The Washington herald., 1917-10-07
AMERICA IS READY
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10000 of nve-year war-savins certin-
Gates.
A deficiency appropriation bin car
rying more than $500. 900. 900 for the
fscal year 1913. This authorizes adj
ditional contract obligations Of s2,ooo.-
Ooo.ovJ, and raises the limit of cost to
carry out the provisions of the ship
ping act to H,T34.0oo.ooo. It further
appropriates for the shipping fund
SIS. 200.
The trading with the enemy" bin
and the soldiers and sailors family
insurance bill.
uately s., 500. o0o. 900 IN revenue toward
detraying the expenses Of war.
War Department.
without accident or disaster ,the
War Department already has sent a
large expeditionary force. 10 France.
Within three months the department
constructed sixteen eantonments. or
sixteen cities, each capable of accom-
nodating a population Of 1000. The
sum of approximately $l50,0oo.0 600 was
spent for cantonment construction In
these eantonments. or virtually en-
route thereto, there are today about
a half million men. When they are
trained others can be readily supplied
for similar training. The selective
draft law Is working smoothly. fairly
and successfully.
The General Staf. prohting by the
lessons in Europe, made plans for
bringing our army up to the new era
in warfare and substantially revised
the past organization of our armies to
n in with modern methods. The
General Staff Is modernizing the entire
army. unit by unit. in addition to fit-
ting out the PershIng expedition along
entirely new lines.
Following the April announcement
of the Adjutant General OF the es-
tablishment OF sixteen officers train
ing camps approximately 27,O00 young
officers received intensive training and
received commissions for the vari-
Gus branches OF the service. A sec
ond series Of training camps for off,
GERS has begun and the third will be-
gin in January. The Adjutant Cen
erals ofice also procured more than
5O.000 trained specialists for the En-
listed Reserve Corps. About 5000
officers in the reserve corps have been
commissioned At the bginning of the
war We had approximately 3.OoQ off,
cerA There are now around 5000
officers. The Adjutant Generals Of
nee, in charge OF the records and cor
respondence Of the War Department.
received about 5000 pieces of mail per
day last year. Now the mail aver
ages more than 1900 pieces a day and
Is increasing.
The War Department has organized
a card-index system for keeping the
record of each man in our great army.
II Is carrying on also a vocational
and educational census OF the men in
the training camps so that, as far as
possible. the right men may be as
signed to tho right oItis5.
Development OF the Liberty Motor
which has withStood every aviation
engine test is one Of tnc major achieve
rents OF the War Department, and
the aircraft production beard This
ives followed by the designing OF a
standard mYi;ary truck. Then came
tie letting of contracts for u great
as-.sl fleet authorized In the se4o. coo coo
aviation appropriation bill. This avia-
lion program calls for uore than %
ID airplanes ranging fIon light train
ing machines to great battle piaBss.
Aviation experts from the allied coun-
ules are in Washington and help to
form an international general staff
on aviation -
Many obstacles have been overcome
by both the Ordnance Bureau and
the Quartermaster Corps. Each d.
vision is spending more than $780,
OQ0. 900 for the equipment of the new
army. American industry was fore
cd suddenly to expand to meet war
orders for ammunition. guns, cloth
ir.s and supplies. It has responded
well The Ordnance Department or
Eanized a special sec ton to handle
the problem os suppl ing our soldier
with weapons Of trench warfare, such
as hand greaades. trench mortars
ard drop bombs.
Twenty-four flying schools have been
authorized for training aviators in
this country and the majority of them
are in operation. There are eight
ground schools. Many American avi-
ators are now receiving intensive
trdininS behind the battle fronts.
The Engineer Department OF the
army has met the problem of increas-
ing It's personnel and supplying the
engineer Cqripment for an army of
more than i,C0O.0OO men. Under its
supervision a United States locomo-
tive" was built in twenty-one days.
Now thirty-seven locomotives have