Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-08-16
GREAT ACTIVITY
OA RIVER cxyuE
twenty-five Miles Of Factorie.
Turn Out Hundreds of Stand
ardizet Ships.
Chief FOE or SUBMARINE
Visit to the Great Plants Explains
lloyd'George's Confidence That
the German Sea Menace viii
Be Beaten.

Glasgow.-A day on the River Clyde
helps explain LlOyd-George's conf
.dence that the submarine menace will
be beaten. =,
a snare-drum roar from thousands
OF steam riveters and battlefield of
drumfire of crashing hydraulic ham,
miersi unendiDg miles of wooden and
steel scaffoldings with workmen
swarming over them like flies; tower
ing cranes that look capable of lifting
Il County courthouse and setting 1t
down in the next county; these are
some Of the reasons.
Glrls-thousands and thousands of
trouseretted girls-furnlsh so many
additional reasons.
And then there are certain reasons
visible to the eye concerning which
secrecy Is imposed. They constitute a
method of direct warfare against SUBJ
marines and are already proving their
effectiveness, but more than that cam
not be told.
Twenty-Five Miles Of Factories.
The Clyde was the greatest ship
building center In the world before the
war began. Now it dwarfs its own
activities Of three years ago. For
- miles on one side of the river i'm
mense plants crowd against one an
other; the same is true for half the
distance on the other side of the riv-
er. Soon IL will be the whole distance
on both sides.
The worlds biggest fighting craft
went the ways here few days ago,
but work stopped many months ago on
what was to be the worlds biggest
merchant ship. Instead, smaller ships
and more Of them are being built.
Rows on rows Of skeletons, some bare,
some partly dressed in their armor-
plate, show how the new policy OF
building standardized ships is being
carried out. Builders report 1t means
40 per cent gain In speed Of con-
struction.
"Unless the destructiveness Of the
German submarines Is greatly In
creased, the extension of British ship
ping will practically take care of the
situation by autumn" said Fred Lob
nltz. munitions director for Scotland.
"This does not take into account the
huge preparations under way in Amer
ica."
More than one shlpbuilder along the
river displays keen perception Of
the probable acceleration of Americas
output.
The fact that they are compelled to
rely on women and girls for an inn
mense proportion Of their labor has
ceased to be considered q handicap,
the shipbuilders say. Aside from such
work ms calls for sheer muscle, they
declared, the women are completely
qualified as proved by the fact that
they are averaging larger output per
person than men In the same work av-
eraged-before the war; The same H.
crease in output since the war began.
Of course, has been shown by the men.
Do No Heavy Work.
Women are used chiefly In work
where automatic devices take the
heavy lifting of their hands.
Thus feminine hands are seen turn
Ing out l5-Inch shells practically with
out masculine assistance; doing the
bulk Of the work OF the famous Brit
ish tanks, gun carriages and, natural
ly, on airplanes and NirShlpS.
The excellence Of their wo, ianshlp
makes certain that the prol. "a Of ad-
juStlnC labor conditions after the war
Will be big one, "JuSt now they are
giving thought to one thing only" said
Lobnltz, land that Is the winning OF
the war"