sultation Board of California, and is also engaged in chemical investigations for the State Council of Defense.

W. C. Bray, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is a member of the subcommittee on Inorganic Chemistry of the National Research Council.

J. H. Hildebrand, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is Captain in the Ordnance Department.

Merle Randall, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is a member of the subcommittee on Inorganic Chemistry of the National Research Council.

G. E. Gibson, Instructor in Chemistry, is engaged in chemical research for the National and State Councils of Defense.

W. L. Argo, Instructor in Chemistry, is with the Bureau of Mines.

G. E. K. Branch, Instructor in Chemistry, is with the 50th Gordon Highlanders, Canadian Army.

R. F. Newton, Assistant in Chemistry, is with the Field Artillery.

T. P. Stewart, Instructor in Chemistry, is First Lieutenant, Chemical Service Department.

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

In October, 1917, the Department of Economics first gave tangible evidence of its ability to aid the government in war work. At that time the Labor Adjustment Board, investigating the strike then paralyzing shipbuilding, invited C. C. Plehn, Professor of Finance on the Flood Foundation, H. R. Hatfield, Professor of Accounting on the Flood Foundation, Jessica B. Peixotto, Professor of Social Economics, and F. R. Macaulay, Instructor in Economics, to its conference, with the result that Mr. Macauley presented an index to the board showing the increase of the cost of living in this district. I. B. Cross, Associate Professor of Economics on the Flood Foundation, later conducted for the Board a detailed inquiry on the cost of living between October 1, 1917, and March 1, 1918. In this work he was assisted by Felix Fluegel, and G. F. Mitch, both Assistants in Economics.

In February, 1918, Professor Hatfield, aided by Professor Cross, Mr. Macaulay, E. A. Kincaid, Instructor in Economics, and Mr. Fluegel, prepared a report for the United States Shipping Board on the labor conditions, possible output, etc., of the California shipbuilding plants. The Shipping Board characterized the work as "an invaluable service to the Government in carrying out its shipbuilding programme." Since that time Professor Cross has been in constant touch with the largest shipbuilding plants and some of the unions in connection with the shipbuilding problems.

At the suggestion of the Ordnance Department in Washington, the Department of Economics has conducted four ordnance training schools, the purpose being to give preliminary training to men who are expected ultimately to reach the grades of non-commissioned, and in some cases, of commissioned officers in the Ordnance Service. The course of study at Berkeley covered the principles of storeskeeping, calculating methods of accounting, military organ

ization, military correspondence, military law and military courtesy. One hour a day was devoted to drill. The time allotted for the course was six weeks. Those in charge were Professor Hatfield, Stuart Daggett, Professor of Railway Economics on the Flood Foundation, Mr. Macaulay, C. C. Staehling, Instructor in Accounting, and Dr. H. B. Drury.

Professors Hatfield and Daggett are members of the Subcommittee on Economics of the State Council of Defense. This committee has published a report on "The Relation of State Banks to the Federal Reserve System," dealing with the necessity of concentrating credit facilities during the war. Professor Daggett also spent several months in preparing a report to the State Council of Defense on "The Iron and Steel Industry about San Francisco Bay with Special Reference to the Available Supply of Raw Material."

Professor Plehn has been a member of the Second and Third Liberty Loan committees of Berkeley and the University of California. He was a delegate to the Joint Conference of the Western Economic Society and the City Club of Chicago, held in Chicago, June, 1917, to discuss the "Financial Mobilization for War." He was also a delegate from California by appointment of the Governor of California to the Congress of States to discuss the "Coördination of Federal and State Taxation," held in Atlanta, Georgia, October, 1917, and called with the official sanction of President Wilson. He prepared a paper on "War Finance" read before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and published in the Transactions of that body; and also a pamphlet on "War Finance in Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States," written at the request of the San Francisco Patriotic Liberty Loan Committee of 1000 and used as part of its propaganda for the Third Liberty Loan.

Professor Daggett and Mr. Macaulay have served as assistants to the Berkeley Exemption Board, No. 1, while Professor Cross is one of Berkeley's Four Minute Men.

C. E. Brooks, Assistant Professor of Insurance, has served as Actuary and Advisor to the United States Bureau of War Risk Insurance, preparing various bulletins, determining questions of policy and interpreting the Soldiers' Insurance law.

Professor Peixotto is a member of the Subcommittee on Women in Industry of the National Council of Defense and also a member of the same committee of the State Council of Defense. During the first half-year of 1918 she was on leave of absence from the University as Executive Chairman of the Child Warfare Department of the Women's Committee of the National Council of Defense. During the first semester Professor Peixotto and Miss Lucy W. Stebbins, Associate Professor of Social Economy, conducted a Red Cross Training School for Home Service at the University, in which work they were assisted by Professor Cross and Mr. Macaulay. During the second semester a similar school was conducted in San Francisco under the direction of Solomon Blum, Associate Professor of Economics, and Dr. Louise Morrow, Assistant in Social Economics. Professor Stebbins is a member of the Home Service Committee of the Berkeley Branch of the Red Cross, of the University Auxiliary of the Red Cross, of the Advisory Board of the Women's Land Army and of the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Chapter of the Red Cross. She is also one of the traveling lecturers on Home Service authorized by the National Red Cross Committee.

Lincoln Hutchinson, Professor of Commerce on the Flood Foundation, is in Washington acting as Head of the Export Division of the War Trade Board. H. S. Shuey, Lecturer in Economics, has been a member of the San Francisco Third Liberty Loan Committee and of various Red Cross committees. Professors Hatfield and Daggett are spending the summer in Washington, engaged in work of the highest importance for the War Industries Board.

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION

The Bureau of Correspondence Instruction of the Extension Division has given enlisted men a special reduction of 40 per cent on all fees in the various courses and has provided special classes to meet the needs of men in service. The Extension Division has also coöperated with all official bodies in "drives" about the bay counties and in Los Angeles, and has been of genuine assistance in providing junior officers for the naval forces of the country through its courses in Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.21

The Bureau of Lectures gave twelve lectures in Los Angeles on "Problems Arising Out of the War." Similar lectures have been given elsewhere.

The Bureau of Public Discussion has been instrumental in directing the debating activities of the high schools of the state upon war subjects, not only giving the debaters special knowledge on international topics, but being of great educational value to the thousands of persons who have heard these debates.

The Bureau of Visual Instruction has circulated stereopticon slides and moving picture films designed to inform the public concerning war service in the form of liberty loans, etc. It has prepared and circulated throughout the state a monthly lecture on current events dealing principally with war conditions.

21 See report on Training for U. S. Navy and Merchant Marine, p. 315.