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Land & Water 
May 2 , I 9 1 8 
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMFNT 
TO H M. THE KING. 
Ilncrushable Trench Cap 
Soft, yet retains its shape 
and smart appearance, 
being made on a founda- 
tion of special material 
which is springy — prac- 
tically uncrushable and 
unaffected by wet. In 
best quality khaki whip- 
cord, and fitted with 
leather headband. 
T^r, 
ice 
21/- 
net. 
Packing in Wood Box and 
Postage to the Front, 2\- 
The ever-increasing salei of this 
Lincoln Bennett speciality are 
proof of its super excellence. 
The " LB " Adapter Lining for Steel Helmets 
is still the only lining soundly constructed on 
an efficient principle. Write for particulars. 
Anyone can fit it.— No fasteningfs required.— Distributes weipht.— 
Equalises balance. — Provides ventilation. — Minimises concossion. — 
Obtainable in all sizes and shapes ol heads. 
Lincoln Bennett & Co. Ltd. 
The Leading Military & Civil Hatters, 
40 PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.l. 
CFJ^ilS^^^^^^^ 
KHAKI SHIRTS 
HARRODS LTD 
HARRODS are 
the actual 
makers. The more 
particular the man the 
more he will appre- 
ciate the detailed care 
and excellence that 
Harrods offer. 
Harrods Shirts em- 
body more of those 
niceties of make and 
than are com- 
monly en- 
countered, 
but which 
make all 
the differ- 
ence to 
c o mfor t 
and to service. 
Khaki Zephyr - 7/6 
Union Twill - 10/6 
Taffeta (light) - 15,6 
Twill Silk - - 21/- 
Viyella 13 6 & 14/6 
All NON.SHRINKINC 
'^aZ'?:/li:^iVr LONDON SWl 
(CoHtinued Jrom page 38) 
methods, but by the aid of intelligent co-operation with the 
labour employed. There is less antagonism between the 
employer and the employed than in any other country, 
The principle is recognised as sound that a well-paid, well- 
housed and well-fed man, allowed to earn according to his 
individual productive power, is an invaluable asset to 
industry, and in the largest and most successfully operated 
plants this principle governs in the relations of the 
employer to the employed. 
Increase, of Wealth 
In the last four years the national wealth of America 
has inrreased bv at least £ioo per capita, and this is not due 
to profits on the sale of war materials, for this has only 
accounted for about £5 per capita including the profit made 
on shipments of food such as would have been made had 
there been no war. The war is responsible to some degree, 
however, for the total increase, for internal development 
has been intensified by reason of the disturbed condition 
of the rest of the world. This increase in national wealth 
has come from but one source and that is the legitimate 
development of industry. 
It was a good thing for America and for the Allies that 
this development preceded actual participation in the 
war, for American industry was all the more ready and able 
to respond to the demand to be made upon it when the conflict 
came. It meant that there was more money to be loaned 
to the Allies, greater facihties immediately available for war 
purposes, and more workers ready drilled to take their part 
in the great war machine at home and abroad. Any increase 
in wealth that may have come to the American people 
in the earlier days of the war in Europe through supplying 
the needs of the countries at war has been more than returned 
in money and materials during the past year. 
The expansion of industry that has taken place in Arnerica 
in the past twenty years has exceeded anything before 
recorded and the whole force of this tremendous organisation 
has been turned against the foe of civilisation. As fast as 
alien immigration has entered the country it has been 
absorbed into the industrial world, and in the second generation 
these people are no longer aliens in spirit or in customs. 
Too little importance is attached to climate, food and environ- 
ment in estimating the power of the American melting pot. 
A bracing and electric atmosphere, a full supply of nourishing 
food and association with a free people change the whole 
character of the population bom of alien parents from that 
of their forefathers. The industrial tffi:iency of these 
people is multiplied beyond comparison with those who remain 
in Europe, The contrast in the productive power of the 
individual worker has been strikingly confirmed in the 
experience of one great American industrial with factories 
in nearly every large country in the world. This company 
has found that the men they employ in America can be 
depended upon to produce a minimum of 40 per cent, more 
output than the men they employ abroad, and yet these 
men both in America and elsewhere may be of the same 
race and nationality at birth. Forty years ago Irishpien 
did the pick and shovel work of America. To-day the 
Italians, Slavs and Levantines have taken the place of the 
Irish, and the latter are engaged in more skilled and better 
paid branches of labour. It has been so with every influx 
of aliens. When they first arrived they began at the bottom 
of the ladder, but as they came under the influence of the 
American chmate, food, and institutions, they quickly raised 
themselves to a more satisfactory status, and their children : 
brought up or born in America, began far in advance of 
where their parents left off. 
Fifty years ago America had to make a choice between 
rapid industrial development with large immigration or a 
very slow development and restricted immigration. The first 
named course was adopted. The industrial development has 
been more rapid than was even dreamed of and some social 
and poUtical penalties have been incurred by the nation 
and its institutions through the great influx of foreign labour. 
The damage has been less than was predicted, however, for the 
regenerative powers of the New World were under-estimated. 
The fusion of a number of races has produced a new race 
dominated absolutely by Anglo-Saxon ideals and even still 
by Anglo-Saxon leaders, but broadened in its sympathies 
and understandings and containing within its spirit a hatred 
of all tyranny, a shadowy inheritance from previous 
generations of the oppressed. It is because of this inheritance 
that America is inhabited by a peace-loving nation. It is 
also because of this inheritance that when once convinced 
that liberty and democracy were threatened the nation was 
ready to turn the whole power of its immeasurable industrial 
strength against the enemy. 
