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Show B 'llvj American Jlncliinist declares that in some of BiiilH - the best known American plants for the produc- BiJiii! tion of rifles their most skilled workmen have BM:.'j - -cen kept on the 'payrolls all summer, though lijfg they have had nothing to do in working hours if K but to play cards and checkers simply because H. if thoso in authority at Washington have been un- Hj' i J able to make up their minds regarding details 1 j for the weapons for the armies which we are A raising. War was declared on the Gth of April J , ivo months ago and nothing but time has thus vj far bocn killed with American rifles, Thu ex- fj penso of tliese idle hours in the rlflo factories will fall on the taxpayer, because of the foolish jj cost-plus system Vhlch has been adopted. The R factories have been ready and the men have been 1 ready, Tho administration has not been ready. |