"ICHABOD
The following amusing letter from a munition-making firm to the Minister of Munitions was read by Mr. Pike Pease, M.P., at a recent dinner:— "During this great war wo have done many things that aforetime we had considered almost impossible. We hare turned our ploughshares into swords, mado night into day, made bricks , without 6traw, turned water into wine, and alo into compound for the lefreshing tit labour. "Wo lmve resurrected machine tools, and laught them to rise and sing; we have imported proud Americans, we have salvaged destitute Belgians. "We have gathered in and utilised barber?, circus proprietors, aboriginals from tho Antipodes and some of the "Best People.' "We havo made women into mechanics and 'mechanics into supermen r.uch as may bo found at the Ministry of Munitions. We have diluted our "abour, both male and female. , , , "Wo have honoured the King and stra f ed his enemies, but we eland today, hopelessly east down by your st\<rgestion that we should cut 2-ineh Modulo pitch aeroplane engine gear with a Module cutter. "Yours, in a chastened sp'.ril. . . ."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 283, 26 August 1919, Page 6
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179"ICHABOD Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 283, 26 August 1919, Page 6
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