Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-28
WHERE OUR SAILORS
 ARE TRAINED
DeveIopments which Have taken Place at Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
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WaSllnRIOn, June AT OAlAOA tOo- dent William Howard Taft, in com munication to the National Geographic Society. gives a graphic account of his impressions of the Great Lakes naval training station near Chicago. A part of the communication is issued by the society as a bulletin in-its geo. graphy series, as follows:
 lit is very interesting to compare what the navy has done in it's one great cantonment at the Great Lakes naval training station, north of Chicago, with the many cantonments built and used by the army. The navy had 25,000 men to drill and train, and this cantonment was, therefore, about the same size or little smaller than the average army cantonment.
 Tt is a great permanent station with accommodations for some 1.2OO or 1.5O0 dackies in training, and of course offers conveniences that are used in connection with the canton- ment The buildings are somewhat more stoutly built. They are painted and constructed on somewhat. differ ent architectural lines, both of which make them a little more attractive to the eye They have also what the army has not two very large drill halls. They gave me review of 1,00O tackles in one dril hall, and it was evident that these halls in the winter season had been of great advantage for needed training in large bodies.
 Another difference was the differ ence in the age of the men. The men were really between Is and 2. and in their naval uniform they looked like cadets of a high or preparatory school. They were under excellent discipline, as one could see. They needed no in- struction as to saiuting, for that seem ed second nature to them, from the discipline they had had. They wer- not as well able as the older men to withstand the test of my long .ad- dresses, and I thought I discovered a little more somnolence among them than I did among the drafted army Of course, they were not so mature but they were very bright and they were certainly well drilled in the manual of arms and in the calisthenics with their rifles. It would be difficult | to select site where the winter winds l have freer sweep than at this training station, but the buildings seemed tC be well heated and the command ir excellent health"
 MT. Taft is an ardent advocate oi the movement to train an overwhelm-
  adds in his communication to the Geo. | graphic Society the following plea: sThe law should be amended so as | to authorize the President to increase the army from 1.50e,D0 to 000,00l men with the coiors. or !, more M must win the war. and we should nov 1 lay our foundations abroad so as tt make that inevitable.
 | 'sOf course, airplanes artillery, anC | other instruments of war are neces l sary in a modern campaign, and W, l should increase the supply as far a. our resources will permit, but in thu end this war, as other wars, must b. won by trained man power. W should look forward with large visiol and make ample provision so as t strengthen our allies, give confidenc to our own army, and convince ou enemies now of our determination t, win the victory.
 q am frequently much concerned t. gather in perfectly loyal quarters tn impression that the war will be owe in less than a year. One may note il many centers of sinister inhuenc suggestions that peace is to be brough 1 about by negotiation with Germany If this is the outcome of the war i will be most humiliating to the Unite
 States and will only postpone furthe evil days for her. We have sait
 through our national spokesman, tha
 we can have no confidence in
 treaty made with William of Hohen
 zollern and his Prussian militar
 ragime. This was assumed befor Germanys treacherous defeat C
 Russia through the disintegration c
 her army. In spite of her phrase
 of high principle she has disclose again her real lust for territory an
 power in placing her paw on the val
 uable parts of Russia. Now, there
 fore. we should be more determine
 than ever in our purpose to defea
 German militarism before we conser
 to close this war.
 we can raise as fine an army an
 as, large an army as there is O
 European soil, and if we transport
 as rapidly as we may and have it a hpon European scil within two C
 three years, our object will be attain ed and the world will be free again.