November 24, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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General Education Board one million dollars, pro- 

 vided the entire sum of five million three hundred 

 thousand dollars shall be raised. Further pledges 

 of individuals have been made to the amount of 

 seven hundred thousand dollars. Thus two million 

 seven hundred thousand dollars have already been 

 secured. Two million six hundred thousand dollars 

 remain to be secured and in the near future a 

 campaign will be initiated to complete the fund. 



In speaking of this announcement, which is prob- 

 ably the most significant that has ever been made 

 in connection with higher medical education in 

 Chicago, President Harry Pratt Judson says: 

 "The medical plans which have just been an- 

 nounced represent many years of hoping and work- 

 ing and dreaming. These plans, we think, will not 

 merely be, when carried out, a great addition to 

 the resources and power of the university, but will 

 render a very valuable service to Chicago, and to 

 the cause of medical teaching and investigation in 

 the entire country." 



A later announcement is just made that half a 

 million dollars toward this new medical fund for 

 the University of Chicago has been given by Mr. 

 and Mrs. Julius Eosenwald, of Chicago. Mr. 

 Eosenwald, who is a trustee of the university and. 

 donor of the new Julius Rosenwald Hall devoted 

 to the work of geology and geography, is one of 

 the university's most generous and loyal friends; 

 and Mrs. Eosenwald, who shares in this great gift, 

 is widely known for her practical and constant 

 sympathy with many movements for social and 

 artistic advancement in Chicago. 



At the meeting of the board of trustees of the 

 university on November 14, the following com- 

 mittee was named to conduct the campaign for 

 funds: President Harry Pratt Judson, chairman; 

 Adolphus C. Bartlett, Dr. Prank Billings, Thomas 

 E. Donnelley, Andrew MacLeish, Martin A. Ryer- 

 son, Julius Eosenwald, Eobert L. Scott and Harold 

 H. Swift. 



THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENCE 



President Wilson announced recently the 

 appointment of the members of the advisory 

 commission to be associated with the Council 

 of National Defence created by congress at the 

 last session. The seven men named are : Daniel 

 Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Bailroad; Samuel Gompers, president of the 

 American Federation of Labor; Dr. Franklin 

 H. Martin, of Chicago; Howard E. Coffin, of 

 Detroit; Bernard Baruch, of New York; Dr. 



Hollis Godfrey, of Philadelphia, and Julius 

 Eosenwald, of Chicago. 



A statement by the President in connection 

 with the announcement follows : 



The Council of National Defence has been created 

 because the congress has realized that the country 

 is best prepared for war when thoroughly prepared 

 for peace. From an economic point of view there 

 is now very little difference between the machinery 

 required for commercial efficiency and that required 

 for military purposes. In both cases the whole 

 industrial mechanism must be organized in the 

 most effective way. 



Upon this conception of the national welfare the 

 council is organized in the words of the act "for 

 the creation of relations which will render possi- 

 ble in time of need the immediate concentration 

 and utilization of the resources of the nation." 



The organization of the council likewise opens 

 up a new and direct channel of communication an<£ 

 cooperation between business and scientific men and; 

 all departments of the government, and it is hoped 

 that it will in addition become a rallying point for 

 civic bodies working for the national defence. 



The council's chief functions are: 



1. The coordination of all forms of transporta- 

 tion and the development of means of transporta- 

 tion to meet the military, industrial and commer- 

 cial needs of the nation. 



2. The extension of the industrial mobilization 

 work of the committee on industrial preparedness 

 of the naval consulting board. Complete informa- 

 tion as to our present manufacturing and producing 

 facilities adaptable to many-sided uses of modern 

 warfare will be procured, analyzed and made use of. 



One of the objects of the council will be to in- 

 form American manufacturers as to the part which 

 they can and must play in national emergency. It 

 is empowered to establish at once and maintain 

 through subordinate bodies of specially qualified 

 persons an auxiliary organization composed of men 

 of the best creative and administrative capacity, 

 capable of mobilizing to the utmost the resources 

 of the country. 



The personnel of the council's advisory mem- 

 bers, appointed without regard to party, marks the 

 entrance of the non-partisan engineer and profes- 

 sional man into American governmental affairs on 

 a wider scale than ever before. It is responsive to 

 the increased demand for and need of business 

 organization in public matters and for the pres- 

 ence there of the best specialists in their respective 

 fields. 



In the present instance the time of some of the 



