Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-06
100000 ARMY
 NEEDED AT ONCE


 ganize, train and command the units of the new army.
 A year from now, a second incre- ment of 500,000 youths would be call ed out another 100000 officers and non-commissioned officers would be drawn from the regulars, the national guard forces, or from the first section of the new army. to officer and train the second section. By that time the machinery that had been built up would provide enough trained officers and non-commissioned officers to train a million or more men at a time if that were necessary.
 The war department bill. however, proposes to authorize now only the first two clauses of the new army, making a total of more than 2.000,00O trained troops available possibly with in a year and half, or in two years at the most.
 The sum of nearly s3,000. .000, ,000 asked of congress to carry out this program deals only with the first year of preparation. Behind it stands the need of an equal sum for reserve sup plies of ammunition, cannon and oth- CT war material, if the army is to be employed in actual war.
 Included in the present estimates are the cost of cantonmehts to house the troops. Presumably the previous plans of the general staff for sixteen military districts will be carried out. TT is would provide for sixteen com plete and fully equipped districts and w1ile it is not proposed to create any additional tactical units of the nation ak guards. steps will be taken to fill in the gaps in the present guard structure with cavalry. artillery, en- gineers or other special troops, com '~ting he tactical organization of th0se forces on sound military lines. Tt"ff officers regard the plan pro osed as the most effective that could be worked out to meet the present emergency. They regard the expan- sion of the regular army and the bringing of both that force and the present regiments of the guard to full '-a- strength as vital. since for five 0-tNs they expect to employ these
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 Section 5-For the raising by draft ob rH'i' if training units as nay he deemed necessary to maintain the ac- tie f"sres at miximuR strensth.
 Section f-For the organization and ecu:pmen: of provisional 2 rmunit;cc and artillery trains, eTC'u>iye of those included in the tactical organization of forces previously provided for. at the discretion of the Ere: ident ana fo- the duration of the emergency.
 Sect.on For ra's;lg and main tain:ns o1ly the regular army and naIirI.al guard and their auxiliary un- its rI til the President decides tha' ''srlective draft" is necessary when t shlll be applied; all of the forces to te iaised exclusively by selectiye draft oI male citizers between the ages of 19 and 25 years, under regula- tions to be formulated by the Presi- dent. Provision is made for propor- tionate quotas to be supplied from the respective states and territories depending upon population and with credit given under such quotas for all men of the age affected who may have voluntarily entered other branches of the military service.
 Exemptions
 Section S.-For the exemption from selective draft of the vice-president ol the United States and the executive legislative and judicial officers. fed eral or state. and of all persons in tho