Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-29


 n Washington and pointing out the of a settlement of the Irish question, have been received by Pre- nier Lloyd George. and formulas and changes of a milli- | meter in size, great long specifications of changes in details of things which were agreed upon last week, and changed this week, and need to be changed again next week, so that what we are doing at this end is attempt iEg by using the eyes of the army there to keep up to what they want us to do.
 Already you will find in your fur ther examination into some of the bu- reau work of the department, some of the divisions, when they come down you will find that schedules which were agreed upon. weapons which were selected and which we had started to have been so far dis carded that people have forgotten the names of them almost, and new things substituted in their place, and those forgotten and new things in their places.
 Double Duty For Home Men.
 "So that if one gets the idea that this is the sort of war we used to have or if he gets the idea that this is a static thing it is an entirely erron- eous idea, and when you remember that we had to divide this little hand full of officers that we had and send so large part of them to France, and then think of those who remained at home, you will realize, am sure, that those who remained here had the double duty, insufficient for either as- pect of it in numbers-and they still have this double duty-they had to go forward with manufacturers, work out industry and industrial relations :; they had to see about supplies of raw materials and manufacture finished products, and make from day to day alterations and changes that had to be made, and they had to be ingenious with suggestions, to see whether they could devise on this side something which had not been thought of over there.
 Had to Listen to Suggestions.
 fThey had to be hospitable to sug- gestions which came from the other side; they had to confer with the for eign officers who were here and were constantly being changed, so that men fresh from the front could be here to advise with us, and in addition to that every one of them had to be a university professor, going out into the life of the community and selecting men who had mechanical experience and knowledge and training, and add ing to his original equipment the scientific training, that finishing touch which made him available for use, as military scientist.
 Built Special Departments of Army
 "As consequence, this little grour which stayed here have built the great special departments of the army The ordnance department, starting. think. with 93 or 96 officers, has now as l recall the figures, something like 5000 officers. They have had to be trained, they have had to be special. 1zed, and that has had to go on con. temporaneously with this tremendou. response to the changing conditions or the other side.
 Change of Industries. I'm the meantime, when we started into this war, think it was common ly known throughout the country tha our contribution at the outset migh well be financial and industrial. Tn, industries of this country were large ly devoted at that time, the appropri ate industries, and many converted in dustries were largely devoted to tn, manufacture of war materials for ou allies
 "As suggested this morning whe1 we went into that market we found i largely occupied, so that our problem fn ch fa saying Make shoes for us,' but i was going to a factory which neve | made shoes because all the shoe fac tories were busy making shoes fo people from whom we could not talk l them, and saying, Learn how to fnak shoes in order that you may mak them for us'
 Machine Guns, Arms and Ammunition tsNow, of course, that is not true o shoes, but it is true of machine guns 1t is true of other arms, it is true o ammunition, it is true of forging ca pacity, which was the greatest defec | in the country, and all of this time W had not. merely not to disturb tn | programme of allied manufacture i | this country, but had not to cut off tn supplies of raw material to our allie l and we had not to disturb the industr l Of this country to such an extent tha products upon which they depende l for the success of their military CD erations would be interfered witl both agricultural and commercial an l industrial products.
 l "At the outset the idea was that "
 would be financial and industrial as
 sistance to our allies during the yea
 1918, and l think I probably can req l from the Metropolitan Magazine fo
 August a suggestion which will sho,
 what the current expectation of tn
 country was. The editor of the Metro
 politan Magazine was protestin
 against what he believed to be the in
 tention of the government at tha
 time"
 Editorial in Metropolitan Magazine.
 Here Senator Weeks interrupted
 ask if that was the magazine (
 which Theodore Roosevelt is associai feditor. Secretary Baker replied ths
 MT. Roosevelt was a contributing ed
 itor, and continued:
 This magazine came out in Augus f911, and this editorial says:
 Since it is our war we want
 put everything into it so as to inis
 1t in the shortest possible time, S
 that the world may be restored. T
 our mind the whole plan of the wa
 department has been favored with
 desire to hold off until the allies finis
 the war for us.'
 You see the editor was dealin
 with what he supposed to be the in
 tention of the war department at ths tune, that we were holding off so ia