The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-03
tBy JANET sTEwART.)

Uncle Sam isn't shining very brill
liantly in the role of fighter these
days, but he is booking himself for a
stunning success as q nurse.
Probably to the most optimistic and
least exciting patriot the country
doesn't seem TO be exactly making
good Secretary Bakers rosy self-con-
graduation in the matter of astound-
ing the world by our warlike Prepa-
rations, though the world Is certainly
astounded In a way the secretary pos
sibly did not have In mind. But II
Uncle Sam can't get guns for the boys,
he's made up his mind to get them
the latest thing in dressings for their
wounds.
II they have to go unarmed, or I'm
properly armed. against the hoche,
they're to have the consolation Of re-
escape alive are going to find the
most wonderful array of hospital sup
plies awaiting them a wounded SOL
der ever dreamed of.
That Is always supposing that the
shipping board Is able to adjust It's
little differences and find a few ships
in time to take the bales and boxes
and barrels of modern antiSeptic
dressings that Uncle Sam is laying in
across TO the boys who are so surely
going to need them.
Here is Real War Work.
over in New Brunswick. in the
huge factories of Johnson g. johnson,
manufacturers of surgical dressings.
there are such snowy bales OF cctton,
such busy looms of gauEe, such end
less miles of plaster strips and such
"a bewildering myriad OF close-ssaled
bottles of iodine that the millions OF
boxes of a thousand shapes and tints
the never-still machinery turng out
seem always struggling to catch up
with the things already waiting for
them.
And the urgent need for getting
these things ready in sufficient RUM
bers to assure TO Uncle Sans boys
the utmost alienation of pain modern
science has placed at mans disposal.
has forced this always busy factory
to make machinery that can turn out
In a given time 100 times as much as
the machinery in use before America
went to war.
And rs to the thoroughness of
preparation In getting hospital sup
plies ready for Immediate shipment,
this Is what Frederick B. Kilmer, d.
rector OF johnson & Johnson's scien-
we are nearer absolute complete
ness in our line of mandatory than
any other line of war necessities the
United States has need OF. and that
statement includes guns, ammunition.
clothing and any possible equipment"
In spite of this added machinery and
all the labor saving devices ingenuity
has been able to contrive. 90 per cent
OF the work done in those great build
ings 10 hand labor. There are $4,000
employees, of which three-fourehs are
women. and there are volunteers among
those women. society girls and pstri-
otto women OF means who leave their
New Brunswick homes, each day to
turn some little wheel In the eompii-
Gated machinery so that the hospital
supplies for the men acrosT the seas
may be got ready with no delay due
TO the ever increasing difioulty In get
ting labor.
Vast Store Of F1rSt-Aia Kits.
There ara so many things to be
done. such q bewildering variety OF
pain saving appliances to be prepared
Hundreds upon thousands of frst-aid
kits must be turned out. and must so
on turning themselves out, for. az long
as tho war lasts. there liz no limit set
TO Uncle Sans appetite for hospital
.upplies--or. rather. there Is the limit
of just twice his 1ghtins force, what