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GREAT BRITAIN IS VAST ARSENAL Besides Government Plants There Are 4,000 Controlled Munition Firms. 3,500,000 ARE AT WORK High Tide of Output for War Purposes Not Yet Reached-Is Now Armory for Allies-Work of the Scientists. London.-The enormous stride made by Great Britain toward solving the problem of munitions wits made clear In the courso of a speech recently de dvered by F. Kellaway, parliamenturv secretary to Doctor Addison (parla. mentary secretary to the ministry of munitions). Mr. Kellaway said the most prominent fact of the war was that the price of victory was unlimited imunitions. . "The British army in early days," he said, "was so out-munittoned that the British soldier ought to have been beaten before the fighting began. But be proved that he was a better fighting wan than the German. What he lacked In munitions he made up in devil, in initiative, and in endurance. "I do not, think anything that Ger many has ever done equals the work thin country has accomplished in the way of industrial organization during the last twelve months. Great Britain, which has throughout been the treas ury of the allies, has now become their armory. There are now scattered up and down the country some 4,000 con trolled firms producing munitions of war. "The vost majority of these previous to the war never produced a gu, a shell ori a cartridge ; yet in ten months the ministry of munitions h'as obtained front these ilrmins a1 'numb1er of shells greater than the totil prodiIuction of all the governinlint a1rsenais ai great armanent s1ops in existence at the Comlmenceilent of the war.. . Increase of Arsenals. "Speaklmig it the house of cotmonts last year Mr. iUioyd-George startled the countn y by saying that eleven new ar senals had been provided. Today, not eleven but ninety arsenaimls have been built or adapted. Our weekly ouilptt of .303 cartridge is greater by itllionis than our annual output before tite war. There is a certain machine gun being producel )y the hundred every week In a factory ordered, planned and nuilt during the pltst t welve Imlonths. The outpit of guns4 and(1 howlitzers has in crease(l by several huitjd red per cent. "We are not yet at the full flood of our output of gunis anI shell. If tite Germans cantnot he driven Itome other wise, our army will have such a supply of guns that the limbers will touch each other in a contintuous line front the Somme to the sea. France, Itis sia and Italy have been supplied by or through Great Britain with many of the most important munitions of War. Many thtousands of tons of steel have been antd are being sent to France. "Our contribution towvard the equip ment of thte Belgian anrmty has beent continuous, and the Serblitn army has been re-equipped atnd r'estored to a nmgnficent fighting force very largely by the workshops anad workers of thte United Kingdom. "The labor situation has been to a considlerable extent saved b~y our wonm MR S. "JA CK" GERAGH TY t I Jack" Geratghty,'atfter severai T'ea 4ut West, htas returned to New- E pot or the summer season. Mrs. ~ GOer*ty is a niece of Mrs. Elsie d Wred4 Vanderbilt. She was formerly ~is4 ,, uhia wfrench and gave society Quitysa shockK veral years ago wvhen I she epeed wf' "ack" Geraghty, then I U * I~prt ur The Geraghtys p - vE4 ~MindPolls, apd they have not g ee~ ' ewport for-some tiane. The r< ~,~ h1at p t t e dog show of na nnel eub at New9 ca ~ *~ %.She Is .bwn JIti rd.., 1, MEIR TO AUdilNN .... .... .. ThOugh Von llindenburg Is in Teutonic armies on the east front, A Austrian throne, still rules over his seen with one of hip generals plannin m. There were 184,000 women el gaged in war industries in 1914. T lay there are 634,000. The total nur )er of war workers in 1014 was 1,19E 100. It has now increased to 8,500.00 ['here are 471 different munition pro %sees upon which women are now o1 raged. The women of France are a, ng wonders in munition making, bi our women munition workers beat tl vorld." Work of the ScIentIsts. Referring to glass Mr. Kellawi aid: "The problem facing the governme s, first, to discover the formula < :lasses, and having discovered it, I stablish the industry. It is fortunal hat In this crisis we have available ew scientific men who have bee vorking for years almost without re ignitIon, 1111d we have also Institutt uch as the Imperial college at Sout Censington and the National Physici ahoratory at Teddington. The go, rnment went to these men and aske hetm to discover the formula used b he Germans in their production c )pticll and ch eical glass. "These British scientists, after at fe, veeks experlimens, discovered an )f the formulae, and it then becanm )otiIble to begin manufacture on RELATE STORIES OF THE BIG PUS1 Nounded British Soldiers Tell a Thrilling Moments in Charges in Picardy. IULLETS STOPPED BY 0001 Vlachine Gunner Is Killed In a Tree Artillery Work Is Marvel of Ex. actness--Find Few Rifles In Captured Trenches. L.od~on.-This city is now dal aitig thrilled by thte stories of th treat push on the Somme whIch th VoundI~ed soldliers have~ br'oughit hac vith thema. Sorely wounded as man 'f-thema are, andt af'ter a journey whic ill the care mnade barely endutrabhl he men still tIngle with the thrIll he charge and their talk is all of th dorlous rush with which they cal -led every obstacle. "We went over In grand style," sal a sergeant recalling the assault o diontauban, "and found the pla1ce 1 mn awful mess. Most of the house md1( been knocked headi over heels he only ones I saw standIng were ouple of cafes. As we came on w awv lots of Germans running out c lhe back of the vIllage, but there wer alenty of them monkeying agout th ulns. We dilvidedl the company u nto groups of sIx, but as we neare he village we joinedi up again. M lye pals andI myself saw some Ihun n a ground floor room, so we droppi Mills bomb through the window n idln't wait for an answer./ "As we turned the corner we rsaw herman lying round the end ~a wval he'd got a machine gun and iad mnd1 little emplacement witI foricks. IH trned the dlamined t . ig on me an ot me 1n'th9 foot. It dIdn't stop n' hough, and whte I was getting -net o him I felt- tw kIcks over the hear dlIdn't wait o see what happenel ut simiply w .nt at'him and hnyonete im. I cot an't go on nmuch furthe o I snt <wn to see what was tt1 a mage. ook Stopped Bullets. "My 60$ was pretty bad, but who look d aipy left hand, breast pock4 sai tw boles .in it. I opened ni o t hrt, found thtat two btilets h~t 2n .tlgrougrt :my .pieta5ehaIng tul >r, through mny pocket case andy ti os ?ifdy 'iEto a. bool we at oo' ig r ndcb tHRONEAT THE FRONT 7 supreme communa( now of zuost ot the rchduke Karl Francis Joseph, heir to the part of the line, in Galicia. He Is berp g a new move. 1- commercial scale. The result was that 3- within a year after the outbreak of 1- war the output of optical glass in this - country was multiplied four and a halt . times. It has now increased to fhur c- teen times the output previous to the 3- war, and there is good ground for say 3- ing that by the end of the year it will it have multiplied twentyfold. Le "The ministry of munitions has built, or Is building, housing accommodations for 60,000 persons, and canteens and ,y mess rooms in munition works now provide decent accommodation, where it S00.000 workers take their meals every )f (lily. :o "For a long time our antiaircraft :e gunners have been crying out for ar a Improved height tinder for leppelins, ii the existing height finders being slow, clumsy and having a margin of error 5 of hundreds of feet. You will realize h how that handlenpped our gunners in L their at tempts to '-bring down Zep r- pelIns. d "Three men set to work on the prob y lem, and in two or three months they f produced a height finder which gove rapidly and exactly the height of a ,v Zeppelin. It is an important discov y ery, but the problem is only one of e hundreds which aire continually crop a ping up." "The Germans seetined to be all age from sixteen to fifty I should say. Some of them came up crying out that they had liad no food for five days. One of our boys did wonders with the bayonet-he was chasing three Germans-lie caught them up and bayoneted two, as: he swun'g round, he hit the third man down with the butt of his rifle. "As we were going into Montauban ,we sawv i German machine gunner up a tree. He'd got the neatest little platform you ever sawv painted so that it was almost invisible. WVe shot him, butt he djdn't fall clear. The last we saw of .him was that he was hanging by his boots from the tree. "The spirit of our boys was spien. did-they simply loved the fun. One of them got blown up by a shell. He seemed pretty dazed, hut he picked himself up and eanme a long. All hie aid was, ,'Oh, there must be a war on1 y tifter all, I suppose.' e Picked Off Two by Two. e "WVe had carried the first two lines kc and on getting into the tirdi we sawv y' the Germans. coiming up fromt the two Li exits of a deep dugout and pairing off , dlown the trench. Outr platoon comn f naunder got into the trench andc pieked L' the enemny oft' as they came out. 114 -had the mouth of the dugout on either side of hmim~, say fifteen yardls away. le was as cool as a cucumber; he simply turnedl from right to left and a fired just as if he wits in ai shooting a gallery. It was the best it of fancy - shooting I've seen." a A sergeant major of the Middlesex e ahpeking of the work of English artil f lery, said: "They wvere simply magi e nificent and ns we advanced they lift e ed1 trenclt by trench. The battalion went ov.4r and on in fine style. It was :juiht ?1ke a parade and the .rpueri felt y c Ifident, as they knew that .large re s 4erves were behind them." vA corporal in the ,Northumlierlarg1 d F'uslliers gave a picture of bthe'.pre. c'ison wvith wuhich the assault was can aried out. ".Just on time hp said, "the first lines went n'wgy, not' hiut'rying a bit, Sjust takcing it~e-Thn anie th& gaps, butt these were. poon filled. The'i{ rwent the third line aidfllowed p with the fanppor~t.ts' Ever.Vthing was. going Al.,: "The - nrtillery . was- -liftind --frn r trench to trench and we were follow, ' ing on step by step. It was just like a field day. The carriers with homabs as cheerful as anything, and~ then later nl in the day I got moved bacik Into our town front lines and orito the dress y ing station." One man who had been at Matus~ l'- s'aid that-in the Germa. n iohs thiey. d found, plenty of men, btit as far a~ int hni unde boamjb .y~ar a t WiSON NTIHDO OF 'NOINATION | Reelves Senator James and Committee at Shadow Lawn. ACCEPTS WITH GRATITUDE President Sets Forth "Failures" of Re publicans and Achievements of Democrats.-Defeeds His For. eign and Mexican Policies. Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 2.-Presi dent Wilson received today at Shadow I Lawn, the summer White House, the formal notification of Is renomination by the Democratic party from the noti fication committee headed by Senator I Ollie James. In response Mr. Wilson spoke in ptirt as follows: Senator James, Gentlemen of the Notification Committee, Fellow Citi zens: I cannot accept tt.9 leadership and responsibility whileh the National Democratic convention has again, iII such generous fashion, asked me to accept without first expressing my profound gratitude to the party for the trust it reposes in me after four years of fiery trial in the midst of af fairs of unprecedented difficulty, and the keen sense of added responsibility with which this honor fills (I had al most said burdens) me as I think of the great issues of national life and Policy involved in the present and im mediate future conduct of our govern ment. I shall seek, as I have always sought, to justify the extraordinary confidence thus reposed in me by striv Ing to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every mislead ing -party rhotive and devoting every energy I have to the service of the na tion as a whole, praying that I may continue to have the counsel and sup port of all forward-looking men at ev ery turn of the ditlicult business. For I d1o not doubt that the people of the United States will wish the Democratic party to' continue in con trol of the government. They are not I in the habit of rejecting those who I have actually served them for those who are making doubtful and conjec tural promises of service. Least of all are they likely to substitute those who promised to render them particu lar services and proved false tQ that promise for those who have actually rendered those very services. Republicap "Failures" Cited. The Iepublican party was put out of power because of failure, practical failure and moral failure; because it had served special interests and not 'C the country at large; because, under the leadership of its preferred and es- v tablished guides, of those who still make its cholees, It had lost touch 0 with the thoughts and. the needs of the 1 nation and was living in a past age h1 and under a fixed illusion, the illusion 1 of greatness. It had framed tariff a laws based upon ai fear of foreign f i.radle, a fundamental doubt as to e American skill, enterprise, and capa- e city, and a very tendler regard for the tl profitable privileges of those whlo had ti gained control of .domestic markets s and domestic .credlits ; and yet had en- v actedl antitrust laws which hampered s the very things they meant to foster, u which were .stifl' and inelastic, andl in p panrt unintelligible. It had permitted tu the country throughout the long period ti of its control to stagger from one vi fInancial crisis to another' under the operation of a national banking lawv of its own framing which nmade strin- g gencey and Panic certain and the con- c< trol of the In rLger business operations p of the country by the bankers of a rew reserve centers inevitable; had g madle as if it meant to reform the law~ t )ut had faint-heartedly failed in the p tttemplt, because. it could not bring it- n self to do the one thing necessary to mmake the reform genuine and effec- c; tual, namely, break up the control of p small groups of bankers. It had b~een a oblivious, or indifferent, to the fact b~ titat the farmers, upon whoam the coun- ti try depends for its food and in the b~ last analysis for Its prosperity, were b~ without standling in the matter ,of p commnercial credit, without the protec- n tion of standlards in their market d1 transactions, and without' systematic (1 knowledge of the markets themselves; a that the laborers of the country, the j great army of men ,who man the in- r dustries it was professing'--to tather t and promote, 'carried their labor a a I mere commodity to market, were- sub ject to, restraint by novel and . drastic e process in the courts, were without as- e aurutnce of compensation for industrial y accidelits, without fede1ral assistance i.g'accommodating labar dlspiltes,. and without national aid or' advice'in' find. ing the places aind -the industilg in wJilc their lab'or wAf most - deedd. tihe .country had no^ nptional systemc 0% rotid constructounft:n dle~eiopmnent,r Little Intelligent .atteistion wfls paid to thp army, and not''edough' to the navy, ... The (other repdblis. of Amecriea distrusted us, because they found that we thougiht first of the profits of c American investors and only as an af-v terthought of impartial justice and helpful friendship. Its policy wats pro- x vincial in all things; its ptdrposes were t out of harmony with the temper anda purpose of the people and the timely glevelopment of the nation's interests. I So things stood when the Democrat- f Ie party came into power. How, do r they standt miw? Altin the domes- I nove 'as,64 uovid The fr has been KeVised, 'npt on he iinoiple .forefgn rude, but upon the .IOiple og in ouraging it, upon- sonething like a outing of equality -with our own in espect of the terms 9f. competition, aNd a tariff -board. has . been eated. vhose function it will be to. keep the 'elations of American 'With foreign iusiness and industry tider constant >bservation, for the guidance of our )uslness ine' a'nd of our. tongrsg. kioerican energies .are now directed owards the markets of the world. The laws against trusts have been !larifled by definition, with a view o making it plain that they were not lirected against big business but only. igainst unfair business and the pre ense of competition where there was lone; and a trade commission has een create(d with powers of guidance md accommodation which have re leved business men of unfounded e.rs and set themi upon the road of iopeful and confident enterprise. By the federal reserve act the sup ly of currency at the disposal of ac lve Imsiness has been rendered elas Ic, taking its volume, not from a fixed )ody of investment securities, but rom the liquid assets of daily trade. Effective measures have been taken or the re-creation of an American n-rchant marine and the revival of he American carrying trade. , The interstate commer.ce commis ion has been reorganized to enable ,t to perform its great and important lunctions more promptly and more ef Sciently. We have created, extended and improved the service of the par !eis post. For the farmers of the country we ,lave virtually created commercial :redit, by means of the federal reserve ict and the rural credits act. . They :low have the standing of. other busi less men in the money market. We llave successfully regulated specula ion in "futures" and established standards in the marketing of grains. By an intelligent warehouse act we ave assisted to make the standard rops available as never before both or systematic marketing and us a ecurity for loans from the banks. For Labor and Children. The workingmen of America hav'e ;een given a veritable emancipation, )y the legal recognition of a man's abor as part of his life, and not a n'ure marketable conmodity ; by ex mipting labor organizations from proc %sees of the courts which treated their nembers like fractional parts of mobs mid not like accessible and responsi >1e individuals; by releasing our sea non from involuntary servitude; by tinaking. adequate provision for coin iensation for industrial accidents; by >roviding suitable machinery for me liation an( conciliation in industrial lisputes; and by putting the federal epartment of Labor at the dispogal of he workingman when in search of cOrk. We have effected the emancipation f the children of the country by re asing then from hurtful labor. We iive instituted a system of national [d in the building of highroads such i the country has been feeling after )r a century. We have sought . to :walize taxation by means .of an :lultable income tax. WVe have taken e steps that ought to have -been iken at the outset to open up the re >urces of Alaska. We have pro Ided for national defense upon a anle never before seriously proposed pon the r'esponsibility of an entire 'litical party. We have driven the 'iff lobby from cover and obliged it substitute solid argument for pri [ite influence. Foreign Policy Stated. In foreign affairs we have been nidedl by principles clearly con elvedl and ebnsistently lived up to. erhaps they have not been fully comi rehended because they have hitherto overned international affairs only in leory, not in practice. They are sim le, ob~vious, easily statedl, and funda ental to American ideals. We have been neutral not only 6e luse it was the fixed and traditional ohicy of the United States to stand loof from the politics of Europe and ecause we had no part either of ac 4n or of policy in the influences which rought on the present wvar, but also ecause it was manifestly our duty to revent, if it were possible, the indefi ite'extenslon of the fires of hate and esolation kindled by that terrible con. let and seek to serve mankind by re crying our strength and our resofprees or the anxious and diflicult days of estoration and healing which must ollow, when peace will have to build ts house anew.. The rights of our own citizenis of ourse became involved ; that was in vitable. Where they did this-was our ulding principle: that property rights an be vindicated by claims for dam ges When the war is over, and no mod rn nation can decline to- arbitrate uchi claims; but the fundamental ights of humanity cannot -be. The loss f life is irreparable. Neither can di ect violations of a nation's sovereign. y await vindication in suits for clam ges. As go Mexico. While IEurope was at war our own ontinent, one of our own neIghbors, r'as shaken by revolution. In thatt matter,. too, principle was plain, and it ma imperative that we ahould live up o It if we were to dleserve the'trust of NY real partisan of the right as free men see it. We have' professed to bc leve, and we do believe, that the peo le of sinal and weak states have t)me ght -to expect tohe dea4,.withm exatt Vr recent pursuit of baqdi wt* Mexican territory was no violatioii 9 that. principle. We ventured to enter Mexican territory only because theie werd no military forces in Mexico that cbuld protect our border from hostilt attack and our own people from vi4..; lence, and we have committed there-, no single act of hostility or interfte6; ence even with the sovereign'autborWp of the republic of Mexico herself. -. Many serious wrongs againist .tb property, many irreparable wrongs against the persons, of Americans hare been cbmmitted within the territory ot Aiexco herself during this confuseO + revolution, wrong' which could not be eff'ectually checked so long as th're was no constituted power in Mei1W which was in a position to check them. We could' not act ,directly In that mat' ter ourselves without denying Mexi cans the, right to apy revolution at all Whlch disturbed us and makflg the emancipation of her own-people await 4 our own interest and convenience. Problems of Near Future. The future, the immediate future,. will bring us squarely face to face witit many great and exacting problems. which' will search us through andI through whether we be able and r'eady to play the part in the world that we mean to play. There must be a just and settled peace, and we here in America must. contribute the full force of our en. thusiasm and of our authority as a. nation to the organization of that peace upon world-wide foundations that cannot easily be-shaken. No na tion shotild be forced to take sides in, any quarrel in which its own honor and integrity and the fortunes of its. own people are not involved; but no nation can any longer remain neutral as against any willful disturbance of the peace of the world. One of the contributions we must make to the world's peace is this:' We must see to it that the people in our insular possessions are treated, in their own lands as we would treat them here, and make the rule of the United States mean the same thing everywhere-the same justice, the same consideration for the essential rights of men. Iesides contributing our ungrudg ing moral and practical support to the cStablishmaent of peace throughout the world we must actively and intellt gently prepare ourselves to do our full service in the trade and industry 4 which are to sustain and (Ovelop the life of the nations in the days to come. We have already been provident in this great matter and supplied our selves with the Iustrumentalities of prompt adjustment. We have created, in the federal trade commission, a means of inquiry and of accommoda tion in the. field of commerce which ought both to co-ordinate the enter prises of our traders and manufac turers and to remove the barriers of misunderstanding and of a too tech nical iterpretation of the law. In the new tariff commission we have added another ?nstrumentality of ob servation and adjustnit nt which prom-. ises to be immediately serviceable. We have already formulated and agreed upon a policy of lawv which will explicitly remove the ban now supposed to rest upon co-operation. amongst our exporteirs in seeking and securing their proper placE. in the markets of the world. The field will be tree, the instrumentalities at hand.. At home also we must see to it that the'men who plan and- develop and di rect our business enterprises shall en joy definite and settled conditions of law, a policy accommodated to the freest progress. WVe have set the just and necessary limits. WVe have put all kinds of unfair competition under the ban and penalty of the law. We have .barred monopoly, These fatal and ugly things being excluded, we must now quicken action and facili tate enterprise by every just rpeans within our choice. There wvill~ be - peace in the business world, and, wIth Peace; revived confidence and life. We ought both to husband and to dlevelop our natural resources, our mines, our forests, our water power. I wish we could have made more prog ress tihan we have made in this vital matter. * We must hearten And quicken the spirit and efficiency of labor through out our whole industrial system by everywhere and In all occupations 'do ing justice to the laborer, not only by paying a living wage, but also by making all the conditions that sur round labor what they ought to be. WVe must- co-ordinate the railway systems of the country for national use, and must facilitate - andl promote - their dlevelopment with a view to tlht co-ordination a'nd to their -better - adaptation- as a whole to the life and trade and defense of the nation. The life and Industry of the country can be free-and unhampered only if 'these arteries are open, efficient, and com. plete. Thus shall we stand re'Ady to meet the future as circumstance and inter national poliey effect 'their unfolding, wvhether the changes como slowly or come fast and wvithout preface. Not for Her. "1 have here," said the gentlempanly agent. "a washing machine which is so sim[ple that a ,chIld can ,opem'ate It. With it you can- do0 our ow~n Wash 'ng andl thtus save the money which 'mu now' paly a .laundress. I am .sel1e wz mhItt machine at the extremely low prilce sf" "Never mind the price," interaruptd the commuter's Wife. "I wouldn'te .he nmachine as a gift. It's so some out ,here 'thant I .don'i se ,s soul from one weekta end ta her OX. eg~hg~ mn W e veryt hm