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Show K '; , ;i AN ARMY OF (1,000,000 ' , There have been plenty of doubters Kf. who a few months ago said the United HfV States could not raise and supply an ar- Hl'!.:" my of 5,000,000 men for which the gov- K ";,. wrnment is now calling. In so far as they -v'- figured tn a shortage of shipping, their B''i; gloomy forecasts will not be sustained. Hf ;'',. iWith the tremendous increase of our ;V,;'V' 6nP production, far exceeding sinkings pfV' by submarines, we are going to have H; " plenty of ships. It will be no worse sup- V'r plying the men than to take care of them, H;v by shipments by rail. Hf ' During the Civil war the meri engaged Ht-'' . on both sides numbered 3,500,000. At H -: ' that time the United tSates had less than Hni a third the population it has now, and H & V about one-twenty-fifth of the present H ' 4 .wealth. We would have to put 12,OQO,000 v men into the field to equal what our '; fathers did. H.'e , The machinery of civilization has, of H::. course, grown more complex-. In Civil H r L war times more men proportionately 'U worked lit farming and in small work-H work-H ' ; " Bhops. They probably felt freer to leave Hyr. at the call of the country. Those were H . y fi 1 simpler times. People were accustomed H "'V S to get along with fewer things, and could H sfa, u Jdeny themselves with less effort. 'r;. Today' in spite of all our great army H ;. already called out, things run along with H' far less disturbance than would have 1 ' been thought possible. Most of the fac-ov- " tories aie running. Few people are idle. H v, Xittle complaint is heard of poverty or ggggflji' V rpi ; .: x .- tmmm Kim ii taaaaaaMI i him i llliaiUM I i"fej!WhUij)n ' ' ' """' Hiiil,''w anerig. M uur ounieriJ my, Dertryirig.T but they are not yet anything like what those who have gone before us have borne. So let us not be satisfied with small results. re-sults. It will be far cheaper in lives and money to put this war through to a prompt conclusion ,than to let it drag on year after yean |
