Show OUR WORK IN WAR SETS NEW EW RECORD i Army and arid Navy Journal Asserts That It Has No Parallel in Military History ALL CRITICISM IS SILENCED CEO Service Gervice Paper Points Out That No Political General Has Appeared to H Hinder Operations Praise Operations Praise for Defense Council New That York That th the achievements eats of if the spay army and navy of th the United States In the first three months of the war var have worked forward with a smoothness and an absence of scandal that have no parallel In ou our history of warfare Is the editorial statement made by the Array N Navy n y J Journal in a n review of the part this country is playing in the great str- str struggle gr In mater material at accomplishments we have set up the Journal says a record record record rec rec- ord before the world of which we well veIl be proud The The- great outstanding facts of the these e three months of war ar Is is' that our military and naval operations have been conducted sol solely ly by array army and navy officers with never a political political cal al general showing h his s head above the horizon Between the people and the work of of- of the navy there has hns been drawn of military necessity a screen o of secrecy more effe effective tive than anything anything any any- tl thing we have ever known before and which redounds to the highest credit of the press of the country When that screen has hns been lifted now and again we have seen our fleets of destroyers operating in British and French waters waters wa wa- wa- wa tel's we have learned of another fleet being in the South Atlantic on O patrol duty S-duty duty we have have- learned d' d dof of hundreds ci df j merchantmen armed and md mann manned d' d by navy guns and gunners gunner fighting U- U boats and losing their lives in that arduous arduous ar nr- ar- ar duty and finally we have learned learned learn learn- ed o of the navys navy's superb achievements in convoying to France Frante e the greatest body of troops we ever sent to foreign soil in one expedition without the loss of at a n man Great Growth of the Navy Our navys navy's personnel has alm almost almost- st doubled in that time so that now we have over men In the navy while in the Marine corps we have as against the he on April G 6 the day the state of war was declared The auxiliary patrol fleet manned by bythe bythe bythe the Fleet reserve Is gr gradually assuming the tile form fonn of a really effective body of young men who are learning navy traditions more rapidly than would would have been thought possible six months ago In addition to Its herculean herculean herculean lean task of training the great Influx of recruits to the regular service the officers of the navy have taken have taken on their shoulders the added burden of trainIng trainIng train train- Ing thousands of young men to be officers officers officers of of- and crews crews Of of the great fleet fleet of merchantmen that the government nt Is building as a part of the allies allies' strate strate- plan to conquer the U Even greater than this has hns been the army's achievement owing to the signal signal signal sig sig- sig- sig nal change that has come to the nations nation's nations nation's na nn- na- na tion's policy regarding a large largo army since the entry of the United States Into the tho war For on the army h has hiis s devolved the task fask of increasing the regulars up to the war str strength s set t by bythe bythe bythe the national defense nse act putting that army urmy on a a. war footing while it has hns also had to face and curry carry through the tho many problems prese presented by trainIng trainIng train- train Ing the Nat National onal Guard for duty over over- I i seas ens preparing the plans for the first first- selective draft registration and see see- seeIng seeing Ing they were carried out the plans for the working of the draft itself and andLor Cor Lor housing provisioning and equipping equipping equipping equip equip- ping the men that are arc to be beIn beIn bein In cu cantonments some time after the he I first of September Coincident W with t I this tite army has had to perform the hitherto unheard unheard-of task of conducting sixteen training schools for the making of officers officers' and of Df three ca camps ps for the training of officers of the medical relief corps Under as corps is Inthe in inthe inthe the service they hav had not only to struggle along with the routine of the tIle but but- also to handle the problems of this enormous expansion of the regulars reg reg- ulars the National Guard and the national national na nn- na- na army that Is In the making And with all this the army has has' hassent sent to France Gen General ral Pershing and his staff General Sibert and his expeditionary I force cc haa has taken over co- co i the conduct of Six six if of or tI the e BritIsh British Brit Brit- ish base hospitals has sent army Burgeons surgeons sur Bur geons goons up up to the firing line has landed its first unit o off woodsmen in England fully equipped with sawmills and other other other oth oth- er tools and h has hias s a nt af least one unit of aviators on British soil And nowhere nowhere nowhere no no- where at home has th the routine of f army army- life been allowed to drop below its accustomed accustomed ac tic- efficiency although the array army has had to handle hundle the additional task tusk since May 1 of of creating two new de departments departments de- de and providing them with headquarters staff staffs staff Praise for Defense Council Criticism and finding fault have have haveri entered en er- ri- ri like mm rumor rumor- painted with a thousand thousand thou thou- sand tongues but they have pretty well disappeared since in c common d de decency these elements have had to acknowledge ac tic- knowledge the army and navy officers have carried out their allotted tasks s efficiently and w well ll Europe has r rung ng with praise of r our men abroad and our out enemy by by- bythe the tone of his abusive language Is awaken awakening ng to the fact that we are area a a n foe to be reckoned with in inthe inthe the the field field Instead of beIng mer merely l a arace arace 1 race of dollar On the civil side of what has hus b been eI done dorie In these these three months there Is ano another her admirable admirable able tale of high achievement Through the council of national de defense defense de- de e- e and its advisory commission the matter er of the purchase of supplies es fruitful source of scandals scandals' in the past has been worked out in a manner manier hitherto unknown in the history of the wars of the United States Through h these bodies the railroads have been brought Into a relation wI with h the government government government gov gov- more close and practical than Ulan most of us would ever have thought possible War VaI has brought about economies economies econ econ- omle In railroad operation on that were fri frankly deC declared impossible e a year ago Manufacturing plants have also been brought Into really eff effective cooperation cooperation cooperation co co- co- co operation with the government t and it would appear that the problem of supplyIng supplying supplying sup sup- plying a great grent air armada Is also to be brought about through this agency |