Arizona republican., 1918-01-29

can paint and give you an idea Of. It is not static thing.
 Therefore, it became necessary for us to have eyes there in instant and immediate communication with the
 United States and we sent over to France General Pershing and we sent with him not merely a division of
 troops-to that I shall refer in mo- ment-but we sent with him perhaps
 can say safely the major part of the trained, expert personnel of the army. You know the size of the official corps of the regular army in this country
 when the war broke out. It was a
 pitiful handful of trained men and yet
 it was necessary to divide them up and
 send over to France officers of the highest quality so that they would be
 at the front and see in the workshops and in the factories and in the war of- 1 fees and in the armies, where consult tations would take place immediately back of the front-so that they could i see the things with their own eyes, and send us back the details by cable every day of the changing character
 of this war.
 Thousands In Pershing Staff
 General Pershing's staff of experts
 and officers over there runs into the
 thousands and they are busy every | minute, and every day that the sun
 rises I get cablegrams from General Pershing from 10 to 16 and 20 pages
 long filled with measurements and for
 mulas and changes of millimeter in size, great long specifications of chang
 es in details of things which were agreed upon last week and changed
 fn ha
 again next week, so that what we are
 doing at this end is attempting by us- ing the eyes of the army there to keer
 up to what they want us to do.
 Already you will find in your fur ther examination into some of the bureau work of the department, some Of the divisions, when they come down , you will find that schedules which were agreed upon, weapons which were SC. lected and which we had started tC manufacture, have been so far dis carded that people have forgotten tn, l names of them, almost and new thing substituted in their place, and thos l forgotten and new things in thei ] places.
 50 that if one gets the idea tha 5 this is the sort of war we used to have I or if he gets the idea that this is a stat ic thing it is an entirely erroneous idea T and when you remember that we had t ;, divide this little handful of officers tha e we had and sent so large part of ther n to France, and then think of those wh 8 remained at home you will realize,
 am sure, that those who remained her
 had the double duty, insufficient fo y either aspect of it, in numbers-an " they still have this double duty--the ha {n orI e aot, d work out industry and industrial rela | tions: they had to see about supplie h of raw materials and manufacture fin ished products, and make from day { e day alterations and changes that ha s to be made, and they had to be in . genious with suggestions, to see wheth ;. CT they could devise on this side some : thing which had not been thought C e over there.
 q Expansion Is Great
 y They had to be hospitable to sug
 gestions which came from the othe e side; they had to confer with the for 1t eign officers who were here and wer c constantly being changed, so that me a fresh from the front could be here { a advise with us, and in addition to tha y every one of them had to be a uni is versity professor. going out into the lii ,f of the community and selecting me e who had mechanical experience an it knowledge and training. but not mil y tary mechanical experience and know g edge and training, and adding to h of original equipment the scientific trair Id ing. that finishing touch which mac d him available for use as a militar n scientist.
 It AS a consequence, this little grou le which stayed here have built the gre; ,- special departments of the army. IT 'e ordnance department, starting, thin
 with 93 or 96 officers, has now, as E recall the figures, something like 3,0' ody officers. They have had to be trained