The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31
desire to hold off until the allie. fin.

uCSaIc W HOiu OH uHttI Tue 0lllcS II
ish the war for u.s.
"You see, the editor was dealir
, with what he supposed to be the i
tention Of the war department at TIL
Time, that we were holding eff 60 Fl
as actual military operations we,
concerned, and letting the allies
the fighting.
!; What he says we should hav
done, and ask your particular a
tention to it, is this:
We should have strained ever
energy to have gotten from $4,000 I
100000 men to France this year
That is the year 1917. tell n
secret, but it is perfectly well know
to everybody in this group that W
have far exceeded what in August
1917, was regarded asa programme S,
| deem that the editor of this mag
azine refers to it as thing which w
ought to have strained every nerve il
vain but hopeless effort to accom-
plish."
In response to a question by Chair
man Chamberlain, the secretary saic
the United States did not have more
than the minimum number of men in
France in August 1917. He contin-
ued: "And then the editor goes on:
And by next year, 1913, we could
have had 5oo,oHQ men to send over or
any part Of 100000 men which we
could ship
Many Americans in France.
"Now, instead of having $4,000 or
100000 men in France in 1917, we
have many more men that that in
France, and instead of having 100000
men whom we could ship to France ii
we could find any way to do it in
1913, we will have more than 800 900
in France early in 1918, and we have
available, if the transportation facili-
ties are available to us, and the pros
pect is not unpromising 100000 who
in 1913 can be shipped to France"
DO you think, for a moment, Sec
retary Baker, asked Chairman Cham
bcrlain, that there has been any
lime within the last year that the
German secret service has not been
MI y advised everything We
nave done?'
Yes. senator, | know. If may re-
y upon confidential information
which we get from confidential
sources, the German government is
till mystified as to the number Of
nen we have in France or have had |
here at any time.
Why did we decide to send some
roops to France in 1917? 1t is no
ectet. When Marshal Joiire and the
British mission came to this country,
hey told us of situation which we
ad not up to that time fully appre-
lated.
,aising and Training of Great Army
Credit to U. S. Progressiveness.
Early in this war, when Joffre was
ere and when Balfour was here, they
AID to us 1t may take you some TIME
} get over to us fighting army but
Oh are a great industrial country.
ur man power is fully engaged in
lr industries and in our military en-
rprises, send over artisans, special \
lgineering regiments, and troops OF I
technical character, and although it q
as not contemplated at the outset, {
I'd only phrase in the emergency c
ili.ary legislation shows that the =.
ing was thought Of as a possibility,
It III a very short time we had Or
lnlzel engineering regiments OF
ilroad men and sent them over there !:
I'd were rebuilding behind the lines I
the British and French the rail-
ads which were being carried tor
ard with their advance, reconstruct .
g their broken engines and cars, ;.
hiding new railroads, both back of =
c French and British lines. Those
simcnts were OF such quality that
the Cambria assault, carried on by
neral Byng, when the Germans II
lde their counter attack our engin- %
+ regiments threw down their picks d
d spades and carried their rifles in
the battle and distinguished them A
yes by gallant action in the war it Il
t. =,
Very early in this war Grea, c,
itain, through Balfour and his as 5;
tants, and France through Jofirc,
d to us, send us nurses and doc {
S, Why, before we were scarcely b
the war, American units were or a,
nizcd in advance by the Red Cross, tt
i taken into the service OF the Unit to
States through the surgeon gen III
lis office. There are tens of thou is
ids Of men in England and in h,
ancc now who bless the mission of II;
rcy upon which the first Ameri- 81
Is appeared in France. til
Hospitals Behind the Lines.
Our surgeons have set up hospi- 81 81
5 Immediately behind the lines, ~