days and about their methods. Reduced to the simplest torts, 

 thoso methods consist in incro?,Ging efficiency and roduo- 

 ing waste, or in other words, putting wasted energy to work. 

 This was exactly the proposition confronting tho Investiga- 

 tive Ommittoos when tho2r mot last winter. 



Before anything could Too clone toward "bringing 

 order out of chaos, it was first found necessary to define 

 e project. After considerable discussion, it was finally 

 egrood that an investigative unit, having a single object 

 "but one or several similar operations, should "bo so con- 

 sidered. 



It was nort necessary to classify tlio projects to 

 determine tho relative importance of tho various linos of 

 worlr under way end the comparative value of tho projects 

 listed under each. 



Tho policy of tho Oomnittoe in regard to v/ork al- 

 ready under -/ay was in general to approve studies whoro 

 conoid oratlo work had already "been done. 'Tith now projects, 

 hoi/over, each project was judged on its merits and only such 

 investigations approved as shov;od a definite purpose and 

 for which tliero was a real and an irnocLiato need* 



A definite policy regarding tho conduct of investi- 

 gative work has "boon adopted, which should go a long way 

 toward securing the high degree of efficiency so earnestly 



desired* 



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