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Show MORE SHELLS FOR U. S. it has transpired that a Chicago firm is making 100,000 six-inch shells for the United States, and this leads to the opinion of a stockholder in the company com-pany that the government has been quietly filling its ammunition chests for a long time. If the government has not been increasing its ammunition stores since the outbreak of the European war. it has been guilty of a monumental folly. Naturally the work would be done without a blare of trumpets, and the people of the country do not expect to read in the news columns each day what the government is doing along this line, but if it should turn out that the government has made no preparations prepara-tions to get an adequate supply of munitions mu-nitions the people would feel outraged and indignant. Tt has been taken for granted that the war and navy departments have beeu busy supplying the necessary guns and shells out of whatever appropriations are available. Even though the armv be small its potential power is vastly increased by surplus stores of ammunition. ammuni-tion. This is the easiest way to make preparation, and the European war has shown that it is perhaps the most effective way. |