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THK ONE VITAL QUESTION
There is one question which every American should j
ask himself at this time more earnestly than any otluu.
It is a question that is pertinent to every enterprise which
every American undertakes. It makes no differencei
whether that enterprise be the purchase of an automo
bile, the building of a house, the construction of public,
works or the ordering of one’s domestic policy. In each
instance every American should ask himselt: ‘AN ill this
particular thing I am about to do help to win the war?
It needs no argument to convince any intelligent per
son that the prime necessities for victory are food, steel,
lumber, gasoline and the minerals and materials that en
ter into the manufactures of arms, munitions, ships and
war supplies generally. In addition to all this is the greater
demand for man power, in the training camps, in the
trenches, on the high seas, in field and factory, lumber
mill and shipyard. NVith respect to all these there must
be individual and organized thought, there must be a sum
marizing of energies to the one end, there must be con
servation and the exercise of patriotic judgment that will
eliminate the unnecessary in favor of the thing that must
be done in order to win the war.
Daniel Willard, in a recent interview given to a repre-j
tentative of the Baltimore Sun, puts the consideration of
this question in concrete fashion. Assuming that there is.
a plan to build a church, Mr. Willard said "that unless the j
men behind the plan believed that America would be aided
thereby in winning the war the church should not be
built.” So of postoffices and other public buildings. • So,
too, unnecessary private residences should not be built;
nor municipal nor other public improvemnts planned anil
carried forward that will demand labor and material of:
which, at best, there is hardly an adequate supply for war
needs.
Mr. Willard emphasizes the increased demand for coal j
created by war expanding industry and accentuated by;
the supplies we must send abroad to our allies, and espe
cially to Italy where there will be a coal famine unless we!
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prevent it. He points out even the greater importance of!
the proper distribution of steel, that the vast and neces
sary war supply to the allies may be maintained undi
. minished. Discussing this distribution under the direc
tion of Judge Lovett, Mr. Willard said:
"Here are the gunmakers, the munitions people, the!
railroads, the construction people, the jobbers and the
others who must have steel. There stand the represen
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tatives of England, France, Russia, Italy, lake their
statements of what they need and add them together and
you have a total far in excess of the total supply shown by
the statements in Judge Lovett’s hands. \\ hat does Judge
Lovett do? He is the master of the situation—made so
in the public interest. He sits at his table and studies the
demand for steel and then he doles out the supply, so much
for this, and so much for that. Few get enough. They
get what Judge Lovett thinks they can do with if they ex
ercise rigid economy.”
It is clear enough how every purchase, every enter
prise that increases the demand for steel or for any other
,.f these materials essential to war needs, interferes ft ith
the conduct of the war, unless such purchase or enterprise
is justified, directly or indirectly, in some sort of war ser
vice. In this connection Mr. Willard was asked if the
man who was merely going to buy a pleasure vehicle
should put this war question to himself “Exactly that. Ex
actly that,” responded the great railroad chief, and then
he added: “Let hint lend the money to the government.
The government will need it.”
No American should need he told that this is a time
of rigid industrial concentration which calls into service
all the essentials to the one supreme end that we win the
war. All the thought and energy and power of the na
tion must he directed to that one end.
G.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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