Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-26
Enlistment to Be Brought
Up to $1,000 Men With
out Delay.
ARMY WORK ENLARGED
Part of National Guard
Recalled to Protect
Industries.

! WASHINGTON, March 25.-Pres.-
dent Wilson took steps today to place
| the nation on a war footing.
by executive order he directed that
the navy be recruited without delay
| To the full authorized war strength
of $1,000 enlisted men. Taken in
connection with emergency naval con-
| struction already ordered, this means
| that the president has exercised tho
fun limit of his legal powers as COM
mandern-chicf to prepare the navy
! for war.
Increase Army Efficiency.
For the army. the president directed
| that two new military departments lie
| created in the Atlantic coast region.
| The order means that the task of or
! gani@ing whatever army congress may
authorize will be divided among six
| departmental commanders instead OF
four in the interests of speed and ef-
! ficiency In mobilization.
! The third step was To assume as "a
| national duty the task of protecting
American industries from domestic
disorders in the event of hostilites
/ For this purpose / full infantry
regiments, two separate battalions and
one separate company OF the national
| guard, all in eastern states, were
called back into the federal service to
act as national police in important
districts. Supplcmenting these troops.
a regiment of PENNSYLVANIA guard and
two companies of Georgia infantry, en-
route home from the border for
muster out were ordered retained in
the federal service.
President Uses Full Power.
The presidents orders were made
known in terse official statements is
sued by both departments. No explain
alton accompanied them except the
statement that reorganization OF the
I military department. effective May 1,
; was designed to facilitate dccentraliza-
tion of command
Following is the executive order
bringing the navy up to war strength:
by virtue of the authority
vested in the president by the act
of congress approved August 30,
; 1916, entitled, An act making
appropriations for the naval serv-
ice for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1917, and for other pur-
poses 1t is hereby directed that
the authorized enlisted strength
of the navy be increased to ST.
600 men. (Signed) Woodrow
Wilson"
10000 More Men.
The navy must enroll Immediately
approximately 20, 600 men to reach
the required strength Secretary Dam
iels supplemented it tonight with per-
sonal kilograms to newspaper editors
all over the country urging them to
aid the department in every way in
p their power To obtain the men
Congress must determine the svs-
tenn under which an army is to be
raised Today's action provides more
elastic machinery found necessary as
a result of the recent border mobiIi-
Zation for the enrolling and training
of great army, whether raised as +
volunteers by conscription or thru a
universal service bill
Could Mobilize Quickly.
The object of the creation of tine
rew departments Of the northeast and
southeast was to distribute among
tlrce central commanders the work
ot mobilization IN the states most
thickly populated and from which tn,
greatest number Of soldiers must
come. Tho present eastern depart
ucnt directed the mobilization of ap-
proXlmaiely so per cent Of the 15O,-
GOO guardsmen sent to the border.
with 10000 mon, the maximum
authorized strength Of the national
guard in addition to whatever vOluu-
tccrs might De Summoned, the task
would be too great for a single de-
pdrtmertal organization because OF the
vas'ness Of the supply problems in
Volvcd
instructions to national guard off
GERS issued more than month ago t.
cover any future mobilization. showed
plainly that the war department had
learned its lesson and proposed 10
dcccntrpliZe its mobilization problems
as far as possible. departmental
commanders completely Will supervize
the assembling Of state troops in their
districts hereafter ana viii take over
Immediately nthe call for federal .
service the task Of recruiting COR tho
guard regiments thru ORGANIZATION OF
reserve battaliors
=. The tansfer of General Wood from
the eastern TO the southeastern de-
partucnt caused considerable speCula-
= tion among army officers No eX-
PLANTATION was given aud Secretary
Baker declined to comment. rho
eastern department even as it will be
after the new anzation goes into
effect. Is regarded rs the most i'm
portant Of the six because OF its great
economic development. AS a general
: rule that deuartment falls TO the
command Of the senior major general
of the army available for such duty
! General Wood Is the RANKING off
Ger Of his grade, General Bell, who |
now .allcs command of the eastern de-
partmeut. being his INN ediote junior.
), In sCme quarters 1t was suggested .
that .hC new south EASTERN department.
might IroNc 10 be the center OF ln-
torest should the present internation- .
: al situation deVeloI need for military
!. ocrdtouS tc the south.
Guard vital Points Closely.
/ indications tonight were that tho
administration planned to await action
by congress before further warlike
preparations are ordered President
Wilson has authority to direct tnat
the regular army be brought up to
n full war strength at once ana also to