It knows that the American navy since May 4 has been playing an honorable part in the conduct of the war in European waters, and the country will not fail to observe that this participation of American destroyers is coincident with a great and notable reduction in the number of merchant ships sunk. The country knows the President has directed the increase of the regular army to the full limit of his authority, and that in every city and village all possible efforts are being made to stimulate enlistments. The country knows that the Secretary of War, selected on Wednesday for senatorial criticism, has won the admiration of his professional associates, of his military advisers and of the sensible portion of his political enemies. Mr. Baker has admitted to the House Committee on Military Affairs that he has "broken a great many laws," but by that very device he has provided supplies, with the exception of heavy ordnance and machine guns, for an army of 500,000 men. Congress little understands the temper of this people if it thinks anyone cares a rap how many laws are broken, if thereby an army is raised, equipped for the field and then sent there. Who halts transportation control? Congress. Who strangles food control? Congress. Who halts transportation control? Congress. Who has held up the selective draft? Congress. Who bickers and dawdles, and fumes and fusses, and considers and reconsiders, while democracy and the world's liberties bleed to death on the battlefields of France? Congress. 