- 
 struction, translation, etc. 
 
 See also an article in New York Times, April 19, I'JIT (p. 15, 
 col. 4). 
 
 144. Vise, Division of. 
 
 A division of the Committee on public information, whose 
 duty it is to read the daily, weekly, and monthly publications, 
 and the telegraphic agencies. See Public information, conim it- 
 tee on. (112) 
 
 145. War Legislation, Foreign Countries. 
 
 The Bulletin de Slatistiquo ot de Legislation Compar§e, pub- 
 lished monthly by the Fi'ench ministry of finance, contains the 
 laws and regulations, with special reference to finance, com- 
 merce, foodstuffs, etc., passed by the principal foreign countries. 
 The Bulletih is published by the Imprimerie Nationale, Paris. 
 Price, 20 francs per year. 
 
 The Italian ministry of agriculture, industry, and commerce 
 in Series II of the Annali del Credito e della Previdenza began 
 in 1914 the publication of a number of volumes containing the 
 emergency legislation relating to the finance and economics of 
 the belligerent countries. The volume for Italy appears as 
 N. 10, Anno 1914, and the volume for Austria as N. 13, Anno 
 1915. Volumes for France, England, and Germany are an- 
 nounced in course of publication. 
 
 146. War Legislation, Belgium. 
 
 The laws, decrees, etc., relating to war have been published 
 by the Belgian Government under the title " Recueil des lois, 
 arret^s royaux ef mesures diverses necessites par I'^tat de 
 guerre, 2 aoilt, 1914-19 fevrier, 1915." Two supplements have 
 been published which cover the dates February-December, 
 1915. These are printed in Le Havre by Impr. du " Havre 
 eclair " and Impr. du Moniteur beige, respectively, and are for 
 sale at 3 francs each. 
 
 147. War Legislation, Canada. 
 
 The Canadian Government, under the title " Copies of Proc- 
 lamations, Orders in Council, and Documents Relating to the 
 European War" (with supplements), has published a coUec-
 
 96 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 tion complete to June 30. 1916, of the various ^governmental 
 decrees and laws called forth by the war. The orif-inal volume 
 and " First Supplement " were published in 191"). the " Second 
 Supplement " in 1916, and the " Third Supplement " in 1917. 
 These may be obtained from the King's Printer, Ottawa, Canada. 
 Price on application. 
 
 148. War Legislation, France. 
 
 The laws and regulations passed in consequence of the war 
 have been collected and published by the law firm Dalloz in 
 Paris under the title " Guerre de 1914 ; documents ofFiciels." 
 Fourteen parts are now available covering the dates July 31, 
 1914, to November 15, 1916. These can be obtained from the 
 publisher at 2 francs per volume. 
 
 Two volumes of a series etlited by F. Phily called " Jurispru- 
 dence speciale et legislation de la guerre 1914—15 " have already 
 appeared. The first volume contains in alphabetical order all 
 the decisions rendered by all the tribunals of France relating 
 to moratorium, leases, etc.. the second volume contains a list 
 of all the official documents, such as laws, decrees, circulars, 
 and orders which have appeared in the Journal officielle. These 
 are for sale by the publishers, Recuell Phily, Paris, at 3 francs 
 each. 
 
 Another collection, with the title " Legislation de guerre 
 1914-17," under the editorship of A. Saillard, is also in course 
 of publication. Eighteen brochures have already appeared and 
 can be obtained from the publishers. Berger-Levrault, Paris, at 
 prices ranging from 50 centimes to 3 francs. 
 
 149. War Legislation, Germany. 
 
 The more impoi'tant laws, ordinances, and decrees passed In 
 Germany and Prussia are given in a semiofficial publication 
 being printed by the publishing house of Carl Heymann, Berlin, 
 under the title " Die Kriegs-notgesetze nebst den Ausfiihrungsbe- 
 stimmuugen des Bundesrats und des preussischen Handelsminis- 
 ters." Twenty parts have been printed, extending from Sep- 
 tember, 1914, to July, 1916. These can be obtained from the 
 publisher, prices ranging from 1 mark to 1.80 marks. 
 
 A number of articles by Charles H. Huberich and Richard 
 King summarizing the emergency legislation of Germany have 
 appeared in the Solicitors' Journal and Weekly Reporter, Lon- 
 don. See the Issues for October 31, November 7, 14, 21, Decem- 
 ber 12, 1914 ; April 3, 10. July 3, 15, 1915 ; December 30, 1916 ; 
 and January 13, 1917.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAE. 97 
 
 150. War Legislation, Great Britain. 
 
 The British fJovci-nnient lias liuldislicd several follections of 
 eniersency loj,'islati<)n under the editorship of Alexan<ler I'lillinj^. 
 The first voluiiae was issued in Septeniher, 1914, with the title 
 ■' M.'inual of emerjj;enc.v lefrisJatiou comprising all acts of Par- 
 liament, proclamations, orders, etc., passed and made in conse- 
 quence of the war to September 30, 1914" (price, 4 shillings). 
 This has been supplemented by four numbers. Supplement No. 1, 
 Supplement No. 2 (which incorporates Supplement No. 1), 
 comes down to December 5, 1914 (price, Is. lOd.) ; Supplement 
 No. 3 to April 30, 1915 (2s. lid.) ; and Supplement No. 4 to 
 August 31, 1915 (2s. lid.). 
 
 The material relating to financial matters down to June 4, 
 
 1915, has been abstracted from the Manual and the supplements 
 and issued separately as a financial edition of the Manual 
 (price, Is. 4d.). 
 
 The first edition of the " Defence of the realm acts and regu- 
 lations " came down to July 31, 1915. This was later revised to 
 Fel)ruary 15, 1916, and a second edition was revised to May 23, 
 
 1916. The tir.st edition of the " Defence of the realm ni»inual " 
 was revised to July 28, 191G ; the second enlarged edition came 
 down to November 30, 1916, and the third enlarged edition, the 
 latest to date, comes down to February 28, 1917, and comprises 
 537 pages (price, 5s.). 
 
 A monthly edition of the " Defence of the realm regulations " 
 is now being published, beginning with January, 1917, the latest 
 issue at hand coming down to April 30. 1917 (price, 6d. each). 
 
 All of the above-mentioned publications can be obtained from 
 T. Fisher Unwiu, London, W. C, at the prices indicated. 
 
 The Board of Trade Journal, London, publishes each week 
 Government notices respecting trade, and the Solicitor's Journal 
 and Weekly Reporter. London, gives each week the text of the 
 Oi'ders in Council, regulations, etc. 
 
 The regulations of officials acting under the emergency laws, 
 such as the food controller, etc., are printed in the official pub- 
 lication " Statutory rules and orders,"' and the general pro- 
 visions of these orders are given currently in the Board of 
 Trade Journal. In the Harvard Law Review for May, 1917, 
 page 663, there is an article by E. Wambaugh, " War emergency 
 legislation — a general view." 
 
 Howard D'Egville brought together the emergency legislation 
 of the colonies, and it was published in 1916 by the United 
 Kingdom branch of the Empire parliamentary association under
 
 98 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 the title, " The Empire and the war. Summary of emergency 
 legislation passed by the parliaments of the Empire in conse- 
 quence of the war," (Price 2s. 6d.) 
 
 151. War Legislation, Italy. 
 
 The Italian (Government, through the ministry of foreign af- 
 fairs, is publishing a nmnber of volumes relating to the emer- 
 gency legislation, under the title " Raccolta di disposizioni le- 
 gislative e regolamentari emanate dal R. governo durante 1' atu- 
 ale conflitto internazionale per cura del Cav. Sabino llinella." 
 Seven numbers are so far available, which cover the dates 
 from May, 1915, to September, 1916. These are published by 
 the Libreria Bocca, Rome, at prices ranging from 65 centimes 
 to 1 lira 35 centimes. 
 
 The following publication has also been noted : " Prima rac- 
 colta completa delle leggi eccezionali (non militari) emanate 
 in Italia dal 4 agosto [1914] al 31 gennaio 1916," published in 
 Rome. Three volumes have already appeared, at 2 lira 15 
 centimes per volume. (See also 145.) 
 
 152. War Profits. 
 
 A statement showing the profits of 42 corporations in the 
 United States, 1913-1916, is printed in the Congre.ssional Rec- 
 ord for May 18, 1917. It purports to come from the "American 
 Committee on War Finance," 60 Broadway, New York. The 
 names of the members of the committee are appended to the 
 statement. 
 
 The opinions of a number of prominent business men on 
 "Real patriotism v. War profits" are given in The Annalist, 
 March 12, 1917, page 364. 
 
 153. War Relief Commission. 
 
 Headquarters. — 61 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 Organizaiion and membership. — The War Relief Commission 
 was established by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1914. The 
 members of the commission are: WicklifCe Rose, chairman.; 
 Jerome D. Greene, secretary ; Warwick Greene, director ; Ernest 
 P. Bicknell, Henry James, jr., Eliot Wadswortli, Jeremiah 
 Smith, jr., Frederic C. Walcott, William J. Donovan, Edward 
 R. Stoever, Wallace C. Sabine, Reginald C. Foster. 
 
 Function. — To give aid to noncombatant sufferers in Belgium 
 and elsewhere in the war zone by gifts of money and supplies 
 to organizations such as the American Red Cross and the 
 Commission for Relief in Belgium, which were already on the 
 ground, and also to work independently along the same lines.
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAB. 99 
 
 In iuklition the conuni.ssion lielps the Y. M. C. A. in its work 
 aiuonf^ the soldiers, both in Europe and in America. 
 
 Publications. — The Annual Report of the War Relief Com- 
 mission for 1914-15 is incorporated in the annual rep<»rt of the 
 Rockefeller Foundation for 1915. The 1915-16 report has not 
 been issued as yet. The expenditures for the year ending De- 
 cember 31, 1916, have been Issued, however, in a quarterly 
 pamphlet, entitled "The Rockefeller Foundation," dated- March 
 19, 1917. 
 
 References. — See articles "Noble relief work" in the Out- 
 look for October 20. 1915, volume 111, pages 391-392; "Rocke- 
 feller Foundation Report for 1914-15," in Educational Review, 
 December, 1915, volume 50, pages 537-540 ; and "Appropriations 
 made by the Rockefeller Foundation," in School and Society. 
 May 12, 1917, volume 5, page 555. 
 
 154. War Risk Insurance, Bureau of. 
 
 Headquarters. — Treasury Building, Washington, D. C. Di- 
 rector. William C. De Lanoy. 
 
 On September 2, 1914, Congress authorized the establishment 
 of a Bureau of War-Risk Insurance in the Treasury Depart- 
 ment. The act establishing it is to be found in the Statutes at 
 Large, Sixty-third Congress, second session, volume 38, part 1, 
 chapter 293, pages 711-712. It is issued separately also under 
 the title "War-Risk Insurance Laws and Instructions" and 
 sold by the Superintendent of Documents for 5 cents. (38) 
 The bureau was created to insure American vessels against war 
 losses. 
 
 Two reports have been issued covering the following dates, 
 September 2, 1914-November 30, 1915, December 1, 1915-Novem- 
 ber 30. 1916. These may be obtained from the Superintendent 
 of Documents for 5 cents each. (38) 
 
 Reference on war-risk insurance will be found in " List of 
 references on Europe and international politics," published by 
 the Library of Congress in 1914, and sent free to libraries only. 
 Copies may be purchased from the Superintendent of Docu- 
 ments for 15 cents. (38) 
 
 Hearings on the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance were held 
 before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of 
 the House of Representatives. These throw light on the work- 
 ings of the bureau. Printed copies may be obtained only through 
 a Member of Congress. 
 
 155. Waste Prevention, Great Britain. 
 
 The first report of the National War Savings Committee (is- 
 sued as Command 8516 of session 1917) describes the work done
 
 100 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 in saving unnecessary expenditures and preventing waste of 
 resources. The committee gave much assistance in tlie recent 
 war-loan campaign and is now aiding the food controller. 
 
 156. Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. 
 
 Headquarters.— 1814 N. Street NW, The Play House Club 
 and Theater, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Origin. — The Woman's Committee of the Council of National 
 Defense was created by the Government on April 21, 1917. 
 
 Membership. — Is as follows : Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, chair- 
 man; Mrs. Philip H. Moore, St. Louis, president of the Na- 
 tional Council of Women ; Mrs. Josiah E. Cowles, California, 
 president of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs ; Miss 
 Maude Wetmore, Rhode Island, chairman of the National 
 League for Woman's Service; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, New 
 York, president of the National American Woman Suffrage As- 
 sociation ; Mrs. Antoinette Funk, Illinois, member Woman's 
 Democratic League for Wilson; Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Bos- 
 ton, second vice president National American Woman Suffrage 
 Association ; Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Georgia, president of the 
 National Society of Colonial Dames ; Miss Ida M. Tarbell, New 
 York ; Miss Agnes Nestor, Illinois, vice president International 
 Glove Workers' Union. 
 
 Ftinetion. — The Council of National Defense, under which 
 the woman's committee operates, was created by Congress in 
 August, 1916. According to the text of the bill authorizing 
 the council, the purpose is " the coordination of industries and 
 resources for the national security and welfare." Among other 
 powers of the council is that of creating committees to assist 
 in carrying out this work, the members of these committees to 
 serve without compensation. 
 
 The woman's committee was organized to coordinate the 
 rapidly multiplying agencies through which women were pre- 
 paring to aid in the national defense. Its business is to make 
 available for national service the whole woman's power of the 
 country, in the same way that the Committee on Transporta- 
 tion of the Council of National Defense is making available all 
 of the railroads. 
 
 The committee sits in Washington. Its headquarters are 1814 
 N Street NW., tlie Play House Club and Theater turned over to 
 the Government, rent free, by its owner, Mrs. Henrietta Halli- 
 day, for the period of the war. 
 
 Divisions of the Woman's Committee have been, or are being, 
 formed in all of the States. At the head of each State division 
 is a permanent committee composed of representatives from the
 
 UNITED STATES AT WAR. 101 
 
 woman organizations of the States willing to cooperate with the 
 National Government in defense work. This committee con- 
 tinues during the war and directs the activities of the units in 
 the States which are rapidly forming. 
 
 The Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense 
 has been created as a channel through which the various com- 
 mittees, bureaus, and commissions of the Government can send 
 to all of the women of the country their requests, their advice, 
 and their information. The national committee is in constant 
 touch with the various governmental activities so that its com- 
 munications are at once prompt and authoritative. 
 
 The chief departments of the committee's present work are : 
 National registration for service. Relief, home and foreign. 
 imder Red Cross direction. The food problem in all of its 
 phases of production, conservation, and thrift. Education. 
 Conservation of health and welfare of children. Protection of 
 women worlvcrs. Courses of study for clubs and individuals on 
 women and children in war. These departments of work will 
 be extended as the needs for woman's service develop with the 
 war. 
 
 157. Women in the War. Great Britain. 
 
 For a survey of the effects of the war on the women of Great 
 Britain from the beginning of the war to July, 1916, see " Labour, 
 finance, and the war, being the results of inquiries, arranged 
 by the section of economic science and statistics of the British 
 Association for the Advancement of Science during the years 
 1915 and 1916," edited by A. W. Kirkaldy. London, New York, 
 etc.. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons (Ltd.), 1916, 3s. 6d. ; $1.25; and 
 " Women's war work," issued by the War Office of Great 
 Britain, September, 1916. This latter deals with the trades 
 and processes in which women ' are successfully employed in 
 temporary replacement of men. It gives, first, an alphabetical 
 index of trades (including agriculture) ; second, a detailed list 
 of processes; third, a list of munitions work and a list of 
 processes. 
 
 For a general survey, from the beginning of the war to the 
 present time, see Bulletin No. 223 of the United States Bureau 
 of Labor Statistics, " Employment of women and juveniles of 
 Great Britain during the war, April, 1917." This deals with 
 the reports of the British health of munition workers' com- 
 mittee, on which two women served. It includes all trades but 
 agriculture. It is not indexed. The bulletin can be purchased 
 from the Superintendent of Documents at 15 cents. (38)
 
 102 LIBEARY OF CONGRESS, 
 
 The first effect of the war among women was industrial de- 
 pression. By September, 1914, nearly a quarter of a million 
 women had lost employment. The Board of Trade Labour Gazette 
 called attention to the fact in its articles, " Unemployment 
 among women," in the issues of March, 1914, and February, 
 1915, and in an article, " Employment among women," in the 
 issue of March, 1915. As early as August 20. 1914, the presi- 
 dent of the local government board (Herbert Samuel) had ap- 
 pointed a standing Committee composed entirely of women " to 
 consider and . , . report upon schemes for the provision of 
 work for women and girls unemployed on account of the war." 
 This "Central committee on women's employment" issued an 
 interim report, with appendices (Papers by command, Cd. 7484), 
 carrying the work through January, 1915. It is significant that 
 the report is negligible on the subjects of agriculture and mu- 
 nitions. 
 
 The Board of Trade issued two detailed reports, October, 
 1914, and December, 1914 (Papers by command, Cd. 7703 and 
 Cd. 7755; prices, 6d. and 2id., Wyman & Sons), in both of 
 which it touched upon the industrial depression among women.
 
 NAME INDEX 
 
 [The numbers refer to the items, not to the pages.] 
 
 Acworth, W. M 118 
 
 Adams, A. B 33 
 
 Adams, Henry C 52 
 
 Addicks, I^wrence 100 
 
 Adler, Cyrus 72 
 
 Aleshirc, Gen. J. B 35 
 
 Alsberg, Dr. C. L. 138 
 
 American academy of polit- 
 ical and social science 7 
 
 American association for in- 
 ternational conciliation 377t 
 
 American association for la- 
 bor legislation 78 
 
 American economic associa- 
 tion 9 
 
 American society of interna- 
 tional law 37f 
 
 Anderson, B. M 26, no. 8, 137 
 
 Andrews, J. E 138 
 
 Andrews, .7. I 35 
 
 Asch, Sholom 72 
 
 Ashley, R. L 70 
 
 Bacon. Corinue 12 
 
 Baekeland, L. H 100 
 
 Baker, Newton D.. Secre- 
 tary of Trar__ 9. 35, 43, 112, 139 
 
 Ballard, S. Thurston 35 
 
 Bannard. Otto T 3 
 
 Barnch. Bernard M 121 
 
 Baylies, J/r.v. Edmund L 3 
 
 Beard, C. A 70 
 
 Beard, Daniel C 13 
 
 Beck, .Tames T 37/i 
 
 Bedford, A. C 35 
 
 Beers, Clifford W 3 
 
 Benjamin, A. H 3 
 
 Berry, W. T 12 
 
 Bertron, Samuel R 8 
 
 Bevington. E. L 35 
 
 Bicknell, Ernest P 153 
 
 Bingham. Alfred 12 
 
 Blair, James A., jr 3 
 
 Bliss, Cornelius N., jr 124 
 
 Blodgett, Eleanor 3 
 
 Boardman. Mabel 81 
 
 Borden, Henry 138 
 
 Borden-Turner, Mrs 3 
 
 Borglum, Gutzon 97 
 
 Bowker, Horace 35 
 
 Brand, Charles .T 4 
 
 Braudeis. Louis D 72 
 
 Brent. Theodore 130 
 
 British association for the 
 
 a<lvancement of science 157 
 
 Brooker, Charles P 35 
 
 Brown, .Jacob P 35 
 
 Brown. .Tames Scott 102 
 
 Brown, Roscoe C. B 26, no. 3 
 
 Bryant, Col. Lewis T 35 
 
 Bryce, James 70 
 
 Brvson, H. K 4 
 
 Bu'lkoley, Edward M 3 
 
 Bulklev, R. J 50 
 
 Bullaril, A 377t 
 
 Bullock. C. J 137 
 
 Bureau of railway eco- 
 nomics : Library 116 
 
 Burrows, W. F 138 
 
 Butterfield. Tvenvon L 4 
 
 Butterworth, William 35 
 
 Cameron, Frank K 108 
 
 Caniiibell, James A 35 
 
 Cappelli, Itaffaele 5 
 
 Carpenter, Howard C 3 
 
 Catt, ilrs. Carrie Chapman. 156 
 Central committee for na- 
 tional patriotic organiza- 
 tions, Great Britain 12 
 
 Central committee on wo- 
 men's employment. Great 
 
 Britain 157 
 
 Ccrcle do la librairie, Pari.s. 12 
 Cbaddock, Robert E__ 26, no. 6, 15 
 Chamber of commerce of 
 the United States of 
 
 America 32, 137 
 
 Childs, William H 35 
 
 Clark, Victor S 96 
 
 Clarkson. Grosvenor B 35 
 
 Clews, Henry 3 
 
 Cochran Thomas 11 
 
 Coffin, Howard E 6, 
 
 35, 93, 100 
 
 Cole, W. H 05 
 
 Collins. P. V 50 
 
 Columbia University. Divi- 
 sion of intelligence and 
 
 publicity 26 
 
 Connor, Maj. Clarence H — 123 
 
 Connor, Robert D. W 96 
 
 Connor. W. D 87 
 
 Cook, M. L 35 
 
 Coolidge, L. A 35 
 
 Coss, John J 26, no. 9 
 
 Cowles, Mrs. Josiah E 156 
 
 Cram, Ralph Adams 65 
 
 Cramb. J. A 37ft 
 
 Crane, Charles R 3, 8 
 
 Crane. Clinton H 35 
 
 Craven, Alfred 100 
 
 Creel, George 35, 112 
 
 Cromwell, Lincoln 35 
 
 103
 
 104 
 
 NAME INDEX. 
 
 Cross, Whitman 108 
 
 Crothers, Uachel 3 
 
 Crowninshield, Mrs. Fred- 
 erick 3 
 
 Cumulative digest corpora- 
 tion 12, 16, 88 
 
 Cusiiman, Allerton S 108 
 
 Custiman, James Stewart — 3 
 
 Dalton, H. G 35 
 
 Daniels, Josephns, Secre- 
 tary of Navij 35, 100, 112 
 
 Darling, W. L 115 
 
 Darlington, Dr. Tliomas 35 
 
 Davenport, Eugene 4 
 
 Davenport, H. J 137 
 
 Davis, Arthur V 35 
 
 Davis, John W 123 
 
 Davison. Henry P 124 
 
 Deeds, E. A 35 
 
 r>e Forest, Robert W 123 
 
 D'Egville, Howard 150 
 
 Deichmanskebibliotek, Chris- 
 tiana 12 
 
 Delano, Jane A 123 
 
 De Lanoy, William C 154 
 
 Denman. William 127, 130 
 
 Deutsche Bueclierei, Leip- 
 
 ziq 12 
 
 Devine, Br. Edward T 35 
 
 Dewev, John 26, no. 1 
 
 DeweV. Melvil E 97 
 
 Dix. William F 97 
 
 Donald, John C 130 
 
 Donovan, William J 153 
 
 Dop, Louis 5 
 
 Doty, Dr. Alvah H 35 
 
 Downman, R. H 35 
 
 Drinker, Dr. Henry Stur- 
 
 gis 97 
 
 Duncan, C. S 133 
 
 Duncan, James 8 
 
 Edison, Thomas A 100 
 
 Elliott, D. S 35 
 
 Emmet, William Le Roy 100 
 
 Engelman, M 72 
 
 Evans, Dr. William A 35 
 
 Eveleth. E 10 
 
 Fahrenwald, F. A 106 
 
 Fairlie. J. A 70 
 
 Farnam, T. W 123 
 
 Farrell, James A 35 
 
 Faxson, William B 3 
 
 Federal Trade commission- 24, 33 
 
 Fess, S. D 37(7 
 
 Finley. John H 97 
 
 Fischel, Harry 72 
 
 Fish, Ada Z 12.3 
 
 Fish. Carl R 96 
 
 Fish, Eugene L 81 
 
 Fish. Hamilton, jr 3 
 
 Fisher, Irving 81, 111, 137 
 
 Fiske, Rear Admiral Brad- 
 lev A 97 
 
 Fletcher, Capt 102 
 
 Flint, Charles R 3 
 
 Fontaine. Marie Louise 3 
 
 Fosdick, Ravmond B 139 
 
 Foster, Reginald C 153 
 
 Fowler, Arthur A 35 
 
 Fowler. Harrv P 32 
 
 Freiberg, J. Walter 72 
 
 Funk, Mrs. Antoinette 156 
 
 Gadsden, Philip H- 97 
 
 Gale, H. S 108 
 
 Gary, Elbert H 35 
 
 Gibbs, George 115 
 
 Giddings, Franklin H__ 26, no. 13 
 
 Gide, Charles 60 
 
 (iiftord, Walter S 35 
 
 G 1 e n n o n , Rear Admiral 
 
 James H 8 
 
 Godfrey, Dr. Hollis 126 
 
 Goethals, Maj. Gen. George 
 
 W 42 
 
 Goldberg, Shepard 3 
 
 Gompers, Samuel 79 
 
 Grant, Lincoln 35 
 
 Grasselli, H. R 35 
 
 Grasty, C. H 116 
 
 Great Britain. Stationery 
 
 office 12 
 
 War office 157 
 
 Green, L 35 
 
 Greene, Jerome D 153 
 
 Greene, Warwick 153 
 
 Gregory, Mrs. Mary H 3 
 
 Griner, J. P 115 
 
 Guaranty Trust Co. of New 
 
 York 55 
 
 Guthrie, William D 11 
 
 Ha«an, J. N 4 
 
 Haig, Robert M 26, no. 7, 137 
 
 Hall, William Edwin 142 
 
 Halliday, Mrs. Henrietta — 156 
 
 Hamilton, Grant 35 
 
 Hamilton, J. M 4 
 
 Hamilton, William H 3 
 
 Hammond, John Hays 97 
 
 Hance. James H 108 
 
 Hanmer, Lee-F 139 
 
 Hanson, B. W. M 35 
 
 Harger, C. M 50 
 
 Harries. Gen. George H 35 
 
 Harriman, Mrs. J. Borden. 35 
 
 Harrison, Fairfax 35 
 
 narrower, Katherine 3 
 
 Haskin, F. J 70 
 
 Hazen, Charles D 96 
 
 Heath, Mrs. Julian 3 
 
 Hedges, Job E 97 
 
 Hereford, William R 3 
 
 Herrick, M. T 50 
 
 Hetherington, C. W 89 
 
 Hill, James M 106 
 
 Hinrichs, firm, 'booksellers, 
 
 Leipzig 12 
 
 Hoepli. iirm, booksellers, 
 
 Milan 12 
 
 Hoffman, Frederick L 35 
 
 Hollingsworth, Gladys 3 
 
 Hoover, Herbert C 60 
 
 Hopkins, Mrs. Archibald 3 
 
 Horner, W. S 35 
 
 Hotchkiss, H. Stuart 35 
 
 Houston, David F., Secre- 
 
 tani of Agriculture 4, 35 
 
 Howells. Thomas J 139 
 
 Iluberich, Charles H 149 
 
 Hughes, .John 35 
 
 Huidekoper, Frederic L_ 26, no. 13 
 
 Hull, Charles 96 
 
 Hunt. Andrew M 100 
 
 Hunt, Gaillard 96 
 
 Hunt, T. F 58 
 
 Hurley, Edwin N 124 
 
 Hutchinson, C. T 98
 
 NAME INDEX. 
 
 105 
 
 James, Edward, jr 153 
 
 Johnson, W. L 34 
 
 Jones, Grosvenor M 128 
 
 Jordan, W. H 4 
 
 Joseph, Ell 35 
 
 Joy, Henry B 97 
 
 Kahn, Otto H 137 
 
 Kaplan, I'aul 72 
 
 Kean, Col. Jefferson R 123 
 
 Kellogg, I'aul U 124 
 
 Kelly, Thomas II 3 
 
 Kent, William II 133 
 
 Kernan, Vol. Francis J G9 
 
 Kimball, Alfred R 3 
 
 King, E. M 58 
 
 King, Richard 149 
 
 Kingsley, L. W 35 
 
 Kirkaldy, A. W 157 
 
 Knapp, Rear Admiral 102 
 
 Knopf, Adolph 106 
 
 Koettgen, J 3 
 
 Kohn, Robert D 35 
 
 Kiitzleb, W 108 
 
 Lamar, Mrs. Joseph R 150 
 
 Lamme, Benjamin G 100 
 
 Lamont, Thomas W 3 
 
 Lane, Franlclin K., Secre- 
 tary of Interior 35, 70 
 
 Lane, Mrs. Franklin K 3 
 
 Lange, F. W. T 12 
 
 Langthorn, J. S 85 
 
 Lansing, Robert, Secretary 
 
 of State 102,112 
 
 Law, Bonar 15 
 
 Ledoux. A. D 35 
 
 Lee, George C 3 
 
 Lee, Joseph 139 
 
 Lee, Porter R 124 
 
 Leeson, Cecil 19 
 
 Leland, Miss L. A 3 
 
 Leland, Waldo G 96 
 
 Lennehan, James A 81 
 
 Lewin-Epstein, E. W 72 
 
 Lewis. E. St. Elmo 97 
 
 Ley, Harold A 81 
 
 Library of Congress. Divi- 
 sion of Bibliography 
 
 33, 59, 90, 116, 123, 154 
 
 Lieb, John W 35 
 
 Livingstone, Colin H 13 
 
 Lobdell, Charles E 50 
 
 London, Hon. Meyer 3 
 
 Lorenzoni. Giovanni 5 
 
 Lovejoy, Owen R 19 
 
 Lubin, David 5 
 
 Lucas, Albert 72 
 
 Lund, H. H 9 
 
 Lynch, Charles 123 
 
 Lyons. Municipal library. 12 
 McAdoo, William G., Secre- 
 tary of Treasury 50, 141 
 
 McAdoo, Mrs. W. G 3 
 
 McBride, Malcolm L 139 
 
 McCormick, Cyrus : 8 
 
 McCormick, Mrs. Stanley 156 
 
 McDonald, Edgar 10 
 
 McElwain, J. F 35 
 
 MacElwee. Roy S 26, no. 11 
 
 Macfarlaud, Dr. Charles S_ 3 
 
 McFarland, J. Horace 97 
 
 Mach, Julian M 72 
 
 Mclsaac, Isabel 123 
 
 McMillan, Emerson 97 
 
 Macy, V. Everit 35 
 
 Magee, Charles L 123 
 
 Magnos, J. L 72 
 
 Mallinckrodt, Edward, jr 35 
 
 Mansfield, Burton 82 
 
 Manville, Thomas F 35 
 
 Mar, Curtis J 97 
 
 Margolies, M. Z 72 
 
 Marks, L. B 35 
 
 Mairiott, J. .\. R 40 
 
 Marshall, Louis 72 
 
 Marston, Edwin S 3 
 
 Martin, Dr. Franklin H 84 
 
 Maxim, Hudson 100 
 
 Mayes, Jewell 4 
 
 Mechanics & Metals National 
 Bank of the City of New 
 
 York 55 
 
 Mez, J. R 12 
 
 Miles, H. E 35 
 
 Miller, Henry 115 
 
 Miller, Spencer 100 
 
 Millikan, Dr. R. A 35 
 
 Mitchell, Henry B 26, no. 4 
 
 Mouell, Ambrose 35 
 
 Moore, Mrs. Philip H 156 
 
 Morgan, J. P. & Co 3 
 
 Morrison, Frank 35 
 
 Morron, John E 35 
 
 Mott, John R 8, 139 
 
 Munroe, John, & Co 3 
 
 Murphy, Grayson M. P 124 
 
 Myrick, Herbert 50 
 
 National bank of commerce 
 
 of New York 52 
 
 National child labor com- 
 mittee 19 
 
 National city bank of New 
 
 York 52 
 
 National committee on pris- 
 ons and prison Iabor_ 26, no. 2, 5 
 National consumers' league. 78 
 National war savings com- 
 mittee, Great Britain 155 
 
 National wholesale gi'ocers' 
 
 association 138 
 
 Neill, Charles P 139 
 
 Nestor, Agnes 156 
 
 Newberry, Truman H 97 
 
 Nichols, Dr. William H 35 
 
 Norris, George W 50 
 
 Norton, Charles D 124 
 
 Norton, Thomas II 18, 39, 108 
 
 No.ves, Clara D 123 
 
 Oliver, Rear Armiral James 
 
 H 102 
 
 Osborne, L. A 35 
 
 Otterson, J. E 35 
 
 Ousley, Clarence 4 
 
 Palmer, Edgar 35 
 
 Palmer, L. R 35 
 
 Parker, Alton B 97 
 
 Parsons, Henry G 26, no. 10 
 
 Patten, James .V 133 
 
 Payne, Arthur 3 
 
 Peabody. F. S 25 
 
 Peary, Rear Admiral Robert 
 
 E 97 
 
 Pennock, J. D 35 
 
 I'enrose, R. A. F 67 
 
 Pepper, George W 99
 
 106 
 
 NAME INDEX. 
 
 Perkins, Mrs. A. R 3 
 
 Persons, W. Frank 123 
 
 Phalen, W. C 108 
 
 Phelps, H. W 138 
 
 Philip, Alex. J 12 
 
 I'hily, F 148 
 
 Pierce. Maj. I'almer E 139 
 
 Pinchot, Amos 3 
 
 Pitkin, Walter B 26 
 
 Plant, A. H 3.5 
 
 Porter, George F 35 
 
 Post, A. Seaton, jr 3 
 
 Pratt, Edwin A 116 
 
 Pratt, Dr. E. E 138 
 
 Pratt, F. C 35 
 
 Price, H. C 5 
 
 Price, AI. P S7h 
 
 Price, Ra.vmond B 97 
 
 Prothoro, G. W 12 
 
 Pulling, Alexander 150 
 
 Putnam, G. E f)0 
 
 Quiek, Herbert 50 
 
 Ravcroft, .loseph E 139 
 
 Redfield, William C, See- 
 
 retarji of Commerce 35 
 
 Rice, Herbert W 97 
 
 Rice, .T. H 35 
 
 Richards, Joseph W 100 
 
 Riker, Andrew L 100 
 
 Riker, J. .T 35 
 
 Rinella, Sabino 151 
 
 Rittenhouse, Elmer B 81 
 
 Roberts, G. E 9 
 
 Roche, Francis 3 
 
 Roosevelt, Theodore 11, 13 
 
 Root, Elihu 8 
 
 Rose, Marv D. S 26, no. 15 
 
 Rose, Wickliffe 153 
 
 Rosenwald, Julius 135 
 
 Rothenburs, Morris 72 
 
 Rubens, Horatio S 35 
 
 Russell, Charles Edward 8 
 
 Russell, H. L 4 
 
 Rvan, John D ' 33 
 
 Sabin. Charles H 3 
 
 Sabine. Wallace C 153 
 
 Saillard, A 148 
 
 Samuel, Herbert 157 
 
 Sanders, Leon 72 
 
 Saunders, William L 100 
 
 Schramm, Mrs. Arnold 3 
 
 Schultz, Alfred R 108 
 
 Schweinitz, Karl de 124 
 
 Scott, Frank A 66, 95 
 
 Scott, Maj. Gen. Hugh L__ 8 
 
 Scott. James B 37A, 90 
 
 Seager, H. R 26, no. 6 
 
 Sears. J. D 26, no. 14 
 
 Sedgwick, Henry R 3 
 
 Seligman, Edwin R. A 26, 
 
 no. 7, 16, 52, 137 
 
 Sellers, Edith 60 
 
 Sellers, Mathew B 100 
 
 Shaw, A. W 30 
 
 Shaw. Dr. Anna Howard 156 
 
 Sheaffer, C. M 35 
 
 Sbeip, Stanley S 12 
 
 Sherman, Henry C 26, no. 15 
 
 Shotwell. James T 96 
 
 Simmons, Dr. George H 81 
 
 Simpson. Dr. Frank F 83 
 
 Sims. Rear Admiral Wil- 
 liam S 134 
 
 Sinceny, P 40 
 
 Smith, G. O 67 
 
 Smitli, Jeremiah, jr 153 
 
 Smith, Munroe 26, no. 13 
 
 Smith, W. S. A 50 
 
 Spencer, II. B 35 
 
 Sprague, Frank Julian 100 
 
 Sprague, O. M. W 9, 137 
 
 Squier, J. Bentley 3 
 
 Starrett. W. A 35 
 
 Stauffer, G. A 4 
 
 Sterling, Ada 3 
 
 Stevens, John F 115 
 
 Stevens, R. B 130 
 
 Stewart, John A 97 
 
 Stillman, William O 10 
 
 Stoever. Edward R 153 
 
 Storev, Harold 40 
 
 Stowell, E. C .37fe 
 
 Stratton. E. Piatt 131 
 
 Struthers. Joseph 85 
 
 Suffern, E. S 35 
 
 Svme, Conrad H 97 
 
 Taft, William H 13, 81, 
 
 123, 124 
 
 Tanke, Eugene 3 
 
 Tarbell, Ida M 156 
 
 Taylor, Alonzo Englebert__ 60 
 
 Taylor, W. A 4 
 
 Thayer, Benjamin B 100 
 
 Thomas, Mrs. A. D 3 
 
 Thompson, W. O 4 
 
 Trench, C. S. Le Poer 3 
 
 Turner. Frederick .1 96 
 
 Turner, Horace G 21 
 
 United States. Bureau of 
 foreifjiv and domestic com- 
 merce 45 
 
 Bvreuu of labor star 
 
 tistics 19, 60, 157 
 
 Bureau of navigation- 114, 
 129 
 Civil service commis- 
 sion 89 
 
 Conpress. House. Com- 
 mittee on ar/ri 58 
 
 Committee on ap- 
 propriations 35 
 
 Committee on in- 
 terstate and for- 
 eign commerce- 154 
 Senate. Committee on 
 agriculture and for- 
 
 estry 58, 111 
 
 Department of agricul- 
 ture 58, 59, 108, 109 
 
 Department of com- 
 merce- 39. 45, 128, 129, 131 
 Department of labor-- 142 
 Department of state-- 37, 64 
 General staff. War col- 
 lege division 12, 88 
 
 Geological survey 106, 108 
 
 Military academy. West 
 
 Point 88 
 
 Treasury department 141, 
 
 154 
 
 Upton, Emory 26, no. 13 
 
 Vail, Theodore N 35 
 
 Valesh, Eva McDonald 3 
 
 Van .\rsdale. May B 26, no. 15 
 
 Vanderlip, Frank A 3 
 
 Van Dervoort, H. W 35
 
 XAME INDEX. 
 
 107 
 
 Vauclain, S. M .'>5 
 
 Wade, J. A 4 
 
 Wadsworth, Eliot___ 123, 124, 153 
 
 Walcott, Frederic C 153 
 
 Wallis, J. T 35 
 
 Wambaugh, K 150 
 
 Warburg, Felix M 72 
 
 Waters, II. J 4 
 
 Watrous, Richard B 07 
 
 Webster, Arthur G 100 
 
 Welch, nr. William H 81 
 
 Wells, Edgar H 123 
 
 Wetmoro, Maude 156 
 
 Wevl, W. E S7h 
 
 Wharton, Mrs. Edith 3 
 
 White, John B 130 
 
 Whltehouse, Henry J 3 
 
 Whitman, Gov. Charles S 47 
 
 Whitmarsh, Theodore 138 
 
 Whitney, W. R 100 
 
 Whiton, Henry 35 
 
 Wlernick, Peter 72 
 
 Wilev, Harvey W 81 
 
 Willard, Daniel 140 
 
 Willeox, William R 97 
 
 Williams, John Skelton 123 
 
 Williams, N. B 50 
 
 Wilson, (.'harlcs S 4 
 
 Wilson, II. W. Co 12 
 
 Wilson, Warren H 26, no. 13 
 
 Wilson, William B., Secre- 
 
 tarii of Lafjor 35, 142 
 
 Wilson, Woodrow, P r e s i- 
 
 dcnt 1, 
 
 2, 13, 35, 37. 70, 112, 123, 124 
 Wisconsin, University of. 
 Umversity extenirion di- 
 vision 143 
 
 Wise, Henry A 07 
 
 Wood, John P 35 
 
 Wood, MaJ. Oen. Leonard 97 
 
 Woodhouse, Henry 97 
 
 Woodward, Robert S 100 
 
 Wortley, R. M. Stuart 3 
 
 Yadlowsky, Simon 3 
 
 Young, Allyn A 9 
 
 Young, James T 70 
 
 Zimmerschied, Karl W 35 
 
 Zucker, Samuel 3
 
 SUBJECT INDEX 
 
 [The numbers refer to the items, not to the pages.] 
 
 Agricultural conference, St. 
 
 Louis 4 
 
 Agricultural mobilization, 
 
 United States 26, no. 11 
 
 Agricultural statistics 5, 
 
 36, 52, 71 
 
 Agriculture 9 
 
 Committee of fifteen 4 
 
 Department of 4,36,41, 
 
 47, 58, 59, 62, 108, 109 
 International Institute 
 
 of 5 
 
 Women in. Great Brit- 
 ain 157 
 
 Aircraft production board — 6, 35 
 
 Allies, Cooperative buying — 136 
 
 Economic conference — 40 
 
 Unity with our 26, no. 4 
 
 American brewers associa- 
 tion 111 
 
 American citizens in foreign 
 
 countries 7 
 
 American Commission to 
 
 Russia 8 
 
 American foreign policy 7 
 
 American humane associa- 
 tion 10 
 
 American industrial oppor- 
 tunity 7 
 
 American Jewish relief com- 
 mittee 72 
 
 American National Red 
 
 Cross Society 13, 49, 
 
 123, 124. 153, 156 
 American Railway Associa- 
 tion, Executive commit- 
 tee 116 
 
 Publications 116, 120 
 
 American Red Star Animal 
 
 Relief 10 
 
 American Sociey for the Re- 
 lief of French war or- 
 phans 11 
 
 Americanism 112 
 
 Animal industry. Govern- 
 ment documents 38 
 
 Animal relief 10 
 
 Appam, ship , S7c,f 
 
 Arabic, ship 37 c, f 
 
 Armed merchantmen 37 b, 
 
 c, t, 134 
 Arms and munitions, Gov- 
 ernment manufacture 69 
 
 Army, Government docu- 
 ments 38 
 
 Army and navy supplies 100 
 
 Army and railroads, rela- 
 tion 116 
 
 Austria - Hungary, Contra- 
 band 37 a, f 
 
 Munitions, sale of 37 b, f 
 
 War legislation 145 
 
 AuxilLary and volunteer or- 
 ganizations, list o(l 3 
 
 Aviation 97 
 
 Banking 51,53 
 
 Banks of issue, foreign 
 
 countries 51 
 
 Barbed wire 91 
 
 Barley, statistics 71 
 
 "Barometer letter" 53 
 
 Belgian relief 37 b, f, 153 
 
 Belgium, War legislation 146 
 
 Bibliography, Cost of living- 33 
 
 European war 12 
 
 Military science 43, 88 
 
 Militia 90 
 
 Railroads in war 116 
 
 War risk insurance 154 
 
 Bonds, United States 26, 
 
 no. 7, 52,137 
 
 Boots and shoes 91 
 
 Boy-Ed, Capt. Karl, recall 
 
 of 37 c,/ 
 
 Bov Scouts of America 13 
 
 -Boys' Life" 13 
 
 Roys' working reserve 142 
 
 Bread regulations, foreign 
 
 countries 60 
 
 British warships near 
 
 ITnited States 37 c, f 
 
 Buckwheat, statistics 71 
 
 Budget. Great Britain 15. 54 
 
 Business, Excess profit tax_ 15, 
 
 26. no. 16. 137. 152 
 
 Government regulation. 7. 16 
 
 Business courts 53 
 
 " Business digest " ' 16 
 
 Business in the war 16, 52, 152 
 
 By-products, potash as 108 
 
 Cables, censorship of 46 
 
 Canada. Army 26, no. 14 
 
 War legislation 147, 150 
 
 Canning 58 
 
 Car shortage 119,120 
 
 Catholics and the war 17 
 
 Censorship, Cables 46 
 
 Rules of 112 
 
 Telegrams 37 b, f 
 
 Census taking 9, 143 
 
 109
 
 110 
 
 SUBJECT INDEX. 
 
 Central relief committee 72 
 
 Chamber of commerce of 
 the United States of 
 
 America 32 
 
 Chaplains, Army and Navy_ 49 
 
 Chemical industries 18, 
 
 39, 106, 108 
 
 Children in war time 19, 
 
 49, 78, 156 
 
 France 20 
 
 Great Britain 19, 157 
 
 War service. 26, no. 1, 12, 142 
 Children of America's army 
 
 of relief 21 
 
 Chronology of events lead- 
 ing up to entry of United 
 States into the War with 
 
 Germany 1 
 
 Chronology of events of the 
 
 War 2 
 
 " Church and international 
 
 relations" 49 
 
 "Churches in time of war "_ 49 
 
 City gardens 26, no. 10 
 
 Civic and Educational Co- 
 operation, Division of 23 
 
 Civilian relief. Red Cross_ 123, 124 
 
 Clothing 91 
 
 Clubs, courses of study 156 
 
 Coal 24,33,116,120 
 
 Coal production, commit- 
 tee on 25 
 
 Coast artillery 88 
 
 Colleges and the war 41, 98,143 
 
 Columbia war papers 26 
 
 Commerce 27, 28 
 
 Department of 39, 
 
 45, 128, 129, 131 
 
 Great Britain 29 
 
 Government documents 38 
 Restraints on.-. 37 «. b, c, f, g 
 United States statis- 
 tics 45,52,73 
 
 " Commerce Reports " 27, 28 
 
 Commercial economy board- 30 
 
 Committee of sixty 111 
 
 Community leadership 49 
 
 " Congressional Directory "_ 70 
 
 " Congressional Record " 38 
 
 Conscience, freedom of 49 
 
 Conservation of natural re- 
 sources 9 
 
 Consular and trade reports- 28 
 Consular officers, status of_ 37 c, f 
 Consumer and food prob- 
 lem 58 
 
 Contraband of war S7 a, o,f 
 
 Contracts. Government 9 
 
 Cooking, Government docu- 
 ments 38 
 
 Cooperation, Great Britain- 31 
 
 Cooperative buying 136 
 
 Cooperative canning 59 
 
 Cooperative committee 
 on purchase of army 
 
 supplies 32 
 
 Corn, statistics 71 
 
 Corporation finance 9 
 
 Cost of living 33 
 
 Bibliography 33 
 
 See also Prices, Food ; 
 Index numbers. 
 
 Cotton, statistics 34 
 
 Council of .Jewish women__ 72 
 Council of National De- 
 fense 35 
 
 Country estates, mobilize 
 
 26, no. 3 
 
 Crops, statistics 5, 36, 52, 71 
 
 Dairying 58 
 
 Danger zones 37e 
 
 Da Prato, Ugo, dual nation- 
 ality 37 h, f 
 
 Declaration of London, atti- 
 tude of belligerent gov- 
 ernments to 37 a, f 
 
 Defense of the realm acts 
 and regulations, Great 
 
 Britain 150 
 
 Defense of the realm man- 
 ual. Great Britain 150 
 
 Democracy, preservation of- 49 
 
 Dependent families, relief 
 
 of - 124 
 
 Diplomatic correspondence- 37 a-e 
 Diplomatic mission to Rus- 
 sia 8 
 
 Documents, Superintendent 
 
 of 38 
 
 Drying surplus crops 58 
 
 Dumba. Dr. Constantin T., 
 
 recall of 37c,/ 
 
 Dyestuffs 39 
 
 Economic conditions 52 
 
 Economic conference of the 
 
 allies 40 
 
 Economic experts, census of_ 9 
 
 " Economic review "' 9 
 
 Education 41, 126, 156 
 
 p;ducation, Bureau of 41 
 
 Educational and Civic Co- 
 operation, r>ivision of 23 
 
 Educational institutions 98 
 
 EflSciencv and national de- 
 fense ■ 97 
 
 Efflciencv and naval de- 
 fense 97,100 
 
 Efficiency. National Insti- 
 tute of 97 
 
 Eggs, preserving 109 
 
 Emergency Fleet Corpora- 
 tion --■ 42 
 
 Emergency legislation. See 
 War legislation. 
 
 Enemies, love of 49 
 
 FJngineering and education- 126 
 Engineering regiments, or- 
 
 ganiz.ition of 85 
 
 Engineers, military books 
 
 for 43, 88 
 
 European war, American 
 Red Cross in. bibliog- 
 raphy 123 
 
 Bibliographies 12 
 
 Diplomatic documents- 37^ 
 
 Diplomatic history 37h 
 
 Economic aspects 7, 40 
 
 Events leading up to the 
 
 war 1 
 
 Events of the war 2 
 
 Excess-profit tax 15, 26, 
 
 no. 16, 137, 152 
 
 Exchange rates 44, 51 
 
 Exempted trades. Great 
 
 Britain 122
 
 SUBJECT INDEX. 
 
 Ill 
 
 Kxportation, rcKulations 27 
 
 Kxports, statistics ot 45,52 
 
 External communication, Di- 
 vision of 46 
 
 Farm labor 26. 
 
 no. 1, and 12, 47. 142 
 
 Farm loans 50 
 
 Farm manaKcmont, Govern- 
 ment documents .38 
 
 Farm moi'tgages 50 
 
 Farmers and speculators 
 
 26. no. 8. r^^ 
 Farmers' l)nlletins. Gov- 
 ernment documents 38 
 
 Farmint; :iH, 58 
 
 Farn, ship, internment of_ .S9 l>, / 
 Federal commission on 
 
 training camp activities. 48 
 
 Federal Council of the 
 Churches of Christ in 
 
 America 49 
 
 Federal farm loan act 50 
 
 Federal Farm Loan Board _ 50 
 
 Federal Farm Loan Bureau- 50 
 
 Federal land bank cities 50 
 
 Federal land bank districts- 50 
 
 Federal reserve banks 51, 52 
 
 Federal Reserve Board 7,51,52 
 
 Federal Trade Commission -_ 7 
 
 Fertilizers--. 108 
 
 Field enu;ineering 43 
 
 Finance - 9, 52, 53 
 
 Government documents- 38 
 
 Finances, Great Britain..- 54, 1.50 
 
 War loans 55 
 
 Germ.'iny 56 
 
 Great Britain 54 
 
 Russia 57 
 
 Financial position, I'nited 
 
 States 7 
 
 F'irst-aid textbook 12H 
 
 Flax 01 
 
 Flour, statistics 71 
 
 Food control. 60 
 
 France 60 
 
 Germanv 60 
 
 (ireat Britain 60 
 
 Italy 60 
 
 New York State 58 
 
 I'nited States 58,60 
 
 Food distribution 33, 58 
 
 Food preparedness 26, no. 6 
 
 Food prices, (Jreat Britain - 61 
 
 Food production 9, 
 
 26, no. 11, 58, 59, 62. SO, 8], 153 
 
 Food speculation 26. no. 8. 133 
 
 Food supply 33,52,60 
 
 Conservation of 4, 
 
 49. 58. 59, 156 
 
 Bibliography 59 
 
 Increasing 4, 
 
 13.58, 80,81, 156 
 
 Bibliography 59 
 
 New York City' 58 
 
 Statistics 5 
 
 " Food tlirift series " 59 
 
 Foods and cooking. Govern- 
 ment documents 38 
 
 Foreign correspondents and 
 foreign language publica- 
 tions, division of 63 
 
 Foreign information, divi- 
 sion of 64 
 
 Foreign language publicii- 
 
 tions 63 
 
 Foreign policy, American.- 7 
 
 I^'orelgn press 63 
 
 Foreign relalionR, Govern- 
 ment documentB 38 
 
 Foreign trade, United 
 
 States 7, 40, 45, 52, 53, 73 
 
 Fortifications 43, 88 
 
 France, Children 2<( 
 
 Contrab.-md 37 n, / 
 
 Food control <50 
 
 Reliiiilding of devasted 
 
 area 6.1 
 
 Relief of 11.124 
 
 War legislation 145,148 
 
 War loans .">5 
 
 Freight ships, standardlzii- 
 
 lion 131 
 
 French war orphans 11 
 
 Fruit crops 58 
 
 Fuel supply 24,33.116,120 
 
 Gardens, city 26, no. 10 
 
 Gardens, country 26, no. 3 
 
 Oeirr, ship, internment 
 
 of 37 b, r 
 
 General Munitions Hoard-- 66 
 
 Geological Survey 67,106,108 
 
 Geologists and the wjir 67 
 
 Geology of iron and steel al- 
 loy metals, section of <i7 
 
 German ships, int<'rnmeiit 
 
 of :'.7 h, c. ( 
 
 Germans, internment of- 26, no. 2. 5 
 
 Geimany, contraband 37 a, f 
 
 Cooperation 31 
 
 Food control 60 
 
 War legislation 145, 149 
 
 AVar loans 55.56 
 
 Ghiloni, Frank, dual nation- 
 ality 37 r. f 
 
 Gloves for barbed wire 91 
 
 Gold imports and exports.- 45, 
 
 51, 52 
 
 Gold supi>lv. United States- 9. 6.S 
 
 World 68 
 
 Government contracts 9 
 
 Government documents, sale 
 
 of 38 
 
 Government manufacture of 
 arms, board to investi- 
 gate 69 
 
 Government. I'nited States. 
 
 organization Intro.. 70 
 
 Governors of states, cooper- 
 
 .ilion of 60.141 
 
 Grain crops, statistics 71 
 
 Grain supply, conserving 111 
 
 Great Britain. Budget 15. .54 
 
 Children 19. 157 
 
 Commerce 29 
 
 Contraband 37 n, r. f 
 
 Cooperation 31 
 
 Debt 54 
 
 Finances 54, 150 
 
 Food control 60 
 
 Land cultivation 80 
 
 Mobilization of indus- 
 tries 91 
 
 Munition workers 78, 157 
 
 Prize cases 110
 
 112 
 
 SUBJECT INDEX. 
 
 Great Britain — Continued. 
 
 I'roliibition 111 
 
 Knilroads 118 
 
 Taxation 15, 137 
 
 War legislation 145, 150 
 
 War-loan campaign 155 
 
 War loans 54 
 
 Waste prevention 155 
 
 Women in the war 157 
 
 Great Britain. Colonies. War 
 
 legislation 150 
 
 Health, Conservation 143,156 
 
 Disease, etc., Govern- 
 ment documents 38 
 
 In.spection 81 
 
 Hearings, United States 
 
 Congress 35, 58, 111, 154 
 
 Hebrews, American, and the 
 
 war 72 
 
 High-school boys 26, no. 12 
 
 Historical service, National 
 
 board 96 
 
 Historical workers, coopera- 
 tion 96 
 
 Home dietetics 123 
 
 " Home economics letter "_ 41 
 
 Hotels 16 
 
 Housing and tents 91 
 
 Hydroaeroplanes 37 b./ 
 
 Hygiene 123 
 
 Military 88 
 
 .See also I'ublic health. 
 
 Hlustrations . 105 
 
 Immigration, Government 
 
 documents 38 
 
 Importation, regulations 27 
 
 Imports, statistics 73 
 
 Income tax 74, 137 
 
 Indebtedness of European 
 
 countries 55 
 
 See also War loans. 
 
 " Independent " 97 
 
 Index number 36, 61, 75 
 
 Industrial efficiency 16 
 
 Industrial opportunity, 
 
 American 7 
 
 Industrial preparedness, 
 
 committee on 100 
 
 Industrial standards 49 
 
 Industrial supremacy, Amer- 
 ican 7 
 
 Industries. Inventory of 100 
 
 Mobilization of 91,92 
 
 Insurance, war risk 154 
 
 Insurance rates, life 82 
 
 Interdepartmental advisory 
 
 committee 76 
 
 Internal revenue 53 
 
 International commercial 
 
 policies 40 
 
 International court 7 
 
 International Institute of 
 
 Agriculture 5 
 
 International law 112 
 
 " International militarv di- 
 gest " .' 12, 83 
 
 Internment of German 
 
 ships S7 h,c,f 
 
 Internment of Germans 26, 
 
 no. 2, 5 
 Interstate Commerce Com- 
 mission 7 
 
 Inventions, naval warfare 100 
 
 Inventory of industries 100 
 
 Investments 7, 53 
 
 Iron and steel 16 
 
 Iron ore transportation 116 
 
 Italy, Food control 60 
 
 War legislation 145,151 
 
 Jews, American, and the 
 
 war 72 
 
 Jobber and food problem 58 
 
 Joint labor committee of 
 the Departments of Agri- 
 culture and Labor 47 
 
 Joseph W. Fordney, ship 37 c, f 
 
 Khaki 91 
 
 Kronprinz Wilhelm, intern- 
 ment of 37 6,/ 
 
 Labor 9,78,91 
 
 Committee on 79 
 
 Department of 19, 
 
 47, 60, 142, 157 
 Government documents- 38 
 
 Legislation 9, 78 
 
 Land banks 50 
 
 Land cultivation. Great 
 
 Britain 80 
 
 Latin America 53 
 
 Latin America, trade rela- 
 tions, United States 7 
 
 Laws, United States 38 
 
 Military 86 
 
 War risk insurance 154 
 
 Leelanaw, ship 37, c, f 
 
 Legislation, Agricultural 5 
 
 Emergency. See War 
 legislation. 
 
 Labor 9,78 
 
 War risk insurance 154 
 
 Liberty bond act 52 
 
 Liberty bond issue 13, 51 
 
 Liberty bond issue 13, 51, 141 
 
 Life extension institute 81 
 
 Life insurance rates 82 
 
 Live stock, statistics 36 
 
 Loans. See War loans. 
 Locksun, ship, internment 
 
 of 37 b,f 
 
 Lumber 91 
 
 Mail, American d i p 1 o - 
 
 matic, etc 37 6,0,/ 
 
 Manual of emergency legis- 
 lation. Great Britain 150 
 
 Manufactures, Government 
 
 documents 38 
 
 "Market letter" 53 
 
 Meals, planning of 59 
 
 Medical section 83 
 
 Medicine and surgery, com- 
 mittee on 84 
 
 Merchant marine 7, 128, 130 
 
 Merchant shipping. Govern- 
 ment aid 128 
 
 Merchant vessels, list of 129 
 
 Mexican border, guarding 46 
 
 Mexican situation 7 
 
 Militarism 49, 112 
 
 Military drill 85 
 
 Military engineering 88 
 
 Committee of, New 
 
 York 85 
 
 Military history 43,88 
 
 Military hygiene 88
 
 SUBJECT INDEX. 
 
 113 
 
 Military laws, United States 86 
 
 Milllary literature 12,43,88 
 
 Military policy 43 
 
 Military railroads 87 
 
 iS'fc aluo Railroads. 
 Military science, blbliOKra- 
 
 phy 12,43,88 
 
 Military service, universal- 26. 
 no. 13, 89 
 
 Military topojirapliy 88 
 
 Military training, univer- 
 sal 89 
 
 Militia 90 
 
 Hibliograpliy 90 
 
 Government documents. 38 
 
 Mines in high seas 37c 
 
 Mobilization of industries, 
 
 Great Britain 91 
 
 United States board 
 
 on_-i 92 
 
 Money market 52 
 
 Monroe doctrine 7 
 
 " Montlily Catalogue of 
 United States Docu- 
 ments " 38 
 
 " Monthlv Cro|) Ueport " 36 
 
 "Monthly List of Mllitarv 
 
 Information " 12, 88 
 
 " Monthly News Letter " 81 
 
 " Monthly Review of the 
 United States Bureau of 
 
 Labor Statistics " 60 
 
 " Moody's Investors Serv- 
 ice " 53 
 
 Motion pictures 105, 143 
 
 Munition workers. Great 
 
 Britain 78, 157 
 
 Munitions, Committee on __ 93 
 (Jovernment manufac- 
 ture 69 
 
 Munitions of war, sale of__ 37 b, f 
 
 Statistics of export 94 
 
 Munitions standard board 95 
 
 National academy of 
 
 .sciences 98 
 
 National board for historical 
 
 service 96 
 
 National foreign trade coun- 
 cil 40 
 
 National institute of effi- 
 ciency 97 
 
 National institute of social 
 
 ■sciences 111 
 
 National Jewish board for 
 welfare work in the 
 
 United States Army 72 
 
 National league for wo- 
 men's service 3, 72 
 
 National research council 98 
 
 National service reserve 99 
 
 National vitality 49 
 
 " Nation's Business " 16 
 
 Natural resources, conserva- 
 tion 9 
 
 Naval auxiliary ^ 130 
 
 Naval Consulting Board__ 35, 100 
 
 Naval reserve 130 
 
 Navy Department 101 
 
 Navy, Government docu- 
 ments 38 
 
 Inventions for 100 
 
 Neutrality, American 7. 
 
 37 b, f, a, 102 
 Board 102 
 
 Proclamations 1,2,37 6,^ 
 
 Violations of 37 b'f 
 
 New York city, food supply. 58 
 New York state, food con- 
 trol 58 
 
 Oats, statistics 71 
 
 Odi'Hwald, ship 37 b. f 
 
 Othcers' resei've corps 103 
 
 Official bullelln. division of_ 104 
 
 "Official bulletin" 104 
 
 Orders in council, Great 
 
 Britain 150 
 
 Ordnance 88 
 
 Organizations, auxiliary and 
 
 volunteer, list of 3 
 
 Organizations, correlating _ 99 
 
 I'aciflc, policy of United 
 
 States in 7 
 
 Panama canal, neutrality 37 6,/ 
 
 I'assports 37 b/f 
 
 Peace 7, 52 
 
 I'eace literature 12 
 
 People's relief committee for 
 
 Jewish war sufferers 72 
 
 I'hotographs, news 105 
 
 Pictures, division of 105 
 
 Piepenbrink, August, deten- 
 tion of 37 6./ 
 
 Platinum 106 
 
 Post Office Department 107 
 
 Posters 105 
 
 Potash 108 
 
 Poultry raising 58, 109 
 
 Preparedness 7, 100 
 
 Preserving surplus crops 58 
 
 President's address to 
 
 -American people 62 
 
 Press 26, no. 4, 112, 144 
 
 Price regulation __ 9, 26. no. 11, 52 
 Prices, food. Great Britain. 61, 75 
 See also Index numbers. 
 
 Prices, silver 132 
 
 Print Eitel Friedrich, in- 
 ternment of 37 6,/ 
 
 Priority board 35, 70 
 
 Prize cases. Great Britain 110 
 
 Proclamations, President 
 
 Wilson's 1,2, 37 6, f 
 
 Produce broker and food 
 
 problem 58 
 
 " Professional associations " 31 
 
 Profits 52 
 
 Prohibition in war 111 
 
 Prussianism 112 
 
 Public health conserving 38, 
 
 81, 143, 156 
 Public information, commit- 
 tee on 112 
 
 Publicity, division of 113 
 
 Purchase of supplies 32, 136 
 
 Radio telegraphy 114 
 
 Railroad commission to the 
 
 Russian government 115 
 
 Railroads in war 16, 
 
 52,53, 116. 120 
 
 Canada 117 
 
 Great Britain 118 
 
 Russian 115
 
 114 
 
 SUBJECT INDEX, 
 
 Railroads in war — Continued. 
 
 Bibliography 116, 120 
 
 Car shortage 119, 120 
 
 Food problem 58 
 
 Railroads war board 116 
 
 Kaw material 91 
 
 Kaw materials, committee 
 
 on 121 
 
 Razors 91 
 
 Recruiting, exemptions 122 
 
 Red I'ross, American na- 
 tional _ 13, 49. 123, 124, 153, 156 
 Red Cross, American in 
 European war, bibliogra- 
 phy 123 
 
 Red Cross building, dedica- 
 tion 123 
 
 Red Cross fund-raising cam- 
 paign 124 
 
 " Red Cross magazine " 123 
 
 Red Cross text-books 123 
 
 Red Cross war council 124 
 
 Red Star Animal relief, 
 
 American 10 
 
 " Red Star News bulletin "_ 10 
 
 Registration of women 156 
 
 Relief 49,123,156 
 
 iiee also Belgian relief. 
 
 Relief organizations 3 
 
 Research 7,98,126 
 
 Resources, United States 7 
 
 Restraints on commerce 37 
 
 a, b, c, f, g 
 Retailer and food problem_ 58 
 
 Rice, statistics 71 
 
 Roads, Government docu- 
 ments 38 
 
 Rockefeller foundation. War 
 
 relief 153 
 
 Russia, American Commis- 
 sion to 8 
 
 Contraband 37 a,/ 
 
 Railroad commission. 
 
 United States 115 
 
 War loans 55, 57 
 
 Rye, statistics 71 
 
 Sandbags 91 
 
 Schools and the war__ 41, 98, 143 
 Science and research, com- 
 mittee on 12(; 
 
 Security markets 53 
 
 Seed selection 58 
 
 SegurariQa, ^ship, detention 
 
 by Great Britain 37 6,/ 
 
 Service, directory of 26, no. 9 
 
 Session laws. United States. 38 
 
 Ship yards, bovs in 142 
 
 Shipping 16, 129 
 
 Committee on 127 
 
 Government aid 128 
 
 Shipping Board, United 
 
 States 42, 1.30 
 
 Ships, standardization 131 
 
 Shoes 91 
 
 Siberian railroad 115 
 
 Sick, home care of 123 
 
 Signaling 88 
 
 Silver _J 45, 132 
 
 Slip laws. United States 38 
 
 Socks 91 
 
 Speculation 26. no. 8, 133 
 
 ■■ Standard Financial Digest 
 
 Service" 53 
 
 State, Department of-_- 8, 37, 64 
 
 Statistics, Agriculture 5, 
 
 36, 52, 71 
 
 Commerce, foreign 45, 73 
 
 Cotton 34 
 
 Exports 45 
 
 Food supply 5 
 
 Gold 8,45,51,52.68 
 
 (irain crops 71 
 
 Imports 73 
 
 Live stock 36 
 
 Munitions, exports 94 
 
 Silver 132 
 
 " Statutory rules and or- 
 ders." Great Britain 150 
 
 Steel 16 
 
 Stock raising 58 
 
 Submarine warfare S7 r, d,f, g 
 
 Submarines 134 
 
 Subsidies 128 
 
 Subventions 128 
 
 Sugar 16 
 
 Supplies, Committee on 135 
 
 Purchase of 32, 136 
 
 Surveys 143 
 
 Sussex, ship 37 0,/ 
 
 Tactics 88 
 
 Taxation, Income 74, 137 
 
 War___ 9, 26, no. 7, 16, 52, 137 
 Telegrams, censorship of__ 37 b,/ 
 
 Tent* 91 
 
 Thrift in war time.- 59, 155, 156 
 Tin plate, conservation of_- 138 
 Trade relations. United 
 States and Latin Amer- 
 ica 7 
 
 Trades, Exempted, Great 
 
 Britain 122 
 
 List of. for women 157 
 
 Training camp activities. 
 
 Federal commission on__ 139 
 Training camps, moral con- 
 ditions 139,143 
 
 Translation 143 
 
 Transportation, Government 
 
 documents 38 
 
 Transportation and commu- 
 nication, committee on — 140 
 Transportation and supply. 88 
 
 Treasury Department 141, 154 
 
 Turkey, contraband 37 a,/ 
 
 I'nemplovment, women. 
 
 Great Britain 157 
 
 United States Employment 
 
 service 47 
 
 Food control 60 
 
 International relations 
 
 of 7 
 
 Loans made by 55 
 
 Securities 26. no. 7, 52, 137 
 
 United States Boys' Work- 
 ing Reserve 142 
 
 Universal military service-- 26, 
 
 no. 13, 89 
 
 Universal military training- 89 
 
 Universities and the war 41, 
 
 98, 143 
 University extension 143
 
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 Vacation sprvlce on the 
 
 farms 26, no. 1, 12, 47, 142 
 
 Ventilation 81 
 
 Vessels, American, insurance 
 
 of l-''4 
 
 Koreisn trade 4~) 
 
 Veterinary corps, volunteer. 10 
 
 Vise, division of 144 
 
 Volunteer orjjanizations :? 
 
 Von I'apen, Capt. I-'ranz, re- 
 call of :{" '•, / 
 
 War, efficient conduct of 4'.i,'.)7 
 
 War emergency service 14.H 
 
 War finance 'K 
 
 •2i>, no. 7, 16, 51, 52, 55, 137 
 War legislation, foreign 
 
 countries 145 
 
 Austria 145 
 
 Belgium 14(5 
 
 Canada 147 
 
 France 145, 14S 
 
 Germanv 145, 140 
 
 Great Britain 145, 150 
 
 Colonies 150 
 
 Italy 145,151 
 
 War-loan campaign, (ireat 
 
 Britain 155 
 
 T'nited States i:{, 51.141 
 
 War lo.ins- 9, 26, no. 7, 16, 52, 55 
 
 France 55 
 
 (iermany 55, 56 
 
 (Jreat Britain 54 
 
 Kussia 55,57 
 
 War message 112 
 
 Wai- orphans, relief 11 
 
 War prices, control of 9 
 
 War profits 152 
 
 War relief commission 15.*? 
 
 War relief, .Jewish 72 
 
 War-risk insurance, bibli- 
 ography 154 
 
 War-risk Insurance, bureau 
 
 of 154 
 
 War taxation 9,26, 
 
 no. 7, 16, 52, 1.37 
 
 War work, dire, L 007 314 802 5 
 
 Waste prevention 
 Great Britain 
 
 Waste, utilization ot 
 
 Waterways 
 
 Wealth, conscripting _ 
 
 •• Weekly news letter." 1 1' 
 partmeiit of Agricultme 
 
 Welfare of soldiers and sail- 
 ors 49, 72, 139, 14:;. 1.'. 
 
 Wheat, statistics 71 
 
 Substitutes 26, no. 15 
 
 Wholesaler and food prob- 
 lem 5« 
 
 Wico, ship, detention by 
 
 (Jreat Britain 37 h, f 
 
 W'ilhehiihta, ship 37 a, f 
 
 Milliain I'. I'vjir, ship 37 a, c, f 
 
 Wireless telegraphy 114 
 
 Woman organizations 156 
 
 Woman's conimitiee of the 
 Council of National iJe- 
 fense 156 
 
 Women, coordinating work 
 
 of -,-- 156 
 
 Women in agriculture. Great 
 
 Britain 157 
 
 Women in the war. Great 
 
 Britain 157 
 
 T'nited States 156 
 
 Women workers, protection 
 
 of 78.156 
 
 Women's proclamation so- 
 
 cietv 72 
 
 Wool 16. 91 
 
 World peace 7 
 
 World politics, American _- 7 
 
 Writers, duties of 112 
 
 Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation 49. 1.5.3 
 
 Young Men's Hebrew Asso- 
 ciation 72 
 
 Young Women's Hebrew As- 
 sociation 72 
 
 o
 
 114 
 
 Railroads in war- 
 Bibliography 
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 Food pr' 
 
 Railroads '• 
 
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