The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-06
RESOLUTION DECLARING STATE or WAR EXISTS WITH GERMANY PASSES THE HOUSE

hundreds of mall craft to augment it are under construction.
 Army preparations are less com. plete because of the uncertainty over
 what congress will authorize for that
 branch of the service.
 The regulars, numbering nearly
 l20,oo0 and trained and equipped in way which their officers believe
 matches unit for unit the boasted ef- ticiency of Germanys best. are ready to respond overnight to whatever call may come The national guard. 150,- ono strong, and hardened by months of service al the border. already has many units in active service for po- lice duty throughout the country and can be fully mobilized on short mo-
 tiee. Without additional authoriza- tion by congress the regu'hrs and guardsmen could be recruited to a combined strength of 100000, and de- tailed plans for whatever larger army may be authorized have been pre- pared and great quantities of equip ment for it purchased.
 Industrial preparations, thanks 10 lessons of the war and the patriotic attitude of industry, have produced a great compact scheme of national resources with almost unlimited possibilities, The council of national defense, in daily conferences with the nations leading financial, con- mercial. scientific and labor chiefs, not only has worked out q definite and detailed industrial mobilization plan, but has secured the endorse. ment and pledges Of the men which can put it into effect al moments notice. bringing 70 the military arms of service the full resources of the richest nation. organized with char. acteristic Yankee skill and business thoroughness.
 For military reasons only small part of the detail of these preparl. tions has been permitted to reach the public. It is known, however. that for many months the government has considered war more than a possibil- ity and has strained it's every re- source 10 make ready. In the tense waiting period since rela ions were broken. the president. while hoping ferYently that hostilities could be avoided, has kept the whole machinery of the government in motion day and night to prepare against evcntualities. To any close observer at the capitol, 1t is now apparent that Germany has if she thought 10 find the United States hopelessly incompetent and unprepared
 The navy, in order 10 complete in record time the enormous building program authorized by congress. has enlisted in the public service virtual. ly the entire -hipbuldine facilities of the country; surveys have been made of merchant craft that would he available as auXiliaries in war times, and guns have been placed on many of them; plans are complete for immediate taking over into the naval establishments the sturdy cut ters of the coast guard service, more than score of steamers equipped for mine laying and belonging to the light house service, and the scientifically fitted vessels of the bureau of fisher .es and the cosst and geodeuc survey.
 In order to expedite naval construc- tion. more than $l00,000.000 author ized by the last congress is being spent on naval and private ship yards. The eighthour labor regulation as applying to naval work has been sus- pended by order of the president and various agencies are helping insure an adequate supply of skilled and un. skilled labor Builders have laid aside private work on which profits amount to as much as 50 per cent to give precedence to navy work on a basis of cost plus 10 per cent profit
 Detailed plans have been worked out through months of study by a spe. cial navy board for realigning the whole ystem of naval bases Recon. are before congress and as soon as authorization is given the establishment of new bases and the of existing ones can be- sin,
 Around some of the bases and oth- CT strategic coast points great steel submarine nets have been swung and contracts have been awarded for 1000 more nets. eaSsx .o5o feet in length. , !. .::.., ]. ,. ;. }, ,.
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