The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-29
WORK OF WAR
 DEPAR l MENT
c0NrINw0 TRo1 pA0r ForR

] n Ntl tIi''i cur people II you send over some of your troops
 ! 'Wc did send some troops
 "At that place we had a choic. We
 could have sent over az Great Britain. our regular army and in a very short ! preparation have put it into action and suffered eEactW what Great ] Hitain suffered lith her contempt iblc little army as it was called by their adTersaric- Our army would have given as good an account of It. self as tbe British army did, aut t. would have been dc,troyed like the , British army aud there would have been no nucleus ou which O huld this new army that was to come over lHule later and it was deemed wlsa tu send over rc4ular diyIsion but not D send over our whole razumr arm at fha time
 Then 0Ha happened was Alt hc reeu.Hr division went over and the 1 people of France k,-sod the hcms of their rmmts as they marched up 1 the streets or Paris. -.e odd ye. craus. wounded in tIiis war le4less OF arm 1 less, sumpns along on rrutcbes per 1 hops. as they went mp the streets 1f i Paris with their arms around the ugce ! of Anrican soldiers America had gone 10 France and the French poo- pie rose with a sense of gratitude and hopefulness that had never been ! i'm them before
 ] "Of course they welcomed the Brit ish bn' their need was not SD great when the British went There were ties .o.Nnel them and u5 uaica there 1 bad mo. been between them and tho | Butisl. and so when our troops went i theec was an inst5nt and sponnneou1 1 rise in the morale of thp French. 5ut i an equally instant and spontaneous l insistenco that these soldiers who came from America should continua 1 Co come in an anbroken stream
 And so we made the election We decided not Co send the regular army as a whole, but to send regular diW
 sions and national guard divisions. se- leCted according to the state of their preparation and keep back here som part of out trained force in ord 7r that 1t might innoculate with it's spiri and it's training these raw lsvios ! which We'were training and one aft0r another these divisions havc gone over until iu France there is fght ing army, an army trained in the eg-
 seutials and in the beginnings of mill-
 tary discipline and practice and train
 ed, seasoned fighters in this Kind O.
 war on the actual battlefields where
 it is taking place
 taI3 iu This yar when Joffre was
 here and when Balfour was here they
 said 10 Us, 1t may take you some
 time to get over To us a fighting army,
 but you are great industrial coun- try--our man power is fully engaged
 in our industries and in our military l enterprises send over artsians. spe- cial armaments and troops of a tech 2 l nical character, and although it was not contemplated at the start only a 1 phrase in the emergency military leg 1 islation shows that the thing was thought of as q possibility in a very | short time we had organized engi- neering regiments and sen them over there and were rebuilding behind the l lines of the British and French the railroads which were being carried forward with their advance. recon structng their broken, engines and cars, building new railroads. both back of the French and British lines and those regiments were of such quality that at the Cambrai assault our engineer regiment distinguished themselves by gallant action in the war itself
 Very early Great Britain and France said to us, Send us nurses and doctors Why, before we were scarcely in the war American units organized in advance and anticipation by the Red Cross. which was taken over into the service of the United States through the surgeon eeneraps office, were on the battlefield.
 Our surgeons have set up hospi-
 tals immediately behind the lines They have been made military in 1 every sense ot the word
 But that was not enough. it was suggested that further groups of me chanics might be needed Nay. we began to see that we were going to be over then in large force and ques tons that then had to be answered was, how will we maintain an army in | France?
 France vas a white sheet of paper | so far as we were concerned and on that We had not only to write an army but we had to write the means of maintaining that army and from the first time when careful and sci- | enittic study Of the opportunities of France to help us were made, we have | been building in France facilities. in. | struments, agencies, just as many as we are here in the United States and more many of them the same char acter. For instance the French had 1 uqfrra liz paqaf.4-a ad tha hae4 ,,,.-+- f,,