Show universal military training produces efficiency and respect for law by R A white I 1 believe in universal military training and service because it is a good 0 od thin thing for our young men 1 it is good physical training it takes the kinks out of the stoop shouldered and puts red bloo alood 1 I into L th the e anemic 2 it teaches young men to obey ye we are suffering buffering from lack of discipline young men do not k know now how hou to obey because they have hae not been made to obey the schools are without effective discipline and the average jeome has little or none non e A large percentage 0 of our lawbreakers are young men from fifteen to twenty one or twenty two better for our young men to tc know how to carry a rifle than a ei cigarette garette to send a lead ball bah to the center of the bulls eve eye than to push ivory balls into the pockets of a billiard table to love the red blooded service of the cp camp rather than arthe 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 ahen when I 1 first be began bean an going to germany thirty years ago I 1 decried german militar military y 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 no idle sign military discipline is largely responsible for this respect for law germany estimates that her industrial and commercial efficiency has been increased 16 per cent through the military training of her young men I 1 believe in universal military training 0 and service and a sane preparedness pa pare redness duess because it is the only way to avoid war only mighty provocation leads a nation to attack another if that other is as strong 0 or stronger than itself had england france and russia been as well prepared as germany there would have been no european war |