Show BREADWINNERS ON BORDER I WIVES AND BABIES IN N NEED PITIFUL CONDITIONS IN HOMES OF PATRIOTIC GUARDSMEN GUARDSMEN GUARDSMEN GUARDS GUARDS- MEN ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF FAILURE OF MILITIA SYSTEM SAYS ARMY MAN By K W. W PAYNE Staff Special NEW YORK July 22 A A shameful shame shame- ful and scandalous tragedy but a astern astern astern stern lesson to all America The predicament of thousands of deserted wives and children all I through the country whose men folk are serving with the national guard was thus summed up today by a leading leading leading lead lead- I ing officer in the United States army It It is proof in the terms of humanity humanity human human- ity this preparedness advocate told THE TELEGRAM correspondent of I the utter breakdown of the national guard as a reliable agent in the na national national na- na defense The lesson is all the more bitter na-I na because it is written in the tears of starving babies babies' It proves not only that the national guard system is a j failure but that our boys in khaki who make up the guard are heroes of first I rank I A few figures compiled in the east show how pressing are conditions I which are typical of conditions throughout the country In Boston more than women and children have asked for aid be bg because cause their accustomed breadwinners have been called to the colors The applications are coming in there at atthe atthe the rate of thirty-five thirty a day I In New York a committee headed by Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt has been receiving hundreds of applications applications applications of the same kind the number i mounting to thirty or forty a da day r while Philadelphia faces an identical situation One young mother pawned her wedding wedding wedding wed wed- ding ring for to buy food for her hel three children before she conquered i her pride and asked for help A grandmother of 80 came to seek help with her grandson a guardsman whose wage allowed him to give her about 3 a week To support herself and crippled son after the young oung guardsman was called to the border she expected to earn 50 cents a week selling seIling flowers A member of the Twelfth New York regiment entrained for the border knowing his wife had only 2 in the house a baby coming corning and the rent a month in arrears The whole nation is the loser by such-a such miserable situation exclaimed the army men voicing the point of view of fellow army menTo menTo men To solve e it we are going to send back home all the guardsmen with dependents dependents de de- de who make application But many are too proud to apply and ana for every man who is sent home the effective effective effective ef ef- ef- ef fighting force of the guard is reduced The boys bors who join the guard are the finest citizens And they are pen pen- I for their patriotism by getting letters from home telling of want and misery I The system must be swept clean away and replaced by a national and andI I universal system of military training l J which will build up an adequate reserve reserve re reo serve army of federal soldiers When our national defense Is Insured insured insured in in- I by a national army instead of a band of amateur state armies it will willbe willbe willbe be sufficient and secure for the first firstI I time I And in case of crisis the call to toI arms will not result in misery and confusion confusion confusion con con- fusion such as we see today nor will willit ill I it penalize the patriotic citizen and let the slacker of as the militia system does |