Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-05
WHAT CAN PENNA.
DO in WAR TIME?
Penna. Industrial Preparedness
Board Making Inventory
of Resources

What can Pennsylvania do for the
United States in event of war?
The Pennsylvania Board of Indus
direction of the Naval Consulting
Board, is about to make an inventory
of the industrial resources of Pennsyl-
vania, in order to answer this ques-
ton. The Board wants to know not
only what Pennsylvania can do, but,
what is just as important in these days
of modern warfare, how long it will
take to do it.
Pennsylvania is looked upon by the
Naval Consulting Board as the most
important State in the Union for such
an inventory. 1t is well known that,
in event of war. Pennsylvania will be
expected to furnish not only actual
firearms, but all the munitions of war
-accouterments for the soldiers,
blankets, uniforms, automobiles or
material to build them, coal and oil,
and the one hundred and one other
wartime necessities.
For the purpose of making the in
ventory, the State has been divided
into nine districts. In each of these
districts, five men have been asked to
serve on the local committee. These
men are selected from the five great
National Engineering Societies-The
American Society of Civil Engineers,
the American Institute of Mining En-
gineers. the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, and
the American Chemical Society.
1t is planned, first, to send out,
through the chairman of each local
committee, inventories to the manu-
facturers of their district. 1t is of the
utmost Importance that the manufac-
turers should fill out these inventories
and return them promptly. Already
the manufacturers of the State have
signified their desire to help. They
look upon this preparedness campaign
as something in the way of an educa-
tional campaign to them for from it
they hope to learn to produce things
with their present equipment of which
they have hitherto been ignorant.
The present European war has de-
monstrated that for every man in the
trenches at least three men are re-
quired in the factories to turn out
munitions. With the development of
science, warfare has become a great
competition between the factories and
shops or the belllgerent nations. 1t
has well been said that the war of to-
day and the war OF the future are
to be decided, not by an army nor
navy, but by a capacity of the indus
tries to turn out the products needed
in battle. AS the United States has
almost two-thirds or the industrial
capacity of the world, no one nation
nor two nations will dare to attack it
in the future provided our industries
are properly modified. 1t is the ex-
pectation of the Board of industrial
Preparedness hat the inventory will be
the first step in bringing about the
proper mobilization or Pennsylyania's
industries.
The members of the State Board are
DR.. Raymond F. Bacon, Director of
the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh,
Chairman; George S. Dawson, Presi-
dent of the Gulf Refining Company,
Pittsburgh; Julian Kennedy, engineer
of Pittsburgh; Paul Spencer, electrical
engineer, of Philadelphia; and Vance
c. Mccormick. Chairman of the
Democrat Nationa lCommittee, OF
PIPE TO DRAIN ROAD
The county commissioners to-day