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Show WOULD 'SMASH' REGULM IB Colonel Bennett Clark Creates Cre-ates Stir by St. Louis Address. i ST. LOUI-5. May 6. Tr.e National I Guani association of the Ur.!tel ?'aT.es I m u ? t v o r k to 5 -r. li t e ivg u "s.r arm y a:;d build up the national guard. Lie-j-t-.nant Colonel Brunei t Clark, son of tfpeakr Clark. de:la!?a' i:i an addrts j at tl:e closing session of liio association's cju vent Jon Uere tonight, foilowius his eleciion as president of I io crjran:3at.ion. "It is fheaJm of ail o: us to buil-i up the rationai cuard and sniah li'.a regular regu-lar army," declared Clark. "There should be a sma.il regular army, sufficient to police the Fhilippines and Hawaii, and there is just enough efficiency effi-ciency in the regular army as now constituted con-stituted to do garrison work. I want efficiency kept and !r.efne':eney cleaned out." General James A. ITrane of Washington, Washing-ton, following Clark's address, said he believed Colonel Clark diJ not really mean what he said , " hen he declared j the "regular army should b-? sma-lied."' j General Harvey J. Moss of Washing- , ton, state temporary chairman. askcd i Coionel Clark if he wished to modify the assf-rrion. "No." emphasized Clark, "I meant every word 1 said." Colonel Clark was administration officer offi-cer of the Thirty-fifth division and re-centlv re-centlv received his discharge. Following Clark, other officers made similar uec larations. Colonel Claude Burkhead of Texas said:1 "Prussian ism and inefficiency in the regular army must be eradicated immediately." imme-diately." Resolutions were adopted urging that the national guard be the foundation of ! the future armed forces of the nation: i that congress establish a national guard I bureau in ihe war department and a national na-tional guard corps of the army; that j national guard units he established in I every state, with the minimum strength 1 fixed at 200 men for ea h representative ! in the two houses of congress, and that : universal military training be established throughout the country. j |