Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08

ice during June through July and
August, and have told them frankly that
We are considering an enlargement Of
our program which may require for q
time at least the uninterrupted service
Of all the ships we have been using.
IF we are able in July and August t6
match the performance of June. 1t viii
mean another half-million men ir
France, as the June enbarkation fig
ures from this country show Sligr Lly
more than $4,000 men. Our cwn SHIPS
carried during that month s0'nethins
more than 100000, which is, of course
doing better than our part as ne orig
irally calculated it.
II think it highly important that
neither Gen. Foch nor the British
sumo our ability to carry out an en-
larged program until we ourselves
have studied It, There is no DISPOSE
ton on the part of the United States
10 shrink from any sacrifice or any
effort, and yet experience has taught
us that great as our capacity Is in
industry, it takes time to build new
factories. get the necessary machine
tools and bring together the raw ma
terials for any large increase in in
dustrial output, and 1 am especially
appointment on the part Of our allies
81 would very much rather they ex-
pect less and to receive more than to
expect more and be disappointed in
the result One of the happy effects
of the recent accelerated shipment Of
troops has been that we have out
stripped our promises.
Raw Men Sent to France.
1.-THE Operations Committee OF the
general STAFF is pressing forward the
necessary studies. They involve, OF
course, questions of clothing, small
arms, ammunition, transportation and
training. On the latter subject am
beginning TO be fairly free from doubts
the troops which we have recently
sent you have admittedly been Of an
uneven quality, chiefly because we have
made up deficiencies in divisions about
TO sail by taking men from other d.
visions, with consequent disorganiza-
ton Of those divisions from which men
were repeatedly taken and, when we
got to q place where we could no
longer carry out this process, fairly
raw men had to be used TO keep di-
visions from sailing short.
THE plan inaugurated by Gen
March of having replacement divisions
in this country from which deficiencies
could be supplied without robbing other
divisions and disorganizing them seems
to me TO solve the problem, and thu
divisions which come to you in August
and September will, am sure, show
highly beneficial results from this
policy.
I'm the meantime we have discov.
cred two things about training in this
country which apparently nobody knew
- -
the war; first, that, while 1t may take
nine months or a year TO train raw
recruits into soldiers in peace time
when there is no inspiration from ar
existing struggle, it takes no such
length Of time now when the grea
dramatic battles are being fought anC
men are eager TO qualify themSelve:
to participate In them. We are Ger.
tainly able to get more training int
man now in three months thar
would be possible in nine months o
peace-tin1e training.
And, second, we have learned tina
70 keep men too long In training camp
in this country makes them 60 stall
and probably does as much harm b.
the spirit of impotence and restless
ness aroused as 1t does good by tn
longer drilling. The men In our train
Ing camps are champing at the Bit ant
this applies, not only TO the officers
who naturally want their professional
opportunity, but to the men as vel
Indeed, one of the difflculties in Amer
lea Is TO make people content with tn
lot which keeps them here for an
length Of time, so impatient are we al
military and civilians alike. to get b
France, where the real work is bein
done.
''As consequence Of these diScov
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