Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-24
ON TO BERLIN" CRIES
SECRETA OF NAVY
Speech at Eddystone Reflects the
Presidents Attitude; Means
Invasion of Germany.

Chester Pa. Sept. 2f.-Fifteen thou
sand employees and guests OF the Niiu'aie
Steel and Ordnance Company, VINO were
gathered mt Eddystone yesterday 10
Celebrate the manufacture OF i,ooo.ooo
rifles for the overseas forces witnin
year, heard Secretary Daniels sound TINS
new rallying cry of people and adminiS-
tratlon.
Male workmen tossed their hats IN
the air and chcercd like mad, white
women war workers. clad In their natty
mn itionocr uniforms and civilian Garb.
applaudcd wildly as the head of the navy
said
SHALL MARCH TO BERLIN
ON NV calendar at Washington is
but one engagement, the day | shall
march behind the Marine Band behind
Pershings soldiers into Berlin | don I
know the exact date yet but 1t Is coming
as sure rs God Is in His Heaven.
This statement from the secretary OF
the navy. coming as it did on the heels
of the action of the President in slamming
the door to peace talk in the face of
Austria, seemed to possess an added
significance To the assembled employees
and others They seemed 20 read into
1T a determination at Washington to
pursue force TO the utmost until the kaiser
and his crew are crushed and made tn
atone for the crimes they have com mittcd
against humanity and civilization As the
force of this statement came upon the
throng, the men and women broke out
into renewed cheering and hat-wavlng.
EDDYsToNE GUNS FOUNDING METZ.
To add To the significance of the day
II was disclosed that the giant guns
which were manufactured at the MIdvale
Steel Company plant at Eddystone and
shipped overseas months ago are the
armament that Pershing Is using now 10
lombard Metz, the stronghold of Ger
MANY, Just over the Rhine.
Secretary Daniels attacked the Stacker
no matter what his station in life, and
was especially bitter against the man
with money or the workman who does
not give everything he has to the cause
of the country While the speaker stamp
cd labor at 100 per cent efficient and
patriotic he evoked renewed cheers when
he SAID:
Labor in this war has proved itself
to be 100 per cent efficient and patriotic.
When I sayn00 per cent | do not mean
that relatively small percentage of traitors
and Slackcrs who have betrayed good
citizenship and who have degraded tho
very name of labor.
WILL HAVE NEW AMERICA.
when the boys come back VIC will
have q now America, and We will never
go back 10 the old times The man
who lives III these DAYS will be gwen
the acid test, and he will apply It him
self as every mans conscience viii speak
10 him And the question YOU will ask
yourself Is. In the time America called
her sons and daughters what sacrifice did
YOU make for the cause
And unless YOU can say / gave my
money. my time. my labor. and did not
prove to he Stacker. II were better that
YOU had a milestone tied about your neck
and were drowned In the bottom Of the
seas
The occasion. which was signalized
Yesterday by the presence Of Secretary
Daniels, Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher,
Rear Admiral Ralph Earle chief of he
Ordnance Bureau Of the navy: Brigadier
General John I. Thompson of the Ord
nance Department, and many other
noted military. naval and civilian guests.
marks an epoch IN the manufacture Of
small arms in the history Of the world.
SEND MESSAGE To PEBSHING.
As memento of the occasion Charles
Schlacks, general manager ct the plant.
was given the mIllionth rifle turned out.
while the throng OF war workers, through
General johnson, sent cablcgram to
General Iershing and his men.