Show keeping workers amused the greatest ca with war workers lb Is keeping ithem them amik amused seq says J H connor who Is in charge charad of the he welfare work at file united states explosives plant C at nitro W va I 1 r tor for unless th the p workers are able to find entertainment they wont work at the present time there are workmen at nitro altro and it Is planned to increase that number to but d despite the high wages tt it Is difficult to keep the there wages are almost unbelievably high fo for example boys are started at 75 almonth stenographers stenographer em at andi and I 1 have seen the weekly pay envelopes of many carpenters with more than inside however it if as Is an actual fact that cent of the ahe workmen who are transported there at the ex expense of the government disappear en route and mor ethan elthan 50 per cent of those who arrive do not stay more inore than two oi or three days you see nitro Is a new town about twelve miles from cani W va its in a n dry sec alon of the country with ft ath absolutely nothing to nt at trac t workers except high wages and as soon ns the majority of workers save a bank roll they depart for plen anter santer and wetter climes wily why n w elfere department has been es eq tit at this plant where a million pounds of powder will be manufactured manufacture dally when everything Is in operation it wn was s found that unless the men were amused when they finished their work they sf simply milly remain no matter aliat what wages were paid of course we do all the welfare work that Is being done in the most modern pla plants i ants we have various kinds of hospitals free medical attention and till nil that sort of thing we even fill the teeth of the me workmen free of charge houses are being built so that the workmen may mav bring their families rind and there la is everything for their creature comforts buts but that enough the workmen miss the excitement of life in the big cities they miss the lights the rush and that feeling oi of being in the swim so to speak while they were merely onlookers they aielt felt wat that they were taking faking part in the days events when they get to nitro they soon become dissatisfied and depressed andrson A person who has never worked in a place of tills this kind ca cannot annot appreciate how essential amusement f Is to his but I 1 roust must say that we wa ard are doing everything possible to keep the workers happy and contented im here in new york to recruit a band and arrange for the appearance of a few musical plays of course the summer mo months will not be sa so depressing for we have built scores of bath houses on the river near the plant a and hundreds hundred of rowboats and canoes have hare beva bera ordered 1 its the dull winter abre were most afraid of |