Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 01, 1961, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFOBD MAIL TBIBVNE, MEDFOBD. OREGON MONDAY, MAY 1, 1M) Suspended Army Man Supported Washington -fflW- The Sen ate Aimed Services Commit- ; tee hat received about 200 messages supporting sus pended U.S. general accused of Indoctrinating hii troops with the views of the contro- . versial John Birch Society. The committee has been getting up to 25 telegrams and a few letters daily, some sug- i gesting that Congress inter- ' vene on behalf of MaJ. Gen. ; Sdwin A. Walker. The com mittee, however, has not said whether it would step Into the ; case. . The telegraphic campaign has appeared to be centered in the New York City and Shreveport, La., areas. It has appeared to be organized-but there has been nothing to link it to the John Birch Society. . Walker was relieved as com mander of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany by Army Secretary Elvis Stahr "pend ing the outcome of an official , investlagtion of certain public statements and actions pi Gen. Walker." ISpsGIVIL WAR' Neither Side Ready To Fight By MEHTON T. AKEBS UPI Correspondent The two sections of this country which lined, up lor war against each other In the spring of 1861 had little to fight with except green vol unteers and enthusiasm. It would be an improvised war for a year. The North had a small standing army, the South none. Neither side had enough arms and equipment to fight even a small battle before mid-summer. Neither had a general staff. Neither had a war plan. But both had volunteers more than they could train and equip. They came in ruf fled shirts with body servants, in jeans and brogans, some carried inlaid fowling pieces, some only an extra shirt. They were eager to fight, panting for glory for this was going to be a short war, three -YOUR TRUSMSSACRED If ll When need arises, you can be sure ' u that all your problems are In cap- I ... able hands. 1 I We have chosen this field as our 1 If way of life, and in so doing we - fl II have dedicated all our thought and ff effort to helping others during time . , mi MlMtMO TWJi NOT 1 PERL FUNERAL HOME CORNER SIXTH AND OAKDALE Spacious Parkino Lot MEMBER BY INVITATION Writer af &aih.tv M months maybe so there' wasn't much time. "Gimme gun and let me at 'em," was the general cry. -Onlr a Few Aware From the vantage point of a century all this gasconade common to other wars, too seems amazing. But is was very real to the volunteers and to many of their leaders. William Tecumseb Sherman knew better and got into hot water for saying so. Jefferson Davis knew better, too. Old Gen. Winfleld Scott was an other. But these were voices in the wilderness in the spring of "61. How did these two sections of the same country shape up as they raced to the firing line? The cold statistics give a quick decision to the North on paper. But soldiers don't fight with statistics. Other lac tors, less ponderable, enter into the picture. It victory always went to the side with the moat bat talions, then the United States would not have won freedom in 1T83, the Greeks would not have turned back the Persians and the ragamuffin army of the French Revolution would not have licked the Austrtans and Prussians. Imponderable Factors Military men call these fac tors imponderables, and the Civil War is studded with them. In December, 1880, the U.S. Army numbered IS ,259 en listed men and 1,080 active officers. Most of it was scat tered among western frontier posts, a few companies In each. A colonel seldom, if ever, saw his whole regiment at one time. Of the 1,080 officers on the rolls in December, 1860, 313 resigned and went South, many of them the best in the Army. No enlisted man is re corded as having gone over to the Confederacy. That was the Army Gen. Scott had when the war be gan. - ,.. . Little To Start With ' The South had no army as such, only militia companies, plus the resigned officers. On April 29, 1861, President Da vis reported to the Provision al Confederate Congress that the C.S.A. had 10,000 men under arms and 16,000 more in Virginia, not technically in the Confederacy on that date. In March, 1861, the Con federate Congress had author ized an army not to exceed 100,000 men, but soon anoth er 32,000 were authorized. After the war, Brig. Gen Jostah Gorgas, Confederate chief of ordnance, estimated that the South had 19,000 ri fles and 120,000 muskets, with fewer than 1 million cart ridges and 00,000 pounds of old cannon powder at the start of hostilities. As tor cannon he had only a few 1812 guns and some old pieces belong' ing to states and militia com panies. He summed up the South' s position of arms and rounl tlons like this: "To furnish. 130,000 men on May 1, 1861, there were on hand no infantry accouter ments, no cavalry arms or equipment, and, above all, no ammunition, nothing save small arms and those almost wholly smoothbore, altered from flint to percussion." The Harper's Ferry Arsenal and the Norfolk Navy Yard yielded some small arms, some cannon and a store of powder to Gorgas' little hoard The North wax not In much better shape for arms and equipment at the start. It man aged to equip with some sort of arms the 77,000 volunteers mustered In on Lincoln's call for 75,000 men. Both aides started at once to comb out the arsenals of MoIallaBuckaroo President Dies Heppner-SIFB-Molalla Buck- eroo Association President Ray Moran, 11, died at a hos pital Saturday after falling from a horse. Craig Landeen, Canby, who accompanied Moran to Hep pner said Moran apparently fell after suffering a heart at tack. He was competing in a cutting horse contest here at the time. Moran, who was born at Hastings, Neb., was general manager of A. T. Lowes Lum ber Co., Molalla, for seven years. He is survived by a son and daughter, a brother, and five grandcmtden. ,;C I VI WA R R E AD I NESS SPRI NG 1 f mm m mm mat mmmmmmms . , N , - , - tuAiififl cfcfctcfcf ay ev averse " . H n , - ' "'' , ? ' - rtt:j :, .. tttKJ v. - .mm -w- DEMIES BID CHARGE Taipei, Formosa - CTt - A Nationalist Chinese military spokesman Tridsy denied -k charges that Communist charge wave large force nt Kiaaaiict guerrUlaa was atW that Burmj.Thajland border anav OffLY ENTHUSIASM PLENTIFUL la the spring of 1861, the two sections of the country lined up lor war. Neither had much to fight with except enthusiasm. Statistically it appeared that the North could win a the world and buy up all the surplus arms on the market. Northern, agents got there ahead of the Confederates and had mote money. They round ed up slightly more than a half-million rifles and mus kets, many of them almost useless. The South succeeded In buying about 130,000, la the sinews of war - ca pacity to turn out arms, ac couterments, uniforms and food - the North had a big edge on the South. In population, the North CATHOLIC MEN MEET Pittsburgh - HOT - Catholic church leaders Irom through out the United States will gather here next Thursday for the biennial convention of the National Council of Catholic Men. The convention ends May T. Hawaiian Sugar Strike Postponed . HarvoIuIu-ffft!-A strike that could cripple more than half of the Hawaii sugar Industry has been postponed until mid night Tuesday in hopes of reaching a settlement. Plantation workers, repre sented by the International Longshoremen's and Ware housemen s U nlon, were scheduled to walk out at mid- night Sunday night. However, Gov. William T. Qulnn nego tiated a two-day postpone ment. The sugar Industry's con tract with the ILWU expired three months ago. The indus try refused to reinstate the s had more than a 2-to-l mar gin. - 11,840,000 to ,ioo,coa, including 3,500,000 slaves lor the South. In manutaclurei of, all kind the North's margin was even greater - 1,300,000 workers in 110,000 establish ments, with a product valued, at $1,750,000,000 to 145,000 workers in 18,000 establish-1 ments with a product valued at 1145,000,000 for the South. In iron production Penn sylvania alone turned out about seven times as much as the combined South. Most Railroad In North Less than 90 per cent of 31,239 miles of railroad was In the South. The North had three more or less continuous lines from the Eastern Sea board to the Mississippi. Most of the South' railroads ran north and south. As the war went on the South could not repair its railroads because it had only two mills capable of rolling rails and they were making arms. The North rdd- ed to Its system during the war and kept up repairs. The Quick decision, but the battles were not to be founght with statistics. The newschart, drawn, exclusively for thta article, shows the comparsion of resources between the North and South in tha spring 1991. (UPI Telepnotol crrecTtvc april 30, it UNION PACIFIC'S CITY OF PORTLAND I LEAVES I I PORTLAND I J 12:30m JL Llnfhld library Addition Pianned MfiMlnnvCtle-JHTl! - A' tJOfl, 000 expansion bt Northup li brary on the Llntleld college campus has been aproved. by the board, of trustees. i Dr. Harry L. Dlllln, college old contract during negoila-1 president, . said construction tions for higher wage. will begin immediately. North could move troops and supplies rapidly anywhere by Tail, the South one or the oth er, but not both In quantity at once and later that system broke down. The South was an agrtcul-1 tural land but Its crop was cotton. The North with more land and more worker con centrated on cereals and live stock with a wide dlyerslfl cation ot lesser crops. Food- stuff were plentiful alt through the war as against the South's taxes )n kind and organized hunts tor hidden food. factors Ferartec South Civil War armies moved their ammunition and supplies largely by wagon during cam paigns. The South bad only about a third as many draft animal at the start ot the war at the North and only brought the I) jure to a half with Its larger number ot mules. But the North' edge an the economic side was blunted be cause Its armies were Invad er with longer communica tion Knee and therefore a greater percentage of its man were handling supplies behind the bettlefront. The longer communication, tine Invited cavalry raids and the North lost great stores ox food, am' munition and arms In these Atrfiva Th flntfh fa miflv instances virtually lived off! 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