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Show THE MAMMOTH RECORD, MAMMOTH CITY, UTAH NATIOML CAPITAL AFFAIRS Dawes to Speak for Reform of Senate Vice will carry to the addresses the issue he made with the senate In his inaugural address for a n revision of the rules to prohibit filibusters. His first address on the subject will be delivered at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press at New York on April 21. Beyond that he has made no definite engagements, but expects to speak In Ohio and Indiana. After his Inaugural address which astonished and aroused the senate, the vice president told a delegation from Marietta, Ohio, that the matter of amendment of the rules was one that would have to be taken to the country over the heads of senators, unless the senate acted. Senators Underwood (Dem., Ala.) and Copeland (Dem., N. Y.), subsequently Introduced resolutions for a change of the rules, but the senate took no action further than to refer them to the rules committee. Senator Underwoods proposal would pave the way for cloture under certain WASHINGTON. one-ma- li. S. Battle fleet-ari- d farm-drainag- Possession of By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN actual hostilities are scheduled for April 25-M- 1. The chief of staff of the army, MaJ. Gen. John and the commander In chief of the United States fleet, Admiral R. E. Coontz, Jointly occupy the post of chief umpire. Presumably they will be together on the cruiser Seattle, the admirals flagship. There Is also a senior umpire (Blue) and a senior umpire (Black). Ships notified by the umpires that they have been put out of action by coast defenses will hoist a special Sunk flag and proceed to an Out of Action station. Coast defenses will be silenced when they are outranged or their defenders outnumbered and adjudged overcome. Airplanes will be similarly eliminated from the contending forces. The attacking fleet (Blue) Is composed of eleven battleships, six light .cruisers and fifty-si- x destroyers and aircraft carriers, aircraft tenders, submarines, minelayers and vessels of the train an approximate total of 100 vessels of all kinds. Admiral S. S. Robinson commands the battle fleet; his flagship is the California. Vice Admiral H. A. Wiley on the West Virginia Is commander of battleship divisions. The other battleships include: (Division 8) Pennsylvania, flagship of Rear Admiral H. J. ZIegemeler; Navada, Capt D. W. Todd, and Oklahoma;- - (4) New Mexico, flagship of Rear Admiral W. F. Pratt, and Mississippi ; (B) Tennessee, Capt. F. B. Upham, Maryland and Colh orado. There are guns on the Maryland, West Virginia and Colorado. Vice Admiral J. S. McKean commands the scouting fleet; be flies his flag on the battleship Wyoming. The cruisers of the scouting fleet Include: Richmond, Trenton, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Detroit, Raleigh and Memphis. The battleships of the Blue fleet each carry from 70 to 80 Leathernecks of the United States Marine corps. This force of approximately 800 marines Is as 1 to 7 compared with full war strength. It Is to be noted that the Blue fleet carries no army forces. Now as to the Hawaiian Islands and the deThe Islands lie in a fending forces: northwest-southeacurve, the five largest In this order: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maul and Hawaii. They are 2,080 miles southwest of San Francisco and 8,440 miles southeast of Yokohama. It Is miles from them to Sitka and 8,720 to Vladivostok; 4,660 to the Panama canal and 4,780 to the Philippines. Sidney. Australia, Is 4,420 miles distant and Auckland, New Zealand, 8,850 miles. The total population is about 809,000, made up of more than twelve racial groups. The fact that a person born In Hawaii has all the rights of American citizenship both simplifies and complicates whatever amalgamating process may be going on. The citizens number about 190,000. The aliens number about 119,000, of whom 58,000 are Japanese. The 40,000 Filipinos are Included, although they owe allegiance to the United States. It Is believed that the alien population of the Islands Is of no value whatever to the defense except as labor and that much of It Is positively detrimental. Oahu Is second largest, contains B98 square miles and has a population of 142,000. It alone possesses the qualifications for a naval base and Is the one island defended by land, sen and air forceB. Kauai Is 70 miles away and Molokai 30. Oahu, In shape, strongly suggests a butchers cleaver, with a head 20 miles square and a handle 10 miles square. The cutting edge of the head Is to the west. A practically Impassable mountain Isrange forms the entire east coast The whole land Is rough country. Honolulu, the seat of government of the territory, with 87,000 people, Is on the west side of the handle. Around the right Is Pearl harbor, angle between handle and head and Its spacious entrance narrow with Its long land locked harbor, nere dredging and fortifying have been done with the view to making It the finest and safest harbor In the Pacific. Hawaii Is a military department. MaJ. Gen. Edward M. Lewis Is Its commander. Its defending Is the detroops number about 15,000. Honolulu There are six military partment headqunrters. Is at the posts. Schofield burracks, the largest, approximate center cf the Island. Fort Shatter, Fort Armstrong and Fort de Hussy are close to Honolulu. Fort Ituger Is behind Diamond Head, L. Hines, 800-ml- le st 2,-8- e be ect to the building of a great railroad. to develop, hurried to completion now that Presi- They give the highway or drainage endent Coolldge has signed the Temple gineer, or the water-powe- r engineer, an exact physical picture of the country. bill This exhaustive topographic study of With the map spread out before him the United States has been under way he can lay out his project with confifor 45 years and only a third of the dence, instead of having to organize nation's area has been adequately and carry out a field survey, costing mapped. Now that new funds have perhaps thousands of dollars. been provided, the map should be comCopies of portions of the map will pleted with 20 years, It is estimated, be available at all times at a nominal and the next generation will have a sum and may be used repeatedly withcomplete atlas of the country for the out Incurring the necessity of Indifirst time since It was founded. vidual physical studies on every new The work Is being done by the United occasion or undertaking. States geological survey. The map The geological survey Is In the Inwill show every square mile and every terior department and Its director Is sere of American territory. It will in- George Otis Smith. The topographic dicate not only roads and railways, branch is under C. H. Brodseye, chief rivers, lakes and mountains, but will topographic engineer. The actual surmark also bridges, creeks, hills, slopes veying is often full of adventure, the and houses. Heights above sea level work taking the men Into the wild will be noted and other characteristic places far from civilization. To the xzrz. JAO details will be shown. average citizen the determining of the the famous r'jf'y headland about five miles to the These topographic maps form the contours of a precipitous 14,000-foo- t south of Hono15lu and Just beyond Waikiki beach. mother map of the country and have a forested mountain would appear to be Fort Kamehameha is the coast defense of Pearl hundred uses. They obviate the need some Job as It is. harbor. ' A railroad runs from Honolulu around the west coast to the northeast corner of the Island, with a branch to Schofield barracks. At Schofield barracks Is the Hawaiian division, convention of Norway, Belgium, South Africa, RusMaJ. Gen. William R. Smith commanding: NineCouncil of sia, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, Poland teenth infantry, Twenty-firs- t Infantry, Twenty-sevent- h 4 to 14 and Ireland. The International coun- - ' h May Thirty-fiftand Infantry infantry; Eighth will materially cil has 36,000,000 members. Lady Ish-be- ll field artillery and Thirteenth field artillery (75 m. m., motorized) and Eleventh field artillery (155 further the cause of peace, acAberdeen, Marchioness of Aberm. m. howitzers, motorized). Also stationed here cording to Miss Mary Garrett Hay, deen and Temalr, is president. American delegates to the quinquen-- . are Company C, First gas regiment, and ordnance prominent feminist and former vice president of the General Federation nlal include Mrs. Philip North Moore, and chemical warfare detachments. At Fort Shatter are the Fourth observation of Womens Clubs. This Is one of the president of the National Council of 41 women's organizations In this counWomen of the United States; Mrs. Nacoast artillery squadron, air service; Fifty-fift- h coast artillery try making up the national council thaniel E. Harris, general chairman of (Heavy Tractor) and Sixty-fourt- h for the United States. Miss Hay has the quinquennial convention commit). Fort Armstrong has a a delegate to all the previous con- tee and first vice president of the Nabeen station. The other forts are stations of the ventions held at five-yeIntervals, tional Council of Women of the United coast artillery. since the of the International founding States; Mrs. John D. Sherman, presih There are guns on Oahu. There are no In 1888 under Susan B. An- dent of the General Federation of records available to clvUlans showing that there council thony, May Wright Sewell and other Womens Clubs; Dr. Mary E. Woolley, are guns there. women. Christiania, Miss Anna A. Gordon, Dr. Katherine Rear Admiral John D. McDonald Is commandant representative Rome, London, Berlin and Toronto Bement Davis, Mrs. Maud Wood Park, of the Fourteenth naval district (Black). His have heretofore been the meeting Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller, Mrs. Truman forces Include twenty submarines, two mine layers, of the conventions. This Is the J. Newberry, Dr. Alice Hamilton and two mine sweepers and miscellaneous craft He places first time that American women have Mrs. Frances E. Burns. Alternates Is to be reinforced by submarine divisions Nine are Mrs. Glenn L. Swiggett, Mrs. O. D. been chosen as the hosts of a Quinand Fourteen. There are two National Guard Infanquennial, and more than two hundred Ollphant, Mrs. T. J. Louden, Mrs. Amy try regiments. must pass before the convention Brown Lyman, Miss Julia Lathrop, Dr. : Now as to the respective air forces of the Blue years may again be held In the United Valeria II. Parker, Mrs. John Glodgetl, :;r and Black: States. Miss Rose Brenner and Dr. Edna Dean,"'The aircraft forces of the battle fleet (Blue) V "The women of the United States Baker. S. E. of concommand In Moses. are Capt. They Mrs. William Dick Sporberg, presl- will have in the sixth Quinquennial sist of four squadrons : one of scout planes, two of in May," said Miss Hay a notable op- dent of the New York City Federation fighting planes and one of observation planes. to forward the cause of In- of Womens Clubs, has accepted the portunity Capt. H. G. Yarnell commands the three squadternational peace and mutual under- chairmanship of the committee which rons of the scouting fleet (Blue) : one each of Is to have charge of the reception and the world. throughout standing of scout planes, torpedo and bombing planes and are expected from 45 coun- entertainment of the hundreds of forDelegates These seven squadrons of observation planes. tries, she said, including Canada, Ger- eign delegates as they pass through of the Blue fleet theoretically contain from 84 to that city on their way to the convenmany, Great Britain, Denmark, Hol120 airplanes. land, Australia, New Zealand, France, tion In Washington. Civilian information as to Black air forces of Oahu Is Incomplete and estimates are guesswork. According to the Army List and Directory ths air troops of the Hawaii military department In tion projects and Indian reservations. OF INTERIOR elude the Fourth observation squadron at Fort on an The national parks to be visited ar9 has left Sbafter (previously mentioned) and at Luke field SECRETARY western states to the Sequoia National park and the : Fifth observation Honolulu) (near squadron ; make a first-hanInvestigation Yosemlte National park, both In CalSixth and Nineteenth pursuit squadrons; Twenty-thir- d and study of reclamation, national park ifornia. and Seventy-secon- d bombardment squadrons ; and Indian reservation problems, over On the trip to federal reclamation service squadron; Eleventh photo secSixty-sixt- h which the Interior department has gen- projects, Secretary Work will meet tion and Forty-firs- t Theintelligence section. eral supervision. with the water users and settlers obd oretically the six squadrons should The trip will occupy about a month. taining first-haninformation concerncontain between 72 and 108 airplanes of various Work will be accompanied ing conditions existing on them. The Secretary types. Commissioner MeRd of the reclama- reappraisal of government reclamation According to press accounts of confidential In- by formation given recently to the house aircraft tion bureau and Director Mather of the projects, the work of which Is now has being prosecuted by a special board, committee behind closed doors" by General Hinea national park service. Mr. Work In reclamation Interested been much will also be checked up. the figures on the ratio of planes specified for lnl-tlwar strength for Hawaii and the number la problems from the first day he became The projects on the Itinerary Inheud of the Interior department, and service are: clude CarNbud project In New Mexico, In 13, planes of the several projects Rio Grande project In New Mexico-Texaservice, none; bombing 26, In service, 9; pursuit the farmers inhave commanded his sympathetic 60, In service, none. Funia and Cuma-Mes- a project will visit the It Is stated on the authority of a responsible terest. While gone he In Colorado. In Arizona, Klamath project In Caltwo reclamation projects source that the defenses of Fearl harbor military ifornia, Oregon; Orland project In CalDuring the trip Irrigation possibiliInclude about twenty naval planes under Comifornia, Newlunds project In Nevada, flood and power develop- Grand control, ties, mander John Rodgers. Valley project In Colorado, and on the lower Colorado river, Are these third grand exercises, under these ment Unoompalig-project In Colorado, and Invesof has been the which subject In Nebraska. conditions, a fair test of the defense capacity of North Platte project be will 75 for Inspected. years, our Pacific naval base? Do they approximate a tigation The federal water power commisSecretary Work end party will make war test? The authorized answer to these quession, of which Secretary Work Is a a short Journey Into Mexico to examtions Is this: ine levees ami canals notv providing member, has granted the Southern Col"The exercises are considered a fair test under water for the Irrigation of the Imperial orado Power company a preliminary conditions approximating those of war ns closely valley, and will also look over the site permit for three years for a developas Is possible. It Is regrettable that army forces, for the canal ment on Grape creek, a tributary of proposed due to lack of funds, could not be used In the Arkansns river, In Fremo and In southern California. with the fleet attack. In that respect and The secretarys Itinerary Includes Custer counties, near Canon ORy, In that respect only the exorcises are likely to Westcllff and Sllvercllff, Col two national parks and nine reclama full short of a real war teBt" $50,000,000 Naval Base ir lawaiian Islands much-discusse- d the-Unite- Hurrying Up the Worlds Biggest Map for preliminary surveys for engineerworld's biggest map, sheets covering ing work of all classes, from the THE than6,000an acre and costing simplest individual proj- Land forces Va'e Mimic War for NCLB SAMS Hawaiian Islands, at of the Pacific ocean, the cross-road- s ' are a sort of earthly paradise Honolulu means Abundant Calm and Peace." Soon this calm and peace are to be shattered by a great battle fleets swoop upon the islands. The guns of Its battleships will belch broadsides. Land cannon will roar their defiance In reply. The sea will be torn by cruiser, submarine and destroyer. The sky will be filled with warring aircraft. War? Yes; but mimic war only and waged between the Blue and Black of our own army and navy the Hawaiian maneuvers tentatively ordered three years ago and now formally authorized by President Coolldge. The American people are united In the hope that the nation will never have to take part in another war so hope also the veteran land and sea fighters but It Is the business of the army and navy to be prepared. The Island of Oahu is the American naval base In the Pacific and as such presents military problems to be solved only through the experience gained In this war game. And after the cruel war Is over the battle fleet will transform Itself into a peace fleet and steam leisurely oil Into the South seas for a social call on New Zealand and Australia to present assurances of Uncle Sams most distinguished considIn July and August, Auckland, Wellingeration.ton, Sydney and Melbourne will extend a warm welcome to Old Glory. In September Hawaii will greet the returning fleet. October will see Its arrival at San Pedro. Can Oahu defend Itself against an attacking enemy fleet? To answer this question Is the main purpose of these Hawaiian maneuvers. With our fleet In the Pacific, Oahu is believed to be practically Impregnable. But suppose an emergency forces us to keep our fleet In the Atlantic I The military value of Oahu Is thus summarized by MaJ. Gen. C. P. Summerall In Strategic Importance of the Hawaiian Islands, an article In the Coast Artillery Journal of July, 1924: Our strategy In ths Paclflo Is centered In the Hawaiian Islands. . . . Since the Abandonment of all defensive measures for the Philippines and Guam by the Washington conference, Hawaii has become the sole point of support In the Paclflo for operations Involving the more distant islands as well as for the defense of the continental coast line. The possession of the Hawaiian Islands . . . denies to an enemy the use of Hawaii as a base In thus operating against the American coast and even forces him to advance from a distance which, under modern conditions, would be hazardous If not prohibitive. The Hawaiian manuevers are officially known as problem number three of the army and navy grand Joint exercises. Problems one and two in 1923 and 1924 had to do with the defense of the Panama canal. The War and Navy departments re not making official statements which give every detail. But here are the main arrrangements as obtained from a responsible military source : For the purposes of the third Joint exercises It Is assumed that the Hawaiian islands belong to another power (Black) ; that the United States (Blue) attacks for the purpose of capture; that the Islands are defended as at present, and that the attack Is made by naval forces "composed essentially of the United States fleet. The purpose Is: (1) To train army and navy In Joint operations, history teaching that most Joint army and navy operations failed because of and of teamwork, the latter lack of being the result of lack of training; (2) to test the defensive arrangements of a locality; (3) to lotry out methods of attack against a defended cality. Fourteen admirals Rnd 400 other naval officers, sitting In a critique at San Diego, have finished the analysis of preliminary maneuvers off the Mexican const between attacking and defending fleets of about BO vessels each. The findings are not for publication. April IB will see the sailing of the United States fleet from San Francisco on the first leg of Its Pacific cruise. Wireless will order the capture of Oahu, and notify Oahu of the Impending attack. Thereupon the attacking navnl force becomes and navy force' Blue and the defendlng-arm- y The third grand Joint exercises are Black. thenceforth 1b the hands of the umpires. The conditions while that of Senator Copeland would require objection by three senators Instead of one to block consideration of a measure under unanimous consent. I do not think, says Senator Underwood, "there Is any man who really understands the Constitution who can deny the fact that a minority can nullify the rights of the majority in States senate. I do not think that we stand in more danger from vicious legislation than we do from the destruction of necessary and progressive legislation that Is defeated by the determined opposition of a few men who constitute only a minority of the membership of the senate. "Compare the two bodies of congress. The house of representatives has had a drastic cloture rule for many years. The senate has had none. Do the American people regard the operation of the house of representatives under its rules as a danger to the body politic? Xf not, why should not those same rules apply to the senate? 1 ratrci&mr International Peace Meeting of Women Quinquennial mine-contr- (anti-aircraft- h ol . - Interior Officials Looking Over the West d first-name- d specified-observatio- s, e j V |
