The log cabin Democrat., 1917-04-07
FAULKNER SHOULD
FURNISH 300 MEN
FOR SERVICE IN WAR
Based Upon Population, This Would
be Quota of Army of 100000 for
War with Germany.

If the army of 100000 to be
raised for the war with Germany is
to be apportioned according to popu
lation, as is indicated in Washington
dispatches, the quota from Faulkner
county would be approximately SOC
and from the city of Conway approx
mately so. This number would in
clude the county's and city's proper
ton of members of the regular army
the national guard and the army of
100000 young men to be drafted into
service under President Wilson's or
ders.
A bin proposed by the general
staff and approved by the president
for submission to congress provides
for the immediate filling up of the
regular army and national guard to
war strength of more than 100000
by draft unless enough volunteers en-
list quickly, and for bringing into
the service by late summer of the
| first 100000 of the new force of
young men between the ages of 19
and 25 years, to be called to the col
ors by selective conscription.
In drafting it's program the staff
recognized the fact that the United
States must start at the beginning
and train first an army of 100000
officers and noncOmmissioned officers
to undertake the training of the
thousands of youths who will enter
the service with no notion of military
duty or life.
Expansion of the present regular
army to its full war strength of
2S7 900 enlisted men and 11,700 Off
GERS means many new regiments Of
all arms to be created by dividing
existing regiments and filling each
half to war strength with volunteers
or conscripts. The national guard
regiments, all of which can be called
in the federal service under the eX-
listing laws, will have approximately
$4,000 men and 10000 officers at
war strength.
Those two steps would provide a
total of $4,000 men and $4,000 Off
GERS, to be supplemented by re-
cruit organization for each unit,
making an additional 100000 men in
training, but to be held in reserve to
fill gaps in the active army as they
occurred.
For five months these expanded
forces will be subject to training of a
character hitherto unknown in this
country. Simultaneously the regis
tration of all men between the ages
of 10 and 25 will be carried out with
federal, state and municipal author
! tiles cooperating.
In August or early in September
the first 100000 of this new army
composed exclusively of young men
summoned to the colors under the
principle of universal military SER
vice, with those supporting depend
ents or needed by the nation in civil
life exempt, would be assembled for
training. From the regulars and ma
tional guard regiments would be
drawn 100000 specially selected Off
GERS and noncommissioned officers,
who would organize, train and COM
mand the units of the new army.
A year from now second incre-
ment of 100000 youths would be
called out, another 100000 officers
and ssioned officers would
be drawn from the regulars, the ma
tional 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 noncom-
missioned officers to train 100000
or more men at time if that We're
necessary.
The sum of nearly $3,000,000, 900
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 supplies of ammunition, can
non and other war material if the
army is to be employed in actual
war.
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