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Show SEE DANGER TO Advocates of Universal Training Scent Trouble in the Future. Aroused by Action of Peace . Congress in Dealing With Conscription. fChuasio Tribunfi Special Service.) ii Washington:, March 14. Fear that ft ton of tho peace commission In re-.fltricttn re-.fltricttn Germany's army to a small unit of volunteers and abolishing the conscription, conscrip-tion, system may opera to against pro-T'-'Sdd universal military training- in tho 1nitcd Stat3 has been aroused among HvocatcD of universal training in this . country. Members of congress who arc watching the situation yald today that tho trend of the peaco cone-enco with relation to firmaments must bo considered -when the tut. tire military policy of the; United .States cornea up for consideration. . Some of them pointed out today that it has -1 pii declared in Paris and London that 'f the noneonsrription plan is effective, h n ii ppltftd to Germany, its extension to other nations will be urod by i he Socialistic, So-cialistic, labor and nomnilt taxis tic elements ele-ments desirous of restricting armaments and armled. Tho proposition is regarded h.Ipo as a corollr-ry of thft league of nations na-tions Ideal, and it i:; believed that the Migestion might find favor in the United sta ten with the 3 mo class of thought ! to which it appeals abroad. A Sharp Distinction. i Congressmen, however, recognize that there is sharp distinction between the ne- . i-osfiily for prohibiting conscription in ' Jermany a nd the argument in behalf of compulsory military training In this country. By providing that she shall have a small army vofcpntarily enlisted for twelve years it is a&sured that Ger-'inany Ger-'inany cennot train up another military forco to give her a potential army of two or three million men by the end of a decade. This was to guard against another an-other outbreak of the Hun upon civilized Kurope, such as history has recorded at . intervals since biptory has been written. The Idea of compulsory military train- : ing for the United Stales contemplated an army of defense, not an army of ag-! ag-! xes.jion, plunder, and International as- , bassination. Tho youth of the land was to be taught the use of arms to defend . the land, if necessity should arise. No one pictured the debasement of the art of self -defense to predatory and murderous purposes. ! May Present Difficulties. I Rut congressmen also recognise that It 1 -may be difficult to impress the proletariat ! with these fine-spun distinctions as against the broad proposition that a ' movement is under way to abolish conscription con-scription and to replace it with a system of voluntary enlistment, under the protection, protec-tion, of a general league of nations alined at the extinction of war. So. when the subject comes up for discussion dis-cussion in the next congress, the advo-, advo-, t ales of compulsory military training are ' fully expected to face a btrong opposition opposi-tion Intrenched behind the argument that censcription is being driven from the old world and should not be continued in existence in the new world. The advocates of the policy foresee a 'hard, time nhead of them. Labor, Social- ism. the clergy, the pacifists and the non-militarists non-militarists generally are expected to form a mighty organization of opposition. |