Show State Militia Officers in New York Conference By International News Service NEW NEV YORK March larch 27 National National colors martial music and rapidly mobilizing troops gave gaye the Seventy Seventy- first regiment arm armory o I- I Ian an aspect of or orwar I war toda today when the national defense council of state militia officers met metIn metin metin in convention Secretary of or War lInker Baker Governor Whitman and the tho governors of five flye other states were present as well as prominent national guard of officers ricers from more than thirty states Universal training is the keynote of or orthe the convention National guard officers off i cers cern pointing to the mobilization on the Mexican border as an nn example of or the inadequacy of the tho troops urged Immediate passage of a bill which would make for compulsory military training for every male citizen of the tho United States Gov Go Charles F. F Whitman of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York was the strongest of the many champions of universal training He addressed a universal unI training lunchI lunch lunch- I eon conof of the Merchants' Merchants association before bo boo fore going to the a armory ory I e The Tho one solid foundation upon which Americas America's safety rests is In ins instant nt and complete recognition o othe of the great principle that the national defense is an obligation that rests rest upon every citizen Governor Whit Whitman man saidU said It U is this principle that we wo mus must urge upon congress compelling it by bythe bythe bythe the force of ot an outraged public opinion opinIon ion lon to wipe out tho the clumsy defense act substituting in its stead a system tern tem based on a citizenship trained in arms |