. Shipbuilding and Shipping Record. n the past been satisfied with a certain level of business and profitwill be expected to put forth greater exertions for the sake of thenational welfare. The labour that has been diverted from domesticor from unproductive employment to munition work should remain right to husband their resources, but if the country goes to workin the right spirit, whatever is prudently saved out of war earningswill be used for extension of foreign trade, and not for insuranceagainst loss of orders or wages. The patriotic energy and devotionwliich have enabled Britain to put
. Shipbuilding and Shipping Record. n the past been satisfied with a certain level of business and profitwill be expected to put forth greater exertions for the sake of thenational welfare. The labour that has been diverted from domesticor from unproductive employment to munition work should remain right to husband their resources, but if the country goes to workin the right spirit, whatever is prudently saved out of war earningswill be used for extension of foreign trade, and not for insuranceagainst loss of orders or wages. The patriotic energy and devotionwliich have enabled Britain to put forth the mightiest militaryeffort in her history will carry her through the critical period whichmust follow. We are not going to destroy our jnalignant enemyonly to sink into national exhaustion. If the industrial communityadckesses itself to the problems of peace in a spirit of practicaloptimism the admired progress of the 19th century may yet beoutshone by the growth of the power and prosperity of the BritishEmpire in the Adriatic Passenger Steamship Monfalcone. General Arrangement. {See page 298.) in the factories to swell the outjuit and earn the countrys men retin-ning from the trenches must be found work to do,for their own sakes and for the sake of the commonwealth. Manypeople hitherto belonging to the leisured classes will have to engagein agricultural or manufacturing commerce. The United Kingdomwill need to be busier and thriftier than ever, or else will suffergrievously from the heavy cost of the war for many years tocome. There are manufacturers, traders and workpeople who areapprehensive in regard to the future and whose intention is to takefuU advantage of the present flood of public expenditure as a meansof providing against hard times when peace returns. They are This time then, even when the energy and intelligence of thenation must be so largely utilised for the early overthrow of theenemy, this time should be regarded as the beginning of a
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