The Cordova daily times., 1917-01-16
EUROPE |S. NOW ORGANIZING
 FOR TRADE

or the fabled hydra, three others i'm, mediately came in its place.
 The value of these myths, and the reason why they have been perpetu- ated, is that they contain the germs or unchanging truths.
 Out of the sowing of the dragon s teeht in Europe has come more than embattled armies on the fields of war. There have also sprung into existence ihhumerable armies of a character hitherto unknown even in the coun- tries where the industrial occupations nave not been entirely resrved for the male workers.
 Sermany's Greater Industrial Average The compulsory labor bill introduced into the reichstag by the German chancellor will bring all able-bodied civilians between the ages of 16 and 6o into the industrial army in Ger many. This, it has been estimated, will add not less than 3,000,000 per sons to the number now engaged in making the German nation not only seif-sustaining, but skilfully produc- tive in peace manufactures for the worlds trade later on.
 That the principle or the fact will be limited to Germany proper is not to be expected. Already the expatri- ation of the Belgians has the indus trial situation as it's basis. Poland and other conquered Russian pro- vinces will likewise experience the same governmental regulation of their labor forces, and Roumania may look for lige introduction to the German efficiency methods.
 France and England Getting Ready. In France the industrial forces are already being organized along national lines, both men outside of the enlist ment age and women of all ages hay ing been swept into the ranks that will go to the increasing of the produc- tive powers of the republic.
 There has just been called to thel head of the British government the man who converted it's plans for prac- tical preparedness from chaos into
 as Lloyd George has done more
 He has converted the la
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 @ munitions factories are
 day and night. There is no nf nfp Iu, ,P !. any time limitations to their iabors All want work and are finding it. So E universal has become employment x that it is said to have automati- \ eally solved the problem with which England coped unsuccessfully in times of peace: namely the slums of Lon don. With work for every hand, the slums have disappeared.
 MobIizins the "Woman Power.'
 How far the plans look into the flu ture may be gathered from the follow ing statement made by an American business man recently returned from London:
 There has been a board appointed in England to consider the mobilizing of the woman power of the country The women are being classified as to professions, ages, etc, and will re- place men fit for military service who are now serving in the postoffices and intuition factories. This month a fur. ther call for man power is to be made for the army, which will include men in C1, C2 and C3 who had been previously rejected as being unfit for military service"
 Thus we have portrayed successive systems of unified and organized in dustry in practically all of the nations at war; inded, in all that have figured as consequential rivals of this coun- try in the world trade. And after the war there will be added to this trained body so enormously strengthened by drafts from hitherto unemployed sources. the millions released from the armies. As a result there will be industrial and commercial competi- ton for the worlds markets under national systems far more efficient than any the world has yet known
 How Will This Affect the U. s.
 What will be the effect of this con dti0n upon our home markets? How can our products, lacking protection hope to compete? What chance will there remain for an eight hour day and a high wage for the American worker?
 Let 1t be remembered that this al teration in the industrial methods O Europe has come to stay. There il no thought in the minds of the con testants to meet the exigiencies 0 the moment and destined to fall t pieces when the immediate need ha passed The permanent facts of tn, allied enemies extends far beyond tn present time. Defensive in their oE erations in so far as their mutuall related interests are concerned, the are frankly offensive as regards al others, and there is not term Il their trade alliances as aimed esesns those with which they are now CT gagged in military strife that is no