OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL lOi 



made, and as the scope of the Committee's responsibilities 

 grew, additional appropriations were approved until the total 

 amounted to ^851,650. 



"While it happened that the original membership of the 

 Committee consisted almost wholly of psychologists, many 

 industrial and business specialists in employing, classifying, 

 and assigning men were called upon to insure the successful 

 prosecution of the work. This has included the following 

 activities : 



"(«) Classification and placement of enlisted men. Per- 

 sonnel offices have been established in all army divisions, 

 depot and training camps, coast defense stations, aviation 

 fields, special training camps, for Staff Corps and at other 

 army posts. In these offices a special card system furnished 

 accessible information as to the educational, occupational, 

 and military qualifications of every man. With a minimum 

 of clerical work this system selected 973,858 men for transfer 

 largely into technical units in the Engineers, Aviation, Ord- 

 nance, and other Staff Corps, and even more men for trans- 

 fer within the divisions or camps. Sixteen civilian supervis- 

 ors, directed by the Committee, acted in an organizing and 

 supervisory capacity in the field. Approximately 450 officers 

 and 7,000 men were engaged in this personnel work. The 

 number of soldiers interviewed by trained examiners and 

 classified according to their best army usefulness was in all, 

 approximately three and a half million. 



" {b) The allotment branch or central clearing office of the 

 committee in Washington received reports on the numbers of 

 skilled tradesmen found In each contingent of the draft, re- 

 ceived and consolidated requisitions from the Staff Corps for 

 specialists, and prorated these requisitions among the various 

 camps according to their supply of necessary skilled men. 

 On November ii, requisitions for roughly 600,000 men of 

 designated qualifications had been filled here. Information 

 was available at any moment for the Operations Division of 

 the General Staff concerning the occupational qualifications 

 of all men in the several depot brigades, army vocational 

 schools, and similar sources of supply. 



