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Dainty Dishes.
Pepper Hash.—One dozen red pe
pees, One doyen green peppers. Thr
or four large onions. Two cups gra
ulated sugar. Three tablespoons sa
Three cups vinegar. Remove th
seeds from the peppers and put bo
peppers and onions through the foo
chopper. Cover with boiling wat
let stand ten minutes and drain, Co
er again with boiling water, let corn
to the boiling point and stand agtri
for ten minutes. Drain, add the sug
ar, salt and vinegar, and cook fiftee
minutes, seal in jars. It is well t
wear rubber gloves when preparin
the peppers for they sometimes bur
the hands.
Pineapple Orange Marmalade.—
Take six well ripened pineapples an
six tart oranges. Put both bhrou
a food chopper and mix together. Fo
every cup of the pulp taker,,one
sugar. Cook until the thickness o
ordinary jam, pour into glasses an
let cool
Apple Conserve.—Ingredients: Tw
.. quarts apples cut in small pieces; tw
quarts sugar, one cup vinegar, on
cup raisins, one cup walnut meats
Boil sugar and vinegar, add the fruit
and cook until clear and bender. Pu
in jelly glasses and seal. Use Whit
ney crabs if obtainable.
California Jam.—Grapes will soon
be ripe and this delicious jam may
be made now or later in the fall, as
one wishes. The basket of grapes
or a little less than ingredients are as
follows: One a peck, three oranges,
two lemons, one pound seeded raisins,
one-half pound English walnuts. Stew
the grapes and rub through wire sieve,
Wash and dry oranges and lemons.
Remove seeds and put them, with the
raisins and nuts, through bhe food
grinder. Mix together all ingredi-
ents and after adding an equal amount
of sugar boil thirty minutes. Should
not be too thick when sealed, add a
little boiling water if necessary.
Corn Relish.—Take twelve ears of
tender corn, one quart cucumbers, four
large onions, two quarts ripe tomatoes
two green peppers, three red peppers
and two large stalks of celery. Cut
the corn from the cob. Peel and
chop the cucumbers; peel and cut the
tomatoes in small pieces. Chop the
onions, celery and peppers fine. Add
. one quart vinegar, one and a half cups
sugar, one tablespoonful each of salt,
dry mustard and turmeric powder.
Mix thoroughly and cook for forty-
five minutes. Seal while hot. This
quantity makes about eight pints.
Pineapple Marmalade.—Run pine-
• apple through food chopper, saving all
the juices for refreshing drinks or by
adding a cupful sugar to every pint of
juice and making a fruit syrup. For
marmalade bake equal quanties of su-
gar and shredded pineapple; let it
stand until sugar dissolve; boil fifteen
minutes and skim next day bring to
boil for ten minutes more, pub in
glass and seal.
Mixed Pickles.— Three quarts
green tomatoes. Three quarts small
onions. Two quarts string beans
(cut in halves). Three quarts cucum-
bers (cub in slices). Two good-sized
, heads of cauliflower. Four large
green peppers. Four red peppers.
Make a brine of one cup of salt to
one gallon of water, Put all the
vegetables together except beans and
cover all with bhe brine, beans' by
themselves, and let stand overnight.
In the morning bring all to boiling
point in the brine except beans, which
must boil a brine longer. Then drain.
Take one pint of vinegar, add two tab-
leapoons of whole cloves and fcur
sticks of cinnamon. Let boil ten min-
utes, strain, and add to vinegar one
cup of flour, six tablespoons of mus-
tard which has previously been rubbed
to a paste with a little vinegar, then
add three cups of sugar, two and one.
half quarts of vinegar and two table-
spoons of celery seed. Pour over
vegetables and -boil fifteen minutes,
then remove from fire and add two
tablespoons of turmeric powder dis-
solved in a little hot water. Seal up
hot.
Rhubarb Fig Relish.—One pint dri-
ed figs. Two quarts fresh rhubarb.
One-half pint blanched almonds.
Three pints sugar. One -sixteenth
teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon,
allspice and nutmegs. Stew figs in
pint of water and cook until tender.
Drain off any liquid and mash. Stew
rhubarb after skinning, and breaking
Into small pieces in a pint of water
until tender. Drain off any liquid,
t
Mash and mix in
the figs, sugar and
apices. Cook two hours on low
flame or on back of cook stove. Place
asbestos mat underneath pan bo prev-
ent scorching; ales stir often. Add
broken nuts ten minutes before taking
from fire.
Place in jars hot and seal.
This is delicious with fowl and meats,
Tomato Preserve.—Pare tomatoes
Out in half crosswise, take a half' in
geh hand and equeeze out all the
lee and seeds you ran Without loos -
g bhe pulp. Put on slow fire, and
not add a drop of water, As the
uice comes out of the to
matoos turn
lb off until you see you would loose
bnip by turning off any more, Boil
down as close as yeti dareemendbemendemend'weighing. Add two-thirds as Much
sugar as you have tomato. Cock tine
P- til they are thick but not so thick
ee that they are nob quite liquid. About
n- twenty minutes before they are done
lb. add one lemon cut in very thin slices.
e Pet in self -sealers and eat when jack
bot
frost is in the air,
er, Household Hints.
v- Summer squash may be fried ex -
e actly like eggplant.
n An egg becomes a complete food if
- rice is added to it,
n Dried figs aro more nourishing
a than an equal weight of bread.
g Half a pint of milk and half a
n pound of dates form a perfect meal.
A red hot iron will soften old putty
so that it can be easily removed.
d Water can be softened by boiling.
gh A little borax or baking soda added
✓ to the water will also soften ib.
of If a soft piece of home-made bread
f is rubbed on a scorch on woollen
d . goods it will remove it entirely.
If labeler won't stick on your glass
o fruit jars, scratch the metal tops of
o the jars and paste the labels there.
e When it is difficult to turn ice
cream out of its can, allow cold wa-
s ber to run over the outside of the can.
t A piece of cloth dipped in spirits of
wine and rubbed upon soiled leather
will remove every spot on it.
A little water in the wash -tub after
using will keep It from drying out
when it is set away for the week.
When shoes are too large at the
heel and alip up and down fit a piece
of velvet in the heel and glue it there.
Home-made cottage -cheese and good
bread and butter make a sandwich fit
for a king. Just right for picnics.
If the screen door. bangs too hard
fasten a thin strip of felt or woollen
cloth on the door frame for it to strike
against.
Never forget that the foremost
consideration in the feeding of infants
and young children is pure milk.
Always turn off the cte rent when-
ever you stop ironing with an elec-
tric iron, even if it is but for a mo-
ment.
The value of vegetables lies in their
mineral salts. Vegetables should be
it,steamed, not boiled, or the salts are
os
Always bake the pastry of a cus-
tard pie before putting the custard
in; put it in the oven again until the
custard is brown.
If rice is cooked in water it will
absorb about three times its measure,
If it is cooked in mills at least half as
much Iiquid will be necessary.
A fish that is to be boiled will be
improved if it is placed in a dish con-
taining melted butter, and allowed bo
stand for an hour before boiling.
Instead of mixing cocoa with boil-
ing water to dissolve it, try mixing ib
with an equal amount of granulated
sugar and then pouring it into the
boiling water or milk in the pot, stir-
ring all the time.
FEAR BRITISH WILL LAND.
Marine Corps Reenforced on the
Flemish Coast.
Now that the Entente Allies have
taken the offensive on all fronts the
Germans are more than ever reckon-
ing with the possibility of an attempt
to land British troops on the Flemish
coast, according to a frontier corre,
apondent of the Amsterdam Tele-
graaf. The marine corps has been re-
inforced, while a whole army of mili-
tary workmen has been seen at the
port of Zeebrugge.
Recently an alarm was sounded at
10.30 at night and the garrison there
hurried to their posts. It turned out
that no attack threatened, .but the
whole affair was a rehearsal of the
operations for repelling a landing.
The coastal guns suddenly belched
forth, while the rattle of the mitrail-
leuses could be heard at Flushing. The
entire manoeuvre lasted about half an
hour.'
'Soldiers' Smiles In Death.
On many a killed soldiers' face I
have seen the sweet smile of a con-
tented painless death, writes a motor-
ambulance driver from the French
front to The Autocar. The fearful
expression of "kill" leaves the coun-
tenance of the suddenly smitten fight-
er, and he seeme to "pass west" happy
and gentle. Of course, those whose
death ensues after bouts of fearful
pain. record their sufferings, but it is
remarkable that the most animal of
man's emotions seems to evanate at
the instant the soul leaves the body,
and as a last net of grace erase itself
from the features of the dead man,
Matches Are Re -dipped,
Matches which have once been part-
ly used are carefully gathered in
japan and redipped in phosphorus.
The industry has grown to such mag-
nitude that a large proportion of
matches now sold have been lighted at
least once. Recovering them from
streets and eating houses is an in.
duatry oie the poor,
Tough on Brown.
Bunks -Vas the loss ati 13rown's
dwelling total?
Jinks—'fres, the neighbors saved
six umbrellas, het recognized bhem all.
Questionable Taste.
Jack (inspecting ship's stores): 'Ere, Ginger, just taste this stuff and
see what you make of it. ,I believe it's rat poison?—London Sketch.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
AUGUST 27.
Lesson IX.—Journeying to Jerusalem
—Acts 20. 16-38. Golden
Text—Acts 29. 32.
Verse 16. The decision to take a
ship that would not touch at Ephesns
illustrates the immense importance
Patti, attached to his offering the gifts
of the Gentile Christians at the time
when there would be a large con-
course of Jewish Chrisians in the Holy
City. Still keeping up the practice
of coming to worship at one of the
the great feasts, if.no more, they
naturally chose Pentecost, the church's
birthday.
17. Miletus—Some thirty miles
south of Ephesus, and in early his-
tory much more important. The eld-
ers or presbyters (margin), who in
verse 28 are called bishops. In the
first century the names were intet-
changeable, denoting the same work
from different point of view; indeed,
they are hardly technical titles at
all yet. Those who "watched on be-
half of souls" wee called variously
superintendents (bishops), seniors
(presbyters), servants (deacons), or
leaders.. A stereotyped constitution,
with a monarchical "bishop" set
above his "fellow elders" (compare 1
Peter 5. 1), is a development of bhe
second century. Providence ordained
that the authoritive books should have
no fixed form of church government,
so thab ages might be free to deter-
mine his purely administrative matter
in their own way.
19. Lowliness—Till Christ made this
a virtue, the word suggested only
"meanness, grovelling." Tears—Of
joy and sorrow and anxiety, the na-
tural self-expression of an Easterner's
emotions. We are by temperament
less demonstrative.
21. Testifying—This recurrent word
describes an appeal based upon the
deepest personal conviction. It must
be carefully distinguished from the
similar word bead witness of what one
had seen or hear. ..Repentance—
"Change of mind," which brings to
God one formerly at war with him.
22. Bound in the spirit—Compare
Matt. 5,:3, etc, The "poor in spirit"
may have outward wealth, but lives as
if he had none. The "bound in spirit"
wears no chains, but acts as if a pri-
soner already. The spirit is that
part of man in which the Holy Spirit
has his throne.
24. Course, or race, Pauls favorite
figure (compare especially 2 Tim, 4.7),
One of many links between the Epis-
tles and this report of Paul's great
Apologia, which they authenticate.
25. Luke obviously -knows of no
happy reversal of this strong present-
iment, and unless Acts was really
written immediately after the "two
years (compare Acts 28, 30) and prior
to a release and new travels (com-
pare 2 Tim. 4. 20), we may be sure
there was none.
26. Probably Paul was thinking
most of the solemn passage in Ezekiel
(90. 1-9) where the "wabchinan's" re.
sponsibllity is enforced,
27, The whole—Warnings as well
as blessings, irksome duties as well
ae privileges, "Hie will is our
peace," if we accept it ail
A sergeant wan entering a new en-
lister into his book. "And where do
you hail 'front, Angus Macdonald 7
England, Scotland or Ireland?"—he
nslted with a sarcastic smile ab the
ix -foot brawny giant. "Nano o'
them," was the ready anewor, "De ye
ken whaur Aberdeen is? Well, I come
free Aberdeen."
"SEND MUNITIONS."
For God's Sake Be Sure You Send. -Us
Enough."
The point of view of the soldier in
the trenches is very plainly stated in
bhe following appeal to munition
workers and all others engaged more
directly in the production of material
for the Army, submitted- by a wound-
ed Tommy at Southampton. He was
formerly a reporter, and on the way
over in the steamer he wrote this
moving message:—
"Ali I want to say to the people ate
home is this:—You can never eat
your dinner, or smoke a pipe, or read
a newspaper, or go bo 'the pictures,'
but what, while you are getting•
through with it, some scores of your
own country men are knocked out by
Boche bullets and shells. There's
not bhe slightest need for you to be
depressed about this. Go ahead with
the dinner, and the pipe, and the 'pic-
tures,' and the rest of it as much as
ever you like. We're nob giving
away a drop of your countrymen's
blood; not this year. It's all being
sold on a good business basis and
fetching an excellent price, thank
yon; a better price it may be than it
ever fetched before in all the history
of the Empire, So don't grieve after
us. Our High Commands know what
bhey're doing, and Master Boche's
doom is set; and he knows it, and we
know it. We're doing our bit all
right. Are you?
'I'm pretty sure you are by the
way our heavies have been talking in
the last fortnight. Keep it up.
We've got a hunds•ed miles front out
there, and as far as I can make out
were pressing Master Boche pretty
hard over every yard of it. It's the
only way to end the war; and as for
the time it will take, I reckon that's
largely in your hands now. Our
part of the machinery is all right, and
I don't think you'll find any failure
there. For God's sake, don't you, fail
us.
"Everybody will know what I mean,
won't they? It boils down to muni -
bions of war—that's all, munitions of
war. You can't send us too much.
For God's sake be sure you send us
enough. You can measure the blood
we've got to pay before it's over by
the guns and shells and cartridges
yeti send out. The more you send the.
less we'll have to pay. Send plenty.
My countrymen and countrywomen,
send plenty."
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HATRED IN WAR'S WAKE.
German Clergymen - Foresee Bitten
nese Among Nations.
Little hope of peace and quietness
for the belligerent nations after the
war is hold out by the ministers of the
Evangelical Church in Germany, ao•
cording to reports of recent sermons
delivered by them appearing in the
London press, One Prussian clergy
man, the Rev, Schiller, is quoted as
writing on this subject as follows :
"It will be a hard and iron time, a
time of tension, a time of trained arm
aments and readiness. Is the world to
Wake up aftertitle war moro gentle
and more harmless? Hove can that
bo 7 Are the peoples to throw off hat.
red and bitternoss ne actors throw off
their maks 7 Does anybody believe
that treaties will band them 7. No,
when the peoples awake after thle'war
they will find themselves eoparated by
mountains of corpses, by desolate
bade, by cities in rides, by an im-
poverdshed world,
"However complete the viotory may
be, another and an equally hard etrug.
gle Will them begin. Nothing On hete
tie but the utmost strain and effort and
the strictest bolding together of the
strength and efncloncy of the people,"
Unanim sus,
"Say, old man, I wish I had that
310 You owe me,"
"Not any more then I do. I'm so
hard up I'd like to borrow it again,'
` Gather Droppings Daily.
Filthy houses cannot be in a good
healthful condition. On all success-
ful farms it is the rule to daily gather
up the, droppings of bhe previous
night, and by attending to this duty
each day it requires but a few min-
utes' time. Besides, there will not
be that stench found when the manure
is allowed to collect for a week or
more at a time, By keeping sifted
coal ashes, sand or road dust scatte
ed over the platform, the cleaning wi
not only be easier, but there will
a better odor to the house,
The outside runs or yards must also
not be forgotten. Several times e
year they should be either plowed or
spadded, so that the soil will not be.
come contaminated. All low places
should be filled up so that no pools of
stagnant rater will be within reach
of the hens. Much sickness is caused
by a neglect of this matter. It is
advisable to have a double yard to
each house, so that while the fowls
are in the one the vacanb lot can be
sown to some vegetable crop or seed-
ed to rye or oats. This green crop
has a doublebenefit in both disinfect-
ing the soil and in furnishing a green
crop for the hens.
The Storage Battery.
Every few days we receive an in-
quiry or two attacking our position
on the matter of running engines
having electric generators in connec-
tion with the storage battery is dis-
connected or removed from the car,
says Motor Age. We have repeated-
ly explained that doing this is apt to
r- burn out the windings, but a great
11 many will not believe it. One man
be even went so far as to say that his
garage man told him it would not
hurt the generator in the least to ran
without the battery, and further that
when the battery was off the ear, he
even started the engine straight off the
generator, requiring no battery at all.
This merely goes bo show how very
little a great many owners really
know about the electrical system, for
common sense ought to tell that it
would have been absolutely impos-
sible to do any such thing. It is
just like saying that he ran a steam
engine without a boiler or other
course of steam supply. To start the
engine you must drraw the current
from the battery in order to send it to
the starting motor. If bhere is no
battery you have no starting current.
So much for that. As regards run-
ning without the battery, let us say
plainly once more—do not do it. Most
generators, are of the shunt-wound
type, and being of that type of high
voltage is built up when there is
no provision for using or taking off
the current that is produced. Suppose
you were to take a water pump and
stop the outlet so that no water could
be let out. Now, if you pumped wa-
ter from the well by working the
handle you would be drawing it into
the pump, and pretty soon something
would have to break if there were no
way for this water to get out.
So with the generation. The bat-
tery is there to receive the current
generated and when it is not in con-
nection you are stopping the electri-
cal outlet without stopping the in-
let if the engine is running. There
Poultry Notes.
See that the chicks are not over-
crowded. Remember that as they
grow larger they need more room.
Overfeeding often gets away with
quite a number of chicks, but not as
many asedie from over -crowded con-
ditions,
Shade for the chickens during hot
weather is as essential as good food.
They won't thrive if they have to be
in the hot sun all day.
Avoid crowding by keeping in small
flocks, and by providing roomy coops.
Thin out if there are too many chicks.
Broady hens should be removed' to
slat -bottomed coops as soon as dis-
covered. Leave them there till they
forget it.
Clean fresh water lessens disease.
Flibhy drinking water is the source of
much trouble. Clean the drinking
pans frequently.
If hens are lousy, rub apiece of
blue ointment, the size of a pea, into
the skin just beneath the venb and on
the under side of the wings.
Mites are sure to accumulate if the
droppings are not removed from bhe
poultry house every week, and the
roosts sprayed with kerosene emulsion
or a disinfectant.
After the grass gets tough, chicks
can catch more bugs and worms and
-will grow better on loose soil.
There can be no error in mixing cut
vegetables and other soft food for the
fowls, for their nature craves it. There
are eggs in potaboes, and the squash
adds a nice flavor to poultry meat.
One of the best articles of diet for
them is young clover nut fine, and
they Le very fond of it
Give animal food to the hens in
time, before they quit laying, and it
will hurry them through the molting
season. They will nob then stand
around looking haggard and miser-
able for weeks, but will go to singing,
and soon be ready for business again.
You will be sure of plenty of eggs in
the fall.
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LEFT LS A NEW WORD.
Words Descriptive of Patriotic Fervor
Vary.
There lived once in France a sol-
dier, Nicholas Chauvin, who was so
demonstrative in his patriotic fervor
that he made a fool of himself, and
ever since his day a man who dis-
plays a cocky and hysterical patrio-
tism is called a Chauvinist. in Eng-
land such a man is called a jingo, A
jingo is always bragging about his
country's preparedness to fight, In
Germany this form of patriotism is
known as Pangermanism, in Russia
it is called Panslavism, and in. the
United States it is labelled "spread-
eagleism." The only patriotism
which some men seem capable of ex.!
habiting is a contempt for other na-
tions and a glorification of their own,
Let us agree that all suoh patriotism
is dangerous, as well as silly, and let
us face the problem of cultivating a
patriotism which is rational and Chris-
tian.
FURTHEST NORTH TOWN..
Longyear City Mining Town Holds
Record,
Not only is Longyear City the most
northerly mining town, but it bids fair
to become a place of importance, now
that a Norweglat company bias taken
over the vast coal fields of Spltzber-
gen. The ontprprlee iR dna very largo
scale. The coal fields which the Nor•
wogian compan wW'develop cover an
area of over 680 sgttare mties, of whtoh
one-seventh lids been surveyed, And It
is estimated thfit, thle atone Vill yield
some in
1l
tie S lice 100.000 ,060 tons of coal
front the first tstraturn,anr� the soco d
atl•atum will probably el as mno�lt
Moore. There are other co . valet of
w ieh ti
t 3p 10 Yet
known. . ho
enter,
Pelee Is regarded an a Satiottal one,
and eventually thoubands of miners
will be onsJ4oyod,
4
Heavy pork 4 not Wanted h tho
marketer O. tit �. ,g gone 4iik figs
wetgh1tp. 100'to g0.0 »auu d
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are . several ways you can. overcome
this,
absolutely necessary to oper-
ate the car when there is no battery,
One is to lift the brushes free of the
commutator, and another to diacon-
neet the generator drive so that the
unit is not running when the engine
is operated, Either is a troublesome
and inadvisable thing to do unless ab-
solutely necessary,
Watch Batteries.
An over -heated 'battery is one of
the worst things that can happen to e
car owner because it may incapacitate
his entire electrical system. It is well
therefore, to observe closely the con-
dieket of the storage battery before
starting on a tour, as well as to test
it occasionally enroute,
Over -heating may be caused by
several things. Two of the most
common causes are lack of water or
over 'harging from the generator.
A battery kept full of pure distilled
water is not nearly so apt to become
over -heated as one in which the solu-
tion has been allowed to reach a level
lower than the top of the plates:
When these plates are exposed to the
air, the oxidation which goes on bul-
ges and wraps them, causing short-
circuits and considerable damage to
the entire battery. This often re-
sults in the entire starting, lighting
and ignition system being put out of
condition.
Before starting on a trip, the gen-
erator should be adjusted to supply
the battery with the proper amount of
current at high speed, inasmuch as
the driving is generally faster when
touring•. If the generator is not fur-
nishing current properly, ib should not
be experimented with, but examined
by someone who is competent to make
the proper adjustment. Only a
thorough elecbrician should be given a
job of this kind, and for that reason
the Willard Company insists bhat
their Service Stations be conducted
only by experts who thoroughly un-
derstand electrical systems from sbart
to finish,
ALL BRITAIN IS
that time they were full of orders,
7In the early stages of the conflict
more attention was paid to field guns
WORKINGNOW and their a ui ment than to heavy
guns, but as time went on the require-
ments for heavy shells greatly, In-
creased, In June, 1915, we made an
inventory of all the available machin-
ery in the country and it was evident
that it was entirely inadequate to
meet the demands. There were, how-
ever, a great many private firms
which could be brought In to make
munitions and it was decided to
mobilize them for national service.
In order to do this we created an
organization embracing the entire
country. Thousands of firms have
been brought in, many of which
had never seen a shell body, or a
fuseinto the German lines such an aval- or a grenade, or a bomb, before,
anehe of steel and load as the world much less than made them, Now mu -
had never known before, even the
people of England expressed wonder
that it should have been possible to
assemble so vast a store of munitions,
The story of how these supplies were
created constitutes one of the most
important chapters in the history of
British achievement during the war.
At the outbreak of hostilities two
years ago there were only three im-
portant Government munitions factor-
ies in the British Isles. To -day some
four thousand Government -controlled
firms, employing more than 2,000,000
workers, are turning out virtually all
of the tremendous amount of war ma-
terials which have gone to equip the
five million British soldiers in the
Heid.
The organization of this great in-
dustry has been aocompiiehed in a
little more than one year by the Min-
istry of Munitions, which was estab-
lished in May, 1915, under the leader-
ship oI David Lloyd George. In that
time every available resource of the
country has been built for the produc-
tion of munitions,
Not Dependent on U,S.
A staff of 5,000 people has been re,
quired to supervise the work. At the
head of this stall and responsible
only 'to the Minister of Munitions has
been a man whose organizing ability
has been accorded wide -spread recogni-
tion. He is Dr. Christopher Addison,
futernaticemlly known for his medical
research work. Dr. Addison, during
an interview with a representative of
The Associated Press, told as much
of the story of the creation of this
industry es could be made public at
this time.
At the outset he disposed of the
statement which bas been made in
America to the effect that if it were
not for the munitions furnished by
the United States Great Britain ;
Would have to quit the war.
"1 have heard that statement,
nada," said Dr. Addison, "and it Is
prepoeterous, of cause. The United
States has furnished and is ,furnish-
ing many raw materials which we
are anfioue to get for the manufao.
turn of munitions, but eo far as the
actual production of shells goes,
.dnitirtca has providedus with only
d very small percentage of those
which we hove used,"
Turning to the manufacturing of
munitions in this country, he contin-
ued
4,000 PLANTS ARE BUSY MAKING
MUNITIONS.
War Supplies Produced Monthly as
Great as Was Turned Out First
Year of War.
When the British forces in France
began their great offensive bombard-
ment on June 27 and for days hurled
Every Tomei Helps.
"At the beginntug of the war there
Wore oily three im ortent mtnitioris
Q, ell in the Untied Kingdom, eh
a
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�_t tit or oe
ergo ",prrynte 1a1 tl m ons and armament
at1(!% At iot0,rt roltttnce was
010. mately in these national fac-
IN ail and experienced Arms, and at
nition making in some form or other
has extended well nigh to every con-
siderable town—indeed to large num-
bers, of villages.
Could Have Weekly Battle,
"We can now produce in less than
a month as many of the lighter shells
as could have been turned out in the
whole year of 1914-15. In less than
a fortnight we can make more heavy
shells than we could have done in
the year 1914-15. We can now turn -
aut in a week far more shells, filled
and complete, than were used in the
whole battle of Loos, which extend-
ed aver a fortnight, and they had been
saving ammunition for that battle for
A month. We could have a battle- of
Loos every week now, and it wouldn't
touch the shelf reserve stock..
"Regarding our present capacity
for gun production as compared •
with the capacity of June, 1914, be-
fore the war, we are now making in
the case of the lightest guns, over
ten times what we were then, in the
case of medium weight guns over 20
times, and 1n the case of heavy guns
more than 50 times,
"The production of trench warfare
supplies has meant the creation ori
an industry, of which there wab
practically no experience in this
country. Now grenades are being.
made in backyards and in all sorts
of sinal shops, as well as fa the big
factories, and hundreds of thousauda
are being produced weekly.
Labor Problem Hard,
"Ono of the most anidous problems:
has been the supply and the distribie
tlon of skilled Iabor. There was not
enough skilled labor to go Pound.
This faot was recognized by the
trades unioume, and the Government
has received their hearty assistanoe.
throughout in the dlatributlon 'ol
skilled labor, sued in the di ion
lut Of'
skilled labor with uuskifiled, The in.
troductiou of unskilled labor into the
field of skilled labor is R eaeriflce of
skilled labor, to which no too high,
tirbute can be paid, Skilled amen have
trained and instructed unsktlled.
workers, and In thousands of cases,
have willingly been Moved treat piece
work to day wages, with tete result that
they earned smaller wages than the
people they had trained have received
at piece merle,.
'This position was rendered more
diidcult by the tact that many shrelled,
workmen crowded into the army;
Moro that 43,000 highly eltilled• work,
moon have dace been Wttlederenta for;'
munitions work,'^
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