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Show MILITARY Tili ESTIH 100 m Senate Chairman Declares that Mondell Statement on Annual Cost, $400,000,000, is High WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Chairman Wadsworth of the senate military committee which agreed Monday to report favorably on a compulsory universal uni-versal military training plan, declared that Representative Mondell of Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Republican leader of the house, was incorrect in his statements that one billion dollars would be required to administer the army reorganization bill with its universal training provi-i sion. War department estimates, l Chairman Wadsworth said, showed that the annual cost would bo approximately approx-imately 400,000,000 less than the figure fig-ure set by Representative Mondell. These estimates the senate chair-1 man said, were prepared on the theory' that the regular army and national guard would bo maintained at the authorized au-thorized maximum strength and without with-out taking into account tho. enormous quantities of surplus stocks of equipment equip-ment now on hand; Absence of ado quate training facilities for the national nation-al guard, he added, leads the committee commit-tee to believe however, that instead of the nataional guard totaling -125,000 as provided by the senate army bill, it will not exceed 350,000. I "Taking into account these figures," j tho statement continued, "the comml!-j comml!-j tee has revised the estimates of the war department and believes that the j annual cost of the proposed military i establishment will run as follows: ; 1921, ?GO9.S0C,000; 1912, $623,5-15.000. j 1923. $631,380,000; 1921, $632,757,000; 11925, $G11,7S1,000, and 1926, ?590.9S7,- ! ooo. , "In considering these estimates, it ' should be remembered that they in-J elude the cost of the permanent per-1 sonnel or regular army, the national guard, the transportation, subsistence,' clothing, laundry, medical attendance' and pay of all the young men to be 1 trained and all the elements of over-1 head, including maintenance and re- i pair of all buildings and utilities. In other words, no element of cost has been left out of this estimate. It will not be necessary to enlarge our present pres-ent establishment, nor to embark t upon new construction." ! Senator Wadsworth estimated in 1921 the average cost of a trained soldier produced under the universal training system, would be $509, while in 1926. it would be only $170 while today $1S00 is required annually to support a soldier in the regular army. 1 . oo I |