Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-03

Gently discharged several employees for the Of join
ing union A strike for reinstatement and wage in
crease followed, and UNITED STATES TROOPS took
charge behalf of the company and citizens beaten
with clubs by these troops The company says it is
patriotic for these to ask for wages to join
union, or to go on strike.
MitarlSm seems to be the same whether 1t is IN Ger
many or Texas.
. ECENTLY The Majority said that could be
TX made into soldier in three months. Some adverse
comment came from militarists who believe that it
quires years. This has made welcome bit Of author
tave endorsement Jaures suggests months service
for all men in France The Swiss recruits serve at the
training school for from IS to IS days. according to the
troop for which they trained In France during the
present war; the class Of 1914 sent to the front after
three months of training the class of 1915 after four
months In the battles north Of Arras these young men
earned the enthusiastic praise of the British for their
dashing bayonet attacks In 1881 General LamirauX
then colonel Of the Fifty third infantry began system
which he has since followed Of completing military in
structon in eight weeks. General Bonna has declared
that soldiers be made ready for company
three months Thty years ago the Of the Erhatz
Reserve Supporting reserve) which used to be exempt
from military service because they physically unfit
found be perfectly trained at the end Of ten weeks
The officers admitted that reserve company could
not be distinguished from regular company, says Cap
tain Miller. Lieut. Kraft says Ihey had to learn all the
traditional superfutes yet able after two months
training to perfectly in close and in sk11nsh
ing order' These superfuties have been described by
Gen. Philebert in a pamphlet entitled: The Infantry
Wastes Time" General Percn agrees with Jaures that
six months is sufficient training but both seem to adopt
this figure as concession to the French military trad
tons.
It has long been carefully fostered among to be-
eve that years of training necessary learn how to
be soldier It has been the custom Of thinkers
to poke fun at ''home guards and ilitia' and aud
the "regular Around this worship of miltarism grows
military caste, which, first rdcung democracy, finally
STILES it. Now country in the world could possibly in
wade the United States within months and within that
time could have trained army if the Of whom it
was composed physically and morally ft Citizens
soldiers willing to learn and fired with high purpose OF
defending their hearts, would but need to learn the rud
ments of warfare to be superior to any equal number Of
regular soldiers from anywhere because regulars for
the most part hirengs, adventures and works.
General Moch cites the of two Swiss citizen
soldier field batteries in January and February 1892
an altitude Of 1000 feet in uninterrupted weather
The snozreached depth Of four feet and the tempera
ture fell below Zero After finishing march of about $50
miles these batteries brought back all their horses in good
condition. without any Of the chafes and wounds generally
encountered when the negligent
No permanent battery in Germany, France or Eng
land ever showed such results yet these there
was not one professional soldier They had had but So
davs training Many other instances Of the efficiency
Of citizen soldiers after brief training will be found in
The Swiss Military Review, The Blue Review and The
French Artillery Review In fact hardly officer can
he fond now who will pretend that than six months
o reo,lired to make recruit ready for mobilization.