Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
Our Work in War Sets New Record:
Army And Many Journal Says That
1t Has No Parallel III Military
History; All Criticism Silenced

That the achievements OF the army
and navy OF the United States in the
first three months Of the war have
worked forward with a s~moothness
and an absence OF scandal that have
no parallel in u history OF warfare"
is the editorial statement made by
The Army and Navy Journal In Q re-
view Of the part this country is play
ing in the great struggle.
Criticism and fault-hnding." says
the Journal, have entered like rumor
painted with q thousand tongues
but they have pretty well disappears
ed since. In common decency, these
elements have to acknowledge the
army and navy officers have carried
out their allotted tasks efficiently and
WELL"
The review covers practically all Of
the activities of the War and Navy
departments, which can properly be
made the subject Of a military surn-
mary. 1t begins with a reference to
the lessons Of the war, lessons which
It 10 following in preparation for the
greater part Its armies and navy :
yet to play in the struggle.
"In material accomplishments we
have set up" the journal says, "a
record before the world Of which we
may we'll be proud. The great out
standing facts of these three months
of war sis that U military and naval
operations have been conducted SOLE
~ by army and navy officers, with
never g political general showing his
head above the horizon. Between the
people and the work OF the navy there
q screen Of secrecy more effective
than anything we have ver known
before. and which rebounds to the
highest credit of the press Of the
country. When that screen has been
lifted now and again we have seen our
beets OF destreyers operating N Brit
tsh and French waters; we have learn
ed Of another feet being in the South
Atlantic on patrol duty; we have.
armed and manned by navy guns n
gunners, fighting U-boats mi losing
their lives in that aFduous duty; and,
finally, we have learned of the navy's
superb achievement in conveying to
France the greatest body of troops We
ever sent to foreign soil in one ex-
petition without the loss of a man.
Great Growth of the Navy.
"Our nayy's personnel has almost
doubled In that time, SO that now we
have over 10000 g in the navy,
while in h Marine Corps we hay e
29,361, as against the 1929 on April
6, the day the state Of war was de-
clared. The auxiliary patrol feet
manned by the Fleet Naval Reserve is
gradually assuming the form Of a
really effective body Of young men
who are learning navy traditions more
rapidly than would have been thought
possible six months ago. In addition
to its herculean task of training the
great influx Of recruits to the regular
service, the officers of. the navy have
taken on their shoulders the added
burden Of raining thousands Of young
men to be officers and crews Of the
great feet Of merchantmen that the
government is building as a part Of
the Allies s~trategical plan to conquer
the U-boats.
Even greater than this has been
the army's achievement owing to the
signal change that has come to the
nations policy regarding a large army
since the entry of the United States
into the war. For on the army has
devolved the task Of increasing the