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Show IiSiiir SYSTEM ADVOGHTED Senator Chamberlain of Oregon Would Prepare for Any Emergency. Bv International News Service. "WASHINGTON", Sept. 13.-"Could wc quickly raise an army of 1,000,000 men and put them In lhe field fully equipped for action? Why, yes." This was the comment of Chairma n George C. ChamlxTlain of the senate committee on nnai affairs in discussing Secretarv Bryan's stii tement that sucn 1 a military accomplishment is not bevond the preparedness of the United States at this tinip. "But the question of the military value 1 of suoh an army is another thing." con-1 con-1 tinued Senator Chamberlain. "According i to our present laws the first military 1 force available for duty would be the regular ;i rmy. numbering about 75,00n nifii out of a total authorized force of H'lUW; men. Ncxi in order would h the vtHtp lnililia. numberir, about 2,rA00H. 'The regular army is thoroughly trained, and. Hccordinq to our present :nihnrv policy. I? d'-siqned as a nucleus 1 f a.'iv' larger fore a tiiis country may be called' upon to put in the field. The militia msy he considered a trained body, i m t is not as re;ul v for action as the smalier force of regulars. "This ei vcf us a nominal furcn of trained nnd partially trained men which must comprise less than one-third of an armv of a million. "i do nut br-li.-v- the military value of such an army would com pare favornblv with a similar army recruited in a cr.un-trv cr.un-trv in which a reserve system has broutrht n 'majority of its male population under military training. "What if by any chanr-e the Vnitf-d States had been brought into the pic-ent unfortunate Kuropean ronflict" What would an army of a million men, two-thirds two-thirds untrained, have availed opposed to an equal body of trained men? "I do not think wo .-should bc"en.-' a military nation, nor do 1 feel tV.at we ;nc in anv danger of war. Irit I am fully convinced of the lu-d of a s.-tt-.m of irtilltnrv training and ;t reserve org; hi ;:a -tion wmh would not find us unp:ep;nv-d in an emergency." |