Show t. t rl C Ct II I iy A TRAINED ED L F FIGHTING FORCEL FORCE I L if Whatever er anybody's views on th the tbt 1 i subject t of or drafting men in time of peace for military service may have the time Is r- r t r-t t for resistance sto to o compulsory selective training It Itis Sis is now the law of the land that every everyman and under man an over o twenty one it six may be picked by having havin i six his lis number drawn Il out of the hat to upend spend pend a year jear in learning the rudiments rudi rudl- 1 1 ments of or soldiering M That doesn't mean that an any great tc proportion of or men are going to bo be 1 taken taken away from their jobs and their families out of tiny any ny communities The present plan of calling g. en to the colors in the first yeas yea Cal 1 means that at the most one man in h- h Twenty twenty wenty within prescribed a age p. p limit mft will wiIl take his turn at learning how ow to help defend deren l his country if it that becomes necessary There is nothing whatever in tIll the law iw as passed which involves any of of r the selected trainees risking his Wre life fe Nobody is going to be stood up upLand upland Land land nd shot at These men are not bezing be be- zing picked to fight but to learn how ji ito fight if and when hen conditions arise f when Americans shall again have to tor r fight ht tl to preserve their liberties iI If that time comes unless it should come ome so suddenly that we have had hado hado no o o time for tor preparation at all we J will m have a considerable body of men haho ho have ha at least been Initiated and ll ve taken as it were the first degree de der gree iree gree In a soldiers soldier's training We had no such trained reser reserves Es E's u he last time the United States went tio war We sent into the front lines line tt 1 France boys bos who had hardly more ihan an half as much preliminary train train- oung- oung as every one of the men to be elected under the new law will re- re dye lve Everybody hopes that none of em ern will ever be called upon to fire single shot at an enem enemy of the Reis Re Re- f is l but if the occasion arises it 12 1 Ox better for them Ulem and for the nation n B have them at least t partly trained |