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Show I a CAN BECOME i v MIGHTIEST NATION Experts Agree Ail Other Belligerent Belliger-ent Countries Could Be j Surpassed. LEADS IN ACTUAL WEALTH possibilities Art Unlimited, It la De W'clarcd, If Unci 8am Should ChooM to Develop Vast Powers. Should the United States choose to develop all her vast powers, military -experts agree, she will become the strongest mtlltnry nation In the world. jKo belligerent on either side will equal tier. Other nations, or empires, have larger populations; but uone has bo .many Intelligent, energetic citizens of the type from which, universal experience experi-ence shows, the best fighting material comes. No other nation can approach her In natural resources. No other natiou can approach her In ,actual wealth. No other nation can approach her In aelf-efflclency and ability to flourish iwlthout outside assistance of any sort. No other nation can upprouch her, -history shows. In the Invention of new weapons of war; and leading Atnert-jcan Atnert-jcan military men know that this factor fac-tor takes a very important position In the calculations of foreign military councils when estimating the ability of the United States to resist or to attuck. bThe population of the United States nd Its colonial possessions is nearly ,..s large as the combined population of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The entrance of the United States jlnto the war would add to the resource re-source of the entente a national (stock of gold as large as the combined com-bined gold reserve of France, Hussla land Great Britain. When the gold lln private hands is considered the (preponderance of Uncle Sam is still more impressive. The gold stock of (the central powers together is only about one-fifth of ours. But iron, steel and copper are still more Important In war than gold, und here the United States shines so brilliantly bril-liantly as to dim the rest of the world. The United States produces more jlg iron than all the other countries of the world combined. - The central powers' pig iron pro duction Is equivalent to three-eighths of this country's production. Great Britain, France and Russia combined produce only a little more than half the amount mined and m nelted here. But when we come to copper, that indispensable of war, the full Importance Impor-tance of the United States Is realized. In 1918 the United States produced twice as much copper us the rest of the world. The central powers produce about (One twenty-fourth as much copper as the United States. Great Britain, iwith all her colonies, produces only one-twelfth as much, i In Industrial development and large-isoale large-isoale production, American energy land Ingenuity lead the world. While exact figures are lacking. It is known certainly that the United jStates has more than four times as many automobiles as all of the rest lof the -world put together. And the rate of production is putting this country coun-try farther ahead in automobile ownership own-ership every moment, despite vast exhortations. ex-hortations. About three-fourths of the automobile automo-bile factory facilities. It is estimated, will be put to work immediately on 'munitions in case of war. The railroad system of the United States compared with other nations, its a giant among pigmies. It would be possible to spread this Inventory of the American resources lover many pages. Nowhere else does a man's labor produce so much as here, due to the unequaled utilization of mechanical power. All that is needed to turn this mighty cataract of national energy to the business of war Is time and preparation. |