New Britain herald., 1916-01-04

1 one of the significant factors in this connection. Significance also is seen in the dis closure that an effort to postpone the Pan-American congress on the ground that sufficient time had not been given to prepare an adequate scientific program was met by the statement that the United States was insistently desirous of taking prompt steps to further the spirit of Pan-American ac- cord, confidence, sympathy and mu- duality. South American capitals uniformly report that the congress is regarded there as more political than scientific and that appreciation of the sentiment of Pan-American unity is freely expressed. ' '''' >'"~
 What confidential information the Army War college and the navy gen. eral board may have gathered con- corning the intentions of any certain power or powers is not being re- Eealed; but there are certain matters cf general knowledge which are known to have entered into the study of possibilities upon which the theory of a two-power attack upon the Monroe Doctrine was based.
 Two-Power Navy Proposed.
 With the military problem agreed upon and defined, the two boards or strategists were asked what, in their opinion, would constitute adequate na- tional defense. Their answer was to build two-power navy and organize a federal army of sufficient size so that a part of it could be used in any southern country against foreign invader without impairing the saftey of the United States itself.
 To accomplish this the general board then recommended for the navy:
 1-Authorization in 1916-1917 of $3OO,OOO,OOO in new ships as against total investment in fighting equip ment now af1oat during the last thirty years of $459, ,6S6,551.
 2-Construction of four battle cruisers and four dreadnoughts under this program.
 facilities to admit of even heavier building programs in succeeding years.
 For the army the war college recommended:
 1. Expenditure in 1916-17 of ap- i proximately $5OO,OOO,O0O to produce a mobile army under federal control i which with it's reserves would total 100000 in six years; 500,O00 fully 1 trained regulars and the remainder continentals.
 l 2. Increasing by 50 per cent the 1 equipment and personnel of the coast | artillery in four years at a total cost ] of S81,0O0,000.
 l 3. Accumulation in four years of 1 reserve ammunition and material worth 100000.
 In view of the enormous, and what they regarded as almost prohibitive l cost of these proposals, Secretary 1 Daniels and Secretary Garrison map ped out the billion dollar, six-yea1 program which President Wilson has 1 laid before Congress providing essen tially as follows:
 Six-Year Program.
 For the navy:
 l. New construction within five years costing $500, 0,000 which vii add six battle cruisers and ten dread thoughts to the fighting line by 1924
 2. Construction during 1916-17 o1 two battle cruisers and two dread noughts with proportitt ate number of smaller craft.
 8. Distribution of the remainder O the building program through tht 1 next four years at a rate of $100,' 000,000 a year.
 For the army:
 1. Expenditure within six years O. approximately 100000 to pro 1 duce a total mobile federal force of | million men-141 900 regulars ant
 SOO,O00 cOntinentals-this force to b, i in addition to the national guard, nov ! numbering 129, 900.
 2 Expenditure of the full $S1, ,000, 1 900 recommended by the war colleg'
 and board of review for new coas
 defenses
 3. Expenditure of the full $104,
 00O,0 recommended by the expert
 for reserve material