The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-02
ON TO PLATTSBURG.
Brattleboro Men Urged to Take Training
for Officers Positions

for Officers Positions.
Editor of The Reformcr:-
| From all over Vermont have received |
requests for application blanks and the
bulletins of information about the mill |
| tary training camps. Requests have |
come from st. Johnsbury, Windsor, Will |
mington,. Post Mills, Barre, and from
| Mt Herfnon, Mortified and Amherst, |
Mass, but from Brattleboro not one re-
quest for an application has been re-
ceived.
Are Brattleboro men going to be off
GERS or are they going to fill up the ranks
of the liew army of 2,000.000 under other
men? No applicants will be examined
after May t. Twenty five hundred men
from every walk OF life will be giving up
three months of their time to the hard
work OF training in the reserve officers
training camps at Plattsburg this sum
mcr. This is but one OF II camps.
Whether the war is soon over OF not, il
looks as if universal service was surely
coming in this country. 1t should come.
. II is the only fair way. for. along with
the privileges of this nation 90 some
sacrifices. The vote and liability to mill
tary service should 20 hand in hand.
Some of us are soon going to take up
the grind at Plattsburg. Our only re-
gret is that for every one of us who 90,
there are 10 to 100 who could Just as
easily 90 as We, who stay home and show
a lack OF real, vital interest Many say
i Our soldiers will never sec any real
:, serrice-they viii never be sent across
{ the water. We sincerely hope they
j may not. Yet, how can we take this at
{ tItudes Our only way Is TO prepare for
l.
+ we are Just 50 much the better oil
f We do not urge men To go To Platts-
Q burg. We do urge each man to arouse
/. himself from his apathy and feel an midi
X vidual responsibility and TO feel it keen
ly. At the Plattsburg mass meeting in
Boston, April %, Captain Sutherland
I said; I'VE want only the best men in
l. New England and we viii have them
This il serious business"
i Mary Roberts BinehaIt. III Il splendid
article entitled the Altar OF Freedom
: says: UNLESS it Is your war. this il
= not democracy. If, az in the past We
: have allowed the few To do our poitica
= thinking for Us, as oxen now in tn,
! churches the few earn for all Of us the
right TO call this a Christian land, if ii
y this war we allow the few to fight for us
then as a nation we have died and oul
IS ideals have died with us
Il, "Sometimes in these last TROUBLED
n days, when every newspaper on TIN
In street under my window has been erwin,
II war, I cover my eyes and see that gal
re liant little army OF England, springing t,
the call, and facing without hope tn
e great trained German army. 1t was tn
on best England had and ii is gone, almos
ry to a man-because the mothers of Eng
nd land had not insisted that every MAJ
+. bear his share"
Is, ask Brattleboro people should we no
re all bear our share?
rs Gen. Leonard Wood saws: 1t is ON
of the most cowardly things man ca
do to hire another man or let the othc
men fight for him
Mrs. Rhinehart says further: VIVA
if now your boy and mine could be a par
III of vast trained army! Their chance
would be better Better? There woul
be no war. This is what voluntee
NC, army means in this country today. Fe
ny every high spirited lad like yours or min
i1i who goes out to fight, there are hun
fh dred, IA thousand meniof fighting age an
10 strength who will not go-men who la,
vas no country, but only a refuge from ii
al oppression of Europe,
~ Are we to suffer that they may live
Is this liberty of ours this land of IL
~ free, without price! And will those ho
ny -, 1t dear to whom it has cost nothing? VI
~ " so great is my faith in this great natio
l. so sure am | that the principles on viii,
:. 1t Is built are enduring, that ] believe a
nv these things will be set right in tim
''' The one thing that matters now is to
our part, to show to the world tn;
America still believes that there is SUI
a thing as honor and such u word
right"
ury few Brattleboro men have been
Plattsburg before Can we not send
least a few now when it means scriol
my work and perhaps real service!
are 1t surely looks as if universal scrvi
tcel was sure to come, so why not get in
red the ground floor and be promoter al
he'd not a follower?
-tly When the war is over, if we as . natl,
hat do not urge with every atom of pow
rds- within our being, the establishment Of
had world court or international tribun
fge. composed of well-paid and big mind
men, whose business it is to lock aft
her the world as Il whole and who will
not backed up by a strong information
md army and navy contributed by the 4
AZ tons according to their population Il
hut Soe,'Sth' anu il we no liot 'iiSist o'i
ave .i5", i''''n.en' oi an ''ie nn'io
and their delegation of power to the
tcrnational police force, then will {
great war and its sacrifice and slaugh
be in vain and will we later on sur,
reap the result of leaving undone wi
a to this war has shown us beyond all dol
ought to be done, and will we. as wol
again be the victims of the right sort
All preparedness.
the PLATTSBIJRG ENROLL
mis- MENT. COMMITTEE