U. S. Ordnance Production-What does it mean to you, to Pershing, to Kaiser Wilhelm?

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AVE you ever, your curiosity unsatisfied after doping out in what way some magician did his tricks, set to figuring just how much work it took, just how many assistants were needed to get the prestidigitator primed for his performance; who put in his innumerable pockets all the little nick-knacks which had to be produced at just the right moment; who fixed the American flag so that it could be unfurled from the palmed ashes of the banners of Germany, Austria and Turkey, which had been consumed before your approving eyes; who arranged the apparatus so that the Dove of Peace would fly out of the chafing dish in which Hindenburg's goose had been cooked? Though you still admitted the magician was "some" wizard, you realized he must have had a wonderful lot of equipment to accomplish what he did.

What of Pershing? We are all thoroughly convinced that he is "some" fighter, but when we come to think of it, he must require a tremendous lot of ordnance to accomplish the defeat of the Huns.

SUPPLIES FOR THE FIGHTER

HE DOES! Every fighter under his command requires FOUR men behind him to keep him adequately supplied with munitions and equipment for offense and defense.

These four men represent PRO

DUCTION, and it is with that production the PHILADELPHIA ORDNANCE OFFICE is vitally concerned.

At the head of this office is John Clifford Jones, the District Chief, whom you have but to see to recognize his calibre, and but to meet to realize that he is as big as he looks. And, as many an Ordnance Contractor and Government official is well aware, when it comes to energy, there are few volcanoes more active.

Co-operating with Mr. Jones is Major R. A. Greene, who holds the rôle of Production Manager. With his infinite capacity for handling detail, his unlimited patience and tireless stick-to-itiveness, he directs the supervision of production in this division with a thoroughness and finality which cannot fail to produce the required results.

The different types of Ordnance produced in the Philadelphia District, which covers all of eastern Pennsyl vania, New Jersey from Trenton south and all of the State of Delaware, and which has within its boundaries over 400 great factories devoted to Government work, are too numerous and too varied to be listed in this article. Sufficient it is to state that every size of gun from the large super-cannon which gives advance notice to German fortifications well behind the lines that WE ARE COMING, to the little trench mortar which drops the doughboys calling cards to tell the Huns WE ARE THERE, as well as ammunition for these, rifles, grenades, bombs, trucks,

tractors and tanks; in fact, almost every form of munitions and equipment are being turned out by manufacturers within the Philadelphia District.

PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT LEADS

In number of ordnance contracts, in volume of output, and in actual RESULTS, this District stands foremost among the ten Ordnance Districts in the country. And the responsibilities of the Production Office are proportionately great. The objectives and duties of this office are to ascertain the status of the work under ordnance contracts; to seek out the low spots and causes for the same; to take action when and wherever required in connection with delays in the receipt of raw materials and components, by expediting their production and their transportation; to work out the problems of shipping, fuel, power, labor, priorities, deferred classifications; to investigate matters in connection with plant facilities, the physical conditions of plants, fire protection, safety equipment, cost-plus items, price approvals, Government machinery, gauges; by the aid of field officers and a competent civilian personnel to keep in close contact with manufacturers, production in whose plants is in need of direct supervision.

In general, the Production Division concerns itself with every problem, and every phase of every problem, that has to do with production, such as the training of unskilled labor, the mitigating of the evil of labor turn-over by solving the question of housing workmen and their

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transportation, the instilling of patriotism in both employer and employee by means of public speakers, circular letters, posters and all forms of advertising, and finally, to enIdeavor to obtain the closest co-operation that is possible between all manufacturers and all branches of the Government.

CO-OPERATION AIDS TO WIN

As to the matter of RESULTS, the Production Division of the Ordnance Department gives all the credit to the wonderful patriotic spirit, and to the day and night co-operation which is being given to every manufacturer and every employee in the hundreds of ordnance plants. This office itself seeks no praise, and its personnel desires no halos; problems and difficulties are its daily ration. And, as in every ordnance factory, the laborer is being taught to realize the important part he is playing in supplying our Army with the means for winning the war, so every worker in this Ordnance Department is made aware of the vital need of his giving his best at all times. There is no need for a time clock here, for within the hearts of the men, as before their eyes, is inscribed the words, "Until all is done, nothing is done."

From the Chief to the messenger boys, from the major to the privates, each and everyone devotes everything that is in him to the task in which he is engaged, with the one idea in mind, that "Nothing else under Heaven matters today, except that this War shall go on to VICTORY."