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ARMY ITEMS
Total estimated expense of the
United States government in the first
year of war, without loans to the Allies,
is $12,067,278,679.07.
During the first year of war tlie United
States Army has increased in actual
Strength from 9,524 officers and 202,510
enlisted men to 123,801 officers and 1,528,-
924 enlisted men.
Total appropriations for War Depart
ment since April 6, 1917, $7,464,771,756.48;
withdrawals from the treasury by the
Wai- Department from June 15, 1917, to
March 9, 1978, were $3,006,761,907.15. The
latter figures de not represent actual ex
penditures or obligations, but merely
withdrawals from the treasury.
The first contingent of the expedition
ary forces landed safely a French port
88 days after war was declared.
American troops went on the line for
thoir baptism of lire 187 days after war
was declared.
American troops permanently took over
a part of the firing line as an American
sector in January, 1918.
Annual pay of the army now exeeds a
half billion dollars.
Production of 10,000 new automobile
trucks is in progress for the army, in ad
dition to purchases of 3,520 passenger
cars, 6,126 motorcycles, and 5,040 bicycles,
ivit.h appropriate repair and replaement
equipment.
During the first year of war the army'
expended $60,000,000 for horse-drawn ve
hicles and harness; more than $50,000,-
000 for horses, mules and harness. Ex
penditures for fiscal year.ending June 30,
1919, for fuel and forage estimated at
more than half a billion dollars.
Quartermaster recently purchased 61,-
000.000 pounds of prunes and dried beans,
and 273,000,000 cans of tomatoes, eon
. densed milk and ' baker beans. Other
purchases include 40,000,000 yards of mos
quito bar, 75,000,000 yards of olive drab,
20,000,000 woolen blankets, 31,000,000 pairs
of woolen drawers, 50,000,000 pairs of
heavy stockings, 11,000,000 wool coats.
Ordnance program includes the pur
chase of 23,000,000 hand grenades, 725,000
automatic pistols, 250,000 revolvers, 23,-
000,000 projectiles for heavy -artillery,
427,246,000 pounds of explosives 240,000
machine guns, 2,484,000 rifles.
Machine guns are being produced at the
rate of 235,000 a year, 3 Vi-inch guns at
the rate of 15,000 per year.
Army Ordnance Supply* Division * han
dles monthly 10,000 carloads of material.
In less than three weeks after enact
ment of selective service law teh male
population of the country within draft
age, approximately 10,000.000 men, pre
sented themselves before some 4,000
boards and registered.
Cost of drafting army and Provost
Marshal General’s operations was $lO,-
000,000; cost per man accepted for ser
vice, $4.93.
During 12 months army hospitals in
creased from 7 to 63 in number, and
from 5,000 to 58,400 beds; 30,000 more
beds are being added.
Two weeks after war was declared
contracts had been made covering the re
quirements of an army of 1.000,000 men,
this material comprising 8,700,000 items.
Our 14-inch guns weigh nearly 95 tons,
and are 58 1-3 feet long, costing’sllß,ooo.
Two powder plants to cost $45,000,000
each are under construction.
War prisoners and alien enemies num
bering 2,040 are now, confined in three
barracks in Georgia and Utah.
Psychological examinations of 150,000
officers and men have been made.
To February 20. Director General of
Military Railways had placed orders for
railway supplies valued at $142,000,000
and with an aggregrate weight of 754,000 1
long tons; the General Engineer Depot,
to February 1, issued 9,500 orders for
material valued at $202,000,000.
For training troops In cantonments 1,-
000,000,000 rounds of ammunition have
been bought.
Army medical training schools have
been created with capacity of 21,000 offi
cers and men, 15,000 enlisted men, and
6,000 officers already trained and gradu
ated.
Os 63,203 candidates for officers’ com
missions at two officers’ training camps,
44,578 were successful; a third series is
now in progress with 18,000 attendance.
Young Men’s Christian Association,
Young Women’s Christian Association and
Knights of Columbus huts are fixtures in
the life of every soldier and sailor; hos
tess houses have been built in 32 can
tonments and camps; 16 Liberty theaters
are running in army camps and 15 are
ordered constructed; all camps have ath
letic filds, on having 26 gridirons.
Avrage monthly disbursements by Ord
nance Department of the army during the
first year of war were over $69,000,000.
The Signal Corps has sent thousands of
trained pigeons to France.
One type of gun with its carriage has
7,990 parts, exclusive of accessories.
Through a card catalogue system 109,-
487 men have been transferred out of
army divisions into technical units to
function according to individual educa
tional. occupational, and military' quali
fications.
Quartermaster expended or obligated
$53,960,857 for construction and Repair of
hospitals.
Present average daily mail handled by
the Adjutant General M approximately
85,000 pieces.
In 16 cantonments 650.000,000 feet of
lumber were used.
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Regarding America’s War Progress
TRENCH AND CAMP
Some 300 woolen mills are working on
army contracts.
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Over 20,000,000 pairs of shoes have been
ordered for the army.
Treasury Department floated $6,616,532,-
300 subscriptions to Liberty Bonds.
Loans to a total of $3,882,900,000 had
been made to co-bell’gerent nations to
end of 1917.
Government now operates 260,000 miles
of railway, employing 1,000,600 men, and
representing investment of $17,500,000,000.
Bonds, certificates of indebtedness, war
savings certificates, and thrift stamps is
sued by the treasury up to March 12
totaled $8,560,802,052.96.
The United States government, had
loaned to foreign governments associated
in the war on March 12, 1918, $4,436,329,-
750.
To March 12 the War-Risk Insurance
Bureau bad issued policies for a total of
$12,465,116,500 to the armed forces.
Allotments and allowances to soldiers’
and sailors’ dependents paid by the gov
ernment in February ..mounted to ?19,-
976,543.
Total deaths in the army from April 6,
1917, to March 14, for all causes, was re
ported by the Adjutant General’s Office
to be 1.191. Os this number. 132 were
reported as killed in actron, and 237 died
or were lost at sea. The total number
wounded in action was 404. Thirty-five
men have been reported as missing; 33
of them are said to have been captured.
NAVY ITEMS
Strength of the navy today is nearly
21,000 officers and 330,000 enlisted men;
strength a year ago was 4,792 officers
and 77,946 enlisted men.
The total number of persons now in
the naval establishment exceeds 425,000.
Estimated total expenditures of the
navy during first year of war: Disburse
ments and outstanding obligations, sl,-
881,000,000.
American destroyers arrived at a Brit
ish port to assist in patrolling European
waters 28 day's after tue declaration of
war.
There are now four times as many ves
sels in the naval services as a year ago.
Nearly 73.000 mechanics and' other civ-"
ilian employes are working at,navy yards
and stations.
Estimated pay of officers and men of
the navy for the first year of the war,
$125,000,000.
When war was declared, 123 naval ves
sels wete building or authorised, and
contracts have been placed' since that
time for 949 vessels.
More than 700 privately owned vessels
have been purchased or chartered by the
navy.
The navy ration in 1917 cost $0,438, as
against $0.37648 in 1916.
During the first three months of 1918
Navy Paymaster cleared $185,000,000 for
navy supplies and contracts.
Paymaster General of the navy drew
cheeks for more than $30,000,000 in one
day—February 23 —for munitions; total
advertised purchases for the navy for
1915 were $19,000,000.
Total weight of steel thrown by a sin
gle broadside from the Pennsylvania to
day' is 17.508 pounds; maximum broad
side of largest ship during Spanish-Amer
ican War was 5,660 pounds.
More than 11,000 manufacturers bid for
navy business.
Six new authorized battleships are de
signed to be of 41,500 tons, the largest
battleships in the world.
Our 35.000-ton cruisers, 35 knots, will be
the fastest ip the world, their speed equal
ling the fastest destroyers.
Prompt repairs of 109 Interned German
ships, partially wrecked by their crews,
added more than 700,000 tons to our avail
able naval and merchant tonnage.
During the year nearly 60,000 letters,
many including detailed plans, were re s
ceived from the inventive genius of the
country by the Naval Consulting Board
concerning methods for combating the
German U-boats.
The navy has developed an American
mine believed to combine all the good
points of various types of mines, and is
manufacturing them in quantities.
Naval communication service operates
all radio service; 5,000 youths are study
ing radiotelegraphy at two naval schools.
Medical officers numbering 1.675 are
members of the Medical Department of
the navy. Navy maintains 12,000 hospital
beds and 5,000 are being added.
Durtag the year the latest type of na- ’
val 16-inch gun was completed for our
new battleships: it throws a projectile
weighing 2,100 pounds.
Appropriations available for expendi
ture for the naval service for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1918, total $1,741,-
109,401.90.
Navy has in its possession now a stock
of supplies sufficient for the average re
quirements for at least one year.
tbout 60,000 officers and men are en
ed in coast patrol work of the navy.
Several hundred submarine chasers,
built since the war, have been delivered
to the navy by' 31 private concerns and 6
navy yards: many of these boats have
crossed the Atlantic, some in severe
weather.
Over 20 large companies are manufac
turing airplanes, 15 are producing en
gines. and more than 400 are producing
spare parts, accessories and supplies.
ALLEN’S FOOT EASE
The Antiseptic Powder. Shake it into your
Shoes, Sprinkle it in your Foot-Bath.
fit makes Standing
on the feet easy,
Walking a delight
For all men
drilling for
Military
Service i
the frequent 1
Allen’s FooUEase
increases their
efficiency and
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' insures needed _ J i
physical comfort. [
The Plattsburg Camp Manual Advises
Men in Training io shake a little Foot=Ease
in their shoes each morning.
Do this and walk all day in comfort. It takes the Friction
from the Shoe and freshens the feet. At night, sprinkle
it in the foot-bath, and soak and rub the feet. For over
25 years Allen’s Foot=Ease has been the STANDARD
remedy for hot, swollen, smarting, tender, tired, perspir
ing, aching feet, corns, bunions, blisters and callouses.
Used by the American, British and French troops in
Europe. One war relief committee reports that of all the
things sent out in their Comfort Bags or “Kits,” Allen’s
Foot=Ease received the most praise from the soldiers and
men of the navy. Why not order a dozen or more 25c.
boxes to-day from your Druggist or Department Store to
mail to your friends in training camps and in the army and
navy. Sold every where. Sample FREE by mail. Address,
ALLEN S. OLMSTED. LE ROY. N. Y.
Naval training camps have a capacity
of 102,000 in summer, 94,000 men In win
ter.
Congress has authoribed $2,034,000,000,
of which sum $1,135,000 has been appro
priated, for the United States Shipping
Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation;
on Maarch 1, $353,247,955.37 of this sum
had been expended.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation had
requisitioned March 1, 425 steel vessels
and contracted for 720 steel vessels, mak
ing a total of 1,145 steel ships of an
aggregate dead'weight tonnage of 8,164.-
508 tons; it had let contracts for 490
wooden vessels, aggregating approximate
ly 1,715,000 dead-weight tons; it had re
paired and put in operation 788,000 dead
weight tonnage seized from Germany
and Austria.
On March 5 the building program of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation was
being carried on in 151 plants.
Casualties in the Navy and Marine
Corps from April 6 to December 31. 1917.
include 5 naval officers and 139 enlisted
men, killed or died front wounds. No
officers were reported as wounded in ac
tion, but 10 enlisted men were so report
ed.
AIR SERVICE ITEMS
Before the war a total of $1,500,000 had
been appropriated for air service. Con
gress has made $691,000,000 available for
aircraft production in first year or war.
More than 70,000 acres oNand in this
country' has been planted with castor
bean plants to produce sufficient oil for
aircraft.
Air personnel increased from 65 offi
cers and 1,120 men to 100 times that
number in first year of war. Eleven
kinds of schcols have been installed.
The House of Dorr
is for those who wish the better grades of things to
wear.
Trench Coats, Rain Coats, Jaeger Underwear,
Sweaters, Hosiery, Etc..
Officers’ Uniforms Made in Our
Own Shop, $65.00 and $75.00.
August Dorr’s Sons
724 Broad Street
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TOO MUCH FOR A
PHILADELPHIA LAWYER:
A young foreigner was being tried in
court, says the Public Ledger, and the
questioning by the lawyers on the op
posite side began.
“Now, Laszky, what do you do?"
“Ven?" asked Laszky.
“When you work, of course,” said the
lawyer.
“Vy work —”
“I know,” said the lawyer, “but what
at?"’
“At a bench."
“O!” groaned the lawyer. “Where
do you work at a bench?"
“In a factory.”
“What kind of a factory?”
“Brick."
“You make bricks?”
“No; de factory is made uv bricks.”
“Now, Laszky, listen.” s .id the law
year. “What do you make in that fac
tory?”
“Eight dollars a week.”
“No, no! What does the factory
make ?’’
“I dunno; a lot uv money, I think.”
“Now, listen! What kind of goods
does the factory produce?”
“Oh” said Laszky, “good goods.”
“I know, but -what kind of good
goods?”
“The best.”
“The best of what.”
"The best there is."
“Os what?”
“Os dose goods."
“Your honor," said the lawyer, “I
give up."
April 17.
