Show FAVORS SMALL REGULAR ARMY national organization supplemented by large citizen army Is ideal sought by legion A small lef fular army supplemented by a large citizen army Is the ideal sought in the american legion array army reorganization bill senate bill to the which the support of the legion Is 18 pledged through its national legislative committee in accordance with resolutions adopted at the minneapolis convention the provisions of the bill may be summarized as follows the large citizen army would be composed of all young mea men between the ages ot of eighteen find and twenty one who mho would take a four months course in intensive training vocational educational and military veterans of tile the war would called upon to serve these foor or to take any other training although provisions po probably bably would be made to accent veterans who volunteered to assist lr ir the training program young men could elect it if they so desired to substitute for the file tour four months of intensive training an enlistment list ment of three years in the national guard this national guard service would be under rules specified by the federal government requiring weekly drills and certain standards of proficiency fi fici ency the training proposed would not interfere unduly with the regular occupations cupat ions of the young men enrolled because there would be both winter and summer periods of which they could make their choice this would enable the youth working on a northern farm to select the winter training I 1 ng period and be assigned to a training camp in the south in any event lo 10 hi would be away from home it comparatively ively short time and he would not be absent during the harvest 00 n furthermore young men would be placed in training according to tile the service for which they are best suited for exam example PIC negro youths of tile who mho had bad not gone far in schooling might be enrolled in labor battalions in these they would acquire the r rudiments of drill but more important would learn habits of right living A careful selection of officers would be relied on to insure the system against any abuse of authority officers unsuited for tra training ining work whether they belonged to the regular army the national guard or the reserve corps would not be assigned to training camps those developing traits that Imp impaired alred their usefulness would ile be relieved civilian olli cers would ba hae bae e an equal share with regular array army officers in the training pro groin grain advocates of the system of compulsory training say that a mail regular army together with a large citizen army as contemplated cost less than even the regular amy a il my tay establishment willell would bo be set et zip UP under the bill which the house of representatives now Is considering seriously |