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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918
ANOTHER INDUSTRY PARALYZED
When Barney Baruch, speaking for
the war industries board, informed the
American automobile manufacturers
that they would have to curtail their
production 75 per cent, he just about
sounded the death knell of the indus
try. Commissioner Garfield had al
ready )iut them on a 25 per cent fuel
allotment, and the decision of thej
war board to put them on a 25 per
cent steel allotment has brought
many of these manufacturers face to!
face with overwhelming disaster At
present it looks as though nothing can
save the situation, unless it is possi
ble to convert the great automobile
factories into war plants Then it is
just barely possible that the manu
facturers might be able to construct j
their own steel mills, but this will take
time and credit, and the administra
tion may not permit it.
The automobile makers quite natIIr
ally feel that they are being discrirni
nnlod against However, the fact re-1
mains lhat the production of steel will
have to pass ail previous records from
1'OW on to simply supply the govern
ment's war needs alone. And as be
tween the use of steel for war pur
poses and its use for the building of
pleasure cars, the war board had no
choice. It would appear also that the
manufacturers have themselves partly
to blame for their present predica
men!. They were warned a year ago
that their product would eventually
hav l.i be curtailed, and urged to
transiorni I heir plants so as to be able
to >ngage in the manuiaeture of war
'.•'.-sentiaIs Had they respected this
counsel they would be in better shape
today to weather the storm ahead.
Hut it will not do to allow these
great plants to go to the wall or re
main idle They are all. by their very
nature, mighty potential agencies for
die making of war machinery, and
they should be so employed. This
should lit* done at (he earliest possi
ble moment and In a manner that will
occasion Ihe least inconvenience and
injury to the manufacturers. There
Is too much at stake to allow the big
indu. iry to go to smash.
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A CRITICAL SITUATION
It is estimated, that America stands
in need of additional man power ap
proximating fifteen millions to hold
her big war machine at its present
momentum How it is to be obtained
is now the chief concern of the ad
ministration ant] the captains of in
dustry. The "work or tight" order,
will produce material relief, but not
enough Then it Is to he assumed!
that when more men of the type of
Schwab take hold of affairs, sufficient j
lost motion will be arrested to allow j
for-an increase of at least a few mil
lion man power But even that will
leave a critical shortage, and the men
charged with the responsibility of
keeping the war industries running
full speed are at a loss for a plan to
meet the emergency. It has been
proposed by certain intrepid advo
cates that the government conscript
nil inales, say from 18 to 50 years
of age, and put them to work under
government direction. Thai, of course,
would speedily solve the problem, pro
vided public opinion would indorse
the plan But it is too revolutionary
in character to even be seriously con
sidered at present, and the plan will
have to be pigeonholed until a day of
worse extremities than this.
Another plan which is finding favor
Is that which contemplates the Im
portation of foreign labor for the dura
(ion of the war. Hnglaud and France
have drawn on China and Russia and
there is no good argument why we
should not do likewise It should he
i n-b r ' »od. oi tours**. that at the end
ot tie \* tr all such labor should re
turn to its home country and not be
entitled to acquire permanent resi
din' ** here, unless the customary eli
gibility tests could la* met. Ill short,
tin-- problem could well lie met in
tin* sauo* manner as that observed bv
our farmers who have been permitted
to import labor from Canada and Mex
ico for farm work expressly The gov
ernment requires the farmers to pay
the prevailing wages and to hold out
L*r» emits a day. the same to comprise
a fund to defray tin* expenses of the
laborer’s return to bis home country
at the close of the* war Why not
adopt this plan in all our industries?
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SALVAGE
In every direction the war is de
manding that we preserve the things
we once threw away, and save what
had been wasted
The present acute need for ships
and their indispensable cargoes has
made any disaster doubly regrettable.
Sunken vessels can not be entirely
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given up, but every attempt must he
made to salvage them. Special crews
of men are trained to do this work,
and since the beginning of the war
it has been carried on with increas
ing hiktchs. On one notable occasion
a barge rapsized in one of the large
rivers and went to the bottom. It was
a difficult case to salvage, and it was
given up at Hie first attempt. But it
was decided to make a further effort,
and eventually tin* entire cargo, val
ued at $1,000,000, was salvaged
It is one of the wartime duties of
the housewife to In* equally expert in
her salvaging of waste The cargoes
of food of which she has charge for
her household are as important and
as valuable as the shipload^ guarded
by the care of salvaging crews. It is
for iu*r to spend her energies to ex
actly the same end that of preserv
ing for use products whose replace
ment costs so much today, not only
in money, but in time, labor and en
ergy. factors which can ill be spared
for such purposes.
Wo need now every last unit of the
four prime requisites of the war—\
men. munitions, food and ships Kvery-!
thing that saves any of these is a con
tribution to the military strength of
our cause and to to final victory.
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Community Must Awaken to Importance
of Controlling Feeble-Mindedness
By GEORGE A. HASTINGS, State Ckantiae Aid Allocution of New Yotk
Feeble-mindedueas is sapping the vital forces of the nation and is
a very real danger to democracy. As a cure for the evil community con
trol through identification, registration, instruction, supervision and seg
regation is urged.
A complete census of the feeble-minded in this country has never
been taken, but it is estimated that there is one feeble-minded person to
every 250 of the population, or approximately 400,000 in all. About
12,000 men have been rejected from the new National army on account
of nervous and mental disorders, atid one-third of these were rejected j
on account of feehle-mindedneas.
The community must awaken to the importance of controlling feeble
mindedness, or the iticreasing burden of crime, inefficiency, disease,
immorality and poverty resulting from it will stagger coming genera
tions. The effect of the prevalence of feeble-minded ness on the effective
man power of the nation, in the light of the National army figure#, can
scarcely be called negligible.
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Would Eliminate Non-Essentials in
Endeavor to Win War From Germany
By W. R. STUBBS, Fonns Governor of Kaoui
How to win the war is the one overshadowing
question in America today. It is a question of whether
the sword shall govern the earth or that there shall be
governments of free opportunities. We must have
food, and the farmers m ist produce it. We must have
transportation. We must build more ships and more
railway engines and cars.
Take the men engaged in industries not essential to
the war and put them into necessary war industries.
Hundreds of thousands of persons are building auto*
for pleasure riding. Those men should be put to work
ships, engines and airplanes. We should make the skies
over the German trenches black with our planes. We should not give the
men of the German army time to sleep—keep them dodging bombs. This
is no dream. We should have men. material and power.
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er goin’ ter look mighty good to nios’
ennybody ’fo’ long ’count er f . 1 k »
havin’ ter Have on meat. 'Sides
folks'll kinder have *or Hive <J,
wheat flohr fer comp’ny en eat bread
made outen din yere “substltutf "
flour. Oat wise ol' owl done nay dat
to win de war you got ter feed de
Hojer boys dat’a doin' de flghtln’.
L>at’a w at’s takln* de wheat er. meat
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WANTED-—Girl for general houae
work, good wages. Thomas S.;
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WANTED—A boy to learn laundry
business; inside work, chance to
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WANTED Mechanical work by man
skilled in .'utomohile. tractor and
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WANTED AT ONCE—Gas engineer.
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WOMEN wanting work from 6 to 10
p. m., apply to the Lighthouse Can
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WANTED—Women and men for can
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WANTED—Men and women workers.
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borne.
Little
Americans
Do your bit
Eat Corn meal mush
Oatmeal- Cora flakes -
Hominy and rice with
mill^. Eat no wheat cereals.
Leave nothing on you
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Installments not later than JULY 18th
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