The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-29
WORK OF WAR
 DEPARTMENT

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. we had started to manufacture have been So far discarded that people have forgotten the names of them almost and new things substituted in their places and those forgotten and new things m their places
 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 static thing, it is an entirely er- roneous idea, and when you remem- Der that we had 10 divide this little handful of officers that we had and sent SO large a part of them to France and then think of those who remained at home. you win realize, I am sure, that those who remained here had the double duty-they had Go go forward with manufactures, work out industry and industrial relations, they had to see about supplies of raw material and manufacture finished products and make from day to day altera- tions 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
 They had Co be hospitable to sug- gestions which came from the other side, they had Co confer with the for eign officers who were here and were constantly being changed, SD that men fresh from the front could be here t0 advise with Us and in addition to that every one of them had to be authori lively professed. going out into the life of the community and selecting men who bad mechanical experience and knowledge and training and add ing 10 his original equipment the sci entifie training, that finishing touch which made him available for use as military scientist
 As consequence this little group which stayed here have built the great special departments of the army The ordnance department starting, think with ninety three or ninety six offi- sers has now as | recall the figures something like three thousand oft cers They have had Co be trained they have had 10 be specialized and that has had to SO on contemporane- ously with this lax response 10 chang ing conditions on the other side
 "Meanumo when gc started into this war ] think it was commonly thought throughout the country that our contribution at the outset might well be financial and industrial The industries Of this country were large iy devoted at that time to the man Ufacture of war materials for our ai- lies
 "Nhen we went into that market we found it largely occupied so that our problem was not going 70 a shoe facjeF! and saying make shoes for us, but i was going to factory which never made shoes. becaus all The shoe factories were busy making
 hoes for people rom whom we could not take them, and saying learn how to make shoes iu order that you may may make them for us
 Now of cour-e. thaf is not true oi shoes, but u is " s~@hine guns. it is true uf ' 4t is
 true of ammunition l.org- iug capacul which attest defect in tho count% 0f this time Ne had not mci>S 1t to dis
 urb the program of allied manufac- ture in this country. but we had not to cut off the supplies of raw ma terials to our allies and we had not to disturb the industry of this coun- try to such an extent that products upon which they depended for the success of their military operations would be interfered with, both agri- cultural and commercial and indus trial products
 Al the outset the idea vas that we would be financial and industrial assistance to our allies during the year 1918 and think probably can read from the Metropolitan magazine for August a suggestion which wYl show what the current expectation of the country was The editor of the Metropolitan magazine was protesting against what he believed to be the intention of the government at that time"
 Here Senator Weeks interrupted to ask if that vas the magazine of which Theodore Roosevelt Is assistant edi-