The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-06-10
NEW ARMY BILL May GIVE
100000 SOLDIERS A YEAR.
Plan Of Intensive Training for Boys
Under 10 Approved by Chamberlain.

Washington, D. C.-The first draft
of bill which would give the United
States 100000 new trained soldiers each
year and at the same time would free
the citizen of military duties before he
is 10 years old, was completed today.
1t has already been accepted in prin-
ciple by Senator Chamberlain, chairman
of the senate military affairs commit
tee, and by several national defense
leaders and probably will be introduced
in the senate Immediately after the
Democratic convention.
Intended to produce all the good re-
suits which his present universal train
ing bill would have, the new measure
is free from the objections admitted by
Senator Chamberlain, to be in the bill
now before the senate. One of the
great objections was that it took ten
years to complete training. The new
bill would complete training in six
months of intensive training.
All to be Treated Alike.
An added feature is that attendance
at approved military schools will re-
duee still further the time necessary
to spend with the colors, one year of
school training, accompanied by regu-
lar scholastic work, accounting for one
month in camp. This operates only up
to four months. No one, whatever his
wealth or his family connections, can
avoid at least two monthssof service
with the colors.
Essential features of the new bill,
devised by Capt. George Van Horn
Moseley of the general staff, are as fol-
lows:
Total service, six months, all in the
calendar year in which the boy reaches
the age of Is.
School training. One year of salts
factory work in schools approved by
the war department will take off one
month of field camp service. Four
months exemption will be the maxi
mum.
Later service. None to be required
except when actually needed in a ma
tional emergency.
Regular army changes. The bill
might make full enlistment of larger
army unnecessary. 1t permits the pres
ident to effect changes whereby officers
and non7commissioned officers of vari-
Gus unnecessary regular units would be
available for training camp duty.
Every private so saved would save
$1,000 a year to the government,
enough to train several boys for the
reserve.
Navy Reserve Included.
Navy reserve included. The presi-
dent shall determine each year as reg
istrations come in, what proportion will
be trained for the army and what for
the navy.
Exemptions: Physically unfit, NOR
ally unfit, members of a recognized re-
igious sect opposed to war to be ex-
empt only from branches of service de-
voted to bearing arms not from hospital
or engineer corps.
Evasion made difficult: The boy
must possess a certificate of military
service, or of exemption, or he cannot
obtain employment anywhere. Any en-
ployer not insisting on seeing the GER
tifcate will be subject to fine and i'm
prisonment. If the boy leaves the
country before the age of Is and re-
turns later, he must perform his de-
ferred obligations or suffer penalties.
When needed, reserves are to be
called out by classes, the youngest first.
At the rate of 100000 a year there is
practical immunity for a man of 25,
for there would be 100000 called out
before the turn comes.
Bill is Work Of Capt. Moseley.
The new measure is entirely the work
of Capt. George Van Horn Moseley of
the general staff. He was asked sew
eral weeks ago by various national de-
Tense societies in New York and Chi
cago to work out a redraft of the
original Chamberlain bill, which should
be free from the objections felt by
parents who think the training period
should not spread over the ten year
period proposed, and should relieve
the boys of the country of military
training before the age of %.
The portions of the Swiss system
which Senator Chamberlain adopted for
his bill carried these Objectionable fea-
lures. The general staff praises the
principle of the Swiss system, but has
called attention to the impractical fea-
lures Of it for a country much larger
than Switzerland.
"Switzerland's total active and re-