Show with ilith A at aberdeen mil nid recently under the direction of the w ir department part ment there was an exhibition of guns tanke tanks tractors war materials and war appliances in in general which the united states has produced since its cle decoration dech ration of war with germany in 1917 the exhibit wa was made madl on the tile government ground and was if remarkable spectacle rinks of big 11 guns 7 inch I 1 I 1 inch 1 and 16 inch poured tons of projectiles jec tiles over the range chere was the new 3 ton 2 man ape of wa tanks an american design in tended to take the place of the 6 ton type which was in use at the close of the war r 1 here wa was the life war tractor an ank other american production pow erful enough to plow its way through rough ground and through forests breaking down ing in obstruction obstructions and 1 anch gun every thirty seconds there were 14 inch trench mortars and 16 inch mortars it was an exposition or demonstration of accomplishment to thrill the pride of every american md and to impose the lesain in a i magnificent way of our great ability to do things dijt jt was also a spectacle which pointed a moral which no american should want to foet forget with the official review of all these great preparations for the war the announcement is almost every line of the news nev 9 story which reported the scene at aberdeen that the country was about ready to bem begin the output that the tanks would begin to be pro in quantities qu dulies in the spring I 1 and that hit the powerful and effective tractors oud be ready about june I 1 in other words the united states va nal getting good and ready to fight some time within withie n tt anio months jtb s after the fight was ov ol cr we wire preparing pre to smother me enemy with guns and crush them with fink inks t and ind overwhelm olver helni them with ith armed tractors in june 1919 in a war ar which ended in november 1918 attention can be called now to 10 the the above fact without the semblance of carping cism or in the spirit of crying over oner spilled alk its I 1 he ordna ordiann ord nann nit dep demonstrated the fact by the aberdeen rev re bew that in spik split 0 of ill its I 1 handi aps it wa vt making progress pro dres most review pov fi td that the 4 united states state c tin cin in produce the n leftare weapons to meet modern ire y but lione none of chest things were Pro produced dued in time to be used in the war for which they were ere intended 1 I he germans did not lot wait until junt 1919 to forte the of april 1917 guns vre were needed when war was declared guns that would shoot when the enemy was as shooting Sho otino at lit us thanks to the fact that our allies had the material to fight with wh jhc jt it wa was ne necessary cesary to tight huh tand and could I 1 lend us u what hat we lacked we were enabled to hive h ive a part and a conspicuous pirt too in the war which 1 l e declared hut but we fought our war with borrowed guns and borrowed material the rhe united states im lacked ked nothing in the way of oft spirit pint of loyalty of cou course or of devotion it tacked lacked nothing in the way of money noney or of resources it only lacked in 1917 and und in 1918 the equipment which it would have received ed in 1919 the war not ended when it did fhe rhe moril moral of the story is too obvious to need illumination no Ani american rican let it t be repeated will want to forat t the big lesson jesson which was impressed upon us by he the e exhibition X hibi tion of matt mat rials thit would have contributed so really greatly to ane winning of the war if they had becci ready when they the were needed K C star householders Houte holders who hav hal e tried to shoo a sophisticated cat out of a warm house on a S cold lold night will appreciate the problem 1 1 adrid is up quaint with the ex kaiser just now |