Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-03-22
CORPORATIONS
FOLLOW EXAMPLE
OF AUTO MAKER
Copper Interests Will Furnish
Metal to Government at
Half Market Price in Case
Of War-Other War Plans.
(By the Associated Pressl

(By the Associated Press>
Washington, March 21.-All
the resources of the United
States, industrial as we'll as mill
tary, are speedily being mobi-
lized to place the nation in the
fullest state of readiness for any
eventuality.
For the present, the response
bility rests with the navy, which
is arming American merchant
ships, placing rush orders for
submarine chasers, spending
$115,000,OO0 by special authority
of congress to hurry the naval
construction already under way,
advancing the graduation of
classes at Annapolis, protecting
American harbors against invas-
ion by German submarines and
marshalling the industrial re-
sources necessary to stand be-
hind the fleet.
Plans for the army are not SO fully
matured. It is believed, however,
that President Wilson will recognize
the possibility of the army's partici-
patton in war when he addresses con-
gress by discussing the need of uni
versal military training. In a tenta-
tive way, plans for marshalling the
full strength of the regular army, the
national guard and the raising of a
volunteer army of 100000 men have
been worked out in the army war COL
lege.
The volunteer army of 100000 is
planned as a nucleus of what even
tually would be an army of 100000
and would be assembled in training.
The mobilizing of industrial re-
sources has gone much further.
Hundreds of great corporations,
through the efforts of the council of
national defense, have prepared them
selves to utilize their full efficiency in
the defense of the nation.
Henry Ford, the Detroit auto
manufacturer, has offered, and the
government has accepted, his great
plant to be operated without profit
in the event of war. Charles M.
Schwab has announced that his
Bethlehem plant, now greater than
Krupps, will be used entirely for the
government. The United States
Steel corporation and hundred 9TH
er industrial organizations have been
making plans for their participation.
Yesterday the great copper interests
notified the government that they
would supply the army and navy with
their vital supplies of copper at
about half the market price.
While it is not known now how
much money President Wilson may
suggest to congress as necessary to
meet the situation, leaders in the SEN
ate have held the view that not less
than $500,000,O00 should be granted
at once in case war is declared. 1t
is not probable that legislation giving
such a sum would meet with any op-
position.
Quite aside from the task of pro-
tecting American lives and rights on
high seas, the president has consid-
cred the broader question of civiliza-
tion, the distribution of world power
after the war, a natural arrange
ment of the worlds peoples in gov
|ernment by the consent of the gov
erned and an effective league of ma
tions to protect the world against an
other cataclysm of war. The influ-
ence of the United States in the peace
conference is admitted as not to be
|overestimated.
Word that the president had sum-
moned congress was read at the al
lied embassies with acclamations.
There is not diplomat in the corps
who does not believe that it means
the entry of the United States into
the great war, bringing it with its
armed forces, its great resources and
its moral support to the side of the
Entente Allies, in what they feel is
their battle for the preservation of
civilization and democracy.
POLITICAL AMNESTY
ORDERED IN RUSSIA