Arizona republican., 1918-01-29

military army and still be free from things which have hitherto weakened | and sapped the vitality and virility of | armies.
 T 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"
 Vitality is Not Sapped
 "Old men in the army, men whose lives have been spent in it from their boyhood, and who have been all over the continental United States and | through it's ihsular possessions wher- 1 ever 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 disciplinary problems of the army are reduced to a negligible quantity and instead or the melancholy and pathetic parade through the secretary of wars office Of court martial after court. amrtial, of men who have fallen down and yielded to temp taton under these unusual clrcum- stances, which used to obtaln, nave an infrequent case now of court mar tial, by reason of such weaknesses.
 Here, at the request of the chairman,
  ment showing the number of hospitals army and Red Cross, established in France, with the number of the per sonnel of each.
 The secretary then resumed his testimony.
 When Lord Northcliffe returned to England, he was invited as I recall it, by Lloyd George, to accept a position in his cabinet. He wrote a letter which was printed in the papers, and in that he made this casual reference to the United States. He spoke of his visit here. and spoke of our war prepara- tiOns in this fashion:
 War preparation is proceeding in the virile atmosphere of the United States and Canada with a fervor and enthusiasm little understood on this side of the Atlantic
 German instructions
 He was then in England. happen to- have a copy of a confidential in struction issued by the German govern ment in June, 1917, to the German press as to what course they should take in dealing with American matters and they say: While the news about American war preparations, such as the organizing and outfitting of an ar my of one million men strong, to rein force the French English front is looked upon in that form as bluff, the spreading of which may unfavorably affect the opinion of the German peo- pie yet the fact must not be overlooked on the other hand that the United States with the support of it's capacity for material and industrial manage | ment is arming itself for war with great energy and tenacity.'
 l hox f,1l1 1 portunity, and will doubtless go into | these things. If you will deal with the l hospital situation, the medical corps, the signal corps, you will hear the wonderful work done by the engineer ing department of the army
 Anticipates Favorable Report
 When it is all told, MT. Chairman | it will be story which I am sure your l committee will be glad to report to the senate of the United States as being a tremendous response to a tremendous responsibility and American people will feel as I think they will have a right to feel, that we are in this war to win it, that we are in it to hit and to l hit hard, that we are in it to co-ordi- nate our strength with that of our as- sociates, that the problem is not one of individual star playing, but of team play with these veterans and eXper- | fenced persons under actual battle con- ditions; that more has been done, per haps, than the country expected, more than the wsest in the country though,
 was possible to do.
 Insofar as I am personally con. cerned, I know what is ahead of us know what the American feeling abou this war is. Everybody is impatient t do as much as we can. There will b no division of counsel; there will be al the criticism there ought to be upo :, shortcomings and failures, there wi be, so far as the war department
 concerned, a continuing effort at self
 improvement, and hospitality towar a every suggestion for improvement the Q can come from the outside, but the n, e result is going to be that united ar ,t confident American people, believing a, themselves and in their institutions al
 going to demand, and that at no la ,, day, on European battlefields, in Il "a lace of veterans though they be, tho do not excel us in achievement. ar when the victory is won over there. M 70 Chairman, the credit which will con ~ to American enterprise and Americs ,n determination and American coura q "a will be an honor to us as the tenaci 10 10 of purpose and splendid achievement oS Of the British and French already sh, ,Y great lustre on the great people,"