The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10
WAR COLLEGE
 STATEMENT OF
 NATIONS ARMS
Secretary Garrison Makes Pub-
 lie Its Recommends tiOnS For U. s.

Washington Dec. 10-Secretary Garrison made public to-day in con nectiOn with his annual report the special National Defense report pre- pared at his request by the War Col lege division of the general staff. It shows that the army itself considers that as proper military policy to, secure Continental United States from attack, 1t is necessary to have a mo- bile army of 100000 fully or par tiaI1y trained men. It makes the fol- flowing specific recommendations for the organization it. believes necessary: Regular Army.
 With the colors .121, ,00O Reserves at end Of eight year
 enlistment period 379, 900
 Total 100000 Continental Army. Under training, three months
 a year for each of three years 500, 900 On fur1ough, subject to three
 months additional training before taking the, field. -. 500,0O0
 Organized Militia. No provision beyond annual appro- priation of $7.OoO,oOO and repeal of all acts requiring state soldiers to be received into United States service in advance of any other force in time of war;
 Grand total, regular and
 continental 1,5OO,OOO.
 In estimating the cost of this es- tablishment the report figures as fol- lows for the first year:
 Regular Army .$258, ,960.0OO Coptinentals s. ...:.. ... 87,5O0,O0O Militia ...r ..t.s 100000 Total -. $36 5, 460, 900
 In addition to these figures, Secre-. tary Garrison points out in a digest of the special report, an annual ex- pense of $20, 100000 for each of four years would be necessary for iharbor defenses and reserve material would cost for the first year, alone $129,- 768,786, making the grand total for the first year $50S. .22s.7S6.
 It was the cost of the War College plan which led Secretary Garrison to devise the modified plan which has been presented to Congress with the backing of the administration. Under that plan the first years expenditure would be $f82,717.036 and a force of regulars, militia men and continentals of 670,843 would be produced within three years which would be, more than. doubled by including the reserves of each branch which would be created within the first six-year continental enlistment period. The annual up- keep cost of the War College plan d4lST I44O SySLCAAA Ao HI AOAA OPOA e~NAOAA is estimated as $319,473, 900 as against $1S2,234.559 far the admin istration plan.
 Secretary <Garrison's statement shows that the War College has been asked to renew it's consideration of the subject in order that certain of it's estimates may be more fully worked out.
 The report opens with 8 considera- ton of the military problem confront ing the United States from which it reaches the conclusion that "The safeguard of isolation no longer ex- ists'' since '"The oceans, once bar riers, are now easy avenues of ap- proach by reason of the, number. speed and carrying capacity of ocean going vessels.H It declares that the; successful outcome of the wars in which the country has been engaged has given the public 8 wrong impress sion, in as much as careful study of . these wars reveals "a startling picture of faulty leadership, needless waste of lives and property, costly overhead charges augmented by payment of lbounties to keep up voluntary enlist. ments, undue prolongnation of all these wars and finally, reckless ex- penditure of public funds for contin- uing pensions.'' NJ
 .sBut we have not learned our 1es- son, ,.1the report adds. has never been driven home by the bitterness Of defeat. We have never known Jena 1 or Sedan