included a single order, of which I have knowledge, for 3,000,000
American rifles, delivered over three years at $30 a rifle, or
$90,000,000. The company receiving this order had to work so quickly
to install new machinery that old buildings were dynamited to clear the
land.

Such orders to America are bound to tell upon our exports, and,
combined with the advance in food-stuffs, the loss in cotton values by
the outbreak of the war is offset more than twice over.

America must feel the effect of these orders when the goods go forward
in increasing quantities. They are paid for as promptly as shipped.
Many an American factory has been put on three eight-hour shifts for
the day's work on these orders.

A Southern manufacturer received an order for 5000 dozen pairs of socks
to be shipped weekly for six months. The price was under $1.00 per
dozen, with ten per cent of wool in them. He complained that he was
making only twenty cents per dozen profit, while if he had not been so
anxious for the order, he might just as well have got a price that
would have shown more than twice this profit.

In boots and shoes, England, instead of giving orders to this country,
has been buying leather in America, and filling all her own factories.
It is the policy of England to fill every workshop in her tight little
island before she permits business to overflow.

To-day there are no unemployed in Great Britain, except in the cotton
districts dependent upon German trade. Wage advances and overtime are
the rule rather than the exception. The one country that the warring
world must turn to for supplies is the United States, and that in
increasing measure. Orders for $300,000,000 of war goods already
received must be duplicated several times.

Every American automobile manufacturer able to deliver motor-trucks in
lots of one hundred, has received his orders for shipments to the
Allies.

Germany has now no base from which to get many important supplies. In
a long contest the Allies will supply motor-cars, shells, guns, and
ammunition to a far greater extent than Germany can manufacture them.
Factories for this work are expanding in both Russia and America. The
English do not speak against the Germans as a people. They believe
them seriously misled by Prussian militarism, which they declare must
be crushed absolutely.

Where formerly England was an open door to Germans and suspicions
against German spies were laughed at, the b