The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-02-15
Of THE UNITED
IS ABOUT 265.0DO MEN
President Is Commander In Chief
Over All-Dnecting Force Is
General Staff, Of Which Ma
jor General Hugh L. Scott Is
Chief.

Hawaii. These could produce another
100000 men of military age. =
France is said now to have one per-
son out of every six in her population
serving in the army or navy. If the
United States and her insular posses
sions ever made such an effort, TAX
ing the present population as 112,000,-
600, the president would have at his
disposal no less than 1866, 666 men.
This is probably more men than Ger
many, Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and
Turkey together have in the field to-
day.
Unapproached Industrial Power.
If the unorganized manhood strength
Of the United States Is imposing, the
industrial capacity Of the nation is
even more impressive.
With less than one-tenth of the
worlds population, we make nearly
one-third of all the things produced.
In iron and steel, for instance, we
turn out more than Great Britain and
Germany, the two next largest pro-
ducers, do together.
Some observers have estimated the
present industrial capacity of the Unit
ed States at as much as all the rest of
the world put together. While this is
perhaps an overestimate, large scale
production has been carried to such q
fine point here that no nation can ap
proach us in the total produced pei
worker.
The average American produces more
per hour of labor than the citizen Of
any other nation. We rely on mechan
ical power three times more per mar
than does Great Britain, four times
more than Germany and five times
more than France.
| The committee on industrial prepar
edness of the naval consulting board
is just about. completing an inventor!
Of the nations war resources.
| While the organization which was t,
result from this inventory has only jus
been started, the work of investigation
done indicates in the clearest manne
the factory strength of this country.
| In. preliminary report Howard Z
Coffin, chairman of the committee, stad
ed that there are more than 5000
manufacturing concerns in the Unite
States which can render impQrtEn
service in the event of war. No plkn
is included In this list whose anlkla
output is less thun SIoo,oo0. y
The inventory is in the hands Of Eth,
great engineering societies of the conn
try, which have had committees a
work in every state.
The United States marine corps Il
independent Of both the army and thu
navy, and its small strength should
perhaps be added to that, of the TIVE
main services when estimating the to
tai organized belligerent power Of tn
nation. The authorized strength Of tn
corps is 1927 officers and men Of al
classifications, and the ranks are near
ly full.
Various schemes for army reserv,
bodies were incorporated in the ma
tional defense act of last year, blu
these provisions have not been in fore,
long enough to produce results Of i'm
portance. For instance, Of $4,000 re
serve officers provided for a total O
less than 500 has been commissioned.
Organization Of the Army.
The commander in chief of the arm,
las of the navy also) is the presiden
of the United States.
His representative, who carries on
his wishes, is the secretary Of war
Newton D. Baker.
The directing force Of the army il
the general staff. Major Genera
Hugh L. Scott is now chief of staff
and his assistant is Major Genera
Tasker H. Bliss. Grouped about then
In Washington are army experts Of
various ranks, who are supposed to d.
the thinking about general problem:
for the whole army.
Should the United States send mill
tary expedition abroad the commander
would undoubtedly be one Of the sever
active major generals. These are giveI
below, WITH their present assignments
and headquarters:
Leonard Wood, eastern department
Governors island New York.
j. Franklin Bell, western department
San Francisco.
Thomas H. Barry, central depart
ment, Chicago.
Frederick Funston. southern depart
ment, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff, general
staff, Washington.
Tasker H. Bliss, general staff, Wash.
ington.
John J. Pershing, Eighth brigade
Columbus, N. M.
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