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AMERICA'S WORK IN WAR STAGGERING FIGURES IN LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS How Great Army Was Raised in United States.?What American Navy Has Done. # Here are some of America's accomplishments in the first year of our part in the war: The 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. The army has increased from 9,524 officers and 202,510 enlisted men to 123,SOI officers and 1,528,924 men. Appropriations of $7,464,771,756.48 have been made since April 6, 1917, to the War Department. The navy has increased from 4,792 officers and 77,946 enlisted men, to 21,000 officers and 330,000 enlisted men. Total navy appropriations, $3,333,171,665.04. j? jg Available for aircraft production in the first year, $691,000,000. : N . Available for the United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation, $2,034,000,000. The first American contingent * Q Q /3qt7g of. ianaea at a rleucu pun ?u u?;a ? <. ter war was declared, and went on the line for their baptism of fire 187 ' ^ days after the declaration. American destroyers arrived at a British port to assist in patrolling European waters 28 days after the declaration. Perhaps an even more impressive record concerns the Government's work in adapting the nation's industrial and economic machinery to the purposes of war. Today the Government operates 260,000 miles of firailway, employing 1,000,600 men and representing investment of $17,500,000,000. Eighteen months ago this condition would have been rem garded by capital as revolutionary and alarming, although in the ultimate interests of the public it has long been advocated by progressive |v thinkers. The Treasury Department has sold Liberty bonds, war savings certificates of indebtedness amounting to { $8,560,802,052. Allotments and allowances to sol - diers' and sailors' dependents in February were $19,976,543. The Government has gone into the Insururance business, having issued , E | SHI I iSfe I ? U ?/ > |?f' 'II fe^fl P * fc*'-V'1, J M a :t-v ' V mm-' i ' 5 ;, d HV ' g m j 1 cur K % ' | I-;' .i I c i e G. policies for $12,465,116,500 to men ! in its armed forces on March 12. Deaths in the army, from April 6, 1917, to March 14, from all causes, ; were 1,191, of which 132 were in ac| tion and 237 losses at sea. Casu-1 I i j alties in the navy to December 31 include 5 officers and 139 men killed j or died from wounds. How Army Was Raised, j The annual pay of the army now j ' exceeds a half billion dollars, j The cost of drafting the national I army and the provost general's oper-. j ations was about $10,000,000; cost! ; per man accepted for service, $4.93.1 Army hospitals increased from 7 \ ' - - r, . . I to 63, and beds from o,uuo to oa.sw; , 30,000 more beds being added. War prisoners and alien enemies' numbering 2,040 confined in three | barracks in Georgia and Utah. Psychological examinations of | 150,000 officers and men have been made. For troops in cantonments, 1,000,000,000 rounds of ammunition bought. Of 63,203 candidates for officers' commissions at two officers' training camps, 44,578 were successful; a third series is now in progress, with 18,000 attendance. Army medical . training schools have been created with capacity of 21,000 officers and men, 15,000 enlisted men, and 6,000 officers al! ready trained and graduated. Through a card catalogue system | 19,4S7 men have been transferred out of army divisions into technical I units to function according to indii vidual educational, occupational and ! military qualifications. i Present average daily mail hanj died by the adjutant general is apj proximately 85,000 pieces. I The signal corps has sent thou| sands of trained pigeons to France, j What Xavy Has Done in Last Year. Here are some things our navy has done since April 6, 1917: There are four times as many vessels in naval service now as a year ; ago. Nearly 73,000 mechanics and other j civilian employees at naval yards I and stations. Pay of officers and men for first ; year of war, $125,000,000. ; Contracts have been placed for 1 949 vessels. | More than 700 privately owned I vessels chartered or purchased, j The navy ration costs 43.8 cents in 1917, against 37.648 in 1916. | In the first three months of 1918 s the navy paymaster cleared $185,000,000 for supplies and contracts. U a [PMI have just receiv 3 Bamberg. The narkets, and ran ink of conditioi /ant you to see 1 lo you good just IGIES, have also recei >n the market, a ilways complete FRA 11 II The paymaster general drew' checks for more than $30,000,000 in; one day?February 23?for muni-. tions. Total advertised purchases for 1915 were $19,000,000. Total weight of steel thrown by a single broadside from the Pennsyl vania today is 17,508 pounds; maxi- 1 mum broadside of largest ship during Spanish-American War was 5,6G0 pounds. More than 11,000 manufacturers bid for navy business. Our 14 inch guns weigh nearly 95 tons and are 58 1-3 feet long, costing $11S,000. Six new authorized battleships are designed to be of 41,500 tons, the largest battleships in the world. Our 35,000-ton cruisers, 35 knots, will be the fastest in the world, their speed equaling the fastest destroyers.! During the year nearly 60,000 let! mnnir innltidin f ?>t 11 Pfl nlflTlS. LCI 3, LLiailJ , were received from the inventive gen- j ius of the country by the Naval Con- j suiting Board concerning mtethods j for combating the German U-boats.1 The navy has developed an Am-1 erican mine believed to combine all the good points of various types of j mines, and is manufacturing them in ! quantities. Naval communication service op- j erates all radio service; 5,000 youths! are studying radiotelegraphy at two ! naval schools. | Medical officers numbering 1,675; i are members of the medical depart-; ! ment of the navy. Navy maintains' j 12,000 hospital beds and 5,000 are j | being added. j Naval training camps have a ca-1 i pacity of 102,000 in summer, 94,- i : 000 men,in winter. | During the year the latest type ot, | naval 16-inch gun was completed for j ' our new battleships; it throws a pro-j | jectile weighing 2,100 pounds. Navy has in its possession now a! | stock of supplies sufficient for the i ; average requirements for at least I ; one year. I * j About 60,000 officers and men are j engaged in coast patrol work of the ; navy. Several hundred submarine chasj ers, built since the war, have been ! delivered to the navy by 31 private, j concerns and 6 navy yards; manyj ! of these boats have crossed the At-1 j lantic, some in severe weather. Dr. E. M. Poteat has resigned the ! presidency of Furman university, the ! resignation to take effect in July. Dr. i Poteat is to take service with the 'Laymen's Missionary movement of j America. I II? IOC 'WT ai\ 1 ed a shipment o se mules were p gefrom 1,000 tc 1, and there is i them, whether y to look at them. WAG ved a shipment nd my stock of 1 . My prices art lNK BAMBE II II ?to TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. The regular spring examination for teachers' certificates will be held at ; the court house in Bamberg, S. C., on Friday, May the 3rd, 1918, be-; ginning at 9 o'clock a. m. In view ! of the nation wide shortage of teach-' ers, all prospective applicants for teachers' certificates are urged to; take advantage of this examination, j as this is the last opportunity until the October examination. The questions will be on the usual subjects which include algebra, arithmetic, English grammar, pedagogy,, geography, physiology and hygiene,: history, civics and current events, and agriculture. W. D. 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