Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — America’s Greatest Army [ARTICLE]

America’s Greatest Army

Fighting Facet Number -2,139,554, Assembled Within Ten Months* Time

Amerioa has 2,139,554 men under arms, according to figures announced by Representative Charles Pope Caldwell of the Second district if Queens at the annual meeting of the Port Washington (L. I.) Business pen’s association. Representative Caldwell said the figures he quoted ■ere those which he bad recently learned as a member of the house committee on military affairs: According to Representative Caldwell, the government’s armed strength is divided as follows: Engineers’ corps, 119,476. Ordnance corps, 20,000. . Signal corps, 151,747. Quartermaster’s corps, 140,000. Medical corps, 15,000 officers. Medical corps, 7,605 enlisted men. Veterinarian’s corps, 16,000. Sanitation corps, 3,945. - Staff, 52,129. ' Staff officers, 63,851. Enlisted men, 1,479,259. Called under the draft and due to report, 74,706. Of this number, the speaker asserted, 605,640 were drafted men and the remainder volunteers. ' “The great exponents of preparedness/’ continued the representative, “went through the country declaring that the administration would be able to raise an army of a million men in a year. Reports show that inside of ten months we have more than two million mep under arms and that we are in this war and that we are going to see it through to the finish. “We have the men, we have them under shelter at fifteen cantonments of wood, fifteen under canvas and twenty training schools for aviators. A job that equals in labor the building of the Panama canal. And we did it all in ten months. “Our reports show we have the best engine for the airplanes and that before many days we will be turning them out as fast as one every minute. “Every man who goes to France has four suits of clothes, four pairs of shoes, and is well provided for.”