Committees on Cars and Locomotives, with their personnel made up of the high executives of such concerns as the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the Pullman Company, and the American Locomotive Company. Committee on Electric Railroad Transportation, composed of electric railway presidents. Committee on Gas and Electric Service. Committee on Automotive Transport. Committee on Supplies, with its sub-committees on Cotton Goods, Woolen Manufacturers, Shoe and Leather Industries, Knit Goods, Leather Equipment, Mattresses and Pillows, and Canned Goods. Committee on Raw Materials, with its sub-committees, popularly known at the time as the "A to Z" committees, on Alcohol, Aluminum, Asbestos, Magnesia and Roofing, Brass, Cement, Chemicals, Acids, Alkalis, Electrochemicals, Fertilizers, Miscellaneous Chemicals, Coal-Tar Products, Pyrites, Sulphur. Sub-Committees on Copper, Lead, Lumber, Mica, Nickel, Steel Products, with sub-committees on Alloys, Sheet Steel, Pig Tin, Steel Distribution, Scrap Iron, Pig Iron, Iron Ore, and Lake Transportation, Tubular Products, Tin Plate, Wire Rope, Wire Products, and Cold Rolled and Cold Drawn Steel. Sub-Committee on Oil, Rubber, Wool, and Zinc. Committee on Engineering and Education, with its sub-committees on General Engineering, Production Engineering, Universities and Colleges, Secondary and Normal Schools, and Construction Engineering. Committee on Labor, with its sub-committees on Mediation and Conciliation, Wages and Hours, Women in Industry, Welfare Work, Sanitation with twelve subdivisions, Vocational Education with nine subdivisions, Information and Statistics, Cost of Living and Domestic Economy. General Medical Board, with a long and active list of sub-committees. [Illustration: Copyright by Underwood & Underwood Daniel Willard President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was chairman of transportation and communication in the Council of National Defense.] SERVICE OF EXPERTS On these boards and committees sat, almost without exception, the American leaders of industry, science, and labor. Scattered through the list one finds such names as: Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, one of the world's leading naval constructors. F. S. Peabody, the great coal operator. James J. Storrow, of Lee, Higginson & Co., of Boston. A. W. Shaw, publisher of the _System_ magazine, who, as Chairman of the Commercial Economy Board, preached with remarkable success the gospel of conservation in business. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who for her labors as Chairman of the Woman's Committee received the Distinguished Service Medal. Frank A. Scott, on whom was bestowed the same distinction for his leadership of the General Munitions Board.