Arizona republican., 1918-01-29

 that has had to go on contemporane- ously with this tremendous response to the changing conditions on the other | side.
 Tn the meantime. when we started into this war, think it was commonly thought throughout the country that our contribution at the outset might well be financial and industrial. The industries of this country were largely devoted at that time to, the appropriate industries. and many converted indus | tries were largely devoted to the man. | ufacture of war materials for our allies "As I suggested this morning when we went into that market we found it largely occupied, so that our problem was not going to a shoe factory and saying make shoes for us,' but it was going to a factory which never made l shoes, because all the shoe factories were busy making shoes for people l from whom we could not take them, and saying learn how to make shoes in l order that you may make them for us.' r
 Forging Capacity Lacking
 'Now, of course, that is not true of shoes. but it is true of machine guns, it is true of other arms, 1t is true of am- intuition, 1t is true of forging capacity | which was the greatest defect in the | country and all of this time we had not ! merely to disturb the program of allied | manufacture in this country, but we | had not to cut off the supplies of raw | material to our allies, and we had not | to disturb the industry of this coun- ! } try, to such an extent that products | upon which they depended for the suc- cess of their military operations would , be interfered with, both agricultural |, and industrial and al ) ducts.
 At the outset the idea was that we would be a financial and industrial as- , slstance to our allies during the year } 1918, and I think I can probably read from the Metropolitan Magazine for } August suggestion which will show : what the current expectation of this ) country was. The editor of the Metro politan Magazine was protesting 6 against what he believed to be the in S tention of the government at that q time'
 r Here Senator Weeks interrupted to
 ask if that was the magazine of which t theodore Roosevelt Is associate editor Secretary Baker replied that Mir. = Roosevelt was contributing editor, and continued:
 O This magazine came out in August t 1917, and this editorial says:
 n SiiCe II IS our war, We want to put 0 everything into it so as to finish it in I the shortest possible time, so that the a world may be restored To our mind F the whole plan of the war department q has been favored with desire to hold V off until the allies finish the war for , us
 l ou see, the editor was dealing with S what he supposed to be the intention of
 the war department at that time that n we were holding off so far as actual d military operations were concerned, : ana letting the allies do the fighting. what he says We have done and I ,r this: N - '- We should have strained every en-
 ergy to have gotten from 5O,00O to 100. .- oo0 men to France this year.
 ,r Result Really Accomplished mat IS the year 1917. I tell no se- :. cret, put 1t is perfectly we'll known to - eVeryoody in this group that we have t Tar exceeded what in August, 1917, was # regarded as a program so ideal that the editor of this magazine refers to it fa as thing which we ought to have n strained every nerve in vain but ,a ,i, hopeless effort to accomplish" :u In response to a question bv Chair , man Chamberlain, the secretary said ;u the United States did not have more 10 than the minimum number of men in france In August, 1917. He continued ,e And then the editor goes on: y And by next year, 1918, we could
 nave had 500,000 men to send over n, lp any part of 500,000 men which we could at ship W eoui' ,e Now, instead of having 5o.OOo O, h, IVo,o00 men in France in 1917 we haye many more men than that in France 1o and instead of having a half million men whom we could ship to France ii
 we could find any way to do it ir
 ISlo, We will have more than one-halt
 million in France early in 1918, and wf
 nave available, if the Transportation
 facilities are available to us. and thf
 prospect Is not unpromising, one and
 one-haif million who in 1918 can bt
 shipped to France"
 Senator Weeks asked whether the
 secretary knew who wrote the edito.
 rlal and Mr. Baker said he thought i,
 vas attributed to Mir. Wiggin, the ed.
 itor in chief.
 Why" asked Chairman Chamber.
 ialn, nave you not felt it proper tc
 let the public into your confidence witl
 reference to these things that you arc
 telling now?'
 Senator, I confess I have hesitated
 and l still hesitate" replied the secre.
 tary. 'I have here a statement iron
 Field Marshal von Hindeberg, in whicf
 he is quoted as saying in a German
 newspaper. in contemptuous fashion
 of us, that we have advertised ou,
 preparations for this war in an un.
 worthy manner"
 Do you think for a moment, Secre.
 tary Baker" said the chairman, ''tha
 there has been any time within tn,
 last year that the German secret serv
 ice has not been fully advised as t
 everything we have done?"
 Germans Do Not Know Numbers, "Yes, senator, knew. If I may rel, upon the confidential information which we get from confidential sources the German government is still mysti fled as to the number of men we hay in France, or have had there at an tine''
 The chairman said he doubted thi, After some discussion as to the polio of governments in announcing militar secrets, Mir. Baker said it was not tn policy of the American or other gov l ernments to do so, and added: l T am saying this now, because yo | have asked me why I have held bac these facts until now. I am saying t l you that you could not get from Grea | Britain at this minute-I don't kno' | whether I could get the numher of SoI