8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 69 



Attention was drawn, on more than one occasion, by manufactur- 

 ers to the importance of maintaining the interest of workers in air- 

 craft factories in the highly important but generally monotonous 

 work on which they are employed. Engaged, as they frequently are, 

 on the production by a repetition process of some small part of an 

 aeroplane, these men and women find it difficult to realize that they 

 are contributing effectively to one of our most valuable instruments of 

 warfare. It was accordingly arranged that Captain Ewart, R.F.A., 

 well known as a writer by the name of " Boyd Cable," should visit 

 various squadrons at the front and gather materials and photographs 

 for lectures concerning the exploits performed with various types of 

 aircraft for delivery to the workpeople engaged on the manufacture 

 of those particular types. Captain Ewart delivered several series of 

 lectures which, judging from the reports received from the factories 

 concerned, proved a very great success. 



