The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-06-28

taking advantage Of the nations
needs? Decent motives being lacking,
fear Of the public wrath might oper-
ate to induce them to cease their ne
farlous work.
Planning Great Air Army.
More and more the government IL
becoming convinced that Americas
first big play In the war must be In
In the air, and the plans for speedily
sending many thousands OF airplanes
and a,intors to the front from this
country are being pushed with vlgor.
Congress Is asked to make an aero
nautic appropriation Of 5000 100000
to start with. and already hundreds OF
young men are being selected for the
work and put into training. For a
long time Admiral Peary has been urg-
Ing the building up Of powerful air
service for our army and navy, and
iBrigadier General Squier has done all
an active officer IL permitted to do to
forward such II plan, and now the gov
ernment realizes that IN immense fleet
OF airplanes Is the quickest effective
aid II can give to its allies In Eu'
rope.
The aviation bill contemplates the
establishment of "a training camps and
instruction In many technical schools
the construction of about 1000 planes
a month at the end OF six months, with
the number constantly increasing until
rnunhna nlD rnnpth tho huillI no
at first mainly OF training and obser'
walton machines and later of larger
number of battle planes.
To I'LL up the ranks of the regular
army, President Wilson issued call
for 10000 volunteers between the ages
of eighteen and forty years. Through
out the army the recruiting officers
especially emphasized the fact that
men who registered are welcome us
volunteers and will have some advan'
tages over those who walt to be
drafted.
Registration slackers began getting
what Is coming to them last week
| Their days Of grace having expired
they were arrested wherever found
and chucked into Jail. Several Of them
already have been given prison sen
tences. Though the number Of arrests
may seem large, II really Is insignia
cant when compared with the tota
registration.
War department officials seem to bs
having hard time settling on the
plans for the training camps for tho
National army. Over and over AGAR
the specifications are changed, and no
much headway IL being made. Instead
Of leaving the details to the regula
army officers, who are experts In tina
line, the council OF national defens'
has taken a hand and put experts" o
its own choosing In charge Of various
parts OF the work, and the result ~
far has been confusion and delay. tn,
council has been doing great work II
many ways, but this looks like cas-
of too many cooks. The whole mat
ter of getting the conscrlptive arm,
and the National Guard into training
only emphasizes the wisdom Of uni
versal service policy and law.
Submarines Very Active.
Germany's submarines put In IN
other busy week. many reports OF tn
sinking OF allied and neutral vessel
coming In. Among the ships sent dow
was the American oil tank steamshi
John -. Archbold, five Of whose cre'
were lost. The vessel was armed an
, carried n gun crew from an America
warshlp, but the gunners had not bee
supplied with range finders by tn
: navy department.
Vice Admiral Sims, during the ten
porary absence Of the British CON
mander In chief, was appointed to TAX
: general charge OF the operations Of tn
allied naval forces In Irish waters
, where the U-boats find most Of thel
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