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proved by Governor Stephens and has been 

 forwarded by him to President Wilson with an 

 urgent plea for action by the federal govern- 

 ment to solve California's and the nation's pe- 

 troleum problem. 



The report consists of 12 chapters, as fol- 

 lows: 



Chapter I. Letter of Transmittal. 

 Chapter II. World Petroleum Situation. 

 Chapter III. California Petroleum Fields. 

 Chapter IV. Production of California Petroleum. 

 Chapter V. Storage of California Petroleum. 

 Chapter VI. Transportation of California Pe- 

 troleum. 

 Chapter VII. Eefining of California Petroleum. 

 Chapter VIII. Utilization of California Petroleum. 

 Chapter IX. General Review — Production and 



Consumption. 

 Chapter X. Production — Maintenance and In- 

 crease. 

 Chapter XI. Conservation. 

 Chapter XII. Conclusions and Recommendations. 



Chapter XII. contains the committee's con- 

 clusions and recommendations, and the two 

 preceding chapters deal with the possibilities, 

 respectively, of increasing the supply and of 

 decreasing the consiunption of California pe- 

 troleum and its products. 



THE STATES RELATIONS SERVICE AND AGRI- 

 CULTURAL INSTRUCTION 



Resolutions were passed at a conference in 

 Washington on May 5, 1917, by representa- 

 tives of the National Association of State Uni- 

 versities, the Association of American Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, the 

 Association of American Universities, the As- 

 sociation of American Colleges, and the insti- 

 tutional committee of the Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Engineering Education, requesting 

 the advisory commission to recommend to the 

 Council of National Defense that it approve 

 the plan of developing and issuing at once 

 through the States Relations Service of the U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture a statement of a 

 comprehensive policy of cooperation between 

 the government and the universities, colleges 

 and other schools which will make for the most 

 effective use of these institutions along agricul- 

 tural lines throughout the duration of the war. 

 In order to carry out this program the States 



Relations Service has apjwinted the following 



committee : 



Professor G. A. "Works, Cornell University. 



Mr. L. H. Dennis, director of vocational agricul- 

 tural instruction. 



Professor H. F. Cotterman, Maryland State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. 



Dr. C. H. "Winkler, University of "West Virginia. 



Professor P. B. Jenks, University of Vermont, sec- 

 retary. 



Mr. C. H. Lane, States Relations Service, chair- 

 man. 



The States Relations Service will bring this 

 committee together in Washington from time 

 to time, as may seem expedient, with the com- 

 mittee on education of the advisory commis- 

 sion for the consideration of the best methods 

 of maintaining, adjusting and strengthening 

 the agricultural instruction of the country in 

 order to meet the emergencies of the war and 

 to plan for the period following the war. 



MEDICAL STUDENTS AND THE DRAFT 



The Provost Marshall General has sent the 

 following to governors of all states : 



The President prescribes the following sup- 

 plemental regulations governing the execution 

 of the selective-service law. 



First. Hospital internes who are graduates 

 of well-recognized medical schools or medical 

 students in their fourth, third, or second year 

 in any well-recognized medical school who 

 have not been called by a local board may 

 enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps provided 

 for by section 55 of the national defense act 

 under regulations to be issued by the Surgeon 

 General, and if they are thereafter called by a 

 local board they may be discharged on proper 

 claim presented qp. the ground that they are in 

 the military service of the United States. 



Second. A hospital interne who is a gradu- 

 ate of a well-recognized medical school or a 

 medical student in his fourth, third, or second 

 year in any well-recognized medical school, 

 who has been called by a local board and phys- 

 ically examined and accepted and by or in be- 

 half of whom no claim for exemption or dis- 

 charge is pending, and who has not been 

 ordered to military duty, may apply to the 

 Svu-geon General of the Army to be ordered to 



