Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-15

Germany.
The organization and mobilization Of
all the material resources of the coun-
try.
Immediate and full equipment Of the
navy.
Consumption for the great new armies
which must be raised.
Appropriations of money, sustained
as far as possible by taxation.
What follows is summary OF things
done and steps taken by the United
States government in its participation
in the great war, classified according to
the sources OF Initiative:
BY Congress.
United States treasury authorized to
sell $5,O00,00O,GOO 3h per cent war
loan bonds and $4,000, 100000 war loan
notes, making a total Of $1,000, 900, 900,
of which $4,000, 100000 shall be loaned
to the allies as required.
Principle of military CONSUMPTION ac-
copied. Selective draft bill passed by
both houses.
War tax bill in hand.
Drastic censorship bill.
BY Council Of National Defense.
Munitions board created.
Economy board created.
Industrial resources of the country
surveyed and classified.
ciul adviser in the field Of sustenancc.
| y TraDspoftatioh systenss cosordinated
for wH>as Service and plans perfected
for placing it on war basis.
BY the War Department.
The general staff's big. army bill pre-
sented to congress. Steps taken to
recruit the regular army meanwhile to
full strength.
Steps taken to recruit the national
guard to full strength, which would
mean 329,954 men and 9,s47 officers.
Country divided into six military de-
partments instead Of four. General
Wood sent from New York to Charles
ton.
Lewis machine guns to cost $13.00O.-
600 ordered.
Six hospitals ordered to Europe.
Fourteen camps designated for train
ing officers.
BY tho Navy Department.
Contracts awarded for fifteen de-
stroyers and considerable fleet Of
submarine chaSers. Steps taken to
mobilize private craft.
English naval vessels relieved from
patrol duty OF the North American
coast.
Steps taken to recruit all branches Of
service to full strength.
Plans adopted for a feet base ut
Hampton Roads to cost 100000.
BY tho Shipping Board.
Scheme for wholesale building of
wooden ships adopted. Some contracts
let. Goethals put in charge Of the
work. Feasibility Of scheme as orig
inally cast now in question. First plan
in allegiance.
All interned German ships seized.
Now going rapidly into service.
Bill prepared to give government
control Of all American ships and ship
building facilities.
BY the Treasury.
Under terms of the war loan bill
$500, 100000 treasury certificates have
been sold and the proceeds loaned to
the allies-to England 100000, 900 and
to Italy $100,O0O,O0O. Further ad-
vances either have been or will be i'm
mediately made to France and Russia
and probably to Belgium and Serbia.
Public offering of $1,000, 100000 Unit
ed States 81 per cent war bonds as
a popular liberty loan"
BY Department Of Agriculture.
Plans developed for mobilizing the
country's agricultural resources.
Campaign of education in food con-
servatiGn.
Agriculturists exhorted to increase
production.
Food committees and councils organ
lied in nearly all the states at the In.
stance of Secretary Houston.
Plans developed for cooperation be.
tween the department of agriculture
and the department of labor, to tho
end Of increasing the supply of farm
labor.
Bills prepared and sent to congress
giving the government almost unlimit.
ell economic power to control the pro
duction and distribution of food. to IL
prices and even to prohibit the use O6
grain in brewing.
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