AN EFFICIENCY GENERAL

The preparation for war does not consist solely of drilling men in the principles of military formations. No less essential is the supplying of arms and material for those men; and the organizing of the resources of the country so that war will make the least impress on our industry and trade.

The appointment of Dean Gay to the new Commercial Economy Board is not less important in the military preparedness of our nation than the selection of a wise general. This is a trade war, fought with trade against trade. Germany and England have marvelously and intensely supervised their industrial organization for war. We must do like-wise to be worthy of our friends, and no less worthy of our enemy.

We have no time to afford, as we thought to our discomforture we had time to afford in our Civil War, for evasion of contracts by manufacturers, for costly and inefficient methods of supply.

The Board may well be worth more to the nation in accomplishment than a whole army corps, and Dean Gay more than a skilled tactician.