Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-21
Concentration and Victory
New York Financial World.

The rapid march of events in the world war
and the increasing problems that are confront
ing the allies to meet every situation ii arises,
point to still further concentration of energies
and resources, especially those in America. The
world that includes the allies is unquestlonably
leaning on us more and more to provide the
means and the men to deliver the final blow in
the great world war that will bring victory. All
our people do not know the significance or gray
ity of this and what must be done to make the
blow tell in victory but the lesson must be
learned If we are to win. Recent events have
given renewed emphasis to the situation and
are calculated to awaken us all to the new de-
mands. The signs are all about us now that the
industrial army is gathering the resources OF
the nation and conserving its energies tor trans
mission to the other side. There is strange
affinity between the battle front and the action
of Henry Ford, the former paclhst, in shutting
down absolutely on the production of Ford cars
and devoting all Ford energies to the produc--
ton of engines of war; the move by the Federal
Reserve bank of New York and the money
committee to limit stock speculation is nothing
more than a signal to the Stock Exchange to
substitute battle flags for Fights and quarters;
the capital issues committee at Washington, in
giving an order for the suspension of all new
public utility and industrial financing until after
the Fourth Liberty loan, is merely transmitting
a message to Pershing and the army that the
nations bankers understand their enlarged re-
sponsibilites; the decision to comb out of the
100000 registrants all those whose industrial
energyy or ability to serve exceeds the value
of their fighting value, is but the trained special
lists way of concentrating in another direction
the brain and Drawn and stamina that are re-
CURED to stand back of the army and the navy
and feed energize and stimulate them to win
the final victory
The nation is about to pour into the national
treasury the greatest amount of money ever
called for in the worlds history, for there never
has been single war loan in any nation as
large as $6000000000. TIE total is to be
pledged in the brief period of three weeks-an-
other sign of the faster pace the world war is
making. And there is no question about it, no
doubters or scoffers. 1t means saving, but not
sacrifice; it means care and thopghtfulness in
outstanding personal and family resources but
not discomfort but it is all for the common
>cause, and the proceeds will flow into all the
manifold industries that have been created for
providing the means for winning the war. and
they will flow away from the old activities,
which must remain dormant while we concen-
trate OH the infinitely more important and larger
task.
The poet says "the warrior shifts the battle
from affair."" and we, too who are left at home
may feel in some small degree the enthusiasm
and dash of the soldiers across the sea as they
take up the tools we at home are providing
them for the winning of the contest. We are
part of the battle; the nation is energized and
being made more fit for the job and may yet be
called upon to dislocate and disjont temporarily
that element of our national industrial life which
can be surrendered for the good of the common
cause, but if we have the warriors true concept
of our duty we will think of none OF the tenn
porary hardshps or inconvenience, but look
only to the winning OF the hnarheights occupied
BY the foe.