Weekly journal-miner., 1917-11-28
MARTIAL SPIRIT HOLDS SWAY IN
 EASTERN J. 5.
A TT ORNEY ANDERSON, BACK FROM TOUR OF
 INDUSTRIAL CENTERS, TELLS OF CONDITIONS RESULTANT FROM WAR.
(From Saturdays Daily.)

as Usual has apparently been aban- doned, and that commercial activities of all sorts have been placed in a position secondary in importance to the work of rushing the war prcpara- tioEs to finish,' said Attorney Lc- Roy Anderson in discussing his recent business trip to Chicago, Cincinnati and other Eastern business centcrs.
 When I was in this same section three months ago, the patriotism oi the East was being expressed in X hip, hip, hurrah manner, the war was not being taken very seriously, and everyone seemed to think that the United States had taken one of those before breakfast jobs, just the same as the Federal government in 1861 be- i licvcd that the matter of beating down the Confcderacy was job of but a few weeks at the very outside. But today everything is different Every man, woman and child has come to the realization that the United States has undertaken the most gigantic task ever attempted in the history of the nation, and that in order to success fully terminate the struggle, every ounce of brain, brawn and financial resource possible must be sacrificed, and sacrificed at once and in no nig- gardly spirit.
 We of the West hear but little of the details of the preparations which arc being made back East, but in spite of the fact that 1t is not gcncr- ally known out here, the United States is rushing men by the tens of thou sand 10 the battlefields of Europe, the movements of the troop trains and transports being shroudcd in the greatest secrecy. Only by happening into one of the big railroad terminals or onto one of the docks of the sea port cities and seeing the long lines of kbaki-clad soldiers cmbarfing, can one come to the realization that Uncle Sam is rushing the flower of his army to the trenches, very little being said of such occurrences.
 The factories turning out arms and ammunition are working "A hours a day, and in the barren regions of the lake front out east of Chicago in In- diana the big steel works and explo- sive plants arc working three shifts q day with as many men as they can ,ro+ ., ,,,r,, n,,. tho c,D,,1;cs for tbp army of the United States and the troops abroad. However, it is a mis- taken belief which prompts many per sons to say that the United States should be content to merely furnish supplies and ammunition to the Euro pcan Allies, and refrain from putting any men in the field, for the Allies arc as much dependent upon the man power of the United States as they are for guns, steel or food supplies.
 Another thing which particularly impressed me Is the fact that it is be- coming unusually dangerous for any one to make any scditiouS remarks within the hearing of real Americans and the fact that the government in tends to soon put into practice regu- lations compelling German residents to register and give an account of their movements, k meeting with the hearty approval of everyone. The East has seen so much of the activi- tics of the German secret agents and spies that if something iS not done soon to check the work of such pco- pic, the patriotic Americans arc going to take things into their own hands and when foreigner Is suspected of setting fire to a grain elevator or a dock, he Is going 10 run a very good chance of coming in contact with some Sclf-appointcd firing squad. The only criticism which the most people have (asidc from the kicks which arc Cngcndercd by the presence of Jose phus Daniels in the presidents cab inct) of the administration and its policy, comes from the fact that Presi- dent Wilson has not been sufficiently severe in his punishment of the scdi- tious performers, but now that the new provisions of the espionage law arc 10 be put into effect, the nation in all probability will sec less of the de structiou of property and the damag ing of supply shipments intended for the Allies.
 "A very worthy movement seems 10 be gathering force in the East, and that iS the agitation in favor of the creation of d huge war control board, similar in some respects to the Allied war council In spite of the efficiency which now marks the experimenting of the preparation for the war, there k fearful amount of waste. rcdtapc and incjlicicncy present in all of the activities incident to the prosecution oi the war. The plan for the organi cation oi such a board is the idea of President Wilson, who has seen that things arc not going as smoothly as they might if somc of the couutry's greatest business men were at the head of the work oi purchasing and