The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-28
FILLING THE ARMY
REGULAR FORCE SOON TO BE ON WAR BASIS BY VOLUNTEER
 RECRUITING.
WAR DEPARTMENT IS AWAKE
SentlmentaIity Has. Given Place to Realization That Country Is in Most Serious Confict-Pershing Probably Will Have Army Corps.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

Washington.-It is the belief of the officials that the regular army, through volunteer recruiting, soon will be on a war basis. From 2,0O0 to 1000 re- cruits are being added daily. An op- portunity Is given tO registered men to enlist in the regular service. thus giv- ing them q chance to gel to the front perhaps more quickly than would be the case if they should Wait for the final grinding out from the draft ma- chine.
 There has been speeding up recefits ly along all lines of military prepara- ton. The war department iS awake. Not long ago the officials allowed it to be said that General Pershiug would be sent to France and that troops would follow quickly. The public is not to be allowed to know how quickly American soldiers are to march on Paris and from there to their training ground back to the lines, but there has been enough printed with the sane ton of the department to make it known perhaps that the interims be tween the departures of the different contingents will not be so long as was at first thought must be the case.
 The newly appointed major gener- als and brigadier generals of the reg ular army will find full quotas of troops "at hand to command" Persh- ing soon will be lieutenant general and this fact makes It certain that the first thought of the American people that he was to be given at first only one division. and was to remain ma jor general, was q good deal beside the mark. It is confidently expected that in the regular order of military pro- cedure Pershing before long will have corps of American troops under his command with each division in charge of q major general.
 No More SentimentaIity.
 Some of the sentimentaity of a kind which fatigued the viriIe has taken it's departure from the places of high au- thOrity It took some of the men of high official position in Washington a long while to realize that this coun- try was at war Complaint was made that some sections of the country did not realize what was confronting the United States. but possibly the truth was that the cOmplainants in the case had no realizing sense themselves that there was anything doing out of the or dinary. Now wakefulness has come to the truth of things and sentimentality has been shown the nearest way out of the departments.
 Not long ago there were sent from this town stories to the effect that the first American troops to be sent to France would be put in the trenches in Belgium to support the troops of that devastated land. The public was given to understand that this proposi- tion had the sanction of the high au- thorities, and that 1t was to be good thing for sentiments sake to send our khaki-clad lads into an unoffending country whose rights had been vio.nt- ed by the Germans.
 There is no more reason to believe that the American troops which first go to France will be sent into Belgium than there is to believe that they will be sent into Alsace. They will be sent, authority says, where the mill tary sense of the high commanders die tates that they shall be sent. The word Is that sentimentality does not win u war and that the military chief tains know it.
 It may be that our troops will go to Belgium but If so they will be sent there because Papa" Joftre, General Petain, General Bridges and General Pershing think that for military req sons they should be sent there.
 Our New Major Generals.
 The war department has promoted to the rank of major general of the United States army William l.. Sibert, John F. Morrison and Charles c. Morton. These three men will command three divisions of Ameri- can troops on the fighting line in France under the higher command of John J. Pershing, corps commander, who unquestionably soon will be made a lieutenant general of the United States army.
 Sibert, Morrison and Morton until the day of their promotion were briga- dier generals of the army. In giving