The Washington herald., 1908-01-07
SEES JAPANESE WAR
Lieut.. Col. E.. f. Glenn Alarms
Ladies Of the D. 4. r.
SAYS THE ARMY IS TOO SMALL
After PFaisinE the Ability Of Mrs.
Donald Mclean, Officer Describes
with Asiatics-WOFId Power Needs
Soldiers, lie Tells Nervous Women.

New York. Jan. 6-Lieut. Col Edwin F.
Glenn, speaking 10 the New York City
Chapter Of the Daughters Of the Ameri-
can Revolution. which met this afternoon
at Sherry's. told some plain facts about
the army, and conditions which are driv-
ing officers out OF it.
Mrs Donald Mclean. president general
OF the organization. heard some nice
things said about her, and responded ia
kind when Lieut.. Col. Glenn was intro
duced. He assured she audience that
the daughters We're not the only ones
who loved Mrs. Mclean.
THE United States army loves her as
WELL" he said, and if we had our way,
she should be Secretary of War. Per
sonally. I should nominate her for still
higher position. knowing that no matter
how strenuous were its duties. she could
easily fill them. Unfortunately. how
ever. an unwritten law stands in the
way"
Having dealt thus with the subject of
love, he turned his attention to the otner
two things, which greater than all
things are" and spoke of war
Acquired Bunch of Trouble.
BY means of the opera bOuffe war"
Of 1895 he said, we had acquired bunch
of trouble in the shape of the Philip
pines. Cuba, and Porto Rico In his
opinion the time had not yet come even
to think Of giving up the control of Cuba:
first, because as far as his experience
went, no people of Cuban or Spanish
blood seemed to be able 10 respect per
sonal liberty or the property rights of
others; second. because the island was
directly in the pathway of the United
States to Panama, and third, because a
large proportion Of the property owners
in Cuba are Americans.
I'm the twin harbors midway between
the Bering Sea and Seattle" he con
tiuued. zone of which is known as the
Dutch Harbor, we haven't a single gun
ship, or fortification of any kind. Should
there be a war. we could not hold the
Philippines against Japan. In Hawaii
which is the key to the Pacific. we have
only small battalion of 200 men, Japan
has several regiments there, ostensibly
UnaTmed
We Rank Third.
1T is inevitable that some one nation
shall in the near future hold the mastery
Of the Pacific. England has the best
chance, because she is mistress of the
seas. Japan stands next in the order OF
probability, and the United States third.
Observing that some of the Daughters
stirred nervously, Col. Glenn hastened to
assure them that what he had said WAS
not intended as a war scare. He wanted
to make them understand that the army
had pretty big contract to keep Old
Glory floating in ali the places where its
folds should be unfurled to the breezes.
and that when the army was spread over
the necessary area the coating was not hy
any means as thick as it might be.
Having restored calm, he proceeded TO
unfold some things about the army when,
he asserted. were threatening its integrity
and its very life.
Our men, he said, need four years in
a temperate climate to recuperate from a
period of two years in the tropical sery-
ice. But how can this be ACCOMPLISHED
with one regiment in Alaska. and only
fourteen at home. to relieve the fifteen
stationed in the Philippines and the West
Indies?''
Women Cannot Live There.
Conditions Of living in the Philippines.
he said. were such that it was practically
impossible fof a refined American woman
TO live there
'sWe, of the army" he continued
think that our country's attention should
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