The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-10-20

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will give sympathetic response to thu
efforts OF their teachers.
Regular army officers like TO teach
They say there Is an intense interest II
taking a willing but militarily ignorah
force OF men and bringing them up Il
service standards, to watch them day
by day develop from the civilian statu,
into that OF the folder.
There is another thing which makes
regular army officers hail assignments
to commands I'm the new National
army. The men in the drafted serv
Ice are all young. In fact are virtually
about the same age. Youth makes for
enthusiasm and. as army officers say,
a force of men Of which every indi-
vidual Is under thlrty-one years of age
is bound to be an enthusiastic force, n
physically and spiritually strong force.
and one upon which, after the days Of
training are ended, absolute depend
ence can be placed while In the field
Do Not BelittIs Other Forces.
Now there Is no intention Of tn
army officers 10 belittle the regulars or
the National Guardsmen. These troops
have proved their worth and so far as
the regulars are concerned foreign Of
ficers cOncede the American officers
contention that the little regular army
Mt any rate, is as fine a body Of sol.
diery rs the world ever saw.
Men In the regular army and In the
National Guard to considerable ex-
tent have learned their lessons. and II
Is only the recruits who have TO be
taught and while there are large nun.
bers of the latter in both the Guards
and the regulars today, the teaching Of
these largely Is done by the contact
which they have with the enlisted men
OF their regiments who have been In
the service for months or years.
SO Ii will he seen that, as army ON
GERS put it, the teaching joy and the
pleasure of seeing great bodies of men
develop day by day into fighting forces
are more or less lost when the officers
service Is given to the regulars or to
the Guardsmen.
ested in various Americanization move
ments which are being fostered In diff
ferent parts of the country say that
there Is no AmericaniZation movement
which can equal in its opportunities
and In its probable success the draft
Ing process by which million or two
young Americans are 10 be taken into
the ranks OF the army to serve their
country on the battleline.
Democracy in the Draft.
Maj Gen. William l.. Sibert. who
commands the First division Of Amer
lean troops in the field in France, said
to the writer Of this article just before
he was ordered TO foreign service:
"There is no democracy like the democ-
racy Of the do: tent"
Now the dog tent, or as IL is some
times called, the pup tent is the little
camping Mt night along the way of
march. Each tent holds only two men.
In the great National army 1t is entirely
likely that the same tent will be Oc-
cupied by the son Of n laborer and the
son of millionaire manufactures, 1t
is also entirely likely that one may
be occupied by boy of Polish de-
scent and by another boy of English.
German or Irish descent. The com
partnership, army officers say, makes
for mutual sympathes and mutual
aims. 1t also levels ranks, or the So
called social ranks of this country.
So 1t is that today i'm Washington
regular army officers are showing
eagerness to be given commands in the
new National army, not only because
of their teaching desire and their wish
to see civilians develop into soldiers.
hut because Of the absorbingly inter-
esting study that there will be In
watching the great melting pot f'the
army fuse these metals into one solid
block Of gold .Americanism.
Methods Of Delay in Congress.
Congress has voted almost solidly
In the affirmative for all the war
measures which have been pro-
posed for the purpose of helping
this country win In the great conflict
which confronts 1t. Nevertheless,
congress has taken long time to put
through the measures before 1t. The
result has been that criticism has
come from one part Of the country,
while another part, though not prals-
ing the slowness Of congress In enact
ing legislation, seemingly has been
glad that the lawmakers have re-
manned in session, for 1t Is true that a
part of the country believes that sen.
ators and representatives should be
here virtually all the time while war Is
In progress.
Now 1t seems to be the desire of 0
majority of the house and senate Il
adjourn some time in October, "th'
. earlier the better" as some member.
put It. Whether or not adjournment
, can be brought about still remains t
be seen, because all signs fail In wa
, times.
without going at all into the merit
of the controversy between those VIII
, think that congress should stay on tn
Job constantly in war time and thos
who think 1t should pass war measure
quickly and then adjourn, the method
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