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Show Mill il ' FAILURE. SAYS CEHEML5C0TT, Chief of Staff of the United States Army Declares Bor- 1 der Woik Shows I Inefficiency. ADVOCATES ENFORCED j MILITARY TRAINING Argues in Annual Report That Year of Intensive Work Is Needed to Make a Soldier. y WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. The volun-! tary ntilitiuy Hystrm aain Iiuh proved, itsrll' a J'nilurr si ml should be r el raited to tho aat, ..rehires Major (..onernl liti'.-h U Scott, chirr" of whiff uf Hie army, in his annual report niad public luiiilil. Hiis'iutf hia coiirlunions on the slinwiii of I iio federalized national Hiuird, which nioliilied for l-onicr duty, and the tact that strrmious recruiting cam;airiM for lioth the regulars ami Hiiai-dsinen have produced neligil'le re-Milts, re-Milts, (leni-rul Scott says: la my judgment the country will never lie prc-pured for defense until we do as other great nations do Hint have lare interests to uard, like tiermany, Japan and France, where everybody is ready and does perform military service in time of peace ns he would pay every other tax, and is willing to make sacriuVes lor the protection ho gets and the country acts in return. There is no reason why one woman's sou should lo out. and defend or bo trained to defend another woman and her son who refuses to lake training or give service.. The only democratic method meth-od is for every man in his youth to become trained in order that he may render efficient service if called upon in war. Taking up the question of the national fcuard in its federal status, General Seolt declares the training period of seventy-five seventy-five days in three years provided by the new national defense act is wholly inadequate. in-adequate. Need More Training. "In my judgment,'' ho says, ''it precludes pre-cludes this force from being made fit for war service until it has received at least six months' additional training in tiini of war. ' ' The report reiterates the opinion that it lakes a year of intensive training to make a soldier, and adds that the country coun-try and congress appear to have a vital misconception of the facts in this regard. re-gard. Unless the federalized guard which congress substituted for the eiti-7en eiti-7en volunteer army advocated by the general staff can be given greater training. train-ing. General Scott says, the country faces a serious situation. ' ' A ud it is very doubtful, " he con-t con-t inues. ' ' if we w ill be aide to do so and keep the force recruited. The difficult dif-ficult v that is now being experienced in obtain in g recruits for the regular jinny and for the national guard in service on the border, raises sharply the question o'. whether we will be aide to recruit the troops authorized in the nittional defense act."' Volunteer System Bad. In spite of the fact that the preparedness prepared-ness auifation stimulated interest .while I the effort was being made to bring the border forces up to war strength. General Gen-eral Scot t asserts, three months of re-cniiting re-cniiting left many national guard units I still below minimum strength. Every j effort was made to get t he men, he mi.s a houMvto house canvass- being eon-ducted eon-ducted in some sections. ' The fa ilnre. ' ' say? (he report, "should make the who'e people to realize real-ize that the volunteer sytem does not and probably w ill not oi v o us either the men we need for training in peace or for service in war.'' General Scott gives at length statis- ! tics on the national guard mobilization! available when his report was written September :it. He shows that in eleven' states, with enrolled guardsmen at the time of the call, more than M per cent f; iled 10 respond ami i' per rev.t of the remainder con Id not pass reonired phv'-Kai fo-ts. making the force : ' per . rut raw rev rniu when it went to the h irder. Brought up to war ' strength, he says, the force wool, I have been 7" per ce'M green, men and useless for war purposes for manv month. "These fiirnres probably hold eood for the entire body of the national guard. ' ' t he report adds. An aizgrerate force of MLO'i'i offi- oi-- :,.'..! --n o'" :1k- '.'nri r-1 w- v- rv"-j r--.- I in'o rn- i.-i.-r.-.l ."r .! nr. j the -:,H. ..mi :u f,.,x. 1 1' .tr.7 veP- jil th- Im.-p " a r, .o-th a--.d a hnlf a' L'-r the ,:,!! The .,-(-il - n. r: kmi !.- ! 1 1 ' 1 1 t :'- -ii--v of li-.i :-.-.iiroa jn .r, t i7m . r i ' loir. Tniiin !'t-t-fi i t i ! a rr-L'ula:' rtrn, v. tin- -: -". - r h ; ' -! ice v. an .h.rt of it a"t :, ri.'-d ,tr.--Th on Aogu-t 1 la -t. I'e )v. I Nhiri'ii I"), wti-'ii coi-or.-ss a n : !i :i --d I byh'fng the iirNii. up to ''.ar slri'irji1: only S h,;i n.d'11 ' ional Ji"-:t W'ie- '-n rotb-d. " 1 1. -nuse for very vr,bi-r crm-sid.--r;'tion on the part of cu-ry .'ili.-'ii ot the country wln-n the f:i-L i.-. ful! uii.h-isr.,od," G.-,M ra! Sc't sa v-, "that the units of the nai io:-al '.piard and rcg ular ani.v hav e not. Imth recruiied up to 'Aar :-( : !' t :i in the cri-is w ; h;ive ju-t pa --eil t hrongii. ' ' Ik-low i'eace Strength. The report, showt that the mobilized national u'unrd force not only was more than D7.IHJI below war strength, !:it was iroie than bi'.u tielow auUioned miui-miini miui-miini pi-ace yt ren-t !i. (jenecal Scott, nrgos a dra'-'tie censor-, ship taw to protect m i ! i ti; ry ecrets in time of war, and submits with his approval ap-proval the draft of a proposed statute drawn by a Hpeciad board of army and navy officers. It would authorUe the pn'ident to prohibit publication ot fails, rumors or speculations regarding military matters, except when passed bv a censor, the penalty being a fine ot not more than $H,oij(j or iinprihuiiiiu'iit not. to exceed three years, or both, when1 a person or an officer or agent of n corporation is involved, or a fine of $-JO,0')0 where a corporation is iu-, iu-, vol veil. j VouId Add to Defenses. The report of Brigadier General Weaver, chief of coast artillery, which i accompanies that, of General Scott, says that with plight, additional increases over the 2tl4 guns proponed to be added to the coast defenses in the programme approved by congress last year, "the coast defenses will be able to moot successfully suc-cessfully a.nv attack that ean reasonably reason-ably be expected to be made upon them or upon the cities, harbors or interests that thev guard, by the most powerful power-ful warships afloat or at; present projected." pro-jected." General Weaver point ; out, however, that national guard units of the corps nre Kill officers and bUi! men short of their prescribed complement. The coast states of New Jersey, Delaware, Florida, Flor-ida, Alabama. Louisiana and Texas, he savs, have raised no troops for this service. serv-ice. Judge Advocate General Crowdcr. in his teport, also made public, reviews desertion records for eight years to show-that show-that the luTu figure was the lowest during dur-ing that time. The true percentage was I. SI, he savs, although the reported iig-ure iig-ure was 2.4. The lowest previous record rec-ord was 1.9.1, in 191 1. |