Evening star., 1918-01-29

/ now in use make such operations !
increasingly costly to the German
| ! admiralty.
sent across through those infested
| three thousand miles of ocean, and
| then set up on that side.
In addition to that, on the other
side it has been necessary for US to
build hospitals and that is where the
major need for hospitals lies.
That Is picture Of what has been
going on over there, gentlemen On
this side much of what has had to be
done. and in addition to it all the
things we have done, and / ask you to
remember among the achievements on
this side is the building of this Army,
not of $4,000 or 100000 or 100000, but
of substantially million and e-half
men.
Discipline in Army Fine.
81 have gone from camp to camp
among these cantonments. and my first
question almost invariably is to the
camp commander, What about your
disciplinary problem" -
"Old men in the Army. men whose
lives have been spent in 1T from their
boyhood. and who have been all over the
continental United States and through
its insular. possessions wherever our
armies have been. who know the life
of the soldier and the camp. and the
post. all say with one-accord. and no
exception, that they have never seen
anything like this-that the disciplin-
ary problems of the Army are reduced
to negligible quantity, and. instead
of the melancholy and pathetic parade
through the Secretary of Wars office
of court-martial after court-martiat. OF
men who have fallen down and yielded
to temptation under these unusual cir
cumstances, which used to obtain. L
have now an infrequent case of court
martial by reason Of such weaknesses.
Certain of Net Result.
I'm so far as I am personally con-
cerned, I know what is ahead of US.
know what the American feeling about
this war is. Everybody is impatient to
do as much as we can. There Will be
no division of counsel; there will be all
the criticism there ought to be upon
shortcomings and failures, there will
be, so far as the War Department rs
concerned. a continuing effort at sell
improvement, and a hospitality toward
every suggestion for improvement that
can come from the outside, but the net
result is going to be that a united and
confident American people believing in
themselves and in their institutions. are
going to demand, and that at no late
day, on European battlefields, in the
face of veterans with whom they are
proud to associate, that veterans though
they be they cannot excel US in achieve
fnent, and when the victory is won over
there. Mr.. Chairman, the credit which
will come to American courage will be
an honor to US, as the tenacity of pur-
pose and splendid achievements of the
British and French already shed great
luster on the names of those great
people"
Increase in Shell Output Shown.
When Secretary Baker resumed the
stand yesterday afternoon after the
luncheon recess he read a report show
ing 60,000.000 shells are under manu-
factufe for delivery this year, with an
increase of SO per cent in manufacture
Of 75-millimeter and 3-inch shells and
25 per cent in heavier sizes since the
country entered the war.
Referring to conditions at Camp
Meade, the Secretary read from let
ter from Mai Gen. Nicholson. saying
there had never been time when each
soldier had not had three suits of heavy
underwear and sufficient heavy socks.
He also reported that the food situation
was adequate.
The Secretary then took up discus
sion of the weight of uniforms and
overcoats.
whether heavier cloth ought to be
obtained has not been determined" he
SAID. zen. PeTSnlHS Hdu appointed cA-
perts to investigate and a report is to
be m ade before February l.
Consultations on Camp Sites.
Secretary Baker told the committee
that representatives of the surgeon
generals office had invariably been
consulted before the site of a camp was
selected.
Senator Reed asked him to explain
recent orders prohibiting soldiers from
writing letters for publication unless
they are censored. He asked II that
would prevent men from telling their
families of lack of clothing or i'm
proper food.
absolutely no." said the Secretary.
explaining that it was done to prevent
soldiers from acting as regular cor
respondents for newspapers without
censorship. but that men were encour-
aged to write for publication in their
home papers after censorship.
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