The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28

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The actual call to army service Is
completed Cantonments are being
rushed up all over the country. Soon
the young men, who have been found
qualified for duty, will be gathering
in the army cities for training.
In the meantime, 16 training
schools for the making of officers and
three for the making of army doctors
are in full blast. The regular army is
being brought up to it's 10000 mark,
the national guard to the 100000
mark. We have sent a complete little
army to France under Maj. Gen. Per-
shing. We have taken over complete
control of six British base hospitals.
We have army surgeons on the firing
line. We have sent army engineers
to France to help rebuild the rail-
roads there and are preparing to send
army engineers to rebuild the rail-
roads of Russia.
The navy has sent formidable
fotilla of destroyers which are help
ing the French and the English navies
fight the U-boats. We have taken
over the patrol of the south Atlantic,
thus releasing French and English
war vessels for other work. Our
navy successfully conveyed the trans
ports which carried over Pershing's
army and supplies, without the loss
of a single life or single pound Of
food or munitions. The personnel Of
the navy and of the marine corps has
been doubled. Gunners and guns
have been supplied to all American
merchant ships leaving Atlantic ports.
Big additions sare being made to the
navy, and submarine chasers are be-
ing rushed to completion.
The Army and Navy Journal is
none too partial to the present ad
ministration, but in recent editorial
it said that our army and navy has
worked forward with a smoothness
and an absence of scandal that have
no parallel in our history of warfare.
Our military and naval operations
have been conducted solely by army
and navy officers with never poll
tical general showing his head above
the horizon
We have successfully floated a ST.
O0O,000,OOO loan, and have advanced
over $1,375,0O0,0O0 to our allies, so
that they were not compelled to be
at the mercy of the American loan
sharks while buying supplies in this
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We have seized all the German
owned ships in our waters and these
are rapidly being repaired so that
they can be used in transport.
Congress has just with unanimous
vote appropriated the sum of $780,.
100000 for big airplane building pro.
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All in all-even admitting the fail
ure of the shipping board to get busy
and the long delay over the food ad-
ministration bill-it is doubtful whe-
Their in the entire history of the world
there is record of a peaceful nation.
accomplishing SO mach Tor war purs
poses in so brief a Ftfme
But encouraging as all this is, the
real cause for optimism is that it in
dicates what the giant will do when
he totally shakes off his lethargy and
uses all his powers to the fullest ex-
tent. Our boundless wealth, re-
sources and man-power are bound to
tell That the fear of them is already
getting on German nerves is shown
by The painful attempts of the tame
German press to make their readers
believe we are negligible quantity
They know better. The men in the
German trenches and U-boats will
soon know better. And after awhile
even the docile and credulous German
people will know better.