MUNITION-MAKING

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 10

MUNITION-MAKING

Dr. A. Shadwell writes in tho Edinburgh Review:—"The complaint is still often made, with much ill-dircctod sarcasm, that tho Government do not mako use of tho business capacity of the nation. 'Why do they not put the production of munitions into the hands of practical men?' is a favourite question asked by knowing people in newspapers and elsewhere.

"The Munitions Office is staffed with practical men of the highest standing and capacity." The local committees of business mon and engineers at tho circumference, described above, have their counterpart at the centre in Whitehall in such a collection of practical men as has never been got together before. They have been lent by a number of the largest, most enterprising, and most successful concerns of different kinds that wo possess. If, would bo too much to say that, they have jto equals in their own linos, but not. too' much to say they have no superiors. "None of tho knowing critics could suggest, so good a list; they do not know miough. There is., for instance, the Bombav arid Banna Trading Company. It is "said to bo the largest trading concern ill existence, and the reader will perhaps bo inclined to believe it when ho learns that ono of the assets of that company is £4,000,000 worth of trained elephants alone. , "Vet, the manager of' this inr* mease business is content to occupy an assistant's seat in a sub-office of the Supply Department."