Arizona republican., 1918-01-29
HALF MILLION MEN
 SOON ON WAR FRONT
 AND MILLION READY

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 overcome them for forty years was at them, and their attitude was that no matter whether every Frenchmen died in his tracks. as they were willing to do, or not, that it was an irresistible thing and so they said to us, frankly it will cheer us; it will cheer our peO- ple if you send over some of your troops
 We did send some troops.
 At that place we had a choice We could have sent over, as Great Britain did, our regular army, and in very short preparation have put it into ac- ton and suffeed exactly what Great Britain suffered with her 'cOntemptible little army as it was called by their adVersaries. Our army would have given as good an account of itself as he British army did but it would have been destroyed like the British army. and there would have been no nucleus on which to build this new army that was to come over little later, and it was deemed wiser to send oyer regular division, but not to send over our whole regular army at that time.
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 "Thcn what happened was that reg ular divisions went over and the peo- pie of France kissed the hems of their garments as they marched up the streets of Paris; the old veterans, wounded in this war legless or arm less. stumping along on crutches, per haps, as they went up the streets of Paris with their arms around the neck of American soldiers. Not a single man in that division was unaccom panied by a veteran. America had gone to France and the French people rose with a sense of gratitude and hopefulness that had never been in them before.
 "Of course they welcomed the Brit ish but their need was not so great when the British went. Of course they welcomed the British. but there were ties between them and us which there had not been between them and the British and so when our troops went there was an instant and spontaneous rise in the morale of the French. but an equally instant anG spontaneous in- slstence that these soldiers who came from America should continue to come in an unbroken stream.
 And so We made the election. We decided not 10 send the regular army as whole, but to send regular divi- sions and national guard divisions, se- 1ectcd according to the state of theiI preparation and keep back here some part of our trained force in order that it might inOculate with it's spirit anC its training these raw leVies which we were training and one after another these divisions have gone over until il France there is a fighting army. al army trained in the essentials and il the beginnings of military discipline and practice and trained, second fight CTS in this kind of a war on the actua battle fields where it is taking place
 Engineers Are Given Praise
 Early in this war. when Joffre wa! here and when Balfour was here, they said to us it may take you some tim, to get over to us a fighting army, bu you are a great industrial country, ou man power is fully engaged in our in dustries and our military entyerprises send over artisans, special engineerin; regiments and troops of technica character and although it was no contemplated at the outset and only phrase in the emergency military legis lation shows that the thing was though of as a possibility, yet in a very shor time we had organized engineering reg iments of railroad men and sent then over there and were re- building behind the lines of the British and French tn railroads which were being carried for ward with their advance, reconstruct Ing their broken engines and cars building new railroads. both back O the French and British lines, and thos regiments were of such quality that a the Cambrai assault, carried on b, General Byng, when the Germans mad their counter attack our engineer reg