WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Four
Military Training Necessary for Safety
and Defense.
“Say, Uncle Dan,” said Billie, ''Jim
mie and I have been looking up about
war in the encyclopedia at school. We
found that in the war between Ger
many and France in 1870-71, Germany
lost in killed and wounded 28,000 sol
diers while France lost about six times
as many, and besides that, she lost
every battle. We asked Professor Slo
cum why this was. He said that the
German army was highly trained and
ably commanded, while the French
soldiers were poorly trained; and that
their war department was honey
combed with jealousy and politics;
that the otlicers were not much good,
and that’s why France lost the war
and so many men. What do you think
about it, Uncle Dan?”
“Well,” said Uncle Dan, “Professor
Slocum is right. By inefficiency France
lost that war, together with two of
her best provinces—Alsace and Lor
raine—and had to pay a billion dol
lars indemnity money. France today
learned her lesson by that sad expe
rience, so she put in universal military
training, and as a result, her soldiers
no\y know how to tight and how to
protect themselves. They are losing
'ess men in the war than the Germans.
France also put politics out of her war
department, so that expert authority,
instead of bureaucratic stupidity, now
directs the army. The result is,
France has one of the best and most
efficient armies every assembled, and
this shows what thorough training and
good leadership means in warfare.
This saved France in this crisis, as
well as the liberties of the world.”
“As war is now conducted, there is
no place for an untrained man. A
body of 10,000 well trained soldiers
properly handled could defeat five
times their number of raw recruits and
do it every time with comparatively
small loss to themselves. Proper train
ing alone will reduce the death and
casualty rate one-third of what it oth
erwise would be, and right here is an
unanswerable argument for universal
military training.
“Our government lia3 no moral right
to force her men into war service
without properly training them lor it.
To do so is simply murder, hence ihe
frantic effort that is now being made
to give her soldiers some training be
fore they are sent to the front. If we
are to win this war, it will take trained
men to do It., and it will take trained
men to win any other war that may
come upon us in the. future. If we
must fight, let us fight to win and not
to lose.”
“That’s the stuff,” said Billie.
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: “Our
government has expended about $300,
000,000 to put up cantonments and
training stations in order to train the
men called by the selective draft.
When these men are trained the train
ing stations should be immediately
filled with younger men, say those in
their nineteenth year, to receive six
nonths of intensive military train
ing along the lines of the Chamberlain
bill. This will be of immeasurable
! benefit to them individually. It will
do them more good than any other two
years of their whole life; it will make
| them strong, manly, self-reliant, quick
to see and quick to act; it will equip
’ them for a successful life. In short,
it will rebuild American manhood and
will also give the government a body
of trained men to draw from in case
it is necessary to defend our flag and
country. We must settle this question
of universal military training imme
diately, otherwise these training camps
may be demolished. The adoption of
universal military training will be no
tice to the world that from then on
we will be prepared to defend our
selves promptly and efficiently, and
this will do more to keep us out of
war in the future than anything else'
we could do.”
' “Do you think, brother,” said Mrs.
Graham, “that there will ever be an
other war?”
“I have no doubt about it,” said
Uncle Dan. “So long as men are
selfish, so long as nations are ambi
tious to acquire territory, so long as
population presses and demands more
room, so long as there remains a
scramble for world trade—so long wars
will be. When the time comes that
we reach the high plane for which we
hope and dream, when all will recog
nize the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man, then, and then
only, will wars cease. When that day
comes doors will need no locks, banks
will need no vaults to protect their
treasures, but that day is a loug way
off.
“The only safe and sane plan is to
be able to defend ourselves at all
times. Therefore, every citizen should
insist that senators and congressmen
shall provide for universal military
training, so that never again shall the
country be caught so completely un
ready as this war found us. For
I tunately, in this case, our enemy has
been held back, so we have had a few
months in which to prepare. This ad
rantage probably will never come
I again. It is however our salvation
oday.
“Because she was ready, Switzerland
s au island of peace in a sea of
i war. Safety first is good, but safety
Always is better. In strength there is
safety. You never saw a tin can
j .ied to the tail of a bulldog. There
s a reason.”
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