Mills Industries At War
By James T. "Manqan
Direc:tor of Advertising and War Promotions
( EDIT OR'S NOTE : J ust what are
the p lants of the Coin Machin e Indus·
try d oin g in behalf of the war effort ? "
In this exclusive a rticle b y J ames
T. Mangan we present a discussion of
the part M ills Industries, Inc., is play.
ing in this great end eavor.)
o the civilian outsider a war factory
is sacred mysterious. Sacred, because
within its ;recincts are made the imple·
ments which nobly persuade our enemies
to unconditional surrender; mysterious, be·
cause if you've never been inside one, you
just can't imagine what it's like . . Perhaps
this typographic monologue of mme may
make our factory a little more sacred, a
little less mysterious.
I said "factory" -but Mills Industries
has three factories, very much different on
the outside, very mu :h alike on the in.
side. The outside is quite like it used to
be except for the fences, the armed guards
and the interceptor shanties. The inside
is different in one way and not so differ·
ent in another.
Since factories were first conceived and
built, they have been made up of people,
wheels, motors, gears, and rhythmic and
recurring noises. So are war factories. But
the old time products were familiar,
friendly, and digestible to the eye; now
the products are strange, cold, complicat·
ed, precious and remote. Everything the
war factory makes is as rare and valuable
as radium, and as awe·inspiring as the po·
tential death it harbors.
We make projectiles for the Army and
Navy, tank equipment, aircraft and air·
plane parts, signal and communication
equipment, photographic and instruction
equipment. War material is all we make
and all the ability and human and mechan·
ical resources of our three plants are given
over to making it. The detai ls of it all are
a secret; some of the products being a
great deal more secret than others; and
only a mere handful of men out of a total
of two thousand workers are permitted to
visit all sections of every factory.
The people are all ages. Emil Krimsky
just celebrated his seventy·eighth birth·
T
"day; Jane Greenwood her sixty·sixth; and
swarms of beauteous eighteen·year·old
"Rosie, the Riveters" make war produc·
tion life a little more bearable with their
slim·waisted figures, their willing and eager
energies and aptitudes for learning the op·
eration of machines and the assembly of
complicated parts and mechanisms. Old
and young, men, women and girls, entered
into war work with full spirit and simple
patriotism; and none of this rich and gen·
uine love of country has been spoiled by
~SIGN THIS
the dullness, the tiresomeness of the ter·
rible and endless quantities of war produc·
tion. All of these people have sons, hus·
bands, brothers and loved ones in the war;
and after ten hOUTS of the most enervating
and wearying worl<1, they go home and
write one or more'. daily letters to some
fighter in camp or at the front. They are
the great,
unsophisticated,
uncritical
American public; they serve and cooper·
ate with their nation instinctively; th ey
will bear up under their roles forever, if
need be, without complaint or request for
relief.
This, then , is our fa ctory, factori es; a
great, warm, strong, solid mass of work·
ing Ameri cans; the machin es, and their
lethal products we can forget for the mo·
ment, but we can never forget or get away
from this great combined unit of war work·
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