The sun., 1918-11-07

ammunition been spent "as II Is being
spent now and will be In the days be-
fore US" He pictured to the audience
France and England producing from
80 to $50 per cent. more war materials
per capita of employees in peace tins.
and this by the use OF old men, the
physically UNIT and for the most part
OF women.
The Last blow That Counts.
rs the United states lazy7" he asked.
Are her ordnance producers slow Of
mind, that with all her resources intact
our marvellous boys at Chateau Thierry
had TO use French cannon and French
powdery'
Gen. Williams, chief Of ARMY ordnance
production. >in a letter just sent out to
every large munitions producer. warns
us that the call IL at this instant upon
the factories. The boys are taking care
OF themselves. He asks that every pos
sible ship leave our docks loaded from
deck to deck with munitions for In
slant use. Will We respond7
1T ts the last blow that counts. that
measures the value Of all that has gone
before. Who knows that Germany will
quit now? It is none of your business
or OF mine when the war win end. The
soldier at the front dulls his own eyes
and slows biz arm II he thinks the war
may end. Some, Of us are dulling ours
by such thoughts. Were the war to end
Tomorrow the best thing we, could say
to. our returning victors would>be: DO
you know. boys, the last thing we did
was to make certain of your supplies for
two years TO come II need beT"
There was hardly anything so large
or SO fine that ewomen could not 20 into
a factory and make II, Mr., Miles said.
He had seen woman earning $3.50 a
day making the finest parts for the Lib
erty motor--a woman who three weeks
before had been getting Sc q week in a
candy factory. Many women were won
derful mechanics, he said. BY new and
scientific means, by training schools
maintained by the factories themselves
women\ could be taught in from four to
fifteen days here just as they have been
In France and England. and production
immeasurably Increased.
Need 100000 More workers.
Half million new war workers mus,
be fessad for the United States within
ninety days--50,o00 In Connecticut
alone, and a great. number around New,
York, Mr.. Miles said. England and
'-''So Aoi WV years nave not allowed
factories to hire and fire" eapelessly.
or to steal help. They have been
obliged by their Governments to set I'm
training rooms In each plant. tAmeri.
can factories must come to this, he said.
Already where the plan has been tried.
production hasJiacreased rs per cent.
The problem for manufacturers.
said Mr.. Miles. -''ts to make Ave John
Smiths II fve are needed. instead of
auarreling over the one John Smith
available, And remember that tnere Is
hardly anything In machinery that q
woman can't do as we'll as a man."
Henry Bruere, urging collective ac-
tion through the United, States EN-
ployment Service, the New York branch
of which he directs. proposed that en-
pioyers Join in a want advertisement
setting forth both the different kinds
OF jobs TO be filled and the attraction
Of training opportunities. ,..
Capt. A. p. Simmons, a former
British military observer, who thought
the war was far from ended, and Ameri-
can army and naval officers were. other
speakers. '. s-s rsr