The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-25

Just study that map minute!
OF the As states, more than half toucl
Inc salt water To be sure, many fresh
water states have shipyards and sailors
But who would think Of looking for deep.
sea tars in Iowa or New Mexico? Yet
| from every state in the union Uncle Sam
expects to draw his builders of deep sea
ships. And there is very definite pur-
pose in his plan.
The war is a national matter. and
deep-sea ships are vital part of the
war, and in every draft upon his re-
sources in men and money Uncle Sam
looks to each state to do its share ae-
cordng to population.
That is one reason.
Again. war activities must be organ
lied with the least disturbance to farm
ing, manufacturing, transportation, and
other industrial war production. An
even draft on each state, according to
population, is the business like way of
mastering these shipyard workers with
the least dislocation Of other Industries.
So that il second reason, but there
is still another.
Uncle Sam is drawing his shipyard
workers from the fresh-water states, the
regions of corn, cotton, wheat and sage
brush, because he wants representative
workmen from all America.
Out of the total quota of 3S7 900, the
pc fresh-water states will furnish l69,-
$40, or fully A per cent. Their black
smiths and carpenters, machinists and
clerks, coppersmiths and electricians. are
being mustered for shipyard service on
the coasts because such draft of Amer |
lean mechanics from all the inland states, |
according to the plan of the quota, will
make our new mercantile shipyard in |
dustry truly national in spirit and give
it the benefit of the widest possible |
range of American mechanical ingenuity. |
They must come with skill at some al |
lied trade, possessing handicraft which
will make it possible TO quickly teach
them one of the 200 odd trades needed in
The building and fitting of mercantile
ship,
That is indispensable.
But it is not all, by any means.
Even more indispensable is the alert
ness, resourceIulness, and spirit of the
native American.
One OF the greatest aids in winning
he war, counted upon from America by
he allies ever since last April, is Amer
can inventive genius-the Yankees well
Known instinct for making new ma
hine when he has new job in hand
Ne have been little late in getting into
he war, perhaps, but in every depart
nent it is admitted that we are deliver
ng this element of Yankee ingenuity
n the appliances used for fighting the !
and in the war apparatus ,
which is being concentrated on our sector :
t the western front. When the history
t this war is written, and American
Methods can be disclosed, it will be found
hat our national inventive genius was
n the job from start to finish, and il is
his American inventive genius Uncle
am now wants to mobilize in his new
hipbuilding industry.
When the great new shipbuilding pro-
ram had reached the point where hun
reds of thousands of skilled workers
ere needed therefor, Uncle Sam turned .
Hand to the corn belt and sagebrush /.
seking genuine Americans. Our army
nd our navy our munitions factories, .
nd our trains of automobile transport. .
ar great seaboard preparations in this Z
,untry and France, our food production 4
nd our food saving all depend upon
lips. We must build them not only 4;
lickly, breaking all records by utilizing .
'ery resource of American standardiza a
on and large scale production, but they
ust be built by men as definitely Amer .,
an in spirit and skill a. the men who n
I've gone into our fighting forces. h
The soldiers in this shipbuilding army =
III be called upon to make sacrifices. put a,
, with inconvenience, with hours and
ages subordinated to duty, and stick n
the job no matter what happens. They r.
= L
ust be American hrst oil an with an III
merican resourcefulness adequate for II