Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-08 | Page 4 | Preparing Against Foreign Invasion

00 I PREPARING AGAINST FOREIGN INVASION. I ppfB on rhiiTsday, rre.-ident-elect Hard l ing was visited by officers of tbe 1 American expedit lonar force who! pointed out that a large trained re-1 H sorvn rould be obtained b making en- I H hutment In the regular army only one i H ear. The year! they con H tended, within four years would create! K a trained reserve of half a million I Hi BtBSitor Harding stated that the Hi fteiw udmlniBiratlon would make a gen- H uinc altempl to reduce army overhead I expense, but would not cut approprla- R lions that would strike at the effi j i riancy of the service. Hj The president-elect also declared ; H that while he was in favor of interna H tional restriction of armaments, both' Hi military and naval, the millennium j V had not been reached and the policj H : of the Incoming adiuinlstrauon WOUld 1'' i be to preserve and strengthen both H 1 branches of the service. H I This statement has a bearing on n I the Ofden arsenal. If the ccneral pol H icy of tbe new administration was H along the lines of economy rerdleei B, of tho needs of preparedne-.- ihe ar aenr l might not be developed, but. if 1 Uie armj plans of defense are to be I worked out. the making of the U?den 1 Plant a part of the inner line of defense de-fense will continue until the Pacific icoast Is given the best possible pro jtection agathsl sudden and powerful attacks. The experiences of the world Trnr have proved that in 1914 the United States could ba. be-n sue.e-,f ull v 1 invaded by an ciemy of the resource fulness of Germany and that, before la counter olroke could have been organized, or-ganized, the liberty of the country j might have been imperiled. To cor (reel this blind trust In our present power 10 repel attack from without is one of tbe duiio so re7jg'on the I genera jta