The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-11-13
NEW ENGLAND HAS
ARISEN FROM WAR
In A BRIEF YEAR
OF MUCHE! /! UNREST
Great Industrial War Cul-
mination of First Period
of Peace.
BY EDWIN W. HuLLINGER.

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nervous haste back TO peace condi-
tions. its feat of fitting $500, 600 sol
diers back into industry, rises one
large fact;
England has become new Eng
I land
! Four and a half years of fighting, of
war pressure at home. have effected l
! change in The people and 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 as :,
| first move 10 restore the old pre-war
wage level an dstandard of life, the
first IL months OF peace have demon
! strated time and again how deep this
transformation is. how the nations
| outlook on life has altered.
In Flanders and France. English
men of all ranks and classes unwit-
tingly got themselves made over
in their ways OF thinking. their per-
sonal discipline. and their capacity for
doing things
The past year has shown their de-
termination TO carry these new stand
ards into their peace-time lives.
At home. conditions and customs. in
dustrial instruments and methods had
been moving. too. Towards the end of
the war. some 100000 Americans in
England for varying periods, helped
move things a little further.
Not until all was over and the pros
pect arose of taking up the old peace
time pursuits again. did England real
ize how much 1t had changed. A large
| part of the population decided then
they did not want to so back to the
I old.
So the reconstruction of the out
grown pre-war institutions began
This is the big human story in Eng
lands first armistice anniversary.
Bound up with it IS the story tmore
tangible. perhaps) purely of the short
or span. from November IL. 1918.
showing how much progress has been
made in this new atmosphere. toward
! putting the country back on a peace
basis
! Men numbering $500. 600. a year
T ago. cramped in n trench or behind
l the lines in Flanders or France. with
/ shells rushing overhead. were busy
this morning in English factories,
I with the roar OF machinery around
J them. in Offices under cleaning cleo
trio lights. or midst the quiet of the
! English countryside. Shins. for four
: and half years bound tight in MILL
tary puttees. once more enjoyed the
/ luxury OF murti.trouser leg. Tapping
loose at the ankle Another 5oo.o0a
are waiting to be "demobbed''
4 board os trade survey in October
disclosed that:
Nearly all Enr'and's factories and
industrial plants have now completed
their reorganization for peace. Pre-
war sewing machine mills, year ago
become sewing machine factories. Ma
chine shops have been remodeled and
re equipped. but equipped with apph
ances capable of many times the old
output by hand.
Except for lack or transport to
carry The goods to market. production
would be virtually normal. Much OF
Britain's best rolling stock has still
to return from France. Many loco
motives and coaches We're actually de
stroyed during the war.
Notwithstanding. Great Britain has
doubled her exports of manufactured
articles since the armistice. bringinE
them to about two-third pre.war vol.
ume,
Most OF this has gone TO the CONT.
nent.
Germany has received the greatest
proportional increase of English eN
ports-from zero to over S,5oo.oot
pounds worth of merchandise in the
month of September alone.
Scandinavia stands first auantitive
ly: Sweden from cl.000.oo0 worth q
month in 1918. to over s9.0a0, ,o00;
Norway. from ci.5a0.oo0 to el1.00o.
600: Denmark. from less than, 900.
600 to G16.0oo.000.
4 America is today buying less thar
before the armistice- { Is. OSe 900 IL
1918, as compared with f106o7. .0ot
month now. This ia due largely Il
the fall OF the English pound on tn,
American exchange, Il having dropped
over so cents during the year.
The old H. c. L.. however. Is nj
tless 80 this Armistice day than last
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