Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-06
TASK NOW is TO FIT THREE AND
A HALF MILLION MEN TO GO
BACK INTO CIVIL LIFE-JOHN
BULL JUST WAKING UP TO
WHAT WAR DID FOR HIM.
By Edwin w. Hullinger.

uuSIFy, rises one large TACT:
England has become a new England
Four and half years of fighting
of war pressure at home, have eff
fected a change in the people anc
country that is fundamental
change that now stands revealed
that the confusion of war has lifted.
eliminating in a great industrial
war to block what Labor regarded al
a first move to restore the old pre-.
war wage level and standard of life
The first twelve months of peace have
demonstrated time and again how deep
this transformation is, how the ma
TONS outlook on life has altered.
In Flanders and France, English
men of all ranks and classes unwii-
tingly got themselves made overt
in their ways of thinking, their pd-
sonal discipline, and their capacity fir
doing things.
The past year has shown their E.
termination to carry these new stat,
ards into their peace-time lives. +
At home, conditions and custois,
industrial instruments and methds
had been moving, too. Towards he
end of the war, some two million m
orleans, in England for varyingpe-
RODS, helped move things little ar
ther.
Not until all was over and the Ios-
pect arose of taking up the old Rce
time pursuits again, did Englad V
alize how much it had changel. y
lar ge part ur Jne popul~+ion iecidet
then they did not want to go back D
The old.
So the reconstruction of the out
grown pre-war institutions began.
This is the big human story il
Englands first armistice anniversary
Bound up with it is the story (mor
tangible, perhaps) purely of tn
shorter span, from November II, 1911
showing how much progress has bee
made, in this new atmosphere, toward
putting the country back on peac
; basis.
Three and half million men,
year ago, cramped in a trench or be
hind the lines in Flanders or France
with shells rushing overhead, wer
busy this morning in English factC
lies, with the roar of machiner
around them; in offices; under CLEAN
ing electric bulbs, or midst the quie
+ Lf English countryside. Shins, fo
four and half years bound tight
military puttees once more enjoye
the luxury of a multi trouser-le!
tapping loose at the ankle. Anotl
y, er half million are waiting to b
"demobbed."
= A board of trade survey in Octobe
= disclosed that:
Nearly all England's factories al
q Industrial plants have now complete
, their reorganization for peace. Pr
war sewing machines mills, year az
tuning out guns and shells, ha'
: again become sewing machine fact
+ les. Machine shops have been I
= modelled and re-equipped, but equip
= ed with appliances capable Of ma
). times the old output by hand.
J. Except for lack of transport
+ carry the goods to market, product
- would be virtually normal. Much
- Britain's best rolling stock has still
;. Il turn from France. Many LOGON
: j. tives and coaches were actually d
! + troyed during the war.
+ Notwithstanding, Great Britain
= doubled her exports of manufactu
- articles since the armistice, bring
! + them to about two-thirds pre-war '
- ume.
- Most of this has gone to the c
- tinent.
- Germany has received the gre
- est proportional increase of Eng
- cxports-from zero to over three
- half million pounds worth of N
sF cnandise in the month of Septem
4 q alone.
- Scandinavia stands first quantitt
- ly; Sweden from one million pou
- worth a month in 1918 to over I
- millions; Norway, from one anc
- falf to eleven millions; Denmi
re from less than a million to sixteel
=. America is to-day buying less t
=. before the armistice-13,0 S9,OOO
e. in 1918, as compared with 10, GOT,
= per month now. This is due larg