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peace PAGE 6 FRECKLES ‘AND HIS FRIENDS THESE WAR TIMES ARE STRENUOUS ON FRECKLES. By Blosser GooD'6Racious |! war |f AILS You To-DAY = WHY ARE: WOU So QUIET AND Set oe Oh~ | WUZ JUST 17 THINKIN’ ‘OF TH! NICE DAYS 8'FORE TH WAR BEFORE THE WAR 2 YES «You USED T GINE ME A DENNY ONCE IN AWHILE THEN -- SQUIRREL FOOD IF MEN WERE LIKE THE WOMEN ON CLOTHES. By Ahern YES —-| JUST FINISHED’ \T XESTERDAX- YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER, WY BROWN VELVET YoU DONT MEAN “fo SAY “THATS Your OLD LAST WINTERS DRESS 2 J REMEMBER “THOSE FUR TRIMMINGS— cs sf | ‘AND A os | OFF AMANOARIN @AT SHE USED OFF A HAT SHE WORE 3 Years aco! REMEMBER MY OL’ QcoAT~\ CUT IT OFF 'BOUT A FOOT AN’ “TH’ SLEEVES ARE FROM MY OU SMOKIN’ gackeT | WELL— WHAT DYE KNOW ‘BOUT “Hat AND ISNT TH LINING FROM THAT” OLD UMBRELLA Nou CARRIED SUMMERS FISHING TACKLE IN SEWING) \T UP-AND TH’ THE 1S AN OLD T BAN! “THAT ROBE HE CARRIED IN HIS FLIER LAST WINTER & COME OFF “THAT GREY FANCY VEST HE SPORTED A YEAR CHESTNUT CHARLIE By Blosser Y"MNOw | Bo06H7 APIG~ ot, °\ SuRE te Pp rg YES, THAT: WHAT 1 SAID TELL ME~ WHY 1S THE LETTER 'K', =» N'THINK a Q. DON'T & 4) KNOW, ' HoH? PECAUSE IY 1S AT THE END OF ¢ ~. f quickly as ships can transport them. From early morning until Monday afternoon Secretary Baker addressed the senate committee and a crowd in| cluding many members of both houses | of congress, gathered in a big hearing| room of the senate office building. He} pons of one kind and another wrich! yjar army and in a ver spoke extemporatneously, beginning} they had developed in France and) ation have put it into ¢ with details of the mammoth task} of. building an army of a million and aj} half answering such complaints of in-| efficiency as were cited by Senator} Chamberlain in his recent speech and} declaring that such instances were iso-| lated and not general. Some questions | were asked, and Mr. Baker from time | to time had assistants go to the tele-| phone for reports on specific ques- tions. | ‘Then, toward the close of the day. the secretary delivered a dramatic general statement of the American) war plan, telling of the coming of the allied missions of the day and night conferences with men from the scene of battle in which the plans now be-| ing executed were adopted, and of} success beyond the most saguine ex-| pectations in building the army. and its industrial supports at home, trans- Porting men across the ocean. con- structing railroads in France and pre- paring to strike the enemy with every resource at the country’s command. ‘When Mr. Baker closed it was ap- parent he had created a profound im- pression. Chairman Chamberlain said so before he left the stand. There was no attempt at cross examination. The chairman proposed that the secretaty be given a rest and it virtually was agreed to recall him for further exam- ination later after the committee has completed its hearing of officers of the medical corps, aviation section and Other branches of the service. PART | Washington, Jan, 29.—“Now, gen- tlemen, about the plan ‘of the war. It will be remembered that this war broke out in Angust, 1914.. We went: into it in April, 1917, so that for two and one-half years, or more than two and one-half years, the war had been going on. It was not as though war had broke out between the United States and some country, each of them prior to that time having been at peace with one another and with everybody else; so that an immediate plan should be made in the United States for conducting war against its adversary, but we were coming into a war which had been going on for two and one-half years, in which the greatest militar yexperts, all the in- wentive genius ,all of the industrial capacity of those greatest countries in the world had for two and one-half years been solving the problems of what kind of war it was to be and where it was to be waged. Not Our Decision. “It was not a thing for us to decide ‘where our theatre of war should be. Zhe theatre of war was Fraice. It was mot for us to decide our line of com- ‘munications. Our line of communica- ns was across thre thousand miles sof ocean, one end of it infested with gubmarines. It was not for us to de- ieide whether we would have the man- euvering of large bodies of troops in an open. There lay the antagonists n opposite sides of No Man’s Land in trenches at a death grapple with ‘brie another. Our antagonist was on e other side of that line and our problem was and is to get over there ond get him.. © «The one thing the foreign experts told us from the very beginning to the and his methods of defense; that the | stories they were telling us were true when they left England and France; ; that an entirely different thing was | probably taking place there now, and/ they told us of large supplies of wea-| England and which, even before they get them in sufficient quantity manu-/ factured to take them from the i dustrial plants to the front, were sup-| erseded by new ideas and had to be! thrown into the scrap heap. | Beyond Comparison. “They said to us, this is a moving | picture; it is something that nobody | can paint and give you an idea of. It} is not a static thing. | “Wherefore; it became necessary for | us to have eyes therein an instant and | immediately communication with us, | and we sent them over to France Gen- | eral Pershing, and we sent with him | not merely a division of troops—to | that I shall refer in a moment—but | we sent with him perhaps I can safely | say the major part of the trained ex-| pert personnel of the army. You know} the size of the official corps of the] regular army in this country when the | war broke out. It was a pitiful hand- ful of trained men, and yet it was nec-! essary to divide them up and send} over to France officers of the highest | quality so that they would be at the; | front and see in the workshops and in} the factories and in the war offices} jand in the armies, where, consulta-| tions would’take place immediately back of the front—so that they could see the thing with their own eyes, and send us back the details by. cable! every day of the changing character) {of this war.” | Men in France. i “T tell no secret, ‘but it is perfectly well known to everybody in this group that we have far exceeded what in August, 1917, was regarded as an ideal | program. In response to a question by Chair- man Chamberlain the Secretary said the United States did not have more than the minimum number of men in France in August, 1917. F After some discussion as‘to the pol- icy of governments in announcing mil- itary secrets, Mr. Baker said it was not the policy of the American or! other governments to do so, and add-} ed: “I am’‘saying this now, because you have asked me why.I have held back these facts until now. I am say-|-o ing to you that you could not get from Great Britain at this minute—I don’t know whether I could get the number | of soldiers’ Great Britain has in France or at home. I could get an ap- proximation; I could get whatever in- formation might be deemed helpful .to| the immediate military object to be) accomplished, but I could not get from Great Britain or France either one-the | actual number of troops they have at/ the front. | PART Il “The French people had suffered, | Oh, suffered in a way that not only our) language is not ddapted to describe, put our imaginations cannot, conceive. | The war is in their country. This wolf has not only been at their goors, but he has been gnawing for two years and a half at their vitals,“and when: this unsuccessful offensive in France had gone on there was a spifit not of surrender but of fate about the French people, and this mighty military en- gine which they had seen prepared to overcome them for forty years was at them, and their atitude was that no ‘end was that this way, of all others, oe ‘ matter whether every Frenchman died BAKER’S DISCOURSE OF GREAT INTEREST Washington, Jan. 29.—America will; was not a static thing; that our ad-; in his tracks, as they were w have an army of half a million men in| versary was a versatile 4nd agile ad-| do, or not, that it was an irre France early this year. A million men| versary that every day he revamped | thing, and so they are equipped and ready to follow as/and changed his weapons of attack| it will cheer us; it said to us, ‘raz ill ‘cheer our some of your people if you send o troops.’ Troops Were Sent “We did send him troops. At that place we had a choice. We could have sent over, as G fered exactly what Great Britain suf- fered with her ontemptable little army,’ as it was calied by their ad- versaries. Our army would have gi en as good an account of itself as the British army did, but it would have been destroyed like the British army, and there would have been no nucleus on which to. build this new army that was to come over a little later, and it was deemed wiser to send over a reg- ular division, but not to send over our whole regular army at that time. Election is Made. “And so we made the election. We; decided not to send the regular army as a whole, but to send regular divis- | ions and national guard divisions, sel- | ected according to the state of their proparation and keep back here some part of our trained force in order that it might innoculate with its spirit and its training these raw levies which we wer training and one after another | these divisions have gone over until) in the beginnings of military discip-| line and practice, and trained, season- | ed fighters in this kind of a war on! the actual batlefields where it is tak-| ing place. Early in War “arly in this war, when Joffre was here and when ‘Balfour was here, they said to us, ‘It may take you some time | to get over to us a fighting army, but! you are a great industrial country, | our man power is fully engaged on| our industries and in our military en-) terprises; send over artisans, special | engineering regiments and troops of | a technical character, and although | it was not contemplated at the outset | and only appears in emergency in the military shows that the thing was thought of as a possibility, yet in a very short time we had organized en- neering regiments of railroad: men and* sent them over there and were re- building behind the lines of the Brit- ish. and French the railroads which were being carried forward with their advance, reconstructing. their broken engines and cars, building new rail- roads, both back of the French and British lines and those regiments were mn such. quality that at the Cambrai assault, carried on by General Byng, when the Germans made their counter attack our engineers regiments threw down their picks and spades and car- ried their rifles into the battle and distinguished themselves by | gallant action in the war itself, Channel Ports “The channel ports have been. re- served for the British, when we came in it was necessary for us to have in- dependent ports of entry in order that | there might not be confusion and ad- mixture of our supplies going through these ports of disembarkation with those of other nations. We were giv- en several ports. AS you perhaps re- callthe ports of France are tidal ports ports with deep water and itdal basins at high tides with insufficient water for landing at the docks when the tide is out. i € _ “As a consequence, the communica- tion of docks and wharves in ports of that kind is very much more difficult than where you have a deep sea har- bor, and all you need to do is to erect a pile wharf: We have had; to build docks, we have had to fabricate in this country, and send off, dock handling tion and suf: | chinery; we have had to send from ‘this country even the piles to build {the docks. “We have had to have gauntry cranes; manufactured in this country and sent over to be erected ro there dacks: we have had to erect over ther warehouses at the ports of : .owentuun ai order tnac these vast accumulations of stores and sup- plies which go over can be properly housed and cared for, until they can be distributed into the interior. Process of Rebuilding “We have had to take over, and in process of rebuilding and amplifying a road hundred, miles long in [ors to carry, out products from our ports of disembarkation to our gen- | eral bases of operatic1s. And all of | that, gentlemen, has to be done, not only studied out, as a necessary thing | to'do, but when so studied out and re. | ported here, the manufacturers for | those things have tq 4#e carried in | this country, and tHe things shipped lover there, nails, cross ties, spikes, | ‘fish plates, engines, cars, buildings, | , “We have had to build barracks | over there for our soldiers:and in the | meantime to billet them around in the | French villages, over there and building them here is a very different thing, gentiemen. Lumber Conditions. “When we summoned the lumber in- {dustry of this country to produce the} | lumber to build our own cantonments, | it came in a great and steady stream | from all parts of the country, but when we talk about building barracks in France, it means this: It means to organize, as we have organized, regi- ments of foresters and sending them over into the forests of France, which they have assigned to us for our use, cutting down the trees, setting up saw nills, making the lumber of various sizes, transporting it to the places; where it is to be used. and then fin- ally using it. | “We have had to go back to the planting of the corn in France in or- der that we might some time make a harvest. Our operations began in the forests of France, not in the lumber yards as they did in. this country.” Charges of mistreatment of troops jin hospitals, Secretary Baker said, | Were acted on vigorously, and he pointed out that the War Department only last week refused to permit mere dismissal of two army doctors, who mistreated soldiers, but insisted that they should be given prison sentences in addition. Need of Ships. “There are now in the United States sixteen national army camps, and six- teen national guard camps, (thirty- two divisons of troops) filled with men ready to go,” said Secretary | Baker. “I do not know how fast it may | be necessary to send them to France,” he. said. I know how fast we Have sent them and how fast we plan to send them. What we tried to do was ; to get the men out as rapidly as we could estimate on the production cap- acity of the country being able to take ‘care of them.” , Declaring that by securing artillery | from Francé, Mr. Baker said, it would also save ships. “Lam telling no secrets when I say that ships are the crux of our prob- | lems,” he said. Secretary Baker said all foreign | representatives and also the war coun- jcil’s participants headed by Col. | House said that the securing of. ord- \nance from England and France wi! | not take supplies they need, but will| |help them. | The flow of men, munitions and*sup- |Plies from. Ameriéa, to France is the | objective on which Germany will.cen- ter her strongest offensive ‘this spring, it is announced in Secretary Baker’s weekly war review. U-boats,: which ‘have been operating in the Atlantic Janes have been recalled to their tome: ports for repairs.in preparation for the drive on Trans-Atlantic shipping. ‘Building barracks! | | Secretary Baker points out that the and dependents for a reascnable submarine attacks probably will be/ time.” byi the expected Ger-} accompanied mau drive on the west front. Scope of Inquiry. “Your committee will have full op- portunity, and will doubtless go into those things, if you will deal with the} hospital situation, the medical corps, the signal corps, you will hear the wonderful work done by the engineer- ing department of the army, but when} it is all told, Mr. Chairman, it will be! a story w mittee will I am sure your com- e glad to report to the senate of the United States as being 1 tremendou: sponse to a tremend- ous responsibility. “Insofar as | am personally concern- 2d, I know what is ahead of us. J know what the American feeling about this] war is. Everybody is impatient to do as much as we can. No Division of Counsel. “There will be no division of coun- sel; there will be all the criticism there ought to be upon shortcomings and failures, there will be, so far as the war department is concerned, a continuing effort at self government, and an hospitality toward every sug- gestion for improvement that can come from the outside. but the net result is going to be that a united and confident American people be- lieving in themselves and in their institutions, are going to demand, and that at no late day,.on European bat- tlefields in the face of veterans though they be, they cannot excel us in ach- ievement, and when the victory is won over there, Mr. Chairman, the credit which will come to American enter- prise, and to American determination and to American courage will be an honor to us, as the tenacity of purpose and splendid achievements of the Brit- ish and French already shed great lus- ter on the names of the great people.” NORTH DAKOTA ADMINISTRATION - FOOD PROVISION Fargo, N. 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