Arizona republican., 1914-12-13

figure. Switzerland, next above. has 275.000. Japan 1,200.000.
 Whatever else may properly be drawn from the facts as lisclGsed,' the report says, 'it can not be disputed that
 it is imperative that we have in this country very much larger percentage of men who have had proper military training and who are in a position to instantly respond to the call of the na
 tion'
 Of war material the report says:
 We have on hand in reserve suffi- cient small arms, small arm ammuni
 tion and equipment. roughly figuring for the 500.000 men that would have to
 be called into the field in any large emergency We have nothing like suf-
 fcient artillery and artillery ammuni-
 ton
 This has been urgently presented in all of the recent reports of the head
 of this department and the chiefs of staff, and congress has from time to time recently increased the appropri- ations for these purposes. There is universal agreement among all who know. that artillery is an essential fea- ture of modern warfare and that q proper proportion thereof to any army is indispensable if success is to be even
 hoped for It is imperative that the manufacture of artillery and artillery ammunition should progress as rapid ly as is possible until proper reserve thereof has been obtained
 Tn present day strategy and tactics the aviation corps has bid fair to be- come the eyes of the army, and d gen
 eral commanding an army without an
 adequate flying corps against an army of equal strength in other respects but with an adequate flying corps, would
 be in the position of blind man con tending against man with sight. The present congress made good start toward putting aviation on a substan- tial basis. This work should be fol-
 lowed up and considerably pressed. 'The universal utilization of motor transportation in the present war has vastly increased the mobility of ar mics. It is necessary that we keep
  tor vehicles for army transportation. It might be well worth while to devise ways and means of organizing into a volunteer motor transportation reserve the motor vehicles adaptable to mili-
 tary use now in the hands of private citizens"
 Transmitting his recommendations Mir Garrison writes in mart
 My recommendation of what we should immediately do is to fill up the existing organizations which compose the aggregate mobile army force just
 mentioned to their full strength. This would require 25,000 men. In addition to the enlisted men just mentioned, we should be authorized to obtain 000 more officers. The legislation to ac-
 complish these purposes would be the very simplest character, being merely authorizations to the department to do these things.
 An increase of the enlisted person. nel of the army by 25,00O men would accomplish threefold results It would. as before mentioned, bring up to full strength the existing units of the mo- bile army in continental United States and thus supply a more adequate force. Second, it would afford training for the officers in the command of such units as they must command in time of war and would prevent, as far as the reg ular army is concerned, the crowding of the ranks with raw levies which al ways disorganize and render ineffici- ent the organizations into which they come. Third, it would be~a wise in