Word: finding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this problem the Government cannot afford to pussy-foot. Complete control of our ship-yards may be the answer. It may even be necessary to utilize the draft to secure a full working force for each war industry. Men in Uncle Sam's khaki drawing $30 a month may find military discipline sufficient incentive to keep...
...fashioning of such goods. We have an ever-increasing demand for war commodities, which means a necessarily additional application of labor to war industry. Yet we are told to spend our money freely for articles produced by concerns "of every kind." Non-essential industries (in the war sense), finding the same demand for their products, will continue to use supplies and labor which might otherwise be diverted to those industries essential to the prosecution of the war. If the candy-makers find "business as usual" they will continue to use sugar which might be feeding our soldiers in France...
...Government and his men to the ship-yards. It means in many cases painful business readjustments, and it will not take place in a day, but the interests of the whole are certainly above those of the few. Leave your savings in the bank, where they will find investment, or buy Liberty Bonds. Pity the well-meaning though selfish business man, who shouts from the housetops "business as usual," but learn that wars are won through economy in non-essentials, rather than in pernicious ignorance which maintains an industrial organization entirely unfit for war-time needs...
...that of all men hereabouts, you have the hardest part. But while thinking of the great man whose birthday is tomorrow, I looked in the University Quinquennial Catalogue and found that his son stayed on through College and received his degree in the Class of 1864. Perhaps you can find some consolation in that...
...American people must remember that we are living and working in a democracy; that democracy and professionalism are repugnant, and always will be. A true democracy must find room for the amateur to expand. A nation must either be democratic or it must be autocratic, having efficiency in professionalism. In democracies each man must have an opportunity in public affairs, and efficiency and professionalism must be restricted to private life...