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Show PREPAREDNESS IN WAR TIME In tho Improvisations In tho midst of campaign that mark tho conduct of tho war on tho part ot Great Drlt-nln Drlt-nln nnd their striking contrast to tho perfection of Gorman antebellum preparations for ovory eventuality, ndvocntes of preparedness In this country nro finding much that thoy can uso to their advnntngo In their educational campaign. Thoro Is hardly a day passes wien tho dispatches dis-patches do not enrry nows that gives ovldenco of cxporlmontlng on tho part of tho British. JiiBt recently n London letter told of tho "art" of bombing as it is now being brought to perfection in Flnnders. An Irish officer, In telling of experiments with bombs, tried to Inject a vein of humor hu-mor In his narratlvo, hut n,s BUl) Ject was generally so ghastly nnd gruesomo that his efforts failed miserably. mis-erably. Ho told for ono thing flf a. visit of a scoro of stnff olllcers to a 1 point whero a catapult had been arranged ar-ranged to throw a bomb 250 yards to-1 to-1 ward tho Gorman trenches. Instead 1 of doing so It throw tho bomb a fow feet into tho air. When It cxplodod It wrecked tho nowly contrived cata-' cata-' pult, tho staff olllcers having fled precipitately In tho meantlmo. "Ono ' cannot play with explosives all day," 1 ho related, "without going nloft soiho time, and the toll of good men who havo been blown to pieces by their own bombs is both long and sad." Tho wisdom of a manufacturer would ho seriously questioned who would fill his building with raw ma. terlat and machinery nnd assemble his 'hands' and not until then con-trlvo con-trlvo ways to erect his machines, or-ganlzo or-ganlzo his working forco and reach a decision as to Just what he was going to manufacture To bo experimenting experi-menting as oxtonslvoly with men, mothods nnd material In tho height of conflict as tho British aro sug goats no greater wisdom. Such poll-icy poll-icy prolongs tho tstrugglo and runs up tho cost in men and troasuro to appalling totals. Desorot Nows. |