Show i How Uncle Sam Could Have a Sup Self porting Army of Defense t The time has not come in the worlds world's history when any nation can afford to neglect means of defense I j The United States which destiny is plainly forcing into world I leadership must be ready if attacked to put the invader down and out We Ve dare not assume that attack will never com come By Byi i we ma may avert it By preparedness we can smash it iJ t This means that we shall shaU in coming years need millions of oft t I citizens trained in arms arms' trained to shoot trained to live wholesomely wholesomely whole whole- I in camps trained to march trained to discipline to team play It does NOT mean that we need a great standing army anny of professional pro pro- soldiers idle in peace and champing at the bit at the I first suggestion of trouble It does NOT mean the dooming bf Of f fj j our young men to careers of arms for the best years of their jf J young manhood to be thrown back into civil life at Lit the end of i their enlistment unfitted for any product productive e work I I How can we have preparedness for war without the staggering stagger stagger- H I ing costs of European militarism How can we combine training lii in n arms with training in productive industry Very easily At Ata a profit not at a loss to the nation p Suppose that a million of the idle men who throng our great II cities looking so eagerly eagerly and and often so hopelessly hopelessly for for w work rk were JI approached by Uncle Sam with an offer like this If you w will U enlist in my army for two three or four years 1 I will win put you in a fine school teach you to read to write to i figure also teach you to do productive work LJ Out on the great federal reservations where nature is still stilli c almost virgin I will establish army colonies to receive part time timer r I i training in army life and also to receive training in the mech mechanic nic arts We will till tiU the soil and raise the food that will wiH soo soon be beI t. t I I needed to keep the rest of the world from starving jj I We Ve will study the trees and learn how how to to care for our forests protecting them against fire cutting out the surplus timber and I safeguarding the headwaters of our out river systems We Ve will win mine the minerals and grow live stock and build I roads and dam water courses for water power and irrigation and j build dikes to keep destructive floods from sweeping over our ourt t rich valleys i We W e will win drain swamps and make crops grow where once floated mosquitoes and scum 11 In short we will win combine with the tasks of learning how to shoot to march to drill driB at arms the profitable interesting educational educational edu edu- l tasks sk of learning how to produce and conserve the things 1 that civilization needs We Ve will be in ui real truth an un army of I defense f j While you work for me mc I will wiH give you a mans man's pay and you will do a man mans man's s useful man building work WE WILL VILL MAKE l j T OUR ARMY lY EARN ITS KEEP And when your term of enlist- enlist J ment is at an end you wont won't have to go back to the city to float I 4 and drift you drift you will have hav been fitted to be a self supporting self j l reliant soldier of peace but ready if war comes to be an efficient a unit of defense I t Say you couldn't keep the boys out of such an an army |