| Show universal military training produces efficiency 11 1 le and respect for law by R A white I 1 believe in universal military training and service because it is a good I 1 thing for our young men 1 it is good physical training it takes the kinks out of the stoop shouldered and puts red blood into the anemic 3 2 it teaches young men to obey we are suffering from lack of discipline young 0 men do not know how to obey because be calise they have not been made to obey the schools are without effective discipline and the average home has little or none A large percentage of our lawbreakers are young nien men from fifteen to twenty one or twenty two better for our young men to know how to carry a rifle than a cigarette to send a lead ball to the center of the bulls eye than to push ivory balls into the pockets of a billiard table to love the red blooded service of the camp rather than the anemic entertainment of cabarets 3 physical training and discipline breed efficiency for business the time a young man may lose from his early business life will be more than compensated by his increased ability to do things that these are not theoretical assumptions germany proves conclusively when I 1 first began going to germany thirty years aga I 1 decried german military methods for the last ten years I 1 have felt otherwise in germany a law is made to be obeyed not broken das verboten ver boten is ig no idle sign military discipline is largely responsible for this respect for law lair german germany y estimates that her industrial and commercial efficiency has been increased 16 per cent through the military training of of her young men I 1 believe in universal military training and service and a sane preparedness pa redness because it is the only way to avoid war only mighty provocation prove leads a nation to attack another if that other is as strong or stronger than itself had england france and russia been as well prepared as german germany there would have been no european war |
