Show VOTERS WOULD HIRE COUNTRY DEFENDERS UN UNWILLINGNESS GNESS GNES'S T TO 0 DEFEND THEMSELVES VES T P. P SPOILS NATIONAL PLAN SAYS QUICK I By HERBERT QUICK r Js Is this this country on its way to a n. war In which it will wIlt I surely be In 11 his Defenseless defeated America lI Hudson Maxim now of Sc Secretary Daniels' Daniels advisory board says it I is a member of Ii 4 V Fate has decreed ed says Mr Maxim that our pride shall be I humbled and that we shall U be bowed to I He lie believes that we are ale sure to have war because we are area a rich prize for w we Ja in the world affairs affair in su such h a way way- with our Philippine occupation our Panama canal building our Monroe doctrine doc doc- trine our rights of ot neutrals doctrine and what not not in in ln such a a. a way ay as to tD t I provoke pro attack v. v He lie thinks we shall be defeated because we have mv real military strength v can be mobilized quickly though quickly though we have hav unlimited ii resources which c might lIt In Jn a a. few years yeal's convert into real strength H He may be right I 1 think there is a chance that he is right And I j would not take tale the slightest chance in the matter I t would Insure a against SU such a I w OR One thing thine looks Louls very ominous s. s It t is s the a administrations administration's tra ions ion's military pro pro- gram Iram nert It Tt is Thc most advanced program which the tha cOUld hope t to toeS get eS congress It is the best he be could COUIl do but to my mind it is pitifully N inadeqUate It It must be bl b cause it Is a step partly in the tue right direction but hut it cannot be accepted as a solution of our perilous problem of national defense It was stated many months ago that the administration was was' in favor of the thc Swiss or the Australian system of ol military training Under either of these systems every school boy Is given i ft tl military training as a part of oC the school system Every very citizen is a soldier The army costs little It only calls for tor a It certain amo amount nt of ot sa sacrifice of oC time and effort on n the part of the natural defenders of any country Its country Its male There are objections to such general training for Cor this country For one thing w we wi do not need and probably shall never nover need so 80 many soldiers But this his was not the controlling reason for forthe the dropping of them The reason was that the voters of the country showed no desire for tor them The voters are for defense but they want their defenders to be hired men menU They do not want to do their own defending The rho prospects now are that we shall be asked to authorize a an army of or continentals of ot to be o enlisted at the rate of a year and to serve one year ear and be held in reserve two years rears It is not the fault tault of the president nor of or the secretary of war that tho the real thing cannot annot be done It is the fault of us the people It is also because E no plan has bas yet been placed before belore he the people for making the army pay its wa way in whole or In par parle f |