Such well-known men as: V. Everit Macy, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, John H. Finley, August Belmont, E. T. Stotesbury and Charles G. Dawes, afterwards a brilliant figure as a General in France. Such nationally and internationally known physicians as: General Gorgas; Dr. William H. Welch, of Johns Hopkins; the Mayos; Dr., afterwards Brigadier-General, Finney; Dr. George E. Brewer; Dr. George W. Crile; Dr. Simon Flexner; and Dr. Theodore Janeway. Dr. George E. Hale, Chairman of the National Research Council, which was and is the Council's Department of Science and Research. Thomas A. Edison, President of the Naval Consulting Board, which was and is the Council's Board of Inventions. The activities of these men and their hundreds of colleagues, nearly all dollar-a-year workers and men whose time could not be bought, as a rule, in days of peace, reached out and touched almost every town and village in almost every part of the United States. They were moved and stimulated by the philosophy of voluntary coöperation, which was first and in a very daring way thrust into the consciousness of the nation by the Council of National Defense. It was the policy that won the war. One distinct benefit which the Government received from calling the industrial intelligence of the country to its aid was the breadth of view which industrial leaders possess. Their habit of mind to survey the field as a whole, to take a bird's-eye view of the problem to be solved, enabled the Government agencies to obtain a proper comprehension of the task of building the war machine. The country will probably never know the debt that it owes to these men and their like who came to Washington and bent their backs throughout the hot Southern summer during a series of endeavors in which absolutely no paths were charted. NON-PARTISAN REPRESENTATION