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Show MAN POWER. m Germany is now fighting defensively because she is losing in man power, while the Allies are gaining. How much she lost during these recent offensivesof hers cah only be surmised, but it is certain that her losses were enormous, corresponding to the recklessness with which she threw in masses of men in t her effort to break through. She staked all on the success of those offensives and lost. Now the single American division which was in France in March Is succeeded by over over a million three hundred thousand American soldiers. The disparity dispar-ity between the Germans and the Allies has been more than wiped out. It is clear that the Administration-afr Washington is determined to see that American troops shall furnish the Allies with an overwhelming man power. pow-er. In a hearing by the House Military Committee:orj?i cerning the proposed change in. the Draft Law so a&:to include men from eighteen to forty-five, General March, Chief of Staff, declared-his belief that with eighty divisions- (the American division consists of forty-five thousand thous-and men) we can go through the German line and'wiri the war in 1919. With the proof before us of what the. Allies can do, with such testimony as that of General March, there ought to be no question, and there will be no question, of the Nation's providing the men in abundance' General March says that the younger men make the best fighters and are not so involved in the Nation's industries that their going to fight would prove disrupting. It is clear that the draft age must be lowered as well as raised. There are questions, however, that are going to prove difficult to s.o1vq. What is to become of universities, colleges col-leges and technical schools if boys of eighteen to twenty are drafted? If it is necessary to sacrifice our whole educational ed-ucational system to win the war, the war will have to be won nevertheless; but to take boys and young men out of our higher educational institutions and put them in the ranks is to make bad use of officer material, and what that means England learned to her cost. For the sake of our armies wt, must use our colleges, and it is evident thaf that the Administration, and specifically Secretary Baker, Bak-er, of the War Department, recognizes this, and will make provisions for using the colloges as the Nation uses West Point. The Outlook. r " " -.--. |