en arrested at dark, tried at
midnight, and shot at daybreak. No man can serve God and Mammon. No man
can be faithful to the United States who hates England and loves
Germany. He must love the one and hate the other; he must hold to the
one and despise the crimes of the other. No man can serve God and the
Allies, Germany and the devil, at one and the same time.

4. British vs. American Girls in Munition Factories

To-morrow morning at eight o'clock one million British girls will enter
the munition and related factories. To-morrow afternoon at four o'clock
another million girls will enter the same factories, to be followed at
midnight by the third shift of women.

These factories average forty feet wide, and end to end would be 100
feet in length. The roar of the machinery is never silent by day or
night.

In one factory I saw a young woman who was closely related, through her
grandfather, to a man in the House of Lords. Her arms were black with
machine oil, her hair was under a rubber cover, she wore bloomers. Her
task was pouring two tons of molten steel into the shell moulds. The
great shells passed from the hands of one girl to another until the
fiftieth girl, 1,500 feet away, finished the threads into which the
cap's screw was fastened.

Every twenty-four hours these women turn out more small calibre
cartridges than all England did the first year of this war. Every
forty-eight hours they turn out more large cartridges than all England
did the first year of this war. Every six days, with the help of men not
fit for the battle front, they turn out more heavy cannon than all
England did the first year of this war.

They have sent 17,000,900 tons of ammunition to the front. Their shells
are roaring on five battle fronts in three continents. When the British
boys thrust their huge shells into the cannon these boys literally
receive the shells at the hands of the millions of English girls who are
passing them forward.

Wonderful the heroism of the British soldiers! The reason why the men
fight well at the front is because there are women at home worth
fighting for. In all ages battles have been won, partly by the strong
arm of the soldier, but chiefly by the heart that nerves the arm. That
is why John Ruskin once said that "the woman in the rear generally wins
the victory at the front."

It stirs one's sense of wonder to find that all classes and all social
conditions are represented in these factories. Thousa