June 8, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



585 



The Link Belt Co., Chicago; Irving A. 

 Berndt, manager betterment department, 

 Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Chicago; G. DeA. 

 Babcock, production manager The H. H. 

 Franklin Manufacturing Co., Syracuse, N. 

 Y. ; Willard E. Hotchkiss, dean Northwestern 

 University School of Commerce, Chicago; 

 Harry Franklin Porter, Detroit Executives' 

 Club, Detroit, Mich.; H. Thorpe Kessler, 

 President Western Efficiency Society, Chi- 

 cago; Dexter Kimball, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, !N". T.; Morris L. Cooke, industrial 

 engineer, Philadelphia; C. Day, industrial 

 engineer, Philadelphia; Herman Schneider, 

 school of engineering, University of Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. 



Temporary committees are now at work. 

 Upon completion of the organization its serv- 

 ices will at once be tendered to the govern- 

 ment, through Howard E. Coffin, chairman of 

 the advisory committee. Council of National 

 Defense, and such other committees as can 

 utilize the services of The Society of In- 

 dustrial Engineers. 



The temporary executive committee consists 

 of Irving A. Berndt, chairman ; F. M. Simons, 

 Jr.; H. Thorpe Kessler; H. A. Eose, G. C. 

 Dent, Harry Franklin Porter, C. A. Knoeppel, 

 Willard E. Hotchkiss, S. T. A. Loftis and 

 Charles Buxton Going. G. C. Dent is tem- 

 porary secretary and H. Thorpe Kessler, treas- 

 urer. 



The plan of organization adopted provides 

 for a service or promotion bureau under the 

 direction of a vice-president, and divided into 

 two sections: (1) Advisory, and (2) Per- 

 forming. 



This is separate and distinct from the or- 

 ganization of the society proper, although 

 under the direction of the president. The 

 function of this bureau is to list as soon as 

 possible all the industrial specialists in the 

 country who may be qualified to serve either 

 as advisers or as actual directors of efficiency 

 work. From these two groups of advisers and 

 performers the society will draw those neces- 

 sary to carry on whatever work may be dele- 

 gated to it in connection with perfecting prep- 

 aration for war. 



All men who possess qualifications that 

 would enable them to serve in either or both 

 of these sections are urged to get in touch 

 with the acting secretary of the organization, 

 G. C. Dent, 327 South La Salle Street, Chi- 

 cago, as soon as possible. 



I. A. Berndt, 

 Chairman, Executive Committee. 



SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL OF 

 NATIONAL DEFENSE 



As has already been noted in Science seven 

 committees of the Council of National De- 

 fense have been organized. Their committees 

 and their chairmen are: 



Transportation, including railroad and motor 

 transportation and communication, Daniel Willard, 

 chairman. 



Munitions, manufacturing, including standardi- 

 zation and industrial relations, Howard E. CoflSn, 

 chairman. 



Maw Materials, minerals and metals, Bernard M. 

 Barueh, chairman. 



Labor, including conservation of health and wel- 

 fare of workers, Samuel Gompers, chairman. 



Supplies, clothing, etc., Julius Eosenwald, chair- 

 man. 



Science and Besearch, including engineering and 

 education, Hollis Godfrey, chairman; Henry E. 

 Crampton, vice-chairman. 



Medicine, including general sanitation, Franklin 

 H. Martin, chairman. 



Under Baw Materials, subcommittees have 

 been formed with chairmen as follows : 



General chemicals, WHLiam H. Nichols; fertilizer, 

 Horace Bowker; alkalis, J. D. Pennock; acids, E. 

 H. Grasselli; miscellaneous chemicals, Edward Mal- 

 linekrodt, Jr.; cement, John E. Morrow; alcohol, 

 Horatio S. Eeubens; aluminium, Arthur V. Davis; 

 asbestos, Thomas F. Manville; brass, Charles F. 

 Brooker; coal tar products, Wm. H. Qiilds; lumber, 

 E. H. Downman; lead, Clinton H. Crane; mica, L. 

 W. Kingsley; nicTcel, Ambrose Monell; oil, A. 0. 

 Bedford; rubber, H. S. Hotchkiss; steel, Elbert H. 

 Gary; sulphur, Henry Whiton; wool, Jacob F. 

 Brown; sine, Edgar Palmer; copper, John D. 

 Eyan. 



The general chemical committee has estab- 

 lished headquarters at Washington in charge 



