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S D ARMY 1 E PROP SED General Crowder in Favor of f Continuing g Selective Service Service Service ice System Former Fonner Vol r l- l l Ie Method lod Is Scored NEw V E YORK Dec 14 Taps laps Taps 1 1 to tho the volunteer system of raising raising raising rais rais- ing armies in war time b by tho the United States was vas sounded here tonight by Maj araj Gen Enoch II IL Crowder provost ma marshal general in n an nn address to the ther VF Ti V t r retiring tir m g-m members bers of 9 A ew York lock T J t draft boards Ho Iro earnestly advocated advocat advocat- ed that the selective service system should become tho the permanent method of raising American armies armie armies in n the fu ill- t ture ure General Crowder declared that the selective service law had bod enabled the thc government in this war to register 23 23 Americans put into the field nearly fighters and to have in readiness to entrain on November 11 when tho the armistice was signed more soldiers all within a period of eighteen months It would woUl would would-be lIc be a u calamity he said forthe for tor tho the United States to revert to tho the volunteer volunteer volunteer vol vol- service e nd adding ln that the American American American Ameri Ameri- can conscripts had shown tho the valor aggressiveness ag ag- and Initiative of ot tho the most seasoned tro troops ps X New Men U n I to o Veterans Yc What Wh o of the array army you O J. J have havo 1 r raised t i I I I I I 1 I I J I 1 1 a asked leu General Crowder referring to 10 the ine drafted men v rho ho had hall boon been sent overseas over over- seas Tho The newer comes back bacle from France In no uncertain terms torm These men you ou have ha sent to tho the colors have proved themselves es th tho the equals In a ag- ag fighting and soldierly bearing of the veterans of or Franco and England England Eng Eng- land General Generl Crowd Crowders Crowder's rs r's speech was an ex exposition ex- ex position of ot the tho successful work of ot the tho selective service law late which no hO said had hall respond sd d Ms so o smoothly and so well to our dual form of state government o and national control that it would be calamitous If It It should not become a recognized part of or our governmental Ko system for I Die he raising of armies In time of ot war wan kC A Avoided Tho The provost mar marshal hal general contrasted contrasted con con- the draft methods s of the tho United Unit Unit- ed States with those of oC England and showed how this country had hall profited by the mistakes made mado b by the tho British who after three years of or trial with the volunteer f system tem and the of or Industry wore obliged to adopt Pointing out that when Germany hurled her challenge to tho tiro democracies of ot tho ho earth it t became necessary for tor I those demo democracies for tor self n tion lion to organize their resources as she sho had hall done clone and make mako over every man a soldier soldier sol sol- dier active or reserve c General Crowder Crowder Crow Crow- der dr declared this test had hall been mot He lie referred to tho lie efforts or Lord Kitchener Kitchener Kitch Kitch- ener tl tw to raise ralso an n army and of or tho the first gallant who were sent sont across tho the English channel knowing ho how to toulo ulo Glo Io but little el else o In tho the awful carnage carnago that awaited them thorn Volunteer lie II touched l upon t h. h great reat drain upon lit flower of or En England's manhood and how lw after the tho factories schools l farms and mines lead had had boon depleted to their best the tho futilIty futility ity of ot trying to False thu rho required number of ot became ent After Arter seventeen se months of war had witnessed the tho disastrous fighting at Gallipoli Mesopotamia and the tho Balkans and the tho deadlock on th the western front ho declared the tho new army of or England was mon men short of ot Its then authorized 1St strength clI th The volunteer system m was now no now to bo ho aban abandoned he went on after atter It it had throttled throttle the Industrial life of ot the nation nn na tion lion Sad and un undermined the tho whole economic eco ceo economic structure Tradition Strung Strong When hen the tho United States war Will department department depart depart- ment In Its He effort to h heed ed the l lesson son learned learned by Sn England sought the tho enact enact- enactment ment of ot the tho selective service act net Gen Gen- I Continued on m Page Pago It I 1 1 1 I 1 1 PERMANENT DMIT fOR fORU FORLi U Li S. S ARMY PROPOSED Continued from page Je 1 1 oral Crowder said that the traditional method of raising raining armies by the volunteer volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer system was so strong with the tho American p that It was deemed expedient In tho the very bill the war do- do I presented presente to Con Congress for tor en- en t to provide pro that limited volunteering volun volun- might go on Ho Ito If recalled r callo tho the i I 1 great opposition to the tho draft and how I through tho the Insistence of ot the President I dent ably supported d by tho stalwart and aggressive leadership of ot Senator tor I Chamberlain and Representative H Kahn In tho respective o houses housos tho day doy was was was' wasso so saved ed Referring to tho the selective service system eye eye- ys- ys I tem teni as 09 tho very vory essence of or democracy racy the tho general appraised tho the faults of ot the volunteer system I Faults of Old Method In Tn Its very vary nature It Its Js is an on individualistic Individualistic scheme dependent for Its ex- ex upon tho spontaneous fervor of ot tho the people ho said It It Is 13 a n. system which has nn an eyo eye only to tho the raising of or armies Under It the of or pa patriotism patriotism patriotism pa- pa la 18 enlistment In tho nations nation's fighting forces It takes take no account of or tho Industrial life lito which m must mast st bo be maintained behind tho the battlo battle front that armies may bo be fed ted clothed clothe and armed It the tho volunteer system ha had Its origin origin origin or or- or- or In the tho days lays of or chivalry when war was not a business or a contest of ot In Industry industry in- in or mechanics but a n battle of ot brawn brown when armies could live largely upon the Iho country as 05 they thoy a advanced and anda I a a. nations nation's fate ato tto decided upon tho the field of or battle battlo It adheres to the tho doctrine I that tho the chemist may be bo permitted to toIny tolay tolay lay Iny aside his research and tho trained mechanic his athe while the unskilled I laborer and the tho vagrant continued In their unproductive paths It Is tho antithesis of or the tho conservation that tho thu selective service promotes |