Show NEW CITIZEN ARMY PLAN OFFERED BY U U. U S. S MARINE MASINE R Officers Would Come From Ranks Under Major Harllee's System I Second article in which Maj Maj William William Wil Wile i iliam liam C. C Harllee of the United States marine corps tells his idea ide of an army plan to take the place of the Hay plan which is a failure The Hay plan made the national guard our main mam dependence depend depend- ence The futility of thi th is is emphasized emphasized sized bv by the fact that 1000 1100 national nal guar guard officers have he resigned ned their jobs By Br The Th Tel Tel rin I s WASHINGTON Nov 25 The The plan for substituting a volunteer army of young men trained for six months and then discharged as proposed by Major j 1 William C C. Harllee for our present army plan can be so arranged that ampie ample am- am I pie trained trained t officers and the proper equipment for such a force wo would ld always al- al ways be available How would you ou get the officers to tr tram train in inthis this active arm army I 1 asked ed Major IC I Harllee From the men who ho s served r ed In the J active arm army Did you ever er stop to I consider that he who now enters the lower caste of our mi military profession if it he stays in it until he passes the age of 27 j. j Is doomed to remain In the lower caste cast is forbidden by law to toa I a associate with il his s s No No matter how skilful brave or efficient he ma may be he cannot by bv a I lifetime of such suchs such's s service service cross the lino of cleavage which separates him from fromI the exalted station of a j young oung ung man to totally totally to- to I tally taUy l inexperienced nce who has bas just re received received received re- re a commission which places himin him bim in authority over experienced menA menA men A plan like this will not produce the most effective leaders and trainers of other men Suppose earl each year your ten ten men men bosses were selected from those who had exper experienced this training then in turn the the- one-hundred one men bosses and their assistants were s' s selected from the thet ten men t bosses and arid so on al alt all the way up the line and the number of years that one could serve In n any station be limited and then that each commander In turn w were re allowed to select his subordinate subordinate subordinate sub sub- ordinate comm commanders Do you not suppose suppose these commanders commanders commanders comman comman- ders would select with car care men who lio could produce res results results' Under this plan many leaders would I tire of the bivouac and the march and quit of their heir own accord Very nearly all an who were not selected for advancement advancement advancement advance advance- ment would quit and and thus would be bedi di disseminated into Industrial life life crops crops of experienced men each year yet young enough to start a useful economic econom econom- ic life lite This plan would bring selected and I tried out men to high stations in their early years and vigorous years and andT T w would uld ultimately turn every everyone one bacK I to production and give us no rio professional professional professional class of ot military men and no retired list of officers A man could go through to the highest highest highest high high- est grade graae while still under 30 Our present military Institution transplanted from England and patterned patternEd patterned pat pat- also on the models of Prussian Poland and other armies before the days of the French revolution where there were two classes of men nobility and common men has undergone no substantial change There is III only one class of men In America and the system system aye aye- tem tern doesn't fit here What about equipment 1 Actual armies need but little tittle equip equip- ment Th The soldier solves the problem I himself He flings lIngs away the unnecessary unnecessary sary stuff and shakes down to traveling light Inactive armies get overstocked I Pianos and pool tables are frequently found f und In their equip equip- ment I Equipment do doesn't have to b be blessed by the quartermaster Lees Leea army precipitated precipitated pre pre- I the battle of Gettysburg by byI sending out a column to gather some somei I Civilian shoes I |