The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-01-22
Henry L. Stimson Declares
Measures Should Tend To.
ward National Training, if
Not Reaching It.
ROOT ENDORSES PLAN
OF ADMINISTRATION
Would Make Citizen.Soldiers
Subject First to Orders of
United States, Not to Use as
Police Force.

" i' hlUal'I JdU = We lNl Nl'f
s"cr,tari's pf war both under Rcpun-
u'rn administrations todnN endorsed
Secretary Gatrison's army program.
Elihu Root. 10 a letter read before
m. National Security league. declared
that There nrc good things IN Secrr-
tnry GarrIson's plan. The doing of
them win be progress IN the r.ght di-
rccilun Don't luso these good things
even thuugh yuu mad that yuu can't ut
this time get something more in the
same direction
iicnry l. Stimeon. IN n speech ad-
NuCttinr compulsory universal null
tar, service as the real solution or ma
tiuual defense, endorsed secretary
tarr.sou's plan as Sound ana intclli-
g.rt" ana advocated is adoption, '1i
congress IL not ready yet to sanction
universal training as the sound in
itial step.
The congress will close tonight with
u banquet AZ which senator Lodge and
former Attorney General Wi,kcrshan
w..r to b. tn. principal speakers.
= Declaring himself In favor ut com
pulsory military service ts the true
SOLUTION of the defense problem. MI.
Stimson said he regarded the program
nov advanced hy Secretary Garrison
a. the 'lnd initial step.
"tf congress is not ready Yet tu
sanction universal training he said.
IN. measures which are enacted
should be- those witch. su int ~ they
go. are in accord with this great fun
dameutal duty and which. as time
passes and experience rpens, VIII
load most naturally to the establish
mcnt ot such a system
Under IA. federal constitution the
national guard or organized military
IL primarily state force instead ol
"a national reserve aud I do not lee
li"Nc that any effective national ciu-
zen army can he created out ot =,
force dominated hy furty-right scpar-
ate sovcroigniics For nearly fifteen
years strenuous efforts have been
m1dc by the federal government. as
wolI ~ rs the state authoIitics, tc
increase the number ot the guard, yet
Il has remained nearly stationary.
IT seems to me tha' these defects
can b. traced directly To- the fact that
the national guard is In fact state
military force which We are also -"
ouirng 30 du duty fo" thc uu,i"na
government, Sc long as such i"rcc'
,NiM the states are tempted 10 slui
tholr police duties ana to rely wholly
upuu citizrn soldicry tor that purpose
''Mhat is oven worse. there hu'
gradually grown up among our labor
ing classes the fecling that the only
soldiers with whom they are practical
Is acquainted represent Giu"r"h
class nt the community and ar" main
u'lnod for the purpose oi being us"'
nraingi them. Instead OF fc rdtnl
the militiamau HA = citizen tninlnl
Ia perform hisdity ot defending the
couuiry iu case uf real war, the laho
man has come to regard him is rep
rcscntutiN" of capital bcing trained a.
q policeman against inbor.
Finally this liability L. stat, polic
duty has tended To shape the term -
enlistment and the training "i nn
militin To- the disadvantage of th"t
function as national troops. lnstcn'
ut being trained through brlcf bi'
continuous periods uf intensive MoiI
with the colurs aud thereafter helm
lett comparatively free a. roser, isi'
the militin are held to cnmptratiN"l
long periods with the colors under
~ N''hl ~ hA'klN hlillNf ~ - ~ "
which ls NO, only the i"aW cnrriiN
way ut teaching u man tn he "A soldie
but Also tends, FROM the length q
tim, during which IL imposes con
tinual though sligh, obligation apo
him, to discourage enlistment.
The national guard Is, other tina
the regular army, our only prescn
force of even partially trained sold
iory. Nothing should he done to dis
courage It's work, but On the con
trnry everything Ia stimulate ana 90
courage II. Iiut such encourng"mc'
should he In the direction of trans
fcrrng II wholly into the service ,
the federal government and not {
pcrpctunting II In It's present statu
Particularly. tn grant federal pay
the Individual militiamar Tor h
weekly service rendered To the stat
seems To blur the great lesson whic
H. .morRing from the European wa
II h Ia Yield again Ia the th"cry th'
We can induce men to serve the
country. not as a duty of patriotism
but for pay
Referring to the recent MeS,ca
border troubles aud the demands