Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-12
NARROWER WILL DECIDE
CKansas City Starr

The June drafts which bring the army up to 2million men and more, will hel lp us to understand still more clearly the nature of the great contest we are engaged in with the Germanic powers. It Is contest of manpower. Premier Clemenceau said in the French chamber The Americans are arriving. We are stalking the game on the help of the Americans. His words had a literal meaning. They meant that the man. power of France and England was not equal to the manpower of the Central Powers and that only the manpower of America could turn the scale against them.
 The Germans have the summer before them. Operating on inside lines and able therefore to make huge concentrations against the points selected for attack they may be able with these superior numbers to make continued gains of territory, pay ing, of course, what price the stubborn re- sistance of the Allies can exact. This pro- cess must in all likelihood go on until American manpower brought into the field swings the balance in favor of the Allies.
 Nor will mere equality of manpower serve We have seen that the French and British have been outnumbered and forced back by the mass weight brought against definite places in their lines. In the face of these great German concentrations and the vigor and desperation of their thrusts the Allies giving ground where they had to- retiring in order and keeping their lines in tact, have thus far succeeded in breaking the force of these drives, narrowing the salients they create with every mile of the advance and finally stopping them alto gether within week or ten days from the time they started
 In order to present an unbending line, equality of manpower Is not enough for the Allies. To overcome the advantage of German interior lines we must have, mili- tary men figure at least 30 per cent superi- ority. To attain this is task whose mag nitude Americans may not fully appreciate. Germany, too, 1t must be remembered Is pouring new divisions into France, and Germany isn't three thousand miles away from the front, as we are. She, too has her training camps, and they are full of conscript classes all the time In addition she is ccmbing her industries for manpow- CT, and this IS a very great reservoir in Ger many, which Is an industrial country. The kaiser has besides recently taken another twist in the bonds that bind Austria to him, and this squeeze will pour all of Austria manpower into his hopper The seized Bal tic provinces have been notified that they must contribute men.
 It will take America greatest efforts to balance the manpower situation in France before next winter. In the spring of next year our millions will have tipped the scale and General Foch will be ready to advance But in the meantime there can be no letup in the working of our selective draft sys- tenn. The Cantonments must be kept full and a steady stream of troops must be kept moving overseas, gaining in volume as ship tonnage increases. It is a contest of man. power.
 There can be no skimping The most effective and the cheapest policy is the pol icy of the greatest effort of which the Ma ton is capable until the war is won