Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-12-06
Presidents Message

Continued from First Pagel
Philippines, in the Hawaiian Islands,
at the Isthmus, and in Porto Rico.
By way Of making the country
ready to assert some part of its real
power promptly and upon a larger
| scale, should occasion arise, the plan
also contemplates supplementing the
army by a force of 100000 disciplined
citizens, raised in increments of 1885,
600 a year through a period of three
years. This it is proposed to do by
J a process of enlistment under which
! the serviceable men OF the country
would be asked to bind themselves to
| serve with the colors for purpose of
training for short periods through
| out three years, and to come to the
colors at call at any time throughout
an additional '~furlough' period of
; three years. This force of 100000
men would be provided with personal
accoutrements as fast as enlisted and
their equipment for the field made
ready to be supplied at any time.
They would be assembled for train
ing at stated intervals at convenient
places in association with suitable
units of the regular army. Their per
iod of annual training would not nee
essarily exceed two months in the
year.
The program which will be laid be-
fore you by the secretary Of the navy
is similarly conceived. 1t involves
only a shortening of the time within
which plans long matured shall be
carried out; but it does make definite
and explicit a program which has
heretofore been only implicit, held
in the minds of the committees on
naval affairs and disclosed in the de-
bates of the two houses but nowhere
formulated or formally adopted.
The program to be laid before you
contenplates the construction within
five years of ten ba~ttleshipl, six bat
tie cruisers, ten scout cruisers, fifty
de.troyers, fifteen fleet submarines,
e%ighty-five coast submarines, four
~gunDoats, one hospital ship, two are
munition ships, two fuel oil ships,
and one repair ship. 1t is proposed
that of this number we shall the first
year provide for the construction Of
two battleships, two battle cruisers,
three scout cruisers, fifteen Destroy
ers, five fleet submarines, twenty-five
coast submarines two gunboats, and
one hospital ship; the second year.
two battleships, one scout cruiser,
ten destroyers, four fleet submarines,
fifteen coast submarines, n gun
boat, and one fuel oil ship; the third
year, two battleships, one battle
cruiser, two scout cruisers. five de-
stroyers, two fleet submarines, and
fifteen coast submarines; the fourth
year two battleships, two battle cru!s-
ers, two scout cruisers, ten destroyers,
two fleet submarines, fifteen coast
submarines, one ammunition ship, |
and one fuel oil ship; and the fifth
year, two battleships, one battle
cruiser, two scout cruisers, ten de-
stroyers, two fleet submarines, {if-
teen coast submarines, one gunboat,
one ammunition ship, and one repair
ship.
The secretary of the navy is ask
ing also for the immediate addition
to the personnel of the navy $500
sailors, $500 apprentice seamen, and
! 500 marines. This increase would be
to care for the ships which
are to be completed within the fiscal
year 1917 and also for Tie number
Of men which must be put in training
to man the ships which will be COM
pleted early in 1918. 1t is also nee
essary that the number of midship-
men ia the naval academy at Annapo-t'
lis should be increased by at least I
500 in order that the force of officers ,
be more rapidly added to; and I
authority is asked to appoint, for en- ;
cheering duties only, approved grad !
lates of engineering colleges, and for J
ervice in the aviation corps a GER I
ain number Of men taken from civil !
I
If this full program should De car /
led out we should have built or
uilding in 1921, according to the es- :.
of survival and standards Of |
Justification followed liz the Gen
raj Board of the department, an eff \
ective navy consisting of twenty
even battles Dips of the first line,
tx battle cruisers, twenty-five battle !
hips of the second line, ten armored 4
thirteen scout cruisers, five !
rst class cruisers, three secoyd class
users, ten third class cruisers, one (
and eight d%estroyers, eigh- I
CT fleet submarines, one hundred I
nd fifty-seven coast submarines, six \
O%nitors. twenty punboats four suD- I