The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-10-17
MIL AIRY TFll AIMING CAMPS
ARE EMBRACED IN PLANS
8AlI Kinds Of Employees II, the
United States Will Be
Asked to Help.
LARGE I: {; RESERVE IS FORCE
.BigM Mavy Program Will Also Be-
Submitted to Congress at
the Coming Session.
~ Assee,Arsp ,..sss,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16- En-
ployers throughout the United States
corporations, manufacturers, pro-
Sfessional men. tradesmen and buSi-s
ness men Of all classes are TO oe
asked to contribute as their share
In the national defense, permission
for their employees to engage with
out serious financial loss IN two
months training during each of
three years.
administration plan for raising a
citizen army Of 100000 men ii six
years which, with regular army Of
100000 men and 100000 reserves.
would give a trained force exclusive
Of state militias Of about 1900, ,0yvl
men in the event of war.
Depends ON Congress-
The success Of the plan, ofticials
admit. depends not on the approprt-
ations Of Congress, for its cost will
be small. but on the patriotic re-
sponse Of employers to whom an ap-
peal will be made to furlougf, a.
many men each year, at diiferenpI
seasons as they can spare and who
wish to poin the proposed continent-
al army. 3s
Administration officials are cxnS-
dent that even though 1t Is proposed
to enlist only $4,000 men year, III
the continentas or u total Of nearly
500, 900 in the six year period,
more than that number will be Mt
'tracted by the outdoor life OF d mil
iitary camp II they could be assured
by their sNployers that their post
stioils not be lost or their earn
lngs scf16usly decrensrd. The pross
posed enlistment requires two
months service for each Of three
years and liability for service dur
Ing the remaining three years only
in event of war.
Big Navy Program.
Tho army plans for more than
4 1000, 900 trained men in six years
sndthenayy's program of ten dread
naughts and six battle cruisers with
In five years, both or which viii be
presented to Congress with the en-
dorsement of President Wilson, were
the absorbing topics Of interest here
today. The proposed army appro-
priation bfliswill be S132, 100, 900 or
an increase OF $72, ,00O, 900 over last
year, and that Of the navy is $218.-
100000. a SOS, 100000 Increase.
The total defense budget Of nearly
$500. 10000 is an'increase Of $14o.s
100000. which it Is understood, to {
be raised by bond issue and In
creased revenues expected from g.
return to certain tarin duties remoy-s
ed last year.
Ten Dreadnauehts.
Added details Of the navy plan
became known tonight. The dve
year program includes besides the \
ten dreadnaushtg and six battle
cruisers. eighty-fve coast sub
marines. fifteen sea-going subma-
rines. fifty destroyesa, fifteen scout
cruisers and five gunboats. Two
dreadnaughts will be built each
year. Two battle cruisers will be
built the first year, one the third
gear, two the fourth year and one
the fifth year. u 4 4
BY authorizing sixteen capital
ships in the hys-year program, the
American fleet when all ships are
completed will be composed in 1926
Of thirty three ,lreadnaughfs anu
battle cruisers, for the lighting line.
and thirteen battleships Of the sec-s
ond line, or a total OF forty-six capt.
tai ships. ss.iis would be exclusive
Of nine battleships now in commits
sion, which will be superannuated
in 1924. y u y i