The Spectator at war: Men and munitions

From ‘National Concentration’, The Spectator, 8 May 1915:

The two great needs of the hour are more men and more munitions of war. We have got so to organize our forces that while more men are spared for the fighting line, there shall also be more men engaged, and efficiently engaged, in the manufacture of shells and other munitions of war. We have always pleaded in these columns for scientific recruiting, but what we want now is scientific recruiting, not merely for horse, foot, and artillery, but also for the factory and the shipyard. Translated into the world of immediate action, this means that we have got to do two things. We have got to throw overboard such part of the cargo as we can best spare, to live without the things which are not necessary to national salvation, and to devote the energy which used to be devoted to these unnecessary objects to those which are necessary.