Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-24

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that America has put upon the waves,
enough yellow pine was required to
have built bridge from here 10
France, with 100000 feet of timber
left over. Getting this timber out OF
the primeval forests of the great
Northwest, hauling it to the railroad,
transporting it 1000 or 5000 miles to
Gulf and Atlantic coast shipyards,
formed an epic feat Of labor that de-
serves celebration by'a great poet.
Moreover, America had to get ready
to make the ships. The building of
the great shipyards was a race against
time and the German submarine; but
they were finished through American
genius and the devotion of American
labor. and the submarine menace no
longer exists.
The Nations $4,000 factories next
needed help; those and the farms.
While the wheatfelds of the West
were clamoring for men to harvest the
great crop that must feed not only this
country but its armies and the armies
and civilian population OF the Allies
the munitions works in many parts
of the country were beginning to feel
keenly the losses they had sustained
through the draft. Here was a double
problem, which the United States En-
ployment Service was at once called
Upon to solve.
This great organization, through its
farm labor officials, succeeded first of
all in mobilizing all the spare labor OF
the wheat country-the older men and
the boys who could give effective ser
vice. Next, men cut of jobs or expect
ing calls to the Army within month
or so were collected from all parts
the country. In one way and another,
a great harvest army was created
which worked its way north through
the Mississippi and Missouri valleys to
the Canadian border with all the pre-
cision of victorious army on the bat
tlefeld The American wheat crop
was saved, and that of Canada as we'll.
Before the army was demobilized, the
American corn crop was also gath
cred.
Labor has kept the streams of guns
and projectiles, of foodstuffs, ana
clothing, moving forward steadily dur
ing the past year and half So efffc-
emily has the American workman per-
ormed his task that America has prac-
tically supported the world, and yet
the people at home have suffered no
real hardships
Coal presents one of the great
problems of the war. Coal is vital
necessity to all forms of war work
TO the Factories that produce war ma
terials, the homes of the wolkmen, tn.
railroads and ships that transport
goods to all parts of this country, ana
to our soldiers abroad Many miners
had been called into the army; the de-
pleted number that remained must
produce more coal than had ever been
mined before, to supply the swar--tims
need.
Diners who had long considered
themselves ION the shelf" who had
accumulated money enough to tide
lover their declining years, volunteered
to come back to the mines to help de-
feat the German. Miners ir the South
gave up their Labor Day holidays
day which means more to the work
man than almost any other in the
year, They remained steadily on the
job, and have accomplished great
task
But the job is net finished The La
Dor Department keeps this message
before the, workman: Not until peace
is actually signed will we have peace.
The processes of production must go
on and on; there must be food, coal,
and clothing enough for the world"