The cleverest operators were brought back to learn how to run more complicated machines.

Turret lathe hands, oscillating grinders, inspectors were graduated.

In short, by the end of March, Mary was able to report to another special meeting of the board of directors that where Spencer & Son had been 371 men short on the first of the year, every empty place was now taken and a waiting list was not only willing but eager to start upon work which was easier than washing, ironing, scrubbing or sewing, and was guaranteed to pay $21 a week--and up! This declaration might be said to mark an epoch in the Spencer factory.
Its exact date was March 31st, 1917.
On April 2nd of the same year, another declaration was made, never to be forgotten by mankind.
Upon that date, as you will recall, the Sixty-fifth Congress of the United States of America declared war upon the Imperial German Government..