Republican farmer., 1918-04-12
UNITED STATES ACHIEVEMENTS IN FIRST YEAR OF WAR REGARDED AS
 SOMETHING MORE THAN MIRACULOUS
First Anniversary of Uncle San's Entry Into Great Struggle Finds Star Spangled Banner and Thousands of Soldiers and Sailors in Thick of Battle

Within six months from the tims his words were spoken the Vaterland was in running order and since, the navy has announced. hGz I--~2i4; numbers of American troop. ana great quantities Of supplies to the fighting lines in France.
 By taking the ships and men of
 the Coast Guard into it's fleets, by the merging of Naval Volunteers and
 Naval Militia, and with the growth
 of the Marine Corps, the navy has
 expanded it's forces practically five
 times since the country went to war. In it's immense task of conveying troops there have been some losses. | notably the Tuscania and the Antilles. but the losses of life have been for tunately small in comparison with
 the numbers of troops transported At 1 the same time the American destroy
 CTS, working with the British in the
 submarine zone, have made them | selves a terror to the undersea boats. 1 How many of these craft they have 1 accounted for remains a military se- l cret.
 The Treasury, concerned with ff- 1 nancing the war, has raised from
 Liberty Bonds and War Savings
 Stamp sales more than $S,000, 900, 900, l and on this, the first anniversary of the declaration of war on Germany, l is launching the Third Liberty Loan.
 Treasury estimates put the expense o1
 the first year of the war at about S12, ,00e 000,0O0 exclusive of the ad- | vances to the Allies.
 These advances to all the Allies
 have totalled, up to the close of
 March $4,96O, ,6oO,O0O. The Unite,
 States has been secured with the
 bonds or obligations of the countsies
 to which the money was advanced,
 More than $125,OOO,0OO of the sum
 went to Russia before the debacle
 put the country out of the war. Wha.
 return, the United States will get, if
 any. is considered doubtful.
 Chairman Hurley of the Shipping
 Board, in a recent speech in New
 York at which he outlined the ship building program which is to make
 the bridge of ships to France is 2S per cent. toward completion. He pointed out the magnitude of the task by recalling that the Shipping Board is building in year, a great CT organization than the Steel Cor
 poration has been able to build up in more than twenty years. The re- cent disclosures by the British Admir- alty that German submarines actually are destroying the worlds shipping } twice as fast as it is being built is the spur which is expected to put the full force of the country at this v1- l tai task.
 ] Beside the work of the executive l departments of the government, the year has seen tremendous strides in [ the mobilization of labor, industry,
 science and invention with the sole s aim of winning the war. Hundreds s of business and professional men have t given up private interests to serve = the government at nominal pay Busi- t ness and manufacture has given the r best of it's secrets. Whatever criticism d has been made of the lack of co-or- d dination of all these tremendous re- @ sources and power, none ever has a charged that private interest has s. withheld them.
 l. What is expected to be one of the y mightiest weapons toward winning t the war is the War Trade Board, cre- d ated for the purpose of cutting of s supplies to Germany through the ad. a jacent neutrals. As the war goes on, k officials say, the work of this organ = ization cannot be underestimated. y A year of war, all officials concede, = finds shortcomings and defects, but it
 is contended no more than might = have been expected from a peaceful l. nation suddenly reorganized to a war - basis.
 : President Wilson in a recent dec 1 laration pronounced the present year T the vital one in the winning of the
 war. As the resources of America e now being gathered, get to the baa 0 tlefronts with a mighty rush, they e are fully expected to carry the Allies
 through to victory.