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Show to abolish: standing arthtf.s. The smaller countries of Europe are - finding that standing armies are too ex- pensive to maintain In time of peace. A v Captain in the Bulgarian army, writing in the Independent, says that the thinking think-ing men of Europe are in favor of abolishing abol-ishing standing armies and substituting the American plan of State militia. v: In Bulgaria, for instance, there are ' K not so many people as there are in , ntVater New Tork. yet it has a stand-- stand-- iJVf army of 48,000 in time of peace. Roumanla, which has a million fewer people than the State of New Tork, has a standing army of 130,000. If the American standing army were " fas large as the Turkish, in proportion to -our population, we would have 700,000 ' soldiers to support The cost of these .standing armies is beggaring the peo-pie peo-pie in half a dozen European countries. |