The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-21
FORCES PREPARE
FOR ENTRY INTO
WORLD conflict
Army and Navy Working Out
Plan to Set Man Power of
Nation Into Action
INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES
BEING MARsHALLED
President Wilson to Outline
Plans in Special Message at
Extra Session
(AssOciated PresS)


Washington, March 21.-All the re-
sources of the United States, indus
trial as we'll as military, are speedily
being mobilized to place the nation in
the fullest state OF readiness for any
eventuality.
For the present, the responsibility
rests with the navy, which is arming
American merchant ships, placing
rush orders for submarine chasers,
spending $l15,O00,OO0 by special auth
ority Of congress to hurry the naval
construction, already under way, ad-
vancing the graduation of classes at
Annapolis, protecting American har-
bors against invasion by German sub
marines and marshalling the indus
trial resources necessary to stand be-
hind the feet.
Army's Participation.
Plans for the army are not so fully
matured. 1t is believed, however,
that President Wilson will recognize
the possibility of the army's partici-
patton in war when he addresses c0n-
gress by discussing the need of uni
versal military training. In a tenta-
tive way, plans for marshalling the
full strength Of the regular army, the
national guard and the raising OF a
volunteer army Of 100000 men, have
been worked out in the Army War col
lege..
The volunteer army Of 100000 is
planned as a nucleus of what eventu.
ally would be an army OF 100000
and would be assembled in training
camps. ;n1@Asg,s ggl..s.- 80. .ss- ~ ~ y
:~'%7 Mobilization Of Resources.
The mobilization Of industrial re-
sources has gone much further. Hun
dreds of great, corporation, through
the efforts Of the Council for National
Defense, have prepared themselves to
utilize their full efficiency in the de-
fense of the nation:' 3& T..
Henry Ford, the Detroit automobile
manufacturer, has offered, and the
government has accepted, his great
plant to be operated without profit in
the event of war. Charles M. Shwab
has announced that his Bethlehem
plant, now greater than Krupps, will
be used entirely for the government.
Corporations Assist.
The United States Steel corporation
and a hundred other great industrial
organizations have been making
plans for their participation, Yester-
day the great copper interests noti-
fled the government that they would
supply the army and navy with their
vital supplies of copper at about half
the market price.
money President Wilson may suggest
to congress as necessary to meet the
situation leaders in the senate have
held the view that not less than $780,
900 900 should be granted at once in
case war is declared. It is not prob
able that legislation giving such a
sum would meet with any opposition.
League or Nations.
Quite aside from the tack of pro-
tecting American lives and rights on
the high seas. the president has con-
sidered the broader question OF the
preservation of civilization, the distri-
button of world power after the war.
natural arrangement of the worlds
people in government by the consent
of the governed and an effective
league of nations to protect the world
against another cataclysim of war.
The influence of the United States in
the peace conferences is admitted as
not to be over-estimated. -
Word that the president had sum-
moned congress was received at the
Allied embassies with acclamation.
There is not a diplomat in the corps
who does not believe that it means
the entry of the United States into
the great war, bringing its armed
forces, its great resources and its
moral power to the side of the En-
terte allies, in what they feel is their
battle for the preservation OF civili-
cation and democracy.