Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-07-30

troops, which were holding their own
line Of front and steadily extending
it. They did not remember that at
the beginning of the war Great Brit
ain was armed on basis of a mere
handful of men; that all the machinery
OF equipment was upon basis Of the
handful, and that having men-a mil
lion or two millions-she still could
not equip them, because she had no
factories or munitions except upon the
scale of the handful
"Men had to be recruited, fed, uni
formed, equipped; artillery had to be
developed and extended beyond all
experience; and the past; rifles had to
be supplied; and the one reason why
there was was such delay in making
move on the western front by the
British was lack of equipment. The
push forward at Loos was not final
and effective because there were not
sufficient munitions.
But what is the condition of az
fairs today? There are enough mun-
their brains and skill to the task of
organization; because the manual
workers OF England have reused them
selves to a complete sense Of duty
ion regulations for the period of the
war; because without murmuring they
have thrown up their holidays; be
cause hundreds and thousands Of
women have joined the munitions
works or have entered into fields of
occupation once monopolized by men,
such as the conduction f cars II tram
lines, driving vans, wrking upon
farms, clerking in stores, doing mems
work in scores of small trades; be-
cause all England, in every corner
of it is alive to the terrible signifi
canoe Of the world fight and has given
it's best blood, mind, strength and
craft to the nations cause.
All Allies Move Forward.
"In spite of criticism and complaint
England would not and did not move
on the western front until she was
ready, though she was willing to help
at Verdun if needed and said so. And
she was not ready until she could
ominate as she has done the Ger
man artillery by greater weight of
metal until making a move forward
over the whole of her line with
Fronce moving forward on the whole
of her line, they both could make good
their successes mile by mile and stead
lily and surely diminish the capacity of
resistance upon the part of Germany.
This. they have done.
"What is the position today? Every
one of the allies has moved forward
and at the same time and every one
has succeeded as she has moved. TIA
ly, like Russia, France and England
IL 10 IN, hn
against Austria. Germany cannot put
forward her men I'd help Austria.
Austria is harassed by Italy and by
Russia. Germany is harassed and
hammered by England, Russia, France
and Belgium.
"There is no rest for Germany any
where She cannot shift her troops
from front to front as she did in the
early days of the war, smashing one
enemy here and then, whiskering her
troops over to smash another enemy
there. l
mistakes? The allies. no doubt,
have made mistakes, but ENGLAND has
made no such mistakes as have been
made by Germany, all of whose plans
have gone awry.
Commercial Efficiency.
"Americans should understand that
it is not alone in the field of battle
at Great Britain has proved her
capacity for organization. She has
proved it in the civil field; she has
nAtionalized the railways of the coun-
try and has protected the regular div
'i6ends; she secured the sugar crop OF
the world at the very beginning of tho
war through which sugar is cheaper
today in Great Britain than it is IN
the United States. and at the same
time has got out of it a revenue OF
yearly $34,000,000.
"She rescued the British people
from being done by meat trusts oy
seizing all ships which could carry
chilled meat, and having the ships
she could get her meat On fair terms
end has done so-500C0 tons month
for Great Britain and France. ana
$4,000 tons month for Italy. She has
also supplied France with steel, boots,
shoes and uniforms. She has made
coal mining public military service
End by act of parliament has fixed the
profit of the coal miners and sac
supplies the British, French and ltal'
ian navies with COAL
Sne mas OISdHlAcu lHe pul0Aooo W
wheat by a small committee which
also buys and ships wheat and oats.
fodder, etc. for Italy. She has bought
I'm the fish supply of Norway and very
lately bought up against German in
trigue the great bulk of food exports
of Holland.
"She has put on a five shilling in
come ia (which has been paid with
out protest by the mass of the Brit
isal people. She has drawn upon her
financial resources till she has loan
ed her allies and her overseas domin-
icrs 45O,OOO,O0O pounds and she has
taken as high as 80 per cent of the
war profits of the great manufactur-
ing firms.
English People United.
"The organization is not ornate and
spectacular but there never was
time when all the people of the coun--
try were so occupied in national
things, when so many have given
Themselves up without pay or reward
to doing national work. Her power OF
organization is proved most thorough
" by the work of the ministry OF mu-
nitions, which, under the i.4defatlga--