The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-05

.s.ess"b sA' AaNoosSh VI ttbb COUNTY
led by Rene Thomas, the Frenchman
ssic.
CARNATIONS are in thorough accord
and cooperation with the work Of tho
committeeson Industrial preparedness.
Mr.. Little said:
'Tho work OF Mr.. Collins commit.
tee has seemed to US so very import
ant and so closely related. In such
practical ways, to what the business
organizations Of the country are try
Ing to do to further national defense,
that those with which am connected
Immediately formed union with the
committee on learning Of It's work.
Lesson Stirs Up Business.
1.-THE thing that has stirred up the
business men Of the middle West dur
ing the last eighteen months has been
the lesson they have learned In the
making Of war materials. 1t points
q very vivid moral to all our people.
1t all looked very easy when II start
cd Q year and a half ago. The plant
with which am associated ID Cleve-
land got an order for $780, 90 three inch
high explosive shells. 1t was a simple
enough looking job, Just q question
OF machining. The forglngs were
shipped to us and we were to finish
and deliver. It began to dawn on us
when the forglngs came that this
whole order, that looked SO big to us,
was less than one days supply OF
shells for France or England OF Rus
STA, and we felt that In eight months
by turning our plant, which Is frst
class machine shop, onto this job we
could fill the order. In little while
we got up against the process OF hard
ening. That--and mark what / say
was fourteen months ago. TO date We
have shipped and had accepted 10000
shells, and those, about half our order,
are not complete. They still have to
be fitted by the fuse maker. then fit- |
ted In the brass cartridge cases with
the propelling charge, and somewhere,
sometime, maybe. they will get ON the
battlefield OF Europe. Up to the pres
emit none Of them has arrived there.
Now this Is the situation in high
class efficient American plant. This
Is what happened when Il turhed to
.ha.n MUNITIONS ol>war. The same
,.al. NY occurred IN 80 many middle
western piants that their owners have
iiaae up tnelf mina that II they are
eser soing 70 De called upon for serv-l
,ce 70 lneir own country they must
know more about this business. They
ieei tnat they are now liabilities to
tne nauon ana not assets In case OF
WAT. sroua as we may be OF our In
9uslriai periection, u has not worked
nele, anu tne country-particular
you IN the East-may as well know
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Use Of Private Plants.
THE defense committee of the Inf
ed States Chamber Of Commerca has
been trying to figure ont what sort a
relation these private plants shnnid
have to the federal eovernment IN
time Of war. and Wa have reached 1the
fundamentals al a man ~
eve feel that there should be In
the ,tirst place. contract made IN IN tha
open market as we would do business
with any other customer. with this
main diherence: that IN case Of war
there should be no excess profit to
anybody arising out Of the national
necessity, and that the federal govern
ment should have the use Of the pri-
yate plants Of the country In war. time
at 9 living wage to the stockholders.
It is economically inwise that the
stockholders should cease TO have div
idends from their Investment, but the
government should have the right to-
take over the plants, with their per-
a living wage. 30 as to prevent the1
creation Of profit interest In war.
I'VE feel that It. Is very dangerous
and un-American to set up any kind
Of system which will make any part
OF the community interested Ia fore
ing the nation into war, and that II
there be war, every person, high or
low, IN this country must accept his
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