New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-31
GREATER MILITARY
TRAINING Is URGED
OFFICERS OF NATIONAL GUARD
ANXIOUS FOR UNIVERSAL. 4
= ARMY WORK.
NORTH DAKOTA COLONEL SAYS
UNITED STATES BORDERS
ON WAR. "

There is evidently wide feeling among
the officers of the various state guards,
returning from the Mexican border, that
too much is expected from the National
Guard, and that military training
should be universal. Z
Major Albert Pfaender has been very
emphatic on that score, since his arrival
from Texas week ago. To the Review
he said: =. ....
| Il have been in the National Guard fo1
fifteen years, and I am more confident
now than ever that it does not fill the
bill. - #
while I have not given conside ration
to any particular plan that think would
be better, it is certain that a change
will have to be made in the near future.
Universal military training will be
necessary if this country wishes to be
equal to other nations in it's defense. ]
believe every boy of II or 10 or over
should have six months constant mill
tary training, or a year would besbetter.
OF course all school boys now have drill
practice, and all those things, but. that
is the very least of a military training,
such as is necessary. I am certain that
some plan will soon be worked out"
Guard Does Too Much
Colonel John H. Frame, commanding
the First Regiment of North Dakota,
who has recently arrived at Fort Smelling,
told Minneapolis newspaper man on
his arrival at the fort that this govern
ment is riding the national guard to
death, and that compulsory, universal
military training is necessary for this
country's welfare. 71.@l..41 !.
II am not criticising the government, .
said the colonel, 'but the fact remains
that it was the guard that gave the
border it's protection during the past six
or eight months.
but the men feel that no permanent
good was accomplished. They spent
six months down there at financial loss
to themselves while their neighbors took
their jobs and their competitors won
their business. They were sent down
there because they had spent time in
preparation. They feel that the burden
ought to be more equally distributed.
"The only way to share the work
equally is by compulsory military train
ing. It would not take great deal of
time. Every man ought to be willing
but willing or not, he ought to be COM
pelled--to put in one evening a week
in some Armory, and one month every
summer in military camp for at least
three years. Those who were officers
or non-commissioned officers would Of
course, have to put in much or more time
as is necessary. 81
''That would require more armories.
In the larger cities where there are but
one now it would be necessary to have
four or five. The men would not have
to be paid. Men do not do this work
for money, But they should not have
to stand the expense
Colonel Frame does not believe Con-
gress will pass a compulsory military
training law, because the ! people will not
stand for it. The publ { attitude is to
LET George do it, : he said.
Thinks War Is AT Hand
Colonel Frame told another Twin CITY
newspaper man that he believed this
country would be involved in war before
the end OF April.
"An Of our wars have started in April
he said. ..I'll risk the prediction that
before next April isl past we'n be in
another war. The Mexican trouble
never will be settled until we go in there
and police that country. It wouldn't be
days job, but we could do it; that is we
could have until the troops were with
drawn. The regulars couldn't do it
alone, because there) are not enough Of