The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-29
Replies to Attack Made by
Chamberlain With Story
L Of Preparation.
HAS PROFOUND AFFECT
Reviews Americas Entrance
Into Struggle by Giving
Detailed Report.
(Continned From Page Onc.)

CONTINUED From Page One,
France az the reyes OF the army"
Every step taken since has been found
ed on his long daily cabled' reports of
what Is going on ar the fighting fronts.
During his general statement Of the
war plan and how it was developed.
Mr.. Baker was rarely interrupted.
. He said:
Now. gentlemen. about the plan Of
the war. It will'be remembered that
this war broke out in August. 1914.
We went into It In April, 1917. so that
for two and ono half years. or more
than two and one half years, the war
had been going on.
{ TT was not as though war had brok-
EN- out between the United States and
some country. each OF them prior to
that time having been at peace with
one another and with everybody else;
so that an imNedaefe plan should be
made In the pn&Sas states for con-
Quoting war againAt its adversary. but
we were coming Tito a war which had
been going on for two and one half
years. in which the greatest military
experts. all the Inventive genius. all
OF the Industrial capacity Of those
greatest countries In the world had
for two and one half years been solv-
ing the problem OF what kind of war
1t was TO be and where II was to be
waged.
War Loo ated for Us.
ut was not thing for us to decide
where our theater of war should be.
The theater of war was France. It
was not for US to decide our line of
communications. Our line Of COM
munications was across 5000 miles Of
ocean. one end OF it infested with
eide whether we would have the ma
tneuvering of large bodies of troops In
the open. There lay the antagonists
on opposite sides Of No-Mans Lands"
in the trenches at a death grappie
with one another. Our antagonist was
on the other side Of that line and our
problem was and Is to get over there
and get him.
1.-The one thing the foreign experts
told us from the very beginning TO
the end was. that this war. of all 9TH
ers. was not a static thing that our
adversary was a versatile and agile adj
versary; that every day he revamped
and changed his weapons of attack
and his methods OF defense; that the
stories they were telling us We're true
when they left England and France.
but an entirely different thing was
probably taking place there now. and
they told lis of large supplies OF
weapons OF one kind and another.
which they had developed in France
and England and which even before
they got them in sufficient quantity
manufactured to take them from the
industrial plants to the front were
superseded by new ideas and had TO
be thrown into the scrap heap.
impossible to Describe.
They had told us this Is a moving
picture: 1t Is something that nobody
can paint and give you an idea Of.
1t is not a static thing.
Therefore. il became necessary for
US to have eyes there in an instant
and immediate communication with us
and we sent over to France. General
Pcrshing, and we sent with him not
| merely a division Of troops-~to that
. shall refer In a moment---but We sent
| with him perhaps. I can safely say,
the major part OF tho 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. 1t was n pitiful handful
| of trained men. and yet 1t was neees-
sary to divide them up and send over
| to France. officers OF the highest quail
] ity. SO that they would be at the front
I, and see In the workshops and in the
| factories and in the war offices and
| In the armies, where consultations
would take place Immediately back Of
the front--so that they could see the
thing with their own eyes, and send
us back the details by cable ever,
day of the changing character OF thi.
| war.
Quotes Magazine.
| AT the outset the idea was that W.
would be financial and Industrial az.
sistance to our allies during the veal
1918. and / think probably can read
from the Metropolitan Magazine fol
August. a suggestion which will show
what the current expectation of tn,
country was. The editor Of the Metro
politan Magazine was protestin,
against what he believed to be the in
tention OF the government at tina
time"
Here Senator Weeks interrupted I,
ask IL that was the magazine of which
Theodore Roosevelt is associate edi
tor. Secretary Baker replied that Nj
4 Roosevelt was a contributing editor
and continued
Il Critieixss Government.
This magazine came out in August
1917. and this editorial says: Sine
II is our war we want to put every
thing into II 10 As TO finish 1t in til
shortest possible time. 80 that III
T world would be restored.
"'As to our mind. the whole pla
Of the, war department has been ia
yored with . desire to hold off unit
the allies finish the war for u.s.
You see. the editor was dealing wit
what he supposed to he the intentio