Show tf- tf i i Indifference to the Army l lUT UT of a L tot total l of or 40 resignations of officers of the tile regular army array during during- the past seventy years Jears 2302 or 51 per cent have taken place since the tile armistice signed November No 11 l 1 lOiS OIS The number of ot regu- regu I 1 Uhn t 1 P i r if nc the armistice Ju lJ J v. v LAil l n n. n M v v w p per r cent of the tot total l in s ice r at that time At Atthe th the be beginning of f the civil war there were 7 resignations of c regular lar army officers or 21 per cent of those in s service rV ce fost of them resigned to join the theco co Z Between Januar January 1 1850 an and November er 0 IDl 1918 a period eOl of nearly sixty-nine sixty years 2200 co commissioned com coal 1 officers of the regular army tendered their resignations o compared with 2302 during luring the sixteen n aid nud a no half months sin since the armistice Of course theres there's s a 3 reason reason high high cost of living and inadequate pay This enormous number of officers have simply iJ been compelled to get t out of the tile service because they tbt couldn't live in it Jt It is a sa sad commentary on the wisdom and foresight of of Congress that it has bas PermUted permitted per Per- mit mUted ted these officers w whose profession it is to o command command com coin mand components of the army officers trained to tIe lc- the flag and who have never wavered in f fidelity to the nations nation's int interest rest to quit the service ce and embark into other occupations for which they may not have been trained and aud for the reason that the great gov- gov which employs them has refused or 01 failed to tn toj j ford them compensation sufficient upon which to exist There seems to be he a a. belated effort to recognize the justice of the claims of those who have remained in service at a sacrifice of pe pecuniary t means by hy appropriating appropriating more adequate pay but the mischief has already been done to those who have left the service sence and the regular arm army is crippled to just that extent The conviction cannot be escaped that where o on Washington in n V there lurks a sentiment that the tIle war being o over cr there is no longer any need to provide for H the thc u upkeep of OL an army of bf any size si Utterly Utterly Utter Utter- ly 1 throwing lo to 0 the winds tile the lessons of the past which r have hare taught the dangers of oC ness the i sam arno desultory shiftlessness that pervaded tho the government gov gov- eminent authorities in 1915 lOll 1910 and tl up to April o of oC permeates the atmosphere re of Washington ton now J Jn in n the tile guise of economy in go governmental tal lIre the tile theold old shameless f spirit of or pacifism is masquerading n RS as ils evidenced c not only in allowing trained officers offiel's wl who vho o 4 ca be Je ri replaced to resign but in refusal to provide for for- military training The hand is the hand 4 of the economist but the voice is the voice oice of tile the pacifist How flow does docs these men know what the morrow may bring rin forth IJ Is there thero any sign of any other nation dis- dis arming It Jt is earnestly to be he hoped there is enough n ugh s' s 1 i. i common gumption left in Washington to avoid a the thet t i- i bl blunders n l rs of the he past east and not be caught napping as w we Wf ti were cr in m 1117 |