Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-11-28 | Page 8 | Pershing Sees New War Ahead

PERSHING SEES NEW WAR AHEAD Asks American People To 'Look Hard Cold Facts In Face' MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Nov. 28. An appeal to the nation to "look cold, hard facl3 In the lace and not forget our obligations in th blind hope that wo may not again engage in armed conflict," marked an address delivered deliver-ed here today by General Pershing ender the auspices of the American Defense society. At present we do not see definite indications, but none of us can tell whether we shall have war In five, 10 or 20 years,' General Pershing said. "If we knew now to a certuinty that armed conflict would come in years, there would be an immediate immed-iate demand for preparation. Yet that is the approximate interval that we have had in the past between major wars. There is no reason to think that the Immediate future will bring j about a cessation of war even though it was said that we entered the world war to bring about the end of war." BENEFITS show N . General 1'crshliiL, dQVOted most of his address to discussing tho value I of military training as a uchool of (good citizenship, making reference in this connection to the findings of the i rei nr educational i onference in . Washington. Tho conclusion of thai j conference, he said, were that the training given in reserve elements uf the army and at civilian training camps "constitutes an effective machinery ma-chinery through which much dono can be dono not only to beenflt the Individual Individ-ual from the standpoint of hln physique and self-discipline but from the standpoint of his relations to the government gov-ernment that protects him and which ho is under obligations to defend." DRAFT BARES DEFECTS. The chief of staff stressed again draft ftatlsths that show 50 per cent of the yount: men called out during tho war to have been physically subnormal, sub-normal, largely duo to defects curable cur-able by proper training and that one-fourth one-fourth of the persons examined were, 'unable to road and write our common com-mon language and that more than 10 pet rent cannot even successfully speak English." "That means." General Pershing continued, that some 10,000,000 (ot the American people) do not know our tongue We cannot avoid the conclusion that We are losing our balance and our own self-respect unless un-less we attack the problem vigorously. vigorous-ly. "I do not suggest military training as a euro for all civic, ailments but I firmly believo that It inculcates i idt-als of honor aDd duty In our young men that must constitute a most val- i uable national asset."