The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23

It was necessary to dredge to reach IL. There never was pound of produce, a man, or an animal shipped either out of or in to this terminal during the war.
 We spent $127,66l ,OO0 for port terminals at Boston, Brooklyn, New ark, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Charles, and New Orleans. Some of them were not finished and none of them were used for anything except storage dur ing the war.
 The ordnance department spent $3,- 991 ASS, ,570.48 from the beginning of the war until June 1, 1919, as much as it cost to finance the Civil war. A large part of it was spent in program of manufacturing artillery and ammu- milton. This is what we got for it:
 We had 53 contracts for 37-milli- meter shells, on which we expended $9,134,5S2. Not one of these shells ever reached our firing line.
 We had 689 contracts for 75-milli- meter shells, on which we expended S301 ,941 ,459. Of these shells, we find 5000.
 We had 142 contracts for 3-inch shells, on which we expended 4,841, : S44. None of these shells reached the firing line. e.
 We had 439 contracts for AZ shells, on which we expended $41, ,716,O51. Of these shells 14,000 were fired by our forces.
 We had 3O5 contracts for 6-inch shells, on which we expended 24,1S9,- 075. None of these ever reached the firing line.
 We had 617 contracts for 155-milli- meter shells, on which we expended $264 4,955, ,3S7. None of these ever reached the firing line.
 We had 301 contracts for 8-inch shells, on which we expended $51, ,371, ; POT. None of these ever reached the firing line.
 We had 152 contracts for 140-milli- meter shells, on which We expended SPA, 4,136,S67. None of these ever reached the firing line.
 We had 239 contracts for 9.2 shells, on which we expended $54 ,389.377. None of these ever reached the firing line.
 We had n contracts for 12-inch shells, on which we expended $9,507,- SIS. None of these ever reached the firing line.
 We had 6 contracts for 14-inch shells, on which we spent S1,266,477. None of these reached the firing line.
 We let Ill contracts, to the amount of SAYS, ,345 for the construction of artillery of all calibres, guns, howit- gers, gun carriages, limbers, and recu- perators. Of this immense program of expenditures there reached our troops and were actually used in com bat thirty-nine 75-millimeter anti arcraft mount trucks, forty-eight AZ inch guns of the 1906 model, forty eight 4.7-inch gun carriages of the same model, twenty-four S-inch how itzers, and twenty-four 8-inch car riages. The details are shown in a table furnished by the war department and attached as an appendix hereto.
 To sum up, we furnished our troops for use six thousand 75-millimeter shells, fourteen thousand AZ shells, forty-eight AZ guns, and twenty-four 8-inch howitzers.
 These are the principal things sol- diers need to fight with-guns and shells, gas, aeroplanes, and tanks. And while there was such failure to pro- duce these essential things, it is amaz- ing to know what excessive orders and expenditures there were on other less essential things. A few instances will indicate this:
 We ordered Al ,100,15 pairs of shoes and received deliveries of 32,227, ,45O pairs, for 3,513,837 men.
 We bought and received 500,326 double sets of harness and 110,S28 sin gle sets. We'had, in all, during the period of the war 580,182 horses, of which only 67,498 were shipped over seas and 96,000 died.
 We bought 5000 saddles and had, in all, S6,418 cavalry horses.
 We bought 2,850,853 matters.
 We bought 585,516 saddle bags.
 We bought 1,637, ,199 horse brushes.
 We bought 3,O33, ,204 nose bags.
 We bought 1 JAS, ,364 horse covers.
 We bought for our ordnance officers, 712,510 complete sets of spur straps, about 36 sets for each officer. We pro posed to have our ordnance officers properly spurred.
 We bought S,781, ,516 horseshoes.
 We bought 195,000 branding irons.
 We ordered 149,456,611 hard bread cans and uses 31 100000 during the war.
 Who won the war? oIot the pres ent administration. It has but little ground for self -congratulation. It fail- ed in preparedness. It failed in ac- complishment. It filled the air with fine phrases and spent the peoples money. But I will tell you who won the war. The people, whose great heart was stirred to sacrifice and whose funds flowed out in golden stream. But above all, it was the man with the gun, the American soldier, the hest in the world. He won the