The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-19
SENATOR DEGREES PRIVATE PROFITS
 IN WAR BUSINESS
Ammunition Makers Calling for Biggest Defense Pro
 gram, Cummins Says.
WANTS GOVERNMENT
 TO ACQUIRE SHOPS
Cites Big War Contracts Held By Manufactories in
 This Country.

Washington, Jan. 19-E1imination of private profit as an influence for war by government manufacture of
 all war munitions was urged in the Senate today by Senator Cummins, of Iowa, Republican.
 He pleaded for prompt adoption of | his resolution which would authorize a special committee to inquiry into the most feasible plan for acquiring and constructing plants to supply the
 army and navy with all arms, ammu- nition and equipment, including ships, and to report on the legislation neces- sary to prevent private manufacture of such products. !
 ftI agree that war may come to this country Senator CunInins declared,
 but if it comes it must be the result
 of the calm, dispassionate, loyal pur-
 pose to meet the awful scourge be-
 cause there is no other way of de- lending our civilization, 1our institu- tions and our honor. It ought to be made impossible, so far as the power of the government is concerned. for any man or corporation to make
 money out of war.
 we need just now, above all other things, a re-baptism in Americanisrn. To me, Anerieanisrn means fidelity to American interests, loyalty to, American institutions, pride in our past and confidence in our future. It
 means a spirit that commands men to live for their country and, if neces- sary, to die for it; but I, for one, am not willing that Americanism shall be defined and standardized by mil1ion-' aire intuition makers or by the brok- CTS, bankers or packers who share their b1ood-stafned profits.
 ttIn this critical moment, what is the attitude. of: the makers of arms and munitions 2 without exception, so far as I know, they are insisting upon the most comprehensive pro gram which it is possible to, conceive, and they are employing through all the channels and all the instrumental itfes which mould public thought, all the forces at their command, for a. completeness of preparation that would turn this country into a mili- tary camp and practically destroy Ea11 ambition save the ambition to over come by force of arms the entire world"
 Without discussing preparedness in detail, the Senator said he believed that somewhere between the arm camp of William of Germany and the open dove cote. of William of Ne braska,z there must be an honorable abiding place for a great nation which is prepared to lead sthe world toward peace but will not submit to injustice or indignity.''
 Emphasizing the effect of the Flu ropean war on private intuition mak- CTS in the United States, he told the Senate that since the war began there had been 174 new corporations organ ized in this country for the manufac- ture of munitions and the value of arms and munitions exported in IS months had aggregated $161, ,964s27s. He submitted a, table showing the fol- lowing estimates of the amounts of war contracts Of some of the larger corporations:
 American Car & Foundry, $s5,ooo.- 900; American Locomotive, $66,OOO,- O00; American Steel Foundries. $15,- 0OO,OO0; Baldwin Locomotive Works, $1Oo, ,0oo. .0Oo; Bethlehem Steel 5Co.. II, 900 shells per day together with field gun and other like arms! Coll steel rounds; Crucible Steel of Amer