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four years service. on ours two. Both
England and Germany have big re-
serves of men ready to be called into
service in time of war We have not.
active service to do the navy's work.
We have to lay ships up for the want
of men to man them.
The battleships of the Atlantic fleet
are short some 5000 men. and the total
shortage in all vessels of the fleet is
about 5000 men. Destroyers and re-
serve battleships are kept in harbor for
want of men. Tt does not mean that
we have enough when the total force
allowed by Congress is enlisted. The
new fve-year program proposed by
Secretary Daniels calls for 10000 addi-
tional men. but the ships themselves
will require 10000 more if we are to
bring the number of our personnel UP
to the European standard.
And what of officers? The men come
and go. but the commissioned officers
make the navy a permanent profess
sion. no less than a lawyer makes the
law or an engineer engineering or a
physician the practice Of medicine. No
profession is more exacting in the
knowledge required or in the study
necessary to keep up to date. They be-
gin at their profession young, the very
day as boys they enter Annapolis; they
keep hard at it. Naval officers can no
more be improvised on short notice in
time of war than surgeons or lawyers.
, AS the British navy has a long-term
enlistment and we have a short, there
is the more reason why we should have
ample officers. We need them to train
the recruits. Where our dreadnaught.
the Delaware. has thirty-five officers, a
ship of the same class, the Bellerphon
of the British navy, has fifty-three, and
the Helgoland of the German navy has
ffty-four. Secretary Daniels fve-year
building program provides for $50 Off
GERS when the full complement would
be 700.
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FRENCH HEADQUARTERS OPPOSITE ST. MIEIIEL
is AS QUIET AS A GENTLEMANS CHATEAU,
AND GENERAL WORKS WITHOUT BUSTLE
Commander Effectively Opposing German Crown Prince Seems
to Have Plenty of Time to Look After His
Men as Well to Hold the Teutons Back
BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.
PARIS. January IS. 1916.


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form no threat of militarism by build
ing UP a large class engaged in the
calling of arms. For naval power in
the long run is expressed in machinery
and expert handling by small numbers
of skilled men.
Along that western front where vast
armies are engaged. thousands of men
have been killed and wounded. The
daily toll of death both on the German
and the allied side is staggering. A
great belt of France from the British
channel to Switzerland is in ruins as
the price of the defense of France by
land. But no British dreadnaught ex-
cept the Queen Elizabeth has fired
shot. All the naval fighting has been
done by the battle cruisers and smaller
craft No one has been wounded on
dreadnaught BY the fact of demon
strated superior numbers and power
the British fleet has held the enemy be-
hind Helgoland. In England there is
no belt of ruins.
Our situation is like England's in
that we have the between us and
any enemy. There you have the great
est of all the lessons of the European
war for our country. 1t is better to stop
the invader from landing than to have
a bloody line of trenches from Vermont
to South Carolina.
Copyright 1915. by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc)
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Wild Beasts Feel War;
Must Feast Upon Rats
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

of the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary. January
5.-Rats are being bred for the
Budapest zoo. in order to save
the scant ration of horseflesh for
the lions and tigers, whose con-
slant roaring shows the extent
they suffer from the general
shortage of food. Eagles. vul-
lures and the wild birds are fed
exclusively on rats. At times.
when horsemeat has been unob-
tainable, goats and the less valu-
able animals have been sacri-
feed to save the lives of the
beasts that once ruled the jungle.
But the herbivorous animals
have also gone through hard
times, as wild chestnuts have
been substituted for expensive
hay. They have small liking for
chestnuts. y herd of ten seals
had to be killed, as no fish could
be obtained for them. The seal
meat went to feed the wild
beasts. Two polar bears were
shot-one because he refused to
eat war food and the other be-
cause he grew so. weak on the
new diet il was deemed mercy
to finish him off. The bears add
ed to the zoos revenue in an
other way, as the privilege of
shooting them was auctioned off
to local SportSmen, one of whom
paid $50 for the honor.
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Deficient in officers and Men.

When war begins ~e shall want to
put into commission Immediately every
naval vessel which We have in reserve.
Where are we to find the men? Britain
and Germany had them ready. We have
not. Where are we to find the officers
to take charge not only of the regular
naval vessels in reserve. but all the
auXiliaries which would be called into
service. whether trawlers impro-
vised mine layers? All this work is
highly technical. It's oversight in every
instance will require expert if any
efficient results are to be expected. If
you know how to walk, you possess
one of the requirements of infantry:
but before you direct any kind of a
naval operation you must at least
know how to handle a ship.
Whatever success the Germans had
with their submarines was due largely
to their having such large numbers of
highly trained officers. and the success
of the British in holding off the sub
marines was due to abundant profess
sional skill, which understood naval
requirements and methods and how to
use the material. Let us have men
enough for our navy. Certainly they
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MEN AS WELL AS WARSE1IPS NEEDED BY u. S.
AS INSURANCE AGAINST POSSIBLE INVASION
is LESSON TAUGHT BY THE EUROPEAN WAR
Adequate Navy of Foremost Importance Preparedness How,
ever, as 1t Could Prevent Enemy From Ever Land
ng-Construction Facilities Woefully Lacking.
By FREDERICK PALMER.

WE and with article the naval lessons the European
W. for Gu
W
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guns
holds
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ships Yet British merchant he e. n o matt a
bis arhaspn Ned theb marnem must guerrilla al
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Clergymen of England
Are Anxious to Enlist

LONDON, January -5.-AI-
though the Bishop Of London has
not seen his why clear to set
aside the rule of his churrh
against eOmhatant service for the
younger clergy. he has told q
delegation of militant curates
who called on him that he would
do all he could toward enabling
them to become chapisins and
stretcher bearers.
Over 1909 curates. who In lay
life would be eligible for military
service. signed . petition to the
bishop, askinE that they be al-
lowed 10 put ON Khaki and night.
All Of the Anglican bishops, In
cluding the Archbishop Of Can
terbury, have been opposed from
the start to the enlistmest of the
elergy In the AEht,nE ranks. hut
the feeling Of the mass Of the
young elergymen II strongly In
eiined toward military service.
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SKATERS OF GERMANY
SERVING AS COURIERS

kIEV, January 1S.-Amonx Ger.
man prisoners recently brought
here were a number of men who
called themselves ..dispateh
skaters" From them II was
learned TINT n whole company OF
expert skaters had been equipped
early in the winter to carry dis
patches by short cuts across the
lakes among which the Germans
have taken up winter quarters In
various sections OF the treat. The
organizer was said to he q man
Of the name Of Wagner from
Vienna, a prize skater and racer
OF local renOwn. The priseners.
including Wagner. were captured
at Volini. near Vladimir Volynsk.
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| evolution. Neither the German nor
| British navies are wasted in this fash
! ion. They are always at the business
of preparing for battle-maneuverin
| and training-which is the only rea-
| son for their existence. Again and
! again this lesson must be repeated
Give our navy the same opportunity
| as the British and German to be eff
cient.
Human Factor Important.
And what about 1.-The man behind the
ing the Spanish war. He is the human
factor which must make all the mate
rial. from electric training gear and
powder hoists. from range finding to
gunffre work smoothly. Without him
battleship is like an empty factory.
It takes months after battIeshb is
in commission to bring her up to the
standard of others in the fleet. The
men in charge of the work are grad
yates of Annapolis. highly trained,
scientific experts. They are expected
to know how to handle the machinery
and how to teach the enlisted men to
handle it.
You may make your infantry in six
months. but no one thinks that YOU
can make turret crew of a battle
whom you see occasionally about the
streets of coast towns on leave, though
they seem carefree and easygoins sons
OF the sea. must be as expert in their
departments on board man-of-war as
watchmakers or tile layers or plumb
ers at their trades. A battleship re-
quires as good electricians as any
power system on land; as good en-
slneers as any ship that floats; men
with eyes as clear and nerves as steady
as ever won prize on the rife range
or any aviator who righted tumbling
plane under shell fire; men with mus
cles as well trained for gun drill and
a; as responsive as those of a major
league ball pitcher
The greatest battleskips have at most
only twelve twelve-inch guns or ten
fourteen or eight fifteen. A monster
dreadnaught costs more than $40 900 900
We have in all only Eight actually in
commission. Upon their guns depend
the rate OF the nation in naval battle
one sa1vo that does not go home while
the enemy's does may decide the action.
Indeed. single gun may-which is to
say not only that a single gun pointer
may, but any absence of skill, any loss
or self-command on the part of any
one member of gun crew when shells
are beating the armor of the ship, also
may.
No such concentration of power can
be put in any unit of the army No
hundred guns of the twenty thousand
or more which the German army must
possess bears such burden of respon-
sibility as any one gun on dread
naught which goes into battle. The
men who man the naval guns must be
pastmasters of their work; they must
be SO well drilled and SO sure of them
selves that each man in the compli-
Gated and, nicely adjusted functions
from magazine to the gun breech will
still go on automa tically with his part
in the bowels of the ship or in the
turret. no matter if every other turret
except his is out Of action.
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Map of Enemy's Battle Line.

Map of Enemy's Battle Line.
there must be the conrnig tower from
winch the general directed his armies,
and after luncheon asked to be allowed
to visit it. 1t was filed with maps. in
size enormous, but rich in tiny details.
nailed on frames. pinned to the walls.
spread over vast drawing boards But
10 the visitor more marvellous than the
maps showing the French lines were
those in which were set forth the Ger
man positions. marked with the place
occupied by each unit. giving the exact
situation of the German trenches, the
German batteries. giving the numerals
OF each regiment. With these spread
before him the general has only to lift
the hand telephone and direct that from
spot on map on one wall several
tons of explosive shells shall drop on q
spot on another map on the wall OPP
posite The general does not fight only
at long distance from a map. Each
morning he visits some part of the fifty
miles of trenches. What later he sees
on his map only joys his memory. 1t
is sort of shorthand note. Where to
you are waving lines, dots and crosses
he beholds valleys, forests, miles of
yellow trenches. A week ago, during a
bombardment. brother general ad-
vanced into the first trench. His chief
of staff tugged at his cloak.
My men like to see me here" said
the general.
A shell killed him. But who can pro-
test it was life wasted? He made it
possible for every poilu in trench of
500 miles to say, Our generals do not
send us where they will not go them
selves.
We left the white swans smoothing
their feathers. and through rain drove
to hill covered closely with small
trees. The trees were small because the
soil from which they drew sustenance
was only one to three feet deep. Be-
meath that was chalk. Through these
woods was cut a runway for a toy rail-
road 1t possessed the narrowest of
narrow gauges, and it's rolling stock
consisted of fiat cars three feet wide,
drawn by splendid percherons. The live
stock, the rolling stock, the tracks and
the trees on either side of the tracks
were entirely covered with white clay
Even the brakemen and the locomotive
engineer who walked in advance of the
horses were completely painted with it.
And before we got out of the woods, SO
We're the passengers. This railroad
feeds the trenches, carrying to Their.
water and ammunition. and to the
kitchens in the rear uncooked food.
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Menless Ships Helpless.

Dreadnaughts must not only have the
most expert service. but there must be
enough of these experts. We must not
run out of these skilled mechanics in
time of war. Ships without men are
as helpless as men without ships. Eng
lands realization of this has not been
the least of the contributing factors
in her retention of the command of
the sea. Her best. most seasoned men
are on her battleships. The average
man on a British dreadnaught has had
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Can't Reach German Fleet.

Why doesn't the British fleet go aft
er the German feet? Because the
British fleet cannot reach it. The Brit
Ssh feet has accomplished its main
purpose while il keeps command of
the sea.
Why does not the German feet come
cut? FOR the same reason that the
American feet would not go out if We
were at war with power having a
superior navy to ours. The German
Meet has even giving up shipping. ex-
cept with its submarines. because in
every kind of ship in these two homo
Eereous, well organized fleets the Brit
ish have numerical superiority. The
Germans are outnumbered in DESTROY
ers. in light cruisers, in battle cruisers
IN battleships.
There is no weak spot in the armor
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In America Buying Horses.

The French marquis who guided mon
ca pita inc" and myself to the trenches
either had built this railroad. or own
ed controlling interest in it. for he
always spoke of it proudly as my eN-
press, my special train. my petite
vitesse He had lately been in Amer
lea buying cavalry horses. Concerning
them he has a most intimate knowl-
edge, as for years he has owned one
of the famous racing stables of France.
The last time | had seen him he was in
silk mounted on one of his own thor
oughbreds, and the crowd or that part
of it that had backed his horse,
was applauding him; and while he
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Easy to Figure Results.

There may be some doubt before a
war which army will win, but there
can be little doubt as to which navy
viii win as between two of equal eff
cheney. You can compute the result on
paper as easily as you can the COM
parative assets of two banking insti-
tutions that have to weather hnan
cial storm. II a naval expert says-anl
you get candid opinion-that another
navy is stronger than ours. you can
depend upon his knowing. In the
Spanish war our public was worried
lest there be raid on the Atlantic
coast. Laymen were uncertain that we
could beat the Spanish fleet, but our
officers were sure Of II. They knew the
material and the state of efficiency of
the Spanish navy. II we had gone
against the ships of some other Euro
pean nation the result might have bee
different. So far as we can learn the
records of target practice or the Brit
ish. the German and American navies
report that they are, without regard to
national self-confdence, but just as
matter of sound common sense. then
when we look out to see what our pos
sible dangers are-w we shall be under
no Illusions This has been the British
and German method.
In material our battleships are as
good il not better than any in the
Of gun power. but when IL comes to
battle practice we have not had enough
under modern conditions with full
charges. because somebody thinks full
charges are too expensive. Target
practice is short range. gun by gun.
1t is the school of preparation for bat
tie practice at long range under actual
battle conditions. when all the guns
are firing as they would in battle. The
British have found that as their bat
tie practice was. SO was their battle
action. Such is the accuracy of theo-
retical preparation in this very scien-
tiic business. II our fleet Is not ready
we may know it before the war begins.
In naval affairs there is no excuse for
being unready. The battle of the
Dogger bank began at $4,000 yards. but
we have not done any battle firing at
anything like that range.
Our fleet should not spare ammuni-
tion. The little extra that 1t costs to
have proper practice is small beside
the cost of dreadnaught and the pay
of its officers and crews. If we can
not have a big navy. let us have one
that is the best in every particular.
When we send battieships on junkets
to public celebrations. when we keep
them at Vera Cruz away from their
regular work. II means that they can
not train for battle practice or fleet
Evening journal., 1916-11-04
TOWNSEND. sMYTH NUPTIALs.

The home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer J..
Townsend of No. 1928 West Fourth
street will be the scene Of pretty
wedding this evening when their daugh,
ter. Miss Florence Esther Townsend VIII
become the bride Of Earl Smyth, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Smyth. The
ceremony will he performed by the Rev.
BENJAMIN f. Thompson. of Dover.
The bride. who will be attended by
her sister, Miss Ruth Townsend as maid
of honor. will wear a charming gown
Of ivorv satin made with a court train
from the shoulders and trimmed with
pearl trimming and real lace, and she
will wear tulle veil which will be
caught in the latest cap effect with 9
coronet Of orange blossoms. She viii
carry shower bououet Of bride roses
and lilies of the valley
The maid of honor win wear pastel
shade yellow taffeta combined with tullc
and trimmed with pale shade Of iaven.
der ribbon. She will carry bouquet
of yellow chrvsanthemums. Dallett Loo
mis- the brides cousin, will play the
Lohengrin wedding march.
Calvert Smvth. will be his brother
best man and the ushers viii be Mar
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RICE.GISH mao AT GRACE.

In addition to the regular musical
program at Grace Church tomorrow
night, the Rice-Gish Trio will sing
several numbers OF a most entertain
ing character. Leon Rice is said to
be one Of Americas greatest tenors
For years Mr.. Rice has been the
tenor solost of Trinity Church. New
York. the highest salai'ed church po-
sition in the country. Mr.. Rice will
sing three numbers: "A Song Of
Faith by Chaminade; Crossing the
Bar" by Willeby; 81, John. Saw the
Holy CITY, by Shelley. Rossi Gish,
the famous violinist, VII give several
selections on the violin, and Jenie
Caesar Rice will preside at the piano.
In the morning service Leon Rice will
sing The Ninety and Nine"
Evening journal., 1916-11-04

tea yesterday afternoon in honor OF
Mrs. Douglas r. Moore, formerly
Miss Bessie Durham. While very in
formal, II was. nevertheless. one of
the most enjoyable affairs OF the week
OF interest to q number of Whining
ton ans was the tea given on Thurs
day, in Baltimore. by Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert d. Hopkins, at their home,
Beechfield. Gainesville. TO introduce
their daughter. Mss Rose Lindsay
Hopkins. Miss Hopk ms is connected
with the Lindsay family OF this city.
Both she and her mother. who was
formerly Miss Isabel Luke. Of this
city. have a great many relatives and
friends here.
Invitations TO the Bachelors Ball,
which will be given the night before
Thanksgiving, and which is always
one Of the most brilliant social affairs
or the winter, will be issued n a few
days The committee comprises JOS
eph H. Dallett, G. Douglass Buck,
Hugh A. Garland and Henry S. Town
send
Mrs. Howell Topping, Of New York,
who is visiting in this city. entertain
ed at luncheon on Thursday at Naa-
mans tea house. Her guests were
Mrs Calvin l. Swayne, Mrs. Charles
GLADDEN., Mrs. j. H. Burns and Miss
Blanche Swayne.
o
The social calendar for next week
will be as follows:
Monday afternoon-Card party for
Miss Greta Chandler, by Miss Helen
Simmons.
Monday evening--Private view OF
art exhibition; Mrs. Copeland's din
ner party; Miss Brinckle's supper
party
Tuesday afternoon-Tea by Mrs. T.
NJ EliasOn, for Miss Chandler.
Wednesday morning. Marriage of
Miss Mary A. Sexton and Frederick
J. Byrne, with wedding breakfast af-
forwards at the Hotel dupont.
Thursday at noon-Marriag Of
Miss Barbara Bispham and Robert
Wetherill, In the Church Of the AS
cension, at Claymont
Br day afternoon-Tea by Mrs. Eu-
gene dupont, Jr.. for Mrs. Ralph
Derr.
Fr day evening Dance at New
Century Club, by Mrs. Schemeld
Phelps, in honor OF Miss Louise Lead /:
dinner given nv Mr. and Mrs lii
burne Chandler for Miss GretA Chand
Ter and her fiance. Howard II. Adams,
Saturday noon-Marriage OF Miss
Beatrice Glover and Major Thomas
Holcomb. IN st. Johns P. T. Church
Washington, D. c.
Saturday evening - Marriage OF
Miss Greta NJ. Chandler and Howard
II Adams. in 81. Andrews p. f.
Church; dinner-dance given by Mr.
and Mrs. PIERRE S. dupont. at Long
wood for Mr.. and Mrs. Harry F. du-
| Pont
D
Mrs, Ferdinand L. Gilpin entertain
/ ed at a tea on Wednesday afternoon
at the Colonial Danes House. No. 1905