The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-04-06
nation IS READY
TO meet ENEMY
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in order that the submarine blockade
may be made ineffective and the sup
ply of food for the Entente nations
may continue TO be delivered without
serious interruption.
Labor Is In Line ,"f4HE pt9
Organized labor has stepped into line
with capital in the face of the national
peril and the American Federation Of
Labor has pledged it's wholehearted CO.
operation in supplying the government
with all the trained and unframed
workmen that may be needed in all
branches of the government and for
any public service.
The munition manufacturers and the
munition labor organizations have Co
ordinated their efforts, the various
plants working on a common plan and
the unions pledging a maximum Of pro
duction from the men.
Altogether thirty.two thousand in.
dustrial concerns have offered their
plants TO the government. These i'm
clude such great institutions as the
Ford automobile plant, the Bethlehem
and the United States Steel Plants,
the Fore River Shipbuilding Yards, the
| United States Rubber Company, the
General Electric and thousands OF the
leading manufacturing plants of the
nation, including all lines Of production.
Secretary Houston Of the department
Of agriculture is sure that the country
win not only be supporting, with
the certainty that there need be no
thought Of any shortage, but that there
will always be sufficient surplus 20
| feed our Allies. 4H
Billions In Bullion
In financial way the country has
absolutely nothing to fear. Secretary
McAdoo estimates that the nation now
is in a position to stSnd eight times
the strain put upon the financial re.
sources of the country during the panic
Of 1907. At the present time there Is
in bullion in the United States treasury
70 the amount Of three billion. dollars,
this figure having been reached this
month for the first time in history.
Throughout the country for the past
two weeks there has been systematic
searching out and marking down OF
possible German spies, the army OF
federal officers and their assistants per
forming this, work numbering half Q
million men and women. These have
been alertly on the watch and great
1 mass of information is in the hands OF
the officials, ready for use IL the neees
sitv arises "lp#t
1t was definitely announced at tn,
state department yesterday that M
alien need fear sequestration of hi
property or deprivation of his persona
liberty so long as he scrupulously
obeyed the law of the land.
While it is known that every re
source Of science is at the disposal OF
the government, il will not be apparent
to Just what an extent this will b,
brought into play as assistance to tn
military until the war develops. 1t Ii
regarded as CERTAIN, however, that tn
departments have inventions at thei
disposal which will probably be brough
into play. @,,.i }.a.
The telephone and telegraph com
panies are ready to cooperate with tn,
government, while the National Leagu,
| of Women 3 Service is already enroll
ing women for factory work, to releas
the men for military and other govern
ment duty. pis&
The prize asset for the national de
Tense, declared President Wilson las
night, after reviewing the situation
and the asset he values above all else
is the awakening to Americanism of tn
American people. IA.