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1 ' ' 1 1 ujli immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm WITHIN SIX MONTHS to equip an army of a million men, provided ap propriations should be made avail able by congress immediately. When we come to artillery, it is a different situation. It would require more than a year to manufacture enough field guns to equip an army of a million. To rely on our own artillery, there fore, it is imperative that big gun factories be built and equipped im mediately. The war department has only 650, 000 rounds of artillery ammunition on hand, but thanks to practice on shell orders for the allies, American private plants would have no diffi culty in providing all the ammuni tion needed. Summing up the situation, there is no reason why the United States could not arm and equip an army of a million men just as soon as they can be trained for trench fighting. Before Christmas, the stars and stripes could easily be waving over a million men in the trenches of the western front. (In forthcoming stories; the first of which will be published tomorrow, Correspondent Manly will tell how Uncle Sam could arm, feed, clothe ind transport his million men.) o o TELEGRAPH BRIEFS Boston. Archie Roosevelt, son of Col. Roosevelt, engaged to wed Miss Grace Lockwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. St. John Lockwood, this city. New York. Six incendiary fires, starting within few minutes of each other, wrecked buildings at Belmont race track and destroyed grandstand of Hunts club on Long Island today. o o WAR BRIEFS St Louis. "Just aching for taste of war," and hoping she'll hear bul lets sing, Mrs. J. B. Benton, widow of a Baptist minister, today took an ex amination to enter navy. Washington. Business of German insurance, companies will not he in terfered with, Pres. Wilson pro claimed, but companies must sever relations with German home offices while war lasts. LIFE'S BOUQUET (An Easter Offering) By James A. Murray Make life a bouquet all complete, Your heart a fragrant rose; Your mind a lily, chaste and sweet, The purest bloom that blows. The flowers of your heart and mind Share freely while you live; The more you spread, the more you'll find How much you have to give. Through sunny or through stormy day, Somewhere, some wind will blow The sweetness of your life's bouquet Around you as you go. o o United States in 1916 paid $291, 649,000 for ice cream and consumed 208,320,000 gallons. New York con sumed 34,000,000 gallons LATE.3T 5PRIHG flflTg; I"