Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-05-05

all over the country at widely separated mill
cary posts
Extreme mobility, which in the case of the
American army has been SC strkingy put to
the test by the double quick advance on the
Rio Grande, Is the one attribute above all
others for which our military experts have
been working ever since the Spanish American
war. The United States needs a mobile
armed force does no other nation the
globe Indeed, it is absolutely imperative.
The explanation Is found, of course in the
immense extent of the republic and our far
flung coast line. To protect extensive
territory needs an armed force that can move
with extreme rapidity from place to place. The
fact that broad oceans separate us from the
nations that in the event of trouble, would
prove our most formidable foes, presumably
insures us reasonable warning of attempted
invasion but even with this leeway it needs
quick-moving soldiery to rush at short notice
to any threatened point Of attack.
The circumstance that the rushing Of troops
to our southern boundary left the Atlantic
coast virtually unprotected is being made an
argument for a larger regular army by the
advocates of such organization. However.
our military experts have not waited upon
larger army to perfect a state OF military pre-
paredness.
But whatever the merits of this question Of
a large standing army the military experts
have not waited upon its solution. They have
gone right ahead, bending every energy TO
make a force OF considerably less than 100000
men equal in emergency to a BODY OF sololery
several times as numerous. TO that END uncle
Sans soldiery, with due acknowledgement OF
the modern tendency of specialization, have
beep rendered Az versatile as possible in the
arts of warfare And best of all, there has
been cultivated the fire alarm" propensity 10
cut and run for a scene or trouble at the
shortest warning. IN their part OF the pre-
harations too the administrative officials IN
every branch of the army have kept constant
" in mind this aim and purpose.
Of all the preparations for war which nave
zone forward under a clear sky perhaps the
most wonderful have had to do with the trans
hortstion arrangements. Our military experts
have awakened TO the fact that the United
states is the greatest railroad country IN the
Sorld and that even in the event OF the most
serious conflict It Is unlikely that many OF
these communicative lines would De seriously
tnterfered with. Why not then, make these
annthilators of time and space military as
- Indeed II is imperative to do so II the
- g m no rendered a mobile force. for no
+ha- utility can serve as the twentieth cen
turv substitute for the forced marches OF o'n
ar DAVIS Consequently, whereas European Id"
lions with their circumscrfbed areas anu per
toot highways have been eXperlmenuhs Win
ASi,t.arr7 automobiles and other innovations our
war department omclais h"'o - -
,+b tbe problems OF the makeup ana nan,
S,tna, ~ troop trains and designing special
Eitcben cars and hospital cars and the IKE,
The first tryout of the plans that have oeen
n the making these past dozen years has come
IN the case of the recent hurried advance 10
Texas. 49,, bae, On Wash
If chance visitor could have oeen IN "0s t-
t,gton in the early days OF the spanish We" a.
"a then again when the recent hurry car, -
1nu c.1f coast was given he could not fail 10
,u.,rossed with the contrast,-the turmoli
mn nanf,1sson of 1908 with the welloiled pre-
i nd Of the present execution of preaTrangea
~ ~lans That 10000 men could be moved ois,
|lano 81 thousands of miles along score OF
Weren't arteries of traffic without apparently