the need for an enormously increased output has long since been seen and provided for, that their workers are going all out to give their armies a preponderating supply so that they may meet and beat the best our fighting and our working men can do. The Front has no shadow of doubt about being able to beat the Germans, if our workers can beat the enemy workers. “Give us the stuff we need,” says the Front, “and we’ll give you victory.” The German armies are probably saying the same to their workshops, and the matter boils down to a battle of the workshops--ours and theirs. The British Army doesn’t want anything more than a fair show, and only the British workers can give it them. The Army is quite and cheerfully ready and willing to hunger and thirst, to perish from cold and bitter soaking wet, to wallow in the mud and misery of the trenches, to endure bodily discomfort and aching fatigue, long marches and longer outpost watchings, and lack of sleep and rest, to suffer frost-bite and disease, loss of limbs and sight, dreadful wounds and death, so that we may win the War. They can and will win, if the war-workers will back them up, will throw in the last ounce of energy and determination they possess, will fling aside the last atom of slackness or self-indulgence or bickering or selfishness. The fighting men are considering nothing--no question of short pay or long hours, or “what will happen when the war’s over,” or what individuals may profit by their sacrifice, or their own sacrifices and suffering--nothing but the winning of the War. And the War is as good as won, though the full price is yet to pay, if, and only if, the war-workers will think and act the same as the fighting men. Will they? The answer is with them, and with them only. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BRUNSWICK ST., STAMFORD ST., S.E., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. The illustration at the beginning of the book is the front cover. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Doing their Bit, by Boyd Cable