Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-12-10
u. S, Army Should be
ReCruitedtO War Strength

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other auxiliary services. In the near
future. the report states, additional
forces will be sent to the Canal Zone
and elsewhere, reducing the mobile
force on the continent, exclusive of
coast artillery. TO 24,600 men. Even
With the increased force there. Sec
rotary Garrison declares, the Panama
garrison will be- inadequate in his
opinion
United States is Tenth.
A table OF the thirteen leading
countries OF the world showing area,
population, peace strength of the
army and the total trained war
strength is included in the report.
/ 1t discloses that with an area and
/ population surpassed only by Great
/ Britain and her colonies and by Rus
/ sia, the United States stands tenth
IN the peace footing of her army and
| twelfth in trained reserves. Against
Russia's 100000 trained men. the
/ United States has 5000. including
the Philippine scouts; and Belgium
with 10000 is the only nation below
that figure. Switzerland, next above
las 100000, Japan 100000
/ Whatever else may properly be
4 drawn from the facts as disclosed y
the report says, lit can not be dis.
puted that it is imperative that we
have in this country a very much
larger percentage of men who have
had proper military training and who
are in position to instantly respond
to the call of the nation
Without Ammunition.
OF war material the report says:
I'VE have on hand in reserve suf
fcient small arms, small-arm ammu
milton and equipment, roughly figur
ng for the 100000 men that would
have TO be called into the field in
any large emergency. We have moth
ing like sufficient artillery and artil
lery ammunition. This has been ur
gently presented in all of the recent
reports of the head of this depart
nent and the chiefs of staff, and
congress has from time TO time re
Gently increased the appropriations
for these purposes There is univer
sal agreement among all who know
that artillery is an essential feature
of modern warfare. and that a proper
proportion thereof to any army is in
dispensable If success is to be even
hoped for. 1t is imperative that the
manufacture of artillery and artillery
ammunition should progress as rap
idly as is possible until proper re.
serve thereof has been obtained.
The Aviation Corps.
in present-day strategy and tao
ties the aviation corps has bid fair
TO become the eyes of the army, and
a general commanding an army with.
out 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 a
blind man contending against a man
with sight The present congress
made a good start toward putting avi.
alton on a substantial basis. This
work should be followed up and con.
sistently pressed.
THE universal utilization OF motor
transportation in the present war has
vastly increased the mobility of ar.
mics. II is necessary that we keen
abreast of the times in utilizing mo-
tor vehicles for army transportation
1t might be well worth while to de,
wise ways and means of organizing
into a volunteer motor transportation
reserve the motor vehicles adaptable
to military use now in the hands OF
private citizens"
81 am firmly convinced that we
can use the standing army as a
school through which to pass men
who come into it, with the knowledge
that If they are proficient they can
be discharged at any time after a
year or eighteen months, we will be.
gin at once to build up the necessary
reserve, and will, for the first time
in the military history of this coun.
try, have something approximating a
balanced organization"
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