Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-10
This Is Conclusion of Secre- tary of War Garrison in
 Annual Report.
URGES PROMPT ACTION
Would Add 25,00G Men to Army at Once, and Recommends Formation of Reserve FOrce-Canal Guard
 Insufficient.

nual report maQe puDllc tOQay earn estly recommends the United States regular army be recruited to it's full strength, which means an immediate addition of 25,OOO men. He further recommends the formation of re- serve force, composed of men who have served at least year in the regular army and who shall be dis charged before their terms of enlist ment have expired, but who shall al ways be subject to recall when their country has need of them.
 The secretary recommends simi- lar reserve body for the National Guard and insists that some method be adopted for the training of more civilians to become officers in case of necessity.
 These recommendations MT. Garri- son makes as the results of lessons already learned from the European war. He says:
 "It would be premature to attempt now to draw an ultimate lesson from the war in Europe. It is an impera- tive duty, however, to heed Sd much of what it brings home to us as is incontrovertible and not to be onang ed by any event, leaving for later, and more detailed and comprehensive consideration what it's later develop ments and final conclusions may in- dicate."
 The regular army on June 30th last consisted of 4,701 officers, and S7,7S1 men; of whom 75S officers and 17,901 men belong to the Coast artillery; 1,OO8 officers and 18,434 men belong to the staff, technical and noncom- blatant branches of the army.
 The mobile army is composed of only 2,935 officers and 51,446 men.
 Troops Scattered.
 The troops were disposed as fol- lows on June 30 last:
 In the Philippines, 9.573 officers and men; Hawaiian islands, 9,l95; Canal zone, 2,179; Alaska, 862; Vera Cruz 4,O9O: Porto Rico. 707; United States, 64,579; others, 1,449.
 Scarcely any unit of the army ever has it's proper complement of officers, the secretary says, and the need for an increase of officers is urgent and imperative.
 In continental United States we had in the mobile army June 30 last, 2.6S9 officers and 45,S00 men. The militia totals 8,323 officers and 119,OS7 men. The secretary comments:
 "If all the National Guard could be summoned in the event of war and should all respond tan inconceivable result), and if they were all found fairly efficient in the first line-tnat is. the troops who would be expected to immediately take the field-we could summon a force in this country of regulars and national guard amounting to 11,O12 officers and 1884, 887 men.
 "This is absolutely all. The only other resource would then be volun- teers. and to equip. organize. train. and make them ready would take, at the smallest possible estimate, SIX mouths.
 "Anyone who takes the slightest trouble to investigate will find that in modern warfare prepared enemy would progress so far on the way to success in six months if his antagon- ist had to wait six months to meet him, that such unprepared antagon- ist might as we'll conceie defeat with out contest.
 'We have on hand in reserve suffi- cient small arms. small-arm ammunl- tion and euninment. roughly figuring. for the 500.O0O men that would have to be called into the field in any large emergency We have nothing like sufficient artillery and artillery am- intuition. There is universal agree ment among all who know. that ar tillery is an essential feature of modern warfare. aud that a proper prnportion thereof to any army is in- disnenseh'o if success is to be even hcNed for" WVV
 The secretary then calls attention to the present imnortance of flying. of flving corns and motor transpo,ta- tion in war and suggests that volun- teer motor trausportation reserve be oreanizod from the motor vehicles adantable to military use now in the hands Of private citizens.
 Canal Poorly Guarded.
 The secretary gives a table showing the war resources of other nations in proportion to our own and com ments:
 Whatever else may properly be drawn from the facts as disclosed it cannot be disputed that # is impera- tive that we have in this country a very much larger percentage of men who have had proper military train ing and who are in position to in- stantly respond to the call of the na- tion Of the troops> that we now have the numbers and organization of which are shown above. it will be necessary in tho very near future to take from tho United States and ,lt in the Philippine islands 13 comranies of coast artillery. 1850 men; in the Hawaiian islands. three reeiments of infantry, 1 battalion of field sr,iiieivl and two companies of coast artillery. 6 372 men: and in the Panama CaEal zone. one regiment oi infantry. one squadron of cavalry. one batta ion oi field artillery. one con psny Of eng;- ne-rs, and twelve companies of coast