Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-20

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be ana pass sssS on the resolution as soon rs
c aWs ne drafted and PASSED II, the same time
Inc playing" GAs s4e use GS Ct TS!S
TO !s"y at q Err ~ Tho wrss 'G5
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boiling to snte Se erSps ni h"s be- o GS
haH been planted.
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thEon.,SS harvest season TO carry six people
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need G Halls who are sr not writing to ;he paners
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any IaHor farHr,s do not wish TO take chance with
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richmond, May IS
To tic Ea$ n: s r s"S'6tn n:''''''
snss frs m the N <pT 'oE
headed !. "vetes,n. corrccts Clark" !. statement
!t eHey nn 'ns
a hss GS o% At Ge,seurE Inc wi!dsrnsss
sas aS"1' hT va fes c 'na!
] entered the Virginia army before Virginia
s"sd IN aa;vs s Ss "S re-
army Arm until the. var ended The stat ement o:
them dy that Gem enera ne f.Gs army nS
OF the ever arn an arnS conscrp,s AID 80 per cent
9t ne term The sonserp, law Of the
1851 embracing ali mem he'wsen I'll the Nn ages Of
Was nmsn aha 'nir1y On Seniemher =; II
f f9rsyhEe years: on rsce9bcr ST. 1875
sH Hssrs on su 2sy s oS e
and the 25,i Of june isa his torces Joined
&c" iIa Il ' haa ' ne conf of
who st ry the 4Hs Of the he
the beginning OF the war enlisted for "A year
he within that .me When sm ,he.r w ,erm
t In en ola ne, expired ed thee men
e., Many from yirsnia enlisted in tho
talon Of artery from Richmond nS' con.nnn "n
Rsn sr5S n"f Of ns s !
nowitzers: They enlisted in April ISL. for
capac,,ed by Wounds r se r%i S LED
enlisted s,ni to q man for the WAY. These men
The conscrpt law Of the Co,tederacv fur
nished very small number of ncn 10 Genera,
Lees army and General Lee. IN u letter. on
conscrint acts was to diminish. ra'hcr than TO
increase. his army. The conscript Of 1881 81
not only mean, what tho term IMPLIES but i;
willing voluntarily 10 render to his country the
service which his country needed WHEN fgh,ins
d NJ, With AJAX; The
the proposed act % Congress rho circun.
rely whether he he volunteer or conscrp, and
training IS the want applicable to boh alike
Our country needs law for compulsory milf
tary service within given ages and co,erinr
gwen periods each year. for Il number OF gears
the men may he assembled and trained, 20
regulated AS TO interfere to a minimum decree
tirsly practicable. With such a law rigiJIv
enforced within a few years the country wotld
have nm army OF ".o0o. 600 trained soldiers, lie
compulsory military service is not tho law &c
the land. CONSUMPTION has been resortcd TO "a
recruit the ranks of armies in the field Tn the
nritnin with her little army; confronting a
whether. i CONSUMPTION had been resorted to
at an earlier stage ot the war II would have
changed the result The great army which that
splendid soldier Kitchener. raised. trained
equipped and put in the field was not an army
of conscripts. 7 do not mean say that con-
scripts may not be made good soldiers. hut
erai Lees army. n. T. DoUGLAs
New York. May TO-
old. was lieutena colonel Of engineers IN shs
tie Spanish American warHEd;tor.; ''e'a' !"