The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-20

Nor you Couldn't hrenk yourselves
in chur ssuesS.' spoke another reg
ular- gov the devn did you get gun
merry practice? EaL your little gun out
by hand TO the 1Ting ground
The milittamaa fumb1ed at the trace
again Didn't IRE IT. he said with
out looking up. They didn't think
much of artillery at home; thought
that infantry was All they needed
They sort OF thought we just had
little toy to play with
You amt going to be lonely, uoilish.
grunted the regular sauntertng on
-'Tie necktie around your horses and
then go over yonder. You'll find three
other batteries from three other states
that never had no horses. never had
no mounted drills and never qualified
as gunners. LEnderstated. Annual
reports for 1915 show many practically
useless batteries-1
a grfzzled colonel OF cavalry rode by
Under his shaggy eyebrows he shot
glance at the helpless battery ana
swore- He dated back to Indian times.
and they said OF him IN the army that
he knew nothing except cavalry tao
tics and horses But he knew them.
and he was breaking his old heart over
TIE IAGAG AA&AsA SSAAA~ :
der his command
Some he had that were good enough
to win his fun praise, but none of these
was full-as toquota OF men. The colo
mel OF the best OF the regiments was
riding at his side. It was an organized
force Of rich men. each OF whom had
brought his own mount, trained as
carefully as any cavalry horse and
perfectly equipped. Fine sir. finer!
said the oIdsIndian fighter. But oh.
Wait TIL you see what arrived last
week They can ride! Yes. sir, they
can ride. Heaven knows how they
learned it. for they didn't ever have a
mount except what they hired In livery
stables a rich state. too. and one
that did its infantry well. sir 1t was
supposed to be regiment OF cavalry
that we were to get Do You know
what arrived? Two squadronsl And.
sir, they came afoot They served
state that evidently prefers horseless
cavalry ANNUAL report militia or
sanitation. 1915. An eastern seaboard
state.1
He. chewed the cigar and threw II
away Look over therer he coottn-
ued teSee those chaps2 They We're
among the first to come to u.s. Yes,
sir. The entire cavalry force OF that
state came out-the entire force, you
understand. Do you want TO know
how many there were2 Three troops
three-roops-con me- sir. Not a
whole squadron But as these three
troops we're in three different parts OF
the state they hadn't even been drilled
to move together in their little three
troops as one body We're just get
$tnv e0y ride In
squadron without smashing into some
other troop and crumpltng the whole
outfit to hades.7 TABLES given in war
department. statistics, 1851
Even while the old cavalry leader
was swearing delegation Of civilians,
sent to visit the camp officially, was
Sathered at headquarters The visitors
were haggard and worried; but. with
the ever ready optimism OF the ex-
raordinary American race, the most
worried one Of them all said: "A splen-
did army Looks fit to fight for its
life. We are sure that you viii give
good account OF yourselves. general,
against any force
The major general did not reply In
the Immediate line OF his vision lay
the sanitary camp There, beside his
own regulars. lay sanitary troops OF
the state militia that had come into
camp without ambulance companies.
without field hospitals. without medi-
cal supplies. He thought OF one regt-.
ment Ga regiment on paper. seven COM
panies in realityo that had appeared
without even Its service outfit Of shoes
and overccats. Two whole state d1vt
s3ons, had they gone into action on
their own strength, would have had
no ambulances ut all to carry on their
wounded One division. formed from
q state that had done better than most
with it's militia, arrived for war with
two field hospitals short and lacking
seven fun ambulance compapfes- Even
the richest stateof the seaboard groups
had left it's Organized force short both
a field hospital and an ambulance COM
pany. Not one OF all the militia forces
from all the states had ambu1anceS
enough IExuacted from tabulated re-
turns to war department Report on
militia organization, 1851
The soldier looked up at the sky
Lord. Lordr he muttered. not I'M
piously. AN exuavagant land As
extavagant with It's lives as with er-
erything else
There was only one thing In which
that army was pre-eminent and per-
feet It was in the matter OF trans
port. Within m hour OF the declara-
ton the army had swept the coast
states from New Jersey.to Maine clear
of everything sevfceable that had
wheels
The army might not be able to with
stand blow. but 1t could dodge
It could know. too. In time to dodge
Its own trained in.elligence department.
was supplemented by 10000 and more
unframed observers and watchers who
tried to make up for their lack OF tech
nical SKIN BY keen intelligence. alert.