The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-13

II you wanted copper for n billion
shells. or steel for ten thousand cannon
You would OF course call tuScih"r the
men who knew how much lumber or
copper or steel the country had or
could produce. And if you wanted coal
for the industries or OF: .rr submarines.
would You ignore the men who produce
these things and deal with them nj
long range. and IT they were alien enc
mics: OF course not. You would rail
them TO your side. Well. that Is Mat
tho advisory commission told us We
should do---ret the business men ~ the
country around the table 10 help out.
And we did
Needs Classified.
We roughly classified orr needs anu
iolu the members OF the advisory COM
mission to recommend 10 MS the m"h
they thought were foremost IN those
lines OF Industry And these men W"
turned into committees. IT gave them
standing To he organized 1t mad" them
properly feel that they were III IN"
business of fighting Germany. Their
boys were going |" the trenches ana
they were anxious 10 do their BIZ
These men who made up these commit
Ices come down here for the war-and
they clmo down 10 help us--do you UNI
derstand" And they have helped US
They have worked day and night and
paid their own way. crowded hair
dozen in 4 room. and annoyed all the
time because they couldn't satisfy their
,rond strong Yankee executive instinct
by doing things instead Of advising no"
they could DO done. They made n"
contracts; they made no decisions. the
contracts and the decisions were MADE
bv tho only people who had tho leEa!
mower. the secretaries Of war anu
navy.
Baseless Rumor.
"Rut these committees sat with the
CAPTAINS and coInnels and admirals ANA
told. them how they the industrial
managers, would go about this unprcr-
,drntcd TASK Il II was up Ia them
hnw they would build cities with water
works and sewers and electric lights
and all complete for Il million men in
,bre,. mnnihs--hUw they would lnuucc
our great manufacturing plants TO give
IN their trades and 50 into The huSi
ness of making airships IN country
,hat invented the acrorllno ana Ee'
hasn', a capacity of 500 ycar--how
they would get lumber without bladihS
the market up.
81 have heard that some OF these mon
,-or, uot as diSintereSted as they might
! hc. TINT they wanted to make more
nancy. That wouldn't he unnatural II II
was true However. have looked up all
The rumors that have come TO my httcn-
ton and found them TO he bhScleSS'mcFe
rings bv the unsuccessful or course.
all cant be satisfied. and where thlhES
arc done quickly there must be some
Mistakes ! honor those men anu /
hone that congress or some au'hor'tf
will authorize for them an emblem SIM
iIar to that given In Canada ana else
where showing that those men are IN
national service.
we cant make war without terVor
and enthusiasm any more than we can
RIM Il revival meeting without th"m
There is no such thing as cold blood
ed democracy. and 4 democracy can [
make war cold bsoodcdly. There Is no
mission that is manly that we should
not use-pridc. rivalry. the ganG-Spirit'
love Of humanity. love of country. Ana
the more proud. or vain. men are OF
working for the country III" better work
we will get. These committees nav"
! been, are, and will continue 10 be lnEal-
liable to the conduct Of this war. In
England they have twenty times as
many as We have"
Mr. Lane did not contend that tho or
rnnizatiun us created was wholly salts
factory.
Emergency Move.
NO. il is not" he replied when asked
the direct question. III Is an emery
ency organization. But It Is along Inc
right line. The council is planning re-