The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-25

can people, and not by the soldiers
alone. 1t was supposed by some that
| if we sent over 100000 or 100000
men the war would soon be won, But
we have come to realize that in addi-
| tion 60 these 100000 or 100000 men
we must have the entire American
people back of them.
| eff we fail them over here, we jeo-
| pardize the chances of victory of the
boys over there. For every soldier in
France there must be ten men busy
over here, and we are doing just as good
service by staying at home and stick
ing to our jobs. It is not so adventur
Gus and so exciting but it is just as
essential. England sees her mistake
in sending her scientists and her train
ed men to the front where they were
killed instead of keeping them at home
where they could have been vastly more
useful. In the factory and shop our
men are doing work just as necessary
to be done as they could do by being
in the army.
eve are a great national army.
The boys in uniform are in the trenches
and we are back here in the second line
trenches backing them up. We do not
| fight wars any more with our fists. If
we did we could have sent out a few
baseball teams and a few college athle-
tic clubs and have whipped Germany
long ago. We must fight Germany ac-
cording to the rules Of her own game.
We must be like the man who killed
the farmer dog A man was going
along through farmers hay field
one day and the farmers dog got af
ter him and was about to tear him to
pieces. The man grabbed hay-fork
he found near and thrust the sharp
prongs into the dogs body and killed
it. The farmer came up in rage and
demanded why the traveller had killed
his dog The traveller replied that he
did it to protect himself. But why
kill HING inquired the farmer. Why
did you not take the other end of the
fork and beat the dog OFF, inquired the
farmer again. Because said the trav-
eler, the dog did not come at me with
that end. We will have to play the
game as they are playing it.
"There is only one way to get men
and material to France and that is by
ships. When the. war broke out we
had 2,412,000 tons dead weight of
shipping, and 80 percent of this was
engaged in the Great Lakes and coast
wise trade. By June /, of this year
we have increased our American built
ships by 100000 tons dead weight.
Ii addition to this the shipping board
had taken from Germany and Austria
l18 ships with a carrying capacity of
100000 TONS We had also requistioned
Sc Dutch ships with tonnage of $780,
600 tons. Through arrangements with
neutral nations the board has ACQUIRED
the use Of 215 other ships aggregating
953,661 tons, making altogether 7,000,-
900 tons of shipping available ON July
| l, 1918.
The program of the shipping board
was to have 1856 vessels built in the
years 1918-9-20 with gross tonnage
of 25,000,000 tons. In the first five
months Of the year 1918, 805,00O tons
were added, an excess of $4,000 tons
over the entire output for 1915. When
the war began there were $4,000 men
working in American shipyards. Ac-
cording to the last report we had 300,-
600 men working in the shipyards and
100000 in allied trades.
"Only July 4th, 95 ships were launch
ed In American waters from the coast of
Maine to California. The process of
construction is going on at a tremen-
dous rate, so that by 1920 there will
be 25,o00,000 tonnage as against $780,
600 when the war began.
With immigration shut off and
100000 men taken from the produc-
tive industries it makes about 100000
men cut off from the normal plan of
the productive enterprises of the ma
ton. The strike situation was more
alarming than even the newspapers re-
ported and this made it necessary to
inaugurate this speedup campaign.
At one time when there was a
strike, pr. Charles a. Eaton address.
ed $4,000 laborers. They went to hear
DR.. Eaton because their foremen re-
quired them to go, and they told their
foremen that no matter what Eaton
said they would pay no attention to it
and nothing he could say would induce
them to cheer for the success of the
United States in this war. After DR..
Eaton had talked to them for about 10
minutes they were cheering wildly for
the cause of America. He told them