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Show FAVORS SMALLER PEACE ARMY General Pershing Says 300,000 Men Can Fill the Bill. Washington. Dissenting in many important respects from the program recommended by the war department and the general staff, General Pershing Persh-ing told the military committee of congress con-gress Friday that 300,000 men, raised entirely by voluntary enlistment, should be the outside figure considered consid-ered for a standing army. He favored universal military training train-ing to provide an emergency reserve, but thought general educational work should be combined with it and military mili-tary discipline "somewhat relaxed," so that the system would be in complete harmony with democratic institutions. He fixed six months as the training period. |