The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-02-08

ALASKA, FRIDAY. FEBR
ordnance depots and repair shops and
great magazines had to be built In the
interior. The plans for a single ord
nance repair shops, covering acres of
ground, was designed in America. the
iron work fabricated, disassembled.
put in ships and carried to France and
reassembled there.
Summing Up
And now let me be frank with you.
continued Mr.. Baker. "and let your
Judgment be frank with me about this
Has any army in history, ever since
the beginning of time, been so raised
and cared for as this army has? And
yet has any great enterprise within
the knowledge of any man in this room
ever been carried out with more I'M
failing justice, with more intelligent
explanation and commentator to the
good sense and patriotism of the Amer
lean people?
I'VE have got these young men in
camp and they are surrounded from
the day they left home until the day
they come back to it, if in Gods proyi-
dence they can come back, with more
agencies fer their protection and COM
fort and health and happiness, phys
ical, spiritual and mental, than any
army that ever went out on a field.
Ia ,nen, with your aid, the army
has been able to practically stamp out
tntemperance and vice among the sol
diers by the establishment of zones, by
The establishment of patrol systems Of
one kind or another. By the training
OF these young officers in these train
.ag camps, young men of experience
ana fine feeling and all that, we have
gotten into this great army the idea
that it can be a strong and effective
military army and still be free from
things which have hitherto weakened
and Slapped the vitality and virility of
armies.
old men in the army, men whose
lives have been spent in it from their
Doynood, ana who have been all over
the continental United States and it's
insular possessions wherever our ar
mes have been, who know the life OF
the soldier and the camp and the post,
all say with one accord and no excep-
ton that they have never seen any
thing like this, that the disciplinary
problems of the army are reduced to
negligible quantity"
when Lord Northcliffe returned to
England he was invited, as | recall it,
by Lloyd George to accept a position in
his cabinet. He wrote a letter which
was printed in the papers, and in that
he made this casual reference to the
United States. He spoke of his visit
here and spoke of our war prepare
q tiOns in this fashion:
"tWar preparations proceeding in
the yirile atmosphere of the United
States and Canana with a fervor and
enthusiasm little understood on this
side of the Atlantic
Confidence in Outcome
when it is all told Mr. Chairman,
it will be a story which l am sure your
oOT, n, i+taa will no yIo n +C ronOrt ~ IN q
senate of the United States as being
a tremendous response to a Iremen-
dous responsibility and when you have
made this investigation 1 know that
the American people will feel as
think they have a right to feel, that
we are in this war to win it; that We
are in it to hit, and to hit hard; that
we are in it to coordinate our strength
with that of our associates; that the
problem is not one of individual star
playing, but of team play with these
veterans and experienced persons un-
der actual battle conditions; that more
has been done, perhaps, than the cOun'
try expected; more than the wisest in
the country thought was possible to
do. And when the victory is won over
there, Mr.. Chairman, the credit Will
come to American enterprise and
American determination and to Ameri-
can courage, will be an honor to us,
Of