Show 8 MILLION N AMRI AMERICANS AN f FORAR R WAR I I Kahn Asks Congress to Let Down Bars on I Legislation For InI Increasing Increasing In In- creasing Armed Forces I IBy w. I By ey International News Service WASHINGTON April 2 An An I V V acceleration of war legislation legislation legislation legis legis- lation in congress was demanded J JI L I today by Representative Kahn of oft I II t California ranking Republican I member of or the house military affairs i I committee I I Kahn Introduced a resolution makI making mak- mak I in ing military and naval bills preferred i I legislation for Cor the rest of or the session I They are at present submerged beneath i masses of ot special and nonessential I bills he hc said One example Js is that the 1 I naval appropriation bill will have to toI j I wait its turn under present plans until un- un I til the rivers and harbors bill Is acted I U upon port I Kahn is to appear tomorrow before beCore j the house rules rule committee in support I of hi his resolution Significance Sig of or Kahns Kahn's action lies Inthe in inthe inthe I the fact that althou although h a Republican he is the actual representative of th tha the a administration U of nr rs military l ll bT lJ-i. lJ f. f I Jo 0 charge of oC the administrations administration's bill bitt fixing fix fix- I ing lug quotas fo fot the next next net draft due t to j jI the opposition to it St of ot Chairman Dent I of the tho military committee i This repeats the experience of the original draft act which Dent opposed I I VAST ARMY ADVOCATED I Tonight Kahn declared that the I United States must begin bein at once to I send an army to France of or 8 I men lie He said when Secretary Baker I returned from Europe he would Kahn I was sure bring with him plans for aa a a. a vastly increased military establish establish- m ment en t. t I When everyone agrees said Fald Kahn that our first task is to win the war it peculiar that congress should I adopt any other pro program ram than giving I military and naval bills complete right I of r way vay My I resolution which I shall ask the I I rules committee to act upon favorably tomorrow would result in win the war i legislation having the same priority in inthe intile I Ithe the tile house as win the war freight has hason i on the railroads This Tills great German drive should di direct direct di- di I dl-I congress sharply to its task ask We Ve should not delude ourselves America I must furnish the man power that will first check this drive and then bring f victor victory UP TO AMERICA Before the Russian collapse I said frequently that the United States should put in Europe at once men Now I 1 have hac changed this figure It should be America is the thelast thelast thelast last great reat source of or untouched man manpower power When the aggressive passes from the German to the allied forces I I as it must before we win this war It II In l' America that must furnish the masses I of or mon nii to insure victory victorya a We heard people saying that we e emust must not take es from industry laborers from farms men from productive industry until we need them at at the ba battle front That going business a as usual Ul must h bo ho abandoned Tho The time tune is IK coming when hen wo O must mURt do doas doas a as they do in Iii Fm France n We e must get Jet used NI to it now Eight million men AtI nt st I tho tim frint must t ho hr our minimum go JOA goal l. l That moans a sharp right about by er e every national 1 force Thore nay H Dont take men from industry until you lIa have 6 more inure canton canton- ments I 1 fa say pay build cantonments canton I I Thc They say Sty Walt Wait alt until we have more ships hIP I vay a ay Get the men nien and have them hen ready for oy th the ships Train Trai I Continued on pa page t 2 EIGHT MILLION Continued from page pai page I 1 1 p them while tho the ship ships nr are building Away Awny with this thle waiting course Kahns was asked If It the war department department department depart depart- ment had h asked for tor moro more troops as ae a 1 result of ot the western m olt offensive or If It ItI I con congress cs were disposed to act with tho the departments department suggestion There Thero has been no request by the department ho said aId Our whole plan now nowr Is s to carry out the the- first draft net act there thero Is IR 1 no plan for tal tho the future AVe We have havo authorized d th the raising raining of oC 5 men b by the tho draft that is Je all BAKER AWAITED I S expect ct that when Secretary Baker returns from Europe Europ att after r having seen lIten th the magnitude and the Intensity of oC the tho struggle there he will appear before congress and the nation with a n demand for a n vastly I grent greater r military establishment establishment establish establish- h- h ment than has so 80 far r b been n dreamed If It ho hn did not he would be tho the first firstman firstman man who has seen the fighting who wag WM not Immediately converted My 1 Impression Is 15 thAt plans for making the Iho army greater will await hl his return But bills bitt to perfect th the l present machine should be bo passed at al once Th The war w department dtp nn and congress are till deadlocked over terms of ot the next draft legislation Tho The war department insists that men mn shall be bo drawn from rom tho the various local districts in proportion to tho the registrants reg reI- registrants in clans 1 Rural legislators are fighting this thill Members rs nr are aro treating this thin legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion as fiR If It wo we were going to draw about men mon said Kahn Tho question whether their districts shall be Lt called upon to give sho such fuch a certain number of ot men meet or a n few tew dozens or hundreds hundred moro more than that it Id uppermost uppermost upper- upper most moat in their minds Tho The country would better remember that before we wo win this war We wo will wUl have havo all nil available a ablo bodied men on tho the firing Iring line lino Germanys great drive will tall fall and then will devolve olve on tho the allita tho the great task of ot 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