Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-28

Shortly after the banquet was seFv= ed the head table facing aewn the room, where smaller tables with places for a eight at aie each were arr aFfangea; a!aas each table with bank of RaRRias in the Yale blue before the teastmastaf's place, and beutonateFs at each place, The floral deeeratiens were by the Gedu1dig greenhouses.
 The attractive and well served menu was aa felews;
 Little Neck Cocktail
 Cream of New Asparagus,
 Crouton souftle
 Flake Waters
 Celery Radishes Olives
 Baked Roe Shad, Claremont
 Potato Croquettes
 Toasted Stuffed Jersey Capon
 Cranberry Jelly
 Bermuda potatoes, Rissole
 New Asparagus Tips
 Lettuce and Water Cress Salad
 French Ice Cream, Assorted Flavors Fancy Cake
 Cafe Noir
 Song sheets were provided and the Yale songs were given at intervals by a group of singers led by Grosvenor Ely. At the end of the room a big blue banner reached from floor to ceil- ing, hanked on either side by Yale banner and the American flag. On the large banner were the words, For God | For CountrX-apd For Yale.
 Francis J. LeaVens, '65 s, was the | toastmaster, and seated with him at the head table were the three speak ers-General Wood, Professor Benja- min w. Bacon. 'S1 of the University treasurer of Yale in China, Chief Jus tice Prentice and Associate Justices Roraback and Beach of the supreme court, Stenographer J. P. Andrews | Assistant Cashier Nathan A. Gibbs, cd the Thames National bank, school | boy friend of General Wood, Secretary | Charles H. Haskell of the Alumni as- | sociation, Graham Hislop, it's frs1 president and Lee Roy Robbins. The supreme court judges present were al Yale men except Judge Roraback, who | has two sons at Yale.
 PostpradiaI.
 l Postmaster Leavens presided witt his characteristic ability, referring tc his time in the University which went back to the days when there was nc | football, and baseball was but a neg ligible quantity, while much of the | thought and attention of the Yale boys was taken up with the military af- | fairs that were absorbing the nation Toast1aaster Leavens made an anus. ing reference to a recruiting officer | who stood on a New Haven street il dandifed attire, ogling the girls, ana whom the wit of the sophomore class drove out of town by clubbing hin the horrors of war"
 Major General Wood.
 This served to introduce Majol General Wood who was greeted witl a Yale brek-a-kex-kex cheer before ht was allowed to speak.
 Major General Wood said that hi! subject would be Our Policy in Raising and Maintaining an Army, which h. characterized as having been most ex pensive in the past, both in money an( men, and had never been adequate t' meet a well prepared foe. In our sue cesses in war we have been singularl. fortunate in the enemies we have met
 Referring to the armies of the con tinentals, General Wood said that tn defect of the volunteer system ha been that it kept the army too full O men unskilled in things military. Tn year 1776 marked our maximum strength in the continental armies which steadily decreased in the fol lowing years. It was an illustration 0 the truth of Washington's statemen that no country could ever depen' safely upon volunteers. Again in tn war of 1872 to 1914 were the words o , Washington shown true, for althougl we put over 520,000 different men int  :, new men meant constant demoraliza ton of the military organization. Even the Civil war, he said, prove ' this also, whether looked at from tn , side of the north or the south, for bot. sides soon had to resort to the draf' and there was a resultant heavy per cantage of assertions and big bountiei But today we don't want bd army in the United States. What W do want is the largest possible numbe :. I sloI,l ,le hr1t 9a arxy est possible number in the army. Thi is the kind of system we need to wor . out, and we need to get into the Sptri z of our people the willingness to accer 7 a reasonable amount of military train ing: o., . had a reserve force of from one and . half to two million trained men, bu : these have passed away, and cornin down to today we really have no e1 perienced reserve force. General Wood spoke a word to enl 7 ployers, urging them to do their par for theiF country's. good by not die | happen to be in the militia but rathe ., to favor a man who as a. Workma ], were in FRe militia. We don't want !. big army, but we want as many me who are potential soldiers but follow |. ling their regular occupation. That 2 the attitude of the government and | policy to which no reasonable perso : can object.
 Switzerland's military method WE : mentioned as an admirable type 2 serve as a model for us. It is the leai 2 military country ok Europe, but tf 2 quietest and the best regulated. In country like ours, where we don't wal : a big army, we ought to have a lars number of trained officers, and we d
 trying In various ways to get them. D our colleges each year and pbt hel ! into tIa army as eeeond lieutepARi f and then Bisn them up as regerFa of - HeFs &aEs 1eH <XeeEs asssEaa aAEs szz2s .pEomtl