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garage onFifth Street
We;aIso:haVe on hand several Willys-Knight Touring
seen at our place also.
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e price oi all cars advanced on April 1; which was necessary owing to labor shortage and
labor unfrjeseep conditions.
If you are in the market for a car of the better make, why not call on us and take a look at
our Ovelamds and Willys-Knights. They are ab-solutely the best values to be had for the money
andare as gooptjiettw than many makes of cars selling at greater prices.
In either of these makes you are guaranteed the most miles per gallon of gas. This should
appeal to the prospective owner right now, because we all know how scare gas is.
Your are cordially invited to visit our salesrooms and garage on Fifth Street, Greenville, at
any tiip. You will be waited on by men who know their business from every standpoint
Any, time we can't get cars they can't be had.
Hie Dail-erlai3idl Co.,
W. H. DAIL, Pres. Telephone No. 3. Greenville; N C
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AMERICA BECOMES A GREAT
PART IN THE WORLD S STRUGGLE
By CARL D. GROAT
( United Press Staff Correspendent)
WASHINGTON America found it
self today on the anniversary of Presi
dent Wilson's request for war on Ger
many, a great part of the world strug
gle, with a rmarkably vast record of
achievement.
More thousands of men are now in
France than army men a year ago
dreamed could be put there; American
naval vessels, cruising the submarine
zone, are doing their bit and a big one
to stamp "schrecklichkeit" out of the
world ; a vast army has been - trained
and is now being seasoned ; another is
about ready to enter campy4, American
war wheels are whirring, grinding out
ships, guns, shells, rails a tremedous
stream of material to back a growing,
enthusiastic army.
And,-there is abroad in the land of
war spirit, deepseated and fervent, a
spirit born of the realization that Ger
many is now controlled by militaristic
plunderes, who in their madness are
stretching forth theirgory hands to
crush the weak and the strong and to
make the world unfit and unsafe for
democracy.
Some of America's mighty task is
still in the making. There have been,
and still are delays in the war work.'
Some of our expectations were ex
ploited too boldly, and there 'are disap
pointments ahead.
But, all in all, the conversion of the
country from ' a " peaceful land to the
biggest single reservoir of strength to
back up the Allies has been a story of
progress upon which history will doubt
less look with praise.
Voluntary censorship forbids that the
press shall indulge in figures reveal
ing the number of forces abroad. But
it is recalled today that Secretary of
War Baker predicted 560,000 men in
France "early in 1918 " and it is
known that troops and supply trans
ports, while hampered during the cold
est weather, have been maintaining av
prearranged schedule recently. For
some time, American forces have had
a part in the Lorraine fighting, and
their work has shown that America will
never need to have other than pride
in the men she is sending forth to
war. Valor, vigor, and an enthusiastic
eagerness have marked each encounter
with the Hun.
While a portion of the overseas force
has been fully seasoned for front 'line
service, a considerable force is still
training behind the lines.
in this country the camps and can
tonments have ground out their men
until now a second draft call is immi
nent The last increments of the first
draft are still training, and the sec
ond call will be for' 800,000 men.
The pacifist has been driven, skulk
ing, to obscurity. While the nation has
sought to separate peace with Austria
through a political offensive, there is
now no peace talk. The "Russian col
lapse, followed by Germany's robbing
of the corpse, showed her without a
mask a nation bent on conquest.
This has done much to cement the
American people into a stern determi
nation to fight on vigorously. It has
stirred up war industry and war train
ing. The war department has passed" thru
many tribulations, and congress has
raked it thoroughly over the coals. The
result has been that a reorganization,
started before congress undertook its
probe, has been completed and now the
departmental wheels run smoothly and
with more vigor than before. Chief of
Staff Margin has pumped pep into the
organization. Younger men are at the
helm. Chiefs such as Gen. Goethals,
quartermaster, have the important
posts.
The navy, with less reorganization to
accomplish, has met such transition as
it needed with less difficulty because of
the smaller scale of Its needs. The
navy's biggest contribution has been
'destroyers for foreign service. These
vessels and their craft have aided sub
stantially in destroying or warding off
the Teuton U-Boats. Now, the navy is
engaged on a vast destroyer building
program, which with the Ford boats,
the submarine chasers, and the anti
submarine devices of American genius
will take an added crimp in Fritz upon
the seas.
America has poured forth her money
in lavish streams. This fund running
not in six figures but in nines and tens
is being converted into war material
rapidly and, for the most part, effi
ciently. The ordnance bureau, for instance,
has placed contracts running far past
a billion dollars, while aviation has
had more than a billion and soon wants
millions more. Secretary Baker esti
mates that the prdinance bureau had
averaged contracts of $6,000,000 a day.
Production of machine guns is now a
head of schedule except for the Brown
ing heavy type, and while France arfd
England are supplying the primary
needs of the U. S. in big artillery, the
nation i producing the large type
guns, too.
The ordinance bureau anticipated
that by the end of the year it will have
more than 60,000,000 shells produced in
American factories.
Figures on the war make the brain
fairly reel. For instance, the army-4jt-self
has grown from a handful of men
and officers say 210,000 to about 1,
600,000. Officers alone number close to
120,000 at this time.
Supplying such a force has been a
trying problem. Delays marked the
earlier work and there were complaints
of lack of warm clothing in many
camps during the winter. This situa
tion was remedied, however, and the
reorganized quartermaster branch stat
ed today that it has now collected a
reserve which will obviate any short
age hereafter. The reorganized bureau
has also seen to it that sufficient sup
plies of meat and other goods are
stored at - convenient, places 80 " that
there shall be no tieups as occurred
when the railroad congestion was at
its worst.
The clothing supply task is a tremen
dous one. Not only must a current
supply be maintained but reserves
must be created: This' means for in
stance that during the winter the or
ganization bought its underwear by the
10,000,000, stockings more than 30.
000.000 pairs and so on. h
American aeroplane development, one
of the most secret of all war prepara
tions, is one of the many romances of
business involved in our work. Per
fection of a Liberty motor, surpassing
anything known in the motor line to
date, has provided America with a sub
stantial basis for Its work. DifScul-
ties In obtaining spruce and other ma
terials has tended to slow down con
struction of aircraft, but the first ship
ment of aeroplanes went a broad near
ly two months ago. More than 100,000
men are now training for the air ser
vice, and thousands of planes of vari
ous types training and combat are
under contract That we will be able
to supply 10,000 battle planes together
with the needed men this year is prob
lematical, but production of all types
Is now progressing satisfactorily.
' Construction work abroad and In this
country have Involved expenditure of
millions and has engaged a tremendous
volume of labor. The .first big con
struction task the nation faced was
that of building 16 cantonment cities.
These were ready to September.
" Other task of enormous importance
and volume have been- the laying of
tracks In France there are 600 miles
for American transportation needs most
of which Is new construction of a big
ordinance depot in France, enlarge
ment of overcrowded dockage facili
ties abraod ; building of shipyards, ex
pansion of plants making was supplies.
American war work has hinged larg
ly on shipping.
The first two months output of ships
was unsatisfactory, amounting to less
Ihan 200,000 tons, but shipyards are
now proceeding at a far better rate,
and it is estimated that the last half of
the year will find production at double
the rate of the first six months. The
Hog Island plant at Philadelphia is the
biggest of all the new shipyards and
has fifty ways.
The submarine destruction has forg
ed ahead of construction the past year,
but if the war goes into next year
as it now seems destined to do Ameri
can and British yards will be well fixed
on output. In addition to this meet
ing of the submarine menace, the de
velopment of anti-submarine devices,
and the constant addition of new de
stroyers la having a strong effect on the
XT-Boat situation. In fact, it la such
that American-Allied officials believe'
the U-boat win be "held' this fall.
Food, fuel and transportation prob
lems have vexed the nation and caused
disturbances to the war program on
both sides of the water. The nation
responded willingly to "appeals for food
conservation to help in adding to sup
plies abroad. Railroad congestion and
cold weather, however, "hindered move
ments of food and munitions to sea
board temporarily but now this has
been cleared, and, the overseas trans
port service Is running on schedule.'
On the diplomatic side, the Japa- (
nese problem has been foremost. Con
clusion of the Lansing-I&hil agreement
wiped out the 111 effects ' of German
propaganda in Japan and this country.
In March, Japan sought America's
views as to Japanese -intervention in
Siberia, and this resulted in a state
ment showing that this government
was opposed, though Its opposition was
based, not on any unfriendliness to
Japan but upon the ground that neces
sity did not compel the move and that
the effect would be a reaction against
the Allies and America.
On other than strictly the military;
side, America developed a political of
fensive against the central empires.
Efforts to separate 'Austria from Ger
many were attempted and peace terms
were pronounced. These gained little
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