Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-16

(since when the Increase has been
great), the reserve militia of the Unit
ed States, by which is meant the males
aged between eighteen and forty-four
years, not included in the organized
forces, amounted to 2O,53S, ,347 men.
The above total does not include
the men of the insular possessions, eN-
cept Hawaii. These could produce an
other 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, taking
the present population as 112,OO0,00O,
the president would have at his dis
posal no less than 1S,666,666 men.
This is probably more men than
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria
and Turkey together have in the field
today.
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 produ-
GERS, do together.
Some observers have estimated the
present industrial capacity of the
United States at as much as all the
rest of 4he world put together. While
this is perhaps an overestimate, large
scale production has been carried to
such a fne point here that no nation
can approach US in the total produced
per worker.
The average American produces
more per hour of labor than the citl-
zen of any other nation We rely on
mechanical power three times more
per man than does Great Britain, four
times more than Germany and five
times more than France.
The committee on industrial pre-
paredness of the naval consulting
board is just about completing an in
ventory of the nations war resources.
While the organization which was to
result from this inventory has only
| just been started, the work of investi-
cation done indicates in the clearest
manner the factory strength of this
/ country.
: In preliminary report, Howard E
! Coffin, chairman of the committee
I stated that there are more than 10000
manufacturing concerns in the United
| States which can render important
service in the event Of war. No plant
is included in this list whose annua
| output is less than 100000.
The inventory is in the hands of the
great engineering societies of the
country, which have had committees
at work in every state.
Marine Corps.
The United States marine corps l:
Independent of both the army and the
navy and its small strength should
perhaps be added to that of the two
main services when estimating the to
tai organized belligerent power of th'
nation. The authorized strength o
the corps is 15,627 officers and men O
all classifications, and the ranks ar
nearly full.
Various schemes for army reserv
bodies were incorporated in the ma
tional defense act of last year, bu
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, total o
less than 500 has been commissioned
Organization of the Army.
The commander in chief of the arm
Gas of the navy also) is the presiden
of the United States.
His representative, who carries OF
his wishes, is the secretary of wa
Newton D. Baker.
The directing force of the army
the general staff. Maj. Gen. Hugh ]
Scott is now chief of staff and his a
sistant is Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bills
J Grouped about them in Washingto
are army experts of various rank
who are supposed to do the thinkin
about general problems for the who
army. v-s
Should the United States send mil
, tary expedition abroad, the commando
} would undoubtedly be one of the seve
J active major generals. These are gi
en- below, with their present assig
3 ments and headquarters:
: Leonard Wood, eastern departmer
Governors island, N. Y.
J. Franklin Bell, western depar
ment, San Francisco, Cal
Thomas II. Barry, central depal
ment, Chicago, Ill.
Frederick Funston, southern depal
ment, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff, ge
eral staff, Washington, D. G.
Tasker H. Bliss, general, staff, Was
ington, D. c. 8as
John J. Pershiug, Eighth brigad
Columbus, N. M.