The Carlisle independent., 1918-08-15

alty announces the output of merchant ships by the allies and neutral nations for the three months ending June 30 exceeded the losses from all causes by 296.696 gross tons. The American wards are now turning out vessels with extraordinary rapidity. The launch ing of the first one from the great gov ernment yard at Hog island was at tended by President and Mrs. Wilson.
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 Our war departments army program , was partly revealed to the senate com mittee on military affairs by General March, chief of staff, when he ap- peared before it to urge all possible haste in passing the bill extending the draft age limits to eighteen and forty five years. Concisely stated, the pro- gram is as follows:
 Ninety-eight divisions - 3,920.000 men-to make up troops obtained un- der existing law.
 Eighty divisions-3, 100000 men-to be sent to France.
 Eighteen divisions-7200 900 men-to be held in reserve in the United States while additional recruits are being trained.
 An army when completed of 5,00o, 00o men, minimum strength.
 Troop movement to France at the rate of 25000O men month until cold weather sets in, meaning over 100000 more men abroad before the first of the year.
 An expeditionary force of almost 2 500 GOO men in France by January ].
 General March told the committee the United States can end the war by getting 100000 trained troops, fully equipped, into France and he intimat- ed that Marshal Foch is only await ing the arrival of the Americans in full strength to hurl the entire united military strength of the allies at the Huns on the western front. This tre- mendous blow. he intimated. was due to fall next spring. The chief of staff said he did not believe it would be necessary to send the eighteen-year-o class to the firing line, but that the government wants these young men trained and in readiness. He said it would be satisfactory if the bill were passed immediately after congress re- sunes the transaction of business on August %. Some of the senators be- Heyed quicker action would be advis- able. Chairman Dent of the house mil itary affairs committee, clinging to the anti and ante-war ideas that always have animated his actions, shows no desire to have the bill considered by his committee in time for early pas sage. It was stated that the sensible members of the committee, headed by Representative Kahn, probably would have to take charge of the measure. Why the small-minded Dent is not busted from his chairmanship of this most important committee remains one of the mysteries. Other men connect ed with the administration and the government, who were pacifists and small army and navy advocates, have seen the error of their ways long since . and are doing everything in their power to help win the war, but no such light Eliminates the dense mind of Dent.
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 The house ways and means commit tee is still busy with the next revenue measure. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has informed Chairman Kitch- in that he is strongly in favor of fiat war profits tax of 80 per cent, which he believes would render unnecessary any increase in the existing excess profits tax rate, and would also be found the only way to reach real war profteering. The committee has agreed upon a section that would call on the president to pay tax of SPA 600 as his part of the country's finan- cial war burden and under which the Supreme court justices, all federal judges and all state officers would be taxed. There is a great sentiment all over the country" said Mir Kitchin, that no one should be exempted from taxation" In which Mir Kitchin speaks the exact truth.
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 The federal trade commission has recommended that the government take control of all the principal stock yards, cold-storage plants and ware houses and of refrigerator and cattle cars. in order to destroy the monopoly which it declares is exercised by Swift & Co, Armour & Co, Morris & Co, VII son & Co. Inc, and the Cudahy Pack ing company. The commission ac- cuses these concerns of illegally and progressively controlling and manipu- lating the meat and other food supplies Of the nation. and of profiteering.