In addition to the three regiments of State Guard and seven regiments of Reserve Militia now in the State service, there exists the Depot Organization of the Reserve Militia. The Depot Organization includes 92 units and a total of 5,151 men, of the same standing as the Reserve Militia except that they are not now armed and are not at this time subject to call to active duty. They are the reserve from which vacancies in the armed forces are filled. If at any time such a large military force were needed in the State, an additional seven regiments could be formed from the officers and men in existing depot organizations, which would bring the Illinois State military forces close to the limit of 25,000 permitted under the Hay Act of Congress. The remainder of the Volunteer Training Corps units have been put into State service in supply companies, transport companies, medical units and bands, all included in the Depot Organization and unassigned. That the idea of the Volunteer Training Corps goes further than parade purposes is indicated by the fact that 44 units of 3,202 men were disbanded and discharged because they were unable to volunteer for service in the State militia. UNITS IN STATE SERVICE. Following is a list of cities containing units in the various branches of military service in Illinois with the number of officers and men in each: Station. Officers. Men. Alton. Aurora.. Augusta. Basco.. Bowen. Berwyn... Centralia. Chestnut. Chicago Heights. Organization. Co. C, 5th Inf., I. R. M. Co. E, 8th Reg., D. O., I. R. M. Co. M, 10th Inf., N. G. Chicago. 4th Reg., I. R. M. 41 1st Separate Bn., I. R. M 17 29th Co. 32nd Co. 35th Co. 37th Co. 39th Co. 40th Co.. 41st Co.. 42nd Co. 43rd Co. 50th Co.. 51st Co.. 52nd Co.. 55th Co.. UNITS IN STATE SERVICE-Concluded. Station. Chicago..... 1 Amb. Unit No. 1.. San. Unit No. 1. 5th Co. Co. E., 5th Inf., N. G Organization. Co. A, 8th Reg., D. O., I. R. M Co. H, 10th Inf., N. G.. Hq. Co. and San. Troop, 9th Inf., N. G. 30th Co., D. O., I. R. M. Co. F, 8th Reg., 1. R. M. Co. E, 9th Inf., N. G. Co. B, 8th Reg., D. O., I. R. M. Co. L, 6th Inf. Co. C, 7th Inf., I. R. M. and 1st Co., D. O., I. R. M. Co. C, 6th Inf., I. R. M... Cos. I, K and L, 7th Inf., I. R. M Co. G, 9th Inf., N. .. Co. C, 10th Inf., N. G. Co. A, 6th Inf., I. R. M. Co. H, 6th Inf., I. R. M. Co. M, 8th Reg., D. O., I. R. M Co. B, 9th Inf., N. G. Co. F, 9th Inf., N. G. Co. K, 8th Reg., D. O., I. R. M. Co. L, 5th Inf., Í. R. M. 28th Co., D. O., I. R. M. Co. F, 10th Inf., N. G. Cos. E, F, G and H, 7th Inf., I. R. M. Co. E, 10th Inf., N. G Hq. Co., 8th Reg., D. O., I. R. M. Co. I, 10th Inf., N. G. Co. D, 6th Inf., I. R. M. Hdq. 1st Brig. Sterling. St. Charles. St. Anne. Versailles. Co. L, 8th Reg., D. O., I. R. M Co. H, 5th Inf., 1. R. M. 38th Co., D. O., I. R. M. 44th Co., D. O., 1. R. M. ILLINOIS CAPITAL IN THE WAR. BY B. F. HARRIS, Member of Council of Defense. AS IN THE Civil War; as in every call that comes to Illinois; so, in the great world-wide war, Illinois was peerless in her response. Of her greatest, truest, rarest capital she gave her volunteers in extravagant ratio, as well as every man that was selected. And these men served so actively, so valiantly that of a total of sixty-three Congressional Medals of Honor awarded among all American heroes of the war, nine blaze on the breasts of Illinoisans. On the mathematical basis of men actually engaged in fighting, Illinois' portion would have been but two. And Illinois dollars did duty behind these glorious sons, pouring out in a ceaseless and ever-growing torrent. The Federal Government, in calls for Liberty and Victory Loans, asked Illinois for 1,233,286,800, and Illinois offered $1,586,227,500-28 per cent more than was asked of her. Illinois has more banks than has any state in the Union, and 1,339 of her banks are organized-470 as National, and 869 as State banks. While only 35 per cent of these organized banks are National, yet the total resources of the States and Nationals are almost identical. On the first of January, total State bank resources were $1,389,611,000, while National bank resources were $1,366,309,000. These figures show a gain of about 55 per cent in two years of war, while the gain in deposits approximated 60 per cent. The greater bulk of Illinois National and State banks are in the portion of the State located in the Seventh Federal Reserve Bank District, and these banks went "over the top" 44 per cent in the first, and more than 50 per cent in the second loan. The rich central and northern sections of Illinois are the heart and purse of the great section and galaxy of states that make up the largest group of banks in any of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts. This great Seventh District Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago also holds in its membership both the largest number of National as well as of State member banks. It has of course, as member banks all the 1,046 National banks in the district, and 300 of a total of 3,560 State banks. And these 300 State bank members hold 43 per cent of the total resources of all those 3,560 State banks, only 1,805 of which total are really eligible to membership in the Federal Reserve System. The big State banks of Illinois are largely responsible for this State bank showing, for, while only 70 of the 869 State banks of Illinois (only 8 per cent of all our State banks) have come into the Federal Reserve System, these 8 per cent or 70 banks own over 52 per cent of the entire State bank assets. Sixty of these State banks are in the seventh or Chicago district, and average almost twelve millions each in resources, while ten are in the eighth or St. Louis Reserve Bank, and average each about one-tenth that sum. While the resources of the Eighth Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis increased about four and one-half times, those of the Seventh Bank District, centered in Chicago, increased six and one-half times, in our two-year war period. It is impossible, at this date, to compare these figures with those of other districts and states, for even these figures are here compiled for the first time while others are unavailable. Certain it is, however, that no other record can surpass that of Illinois in the blood and treasure capital she so freely gave to war. These enormous totals are from the rank and file of all our population and to these must be added the enormous and astounding totals in agricultural and industrial production, recited elsewhere within these covers. Chicago as the great world-center of the meat packing industry and grain market, directly and indirectly financed the prodigious undertaking involved in handling and clearing so large a portion of this world's food. Only in the last six months of the war did the government even give her the opportunity to furnish almost the entire range of war material and munitions which she was ready and anxious to, and did supply in those last six months. In that six months' period her industrial capital was called upon to produce under direct government contract, 19 per cent more than was any other single state-this accomplished largely through the instance of the State Council of Defense and the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. At the signing of the armistice, she still had over $600,000,000 of war munitions in course of completion, and all this great output with scarcely any new buildings or increase in plant facilities so well, so largely and variously was she equipped and organized. For this reason, partly, she has had less difficulty in working toward a peace and normal basis than have many other sections. But-first and last, Illinois' glory is in her men and women-her great capital-that had opportunity, for the first time in later generations, to show its possibilities-this capital for war or peace that made all else possible. And so rather than ponder over the story of dumb-dollar capital, let us open wide our minds and hearts to a comprehension of our hitherto little appreciated, much misunderstood, and scarcely developed human capitalthe character, bodies, brains and latent abilities of our people. This great resource, properly educated to useful, 100 per cent American citizenship-trained and efficient-would cause such a reaction in this State-yes, in the Nation-as would bring the millennium within sight and Illinois to her own. LABOR AND THE WAR. BY JOHN H. WALKER, Member State Council of Defense. OR SOME TIME prior to the entrance of our country into the world war, observing trade Powers governments had established an extensive organization and were carrying on a carefully prepared, very plausible and appealing propaganda to influence the working men and women of America against the idea of the United States becoming a participant in that war. The central idea of their propaganda was to leave the impression that it was a war gotten up by rich men, exploiters of labor, who were fighting to see which particular aggregation would have the power to exploit the working people of Europe, and that no matter which side won it would make no difference to labor; that the laborers would have to pay the bills, and stand for the exploitation afterwards. As the average normal-minded person recoils from the thought of warmen killing each other-and is opposed to it, it was evident that if, in addition to that natural feeling of opposition to war, the workers of America could be convinced that it was a mercenary war, purely for selfish reasons, and that no matter how it ended the common people were going to be robbed by whichever combination of these exploiters won, and that for them to participate in the fight only meant that they took the chance of being killed and the certainty of suffering hardship and loss, with no possible hope of its meaning anything for betterment to them, the American working people would make it impossible for our government to enter the war For this purpose they established organizations within the bona fide American labor movement, composed of, in the first place, men and women whose sympathies were with the Central Powers government, who used |