Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-26
WOOD URGES
ARMY OF FIVE
MILLION MEN
Send Half to France Now,
Military Expert Tells
Senator's

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of 100000 men undec training, and
half that number should be in
France.
Genera Wood has just returned
from France and was called before
the committee to tell what he
thinks is necessary to win the war.
The general gave his views with
the authority of one who has given
the greatest study to the situation
and who bases his conclusions upon
personal experience and personal
observations.
, The genera Ibid not criticise the
limited program the government is
carrying out, but he showed how
miserably inadequate it is. AS a
program to prolong, but not to end,
the war it might prove effective, but
for the purpose of meeting and
overwhelming the tremendous
strength OF the German armies, of
facing facts and actual conditions
and dealing with them practically
and effectively, it is utterly insuffi-
cient.
The statement of General Wood
fell, upon the ears of senator's al
ready convinced that the United
States is not yet preparing to do its
part in the war and that the great
battle for civilization and the pre-
servation of liberty and democracy
is being fought without effective as
sistance from the United States.
United States Too Far Behind
| These senators realize that what
the United States is doing may aid
eventually in gaining decisive vic
tory for the allied cause, but at the
rate the United States Is gong it
will be n deferred victory and one
that must depend chiefly upon the
strength of the allies and upon the
waning strength of the allies and
upon the waning strength of the
Germans.
! General Wood would have the
United States prepare to force vic
tory by the magnitude of it's own
forces, and do this with the least
loss of time, which would also
mean the least loss of life.
Respecting the situation on the
French front, General Wood said
that there is no immediate danger of
a German victory.
This opinion was repeated by Cen
eral March. chief of staff, who de-
clared there is nothing in the de-
velopments thus far to cause any
feeling of uneasiness.
Notwithstanding these assurances,
there is a general uneasiness, which
the president attempted to allay by
sending his telegram to General
Haig expressing confidence in the
British armies. The general feeling
in the senate is that America must
wake up.
"England's" fight is our fight, for
every man our ally loses now we
must supply three more to take their
place, for every shell she fires into
the German hordes now we must be
! prepared to fire three more when
our turn comes. for every square
mile of civilized land wrestled by
the Hun to-day we must set our
teeth to regain three square miles
later. l speak contrasting our popu-
lation and resources with those of
England. 1t is our manifest course
to take up the burdens our allies
! can no longer hold and to make good
as soon as possible the three years
deficit we owe the allied cause"
The need for Anglo-American
solidarity in the present crisis eX-
pressed to-day by senator's from
widely scattered states was focused
in the above words by Senator Nc
Cumber, of North Dakota. Feeling
the utter impotence of America at
the present time that the safety
| safety of the standards of liberty
rest entirel with the permanence of
the ard-pressed British line the
fonts of sympathy for England in
her present agony We're opened wide
at the capitol to-day.
Except for admiration it was all
that the capitol would give.
From now on we have got to use
the iron hand at home as well as
abroad" said Senator King, of Utah
with whom rests principle credit for
laying bai@ the treacherous activities
OF the German-American Alliance.
The time for patience with those
elements in our midst, who would
put themselves on the German side
is at an end. There are Just two
sides now, the friends of GERMANY
and her enemies. Those who would
work against our government now
are her friends and we must treat
them as we would treat Germans on
the battlefield
Senator King added not a moment
should be lost in combing out non
essential production and linking IN
the entire man and woman power of
the nation to one OF another form
of essential war activity.
Between IS and 65 Years
IF necessary he said, "eyerv
man in the nation between the ages
of is and 65 years should be regist-
cred and wnen needed conscripted
into some form of war work, either
in the shipyards. on the farm or in
munition factories. The wealth
concentrated in private hands
should be as freely drawn on to nav
the bills. Soldiers, ships, shells.
money and food must all be pro.
vided by us in quantities now. It
is high time we get busy turning
them out"
Senator Frelinghuysen. of New
| Jersey, took the stand that Amer
| ica must wake up in good earnest
now. not only to do some active
work in assisting the allies, but as n
measure of necessary self-defense.
He pointed out that should the Ger
mans break through. rolling up the
British on the north and the French
on the south, it would be with
! France q question of separate peace
or humiliation. Such. a victory. he
thought. would mean the virtual end
of allied resistance in Europe, and
would be followed by q demand
| from Germany that America pay
huge indemnity.
IT don't think this will happen"
said Senator Frelinghuysen, "but If
| isn't at all visionary, and. in line
with the many unexpected things
which have come about during the
last year, we certainly ought to be
prepared for such a contingency"
He advocated that the shipbuild-