Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bureau of Vocational Guidance at the University, which is affiliated with the Department of Education, has just completed its first piece of work of national importance. This work is intimately connected with the country's war preparation program, for it presents clearly and concisely the nature of the training that is needed today in order to engage in the ship-building industry...
...comparatively easy to send out a patriotic appeal for workmen to enter the shipbuilding industry on the basis of the supreme need for ships in our present war crisis. The matter of selecting those who offer their services is a very much more difficult question...
...really two problems bound up in the emergency program of the Shipping Board: first, the securing of large numbers of workmen who have been prepared in trades somewhat similar to those found in the shipyards; second, retention of these men in their tasks for the period of the war. Of the two, the latter is the more difficult one, and involves the task of the special training of men who must be quickly instructed in the great variety of mechanical trades connected with the fabrication and erection of steel ships...
Criticism of our program as a warring nation tends too often toward censure. It is the faults, the delays, and the inefficiency that are pointed out, in no uncertain amount of reason what we condemn the activities of the War Department. for the proof of investigations tends to show that those men whose duty is to manage the military preparation have not altogether justified our trust in them. Errors are pointed out and discussed, in order to have them remedied. Not from malice nor from political prejudice do we try to discover faults, but the benefit by their elimination...
Although we may be slow in securing rifles and supplies, yet out contribution in funds has not been slight. To partially remedy the lack of men with complete training, equipment and accessories, we have furnished certain other "sinews of war." In ten months the Government has spent seven billion dollars, of which one half has been loaned to the Allies. To have used is no small aid to the nations struggling against Germany. Without investigations, censure, or even criticism valuable progress has been made...