The Meeker herald., 1917-10-13
England mot waiting on United State.

England NOT Waiting on United States
George T. Bye, the special war cor
respondent for the metropolitan
papers, writing, under date of
September ~. from London, says:
Whether England has spent her
full effort In the war, or islying back
. bit waiting for Americas help.
may be hest judged by . visit to .'the
black country" the center Of Eng
land. almost entirely devoted to the
production of munitions.
have just made trip through this
part Of England visiting various
large plants and can say that the
experience was quite reminiscent Of
the America which 1 left just a
month ago.
1t was - II the war had only be-
gun. Every plant has great additions
under way that are being rushed
with all possible speed. More women
are being pressed into service, the
numbers Of employees growing to
keep pace with new buildings and
additional machinery. Supplies OF
iron ore are required In much greater
quantities than q year ago. One plant
has 80 extended itself that 1t now
ranks ~ the largest producer of
munitions in the world, considerably
exceeding even Krupps in size and
output.
Another manufactory, not among
the first ten. has increased its output
Of cartridges by 1856 times since the
flrst big war order WAS received. Dur
ing the South African war this same
plant contrived to produce . certain
number Of cartridges for ten weeks
that was advertised everywhere as
nothing short OF miracle. In
steadily increasing average covering
the past six months, the output now
exceeds by twelve and one half times
the achievement of the miracle.
All for the greater effectiveness OF
the worlds slogan, Fewer and better
Germans!"
One of my first sights In the first OF
the great munitions works that 1
visited would be immortalixed If
some adequate artist would paint 1t
IS. 1.-The spirit Of 1917"
It was ut Sheffield. She might
have been an American high school
girl. Her hair was dark and parted
boyishly on one side. She was
brightly alert. would swear that
her face WAS an American type-and
now i know where those faces first
came from. She must have been 16
years old and about 1lO pounds in
weight
Light and young - she was, this
school girl was flying high overhead
In the ungirlish business of lifting
and moving ten-ton chunks Of steel,
sono Of them roughly shaped liks
cannon.
She was alone in the operators
basket Of an enormous travelling
crane laundering along on great rails
half . block apart. She was the
operator.
Gazing wild-eyed into candy shops
In Pueblo are many such little Marys
You often are tempted to go In and
buy them sack of chocolates, aren't
you? 1t 10 probable that our girls
English cousin, looking down out Of
serious eyes from her aerial perch,
with her hand tightly holding the
controller OF massive apparatus,
waiting for signal from squad Of
grimy men out Of shouting reach,
has little time for shop gazing.
What . picture she would make!
These English establishments did
not have time to expand gracefully.
One great works at . Midland town
Is sprawled all over eighty acres, and
is quite unsightly ~ compared with
similar works In America whose
buildings are erected In units which
are duplicated when there is need.
The disorderliness gives an uncanny
awfulness to the places Of manufac-
ture Of retributive frightfqlness. But
though . visitor 10 startled by sud-
denly encountered furnaces and by
housed caverns traversed by aerial
pathways, there II an air Of we'll
directed effort everywhere that
proves that there are efficiency en-
gineers even in this chaos.
When I saw the men at work I
agreed with the New Zealand lieu
tenant with me, who also was seeing
cannon cast for the first time. that
the front can hardly be more terrify-