The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-13
A Na17utiue Fact Story Based the herora6Le
NafIeematIcs of Var What Can be Done TO OPP
pose an I11Uading Army With Our Actual Present
Resources In Regulars, Trained Militia, Un-
trained Citzens Coast Defeases, Field Ar
tiLZeru and All Other Weapon of Defense
Trained Militia,

of Defense
but they're ror .ere- They're IN Pana,
ma. Hawaii. the Philippines. China and
Alaska-and we wish that We had
about three times as many there. espe-
cially In Panama- How much does that
leaves Forty-eght thouSand2 very
wei That's what we've got here at
home. But you'll please count out an
other 1900. They're in the coast ar
tillery. and have to man the haroor
defenses Of which we've been talking
Now you've got our mobile army-the
actual force that we can put into the
field and move around Thirty-one
thousand men,"
"a pretty straight tip, agreed the
washington correspondents when they
left the war department. And as a
straight DIP they passed It on to their
readers. SO the nation read the next
morning how their army was being
made ready. They read how four com
panieS Of one infantry regiment were
gathered from Fort Lawton In Wash
fngton and another four companies
from Fort AIissoula in Montana They
read how still four other companies
OF the same regiment Were at Madison
barracks in New York state Taken
from actual stations OF various troops
at various times The army post sys-
TEN IS considered indefenstble among
military men-1
Their Fifth cavalry regiment, they
learned. was being assembled IKE
picture puzzle by sending to Fort
NJ
to Fort Sheridan. Illinois. for four
more troops and machine gun platoon
and to Fort Leavenworth- Kansas. for
the remaining four troops needed TO
form fun regiment
There was field ARTILLERY, whose COM
ponent units we're scattered. guns.
horses--asd men. from the Vermont
line TO the Rio Grande- There We're
signal troops In Alaska. Texas the
Philippines and Panama
This was no such mobilization as
that giant mobilization In Europe.
when a continent had stood still FOR
days and nights while the soldiers
moved to their appointed places. 50
FAR scattered was the American army.
so small were Its units. that only
few civilians here and there could
have noticed that troops We're being
moved Mt all
More than one unmhftary cittzen,look-
ing over his newspaper that morning
cursed the politics that had maintain
ed the absurd, worthless. wasteful
army posts. and cursed himself Tor
having paid no heed In the years when
thouchtful men had called on him and
his fellows to demand change
More than one citizen. when he left
his house TO go to his accustomed
work. looked up at the sky and Won
dered with a sinking heart how soon
1t would seem black with war-
It was a peaceful. soft sky, with
baby clouds sleeping on Its bland, Due
arch 1t radiared a tranquil warmth
of coming spring. and under tne
Atlantic ocean lay equally peace1ul'
equally soft equally tranquil
Yer even as the people OF America
were taking up the days WORK. under
that soft Tranquil sea- message was
dartinS through the encruSted cables
that swept away all peace
Before noon. from sea to sea ana
from lakes to gulf. from the valley OF
+he Hudson to the Sierras OF the
Rockies. from Jupiter inlet to the
Philippines, ran the silent alarm OF
the telegraph that the great coalition
had declared war
Fortv-eiSht hours later the combined
battle feet OF the four nations put to
sea with ITS army uansports. bound
for the American coast lSpeed OF
embarkation Of a moblized and pre-
pared army as calculated by Euro
pean military staff oEcersl
The United States learned OF 1S dc