. The Varsity war supplement 1916. describe the mechan-ism of the various organizations set up to deal with shippingand freights than 1 have occupied in describing the Govern-ment action with regard to food, coal, and the railways, asit is a vast and complicated problem. There are many other directions in which the BritishGovernment has shown its capacity to face trade problemsin war. When we come to deal with purely war production,instead of trade control in war, the new burdens undertakenare stupendous. The Ministry of Munitions manages thenational arsenals, and it controls and regulates 3,5
. The Varsity war supplement 1916. describe the mechan-ism of the various organizations set up to deal with shippingand freights than 1 have occupied in describing the Govern-ment action with regard to food, coal, and the railways, asit is a vast and complicated problem. There are many other directions in which the BritishGovernment has shown its capacity to face trade problemsin war. When we come to deal with purely war production,instead of trade control in war, the new burdens undertakenare stupendous. The Ministry of Munitions manages thenational arsenals, and it controls and regulates 3,500 industrialestablishments engaged in munition work. It has erectedtwenty national workshops, some of them constituting newtowns, one with over 50,000 inhabitants. The expansion ofwork for the Navy has also been on a huge scale. Altogether the British public has every reason to besatisfied with the way the Government has managed theproduction of munitions and the control of trade during thewar. 1 I THE VARSITY MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT. University of Toronto No. 4 Base Hospital Organization in Canada By Sidney Childs, ONE of the strange contrasts of modern warfare is theway in which destruction and preservation of lifego hand in hand. Alongside of the wonderful mobiliz-ation of the Empires resources for the provision offighting men whose primary aim is the destruction of humanlife must be placed the remarkable organization of the re-sources of the medical profession for the saving of life. Itswork has done much to preserve the finer instincts of humanityamongst those factors which inevitably make for degradationand demoralization during the prosecution of war. Scientificmanagement and modern efficiency has been seen at its bestin the hospital work of the campaign on all fronts. Surgeryhas not failed and once out of the trenches a soldier woundedat the front has as much chance of recovery as a man injuredin a peaceful occupation. As a profession that of medicinehas probably had
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