The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-07

have full authority, freely or frequently exercised to censor their chiefs work
 SPEAKS CALMLY
 Lord Northcliffe is very quick in his estimate of men and things. When ref erence was made to Lord X, who has
 been much in the public eye of late he said
 "Yes, he is a good advertiser.'
 Then when reference was made to Lord Y, who is opposed to be direct
 ing a very large branch of the govern ment, he said:
 Why he Is finished
 Finished, how so, he's directing a department"
 Nit at all. Blank is running the department; Lloyd-George is looking after ammunitions, and Lord X is fin ished; yes found out. He is a past event."
 The talk now turned to the compul- sorry military service bill which the government has just put through Par lament, many asserting it was really the work of the ''Nerthcliffe press Why, it was as plain as day"
 said the embodiment of the North cliffe press. Here is a row of houses" he went on, pointing to d row of imaginary houses on the paper pad before him. "Now in this first house lives young mar ried man who wants to serve his 1 country, feeling that his countrys peril is his own. So he gives up | his job and enlists. Right next door, in that house, lived anotoher 1 young fellow who is his mothers | darling, and who doesn't want him | to expose himself to danger. So l does not enlist, but stays at home 1 yes and gets the other fellows job | Now those very rows of houses are in every street in every city, town l and village in the country. That i is an actual concrete example of 1 the situation which confronted us. i And so I invented the phrase, Sin l gle men first and that carried it. It has been long struggle; we've | been at it many months; it went | slowly at first but gathered force l as it went along, until 1t became l overwhelming and practically uni ] versal, and single men first car | ried it through, and it's ended, yes, 1 ended; we will have our army, an 1 army equal to our needs, with the ' | country behind it, and we're just | beginning the war"
 l Lord Northcliffe speaks calmly, with | out demonstration, but with positive ness and with ideas which crowd each other to find expression. Your American civil war gave us some
  | in a great emergency" he went on | What did Lincoln do when he needed men? He called for them; issued proc l lamation calling them to the service o1 | the federal government and putting it uI 1 to the governors to furnish thenl-frst | 100, 900 men, then 250,000 men, then 800, ,00t l men, and so on. And they had to bt | furnished; the men had to enlist or fine l substitutes; there were drafts and riots thpTa lWaVS when Gia0xpIS made to do their duty to their country l And you got your army not a volunteer army except in nominal sense, but ar army calculated in numbers in advance adequate to the countrys need And we will be doing just what Grant did-1eht- ing it out on that line if it takes al summe"-piling on more men. hammerine at a given objective and massing over whelming numbers until they yield by the sheer weight of numbers. That was Grants tactics, and it will be ours now that we have an army and are ready to begin.''
 ''We will have another experience much