Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-30
lNSIPIENT WAR
At CONVENTION OF .
TIN SOLDIERS
tby Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 29.-An in
sipient war broke out during the
concluding session of the convention
of the National Guard Association of
the United States today, when Cen
eral c. B. Daugherty of the national
guard of Pennsylvania, interrupted
Captain Frederick Stopford, of the
United States army, during the read
ing of his paper on THE Army Ra-
tion,'i to ask if it was a fact that
the trouble at the Massachusetts ma
neuvres this summer was due to the
difficulty of managing transporta-
ton facilities General Dougherty
also protested against the joint ma
neuvers, and offered resolution
asking that they be done away with
in the future.
General Chase of Colorado, speak
ing to the resolution, said it had
been reported that some of the mil
itiamen engaged in the Boston ma
neuvers were called out of their
hunks at midnight and kept on the
march until 8 o'clock the next day,
and at that did not get within eight
mVes of the enemy I'VE want mil
itary instruction for militiamen, not
military spectacles that make read
ing matter for newspapers and give
magazine critics a chance to criti-
CHE" said General Chase Later
the resolution was withdrawn
Captain Stopford, who belongs to
the subsistence department of the
United States army, during the read
ing of his paper, incidentally told
of the difficulty that the subsistence
officers have in getting food for the
men in the field because they don't
control the transportation facilities.
First Lieutenant Paul Beck of
the signal corps, declared in his adj
dress that "The waving sword and
champing charger of the commander
on the field of battle has given way
to the yellow envelope carried by
man behind the buzzer. He stated
that during the Russian-Japanese
war, the Japanese commanding gem
eral was 20 miles behind his army,
but at no time was he out of touch
with every division of his troops for
more than twelve consecutive hours.
Army Sanitation and Hygiene"
he III -
Captain James Bevens, u S. A. med
ical corps
+. Just before the final adjournment,
Lieutenant General Adna r. Chaffee
retired, who had been an interested
listener throughout the proceedings
of the convention, created a sensa-
ton when he was asked to address
the meeting. With almost his first
words he said the only military hope
of the country lies in CONSUMPTION.
Chaffee csaid he would advocate a
plan of having each congressional
district in the union responsible for
certain number of recruits to the
army establishment, and that he
would recommend enough recruits
so that $4,000 could be retired year
ly, and that at the end of 10. years
the United States would have a re-
serve of 100000 trained men. Chat
fee in the course of his remarks be-
Titled the possible use of aeroplanes
in warfare, and said the transporta-
ton of troops by automobile would
not do. ''The next war you go to,
you will hoof it, with pack on
your back, just as you did before,
gentlemen" said he.
A military balloon was sent up
this afternoon to a distance of $500
feet. and Corporal Worden success
fully signaled to Chaplain Slowter-
back, who followed in an automo-
bile.