El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-25
SAYS j. s. NEVER
BEAT HARD FOE
High Army Officer Urges
Military Training for Ev-
cry American Boy.

Chicago, Ill, Dec. 25.-The United
States has never yet defeated a fee
worthy of its steel, according to Col.
H. o. S. Heistand, .. S. A. adjutant
general Of the CENTRAL department of
the army. As a means of creating a
sufficiently well trained reserve army,
Col. Heistand urges military training
for every able bodied youth in the Unit
ed States.
Col. Heistand said the United states
was totally unprepared for war, urged
that the regular army and the ma
tional guard We're inadequate and pro-
tested against what he termed false
history taught the country.
IF at this minute he said, every
one OF the $4,000 regular soldiers in the
United states cavalry, infantry and
coast artillery, were assembled in New
York, there would not be enough men
to man the guns on a war footing.
Guns a Menace.
"And if everyone of $4,000 national
guardsmen were assembled in New
York City there would not be enough
to protect those guns from attack and
those guns, as they are now situated,
are a greater menace to New YORK
than protection, because all foe
would have to do would be to turn them
around and point them at New York
City, and begin shooting.
For the purpose Of defence 1 would
have every male citizen of the United
States in the early period of his life
give a sufficient time to the United
States army to qualify himself in the
essentials OF a soldier.
Suffer From False Teaching.
But the trouble with our people is
they are suffering from false teaching
and preaching.
In our school histories We teach
that in the war Of the revolution we
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1912 We whipped England; that IN the
war with Mexico we whipped her ana
that in the war of our own rebellion,
we rose up from the fields ana TOOK
arms and marched right up and put
down the rebellion.
whipped Spain. There is slang
phrase about taking candy from a ba-
by and that is what We did. We did
not whip Great Britain in the war OF
the revolution. Great Britain was BUSY
at home and quit because she had AoG
the slightest idea of what kind of real
estate we have here.
Humilinted in 1872
an the war Of 1912 we were humili-
ated and our capital burned and Great
Britain, because she was busy at home
quit without insisting on her rights
In the war of the rebellion, two
great mObs Of the finest cttizenry that
ever stepped up to the lannon's mouth,
stepped up to the front without the
knowledge of organization or warfare
for four straight years, and at the end
the one with the longest purse and tho
greatest number of men triumphed. II
was scarcely a war. 1t was conflict
Of mob organizations
What we want today is to teach
our people that we did not really ever
in the history of the world whip a foe
worthy of our steel, for We never have.
But we have in us this hour for there
is nc. really good American who is not
ready to die for his country. I plead
for a training of every citizen, so that
if the time ever comes that we need 70
defend these institutions under which
we live so gloriOusly, he viii be able
to do so and instead of dying a suicide
or of becoming simply foolish victim
of tho foe, he Will have given a good
account of himself in the defence Of
his country