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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



December 10, 1917 



PERKINS 



GLUE 

 COMPANY 



SOLE MANUFACTURERS 

 AND SELLING AGENTS 



PERKINS 

 Vegetable Veneer Glue 



(PATENTED JULY 2, 1912) 



805 J. M. S. BUILDING 

 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 



the United States will be as highly organized as are those 

 of England at this time. There they have mobilized and 

 are using all people and materials that can be employed 

 for war purposes. The efficiency of their factories sur- 

 passes anything known in that remarkable country before 

 the war. No idlers are to be found, no unproductive 

 resource. The army at the front is backed by larger 

 armies at home, in the fields, and workshops. 



We must do the same in the United States. No man 

 should suppose that this war can be won by the men in 

 uniform alone. They cannot long meet the strain put 

 upon them unless they are backed by every class and 

 condition of people at home. It is a war of men, ma- 

 terials, and standardization, and the greatest of these is 

 standardization. 



We will have to meet the weeding-out process when it 

 comes to separating the essential from the non-essential 

 industries; and the industry which shall be judged non- 

 essential must disappear in order that what is necessary 

 may go ahead. The manufacturers who are abreast of the 

 times and alive to the problems confronting us, must dis- 

 cover for themselves what they can do to help win vic- 

 tory. They must not wait for some one to find work for 

 f.hem. They must find it for themselves and they must 

 let it be known what it is that they are prepared to do. 



Mr. Saunders declared that thus far in the war the 

 sacrifice in America has not been met by the ranks of 

 laborers, but by manufacturers. They are the ones who 

 are organizing for service and the money to finance the 

 war is coming from them. 



The appearance of women in the labor field, as com- 

 petitors of men, has begun. It is claimed that in this 

 competition three v^omen can do the work of two men. 

 Manufacturers must solve the labor problem within their 

 own plants. They must protect and care for their laborers. 

 In England, early in the war, workmen were on duty in 

 some factories one hundred hours a week; but that was 

 found to be a mistake, and the hours are now cut to a 

 little more than half of that maximum, and better work 

 is the result. 



WAR PREPAR-ATION 



B. W. Lord's address was a war talk from beginning to 

 end. The end which he held steadily in view was the win- 

 ning of the war, and all his argument was devoted to that 

 topic. He had recently spent a few days in Washington 

 where he had a near view of war preparations. He had 

 talked with leaders there, and came away impressed with 

 the stupendous undertaking on which wre are embarked. 

 It will call for every ounce of our strength, and all of our 

 energy and ability. 



Mr. Lord made up his mind from what he saw and 

 heard in Washington that the demand for veneers for 

 war uses will far surpass any present expectations. He 

 named a number of articles which be believed would call 

 for large amounts of veneers, among such articles being 

 airplanes, hydroairplanes, electric batteries, and shell and 

 ammunition boxes. He found that prospective pur- 

 chasers of veneers at Washington were not well posted 



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