The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-06-01
The War and the
War Department
NEWTON ID. BAKER, Secretary of War
in The Saturday Evening Post

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rooons mn.n ""i was uetiafeo ~ became
ro;S;n s" az onee w CONSIDER ohe
tSan s 80 W. -" ne" army. ~ was not
tn4 taei III IiloTfi Tf: ~" sooil or 10 What eX-
~, IvnC ,,de.oi VIE Ont'eu STATES Goulu helplul-
~ :; a'tuet -. E I'M ae'iHv W. hinivary opera
thn ' Enranaap ~ o W, 4;as ne So Sas. ulllIes VI
J one ueo f opeul iiaIiolS nave peen en-,
g,g'ho. gugIu ioa % Hwo ;fis yeais ana d nal1 ana
aanh % s;da ,'"tE W. n,ii.ioms ntua, VI l,len on
u, n1o, sue. Ill., ssie'eii continuous n
y Gno.t aitls 'ne aa;s. aas.ein anu western
loli'' VI .oiiitie., anu are no" vet
tLat eLati'i ,s VI aigeu w IIe Alilu vi warfare
voa vnar rs i'.' ,ethJ ueno,Jpee m tns iasI Few
f,a,., III m;oi,ou I'LL VI wal Wnisi! oiLlers
l., - H. faiIa,,.; pitceuIu l. 'hiel-
~ E;1t u, .lie T,'n rHiiGmlIls paLticuials:
hon as n,on "e oea ,l,t,lrei,se1y srea'er NUM-
0o caa W. nloi I'll aseu' .,
,,ants ~ n,am me aI usI VI .h new nipie-
enya ~, " wal, ~ auoli aI .ne suoiiiaille
o,i .ilG s,I, lo1I Ii'e :. ailplahe, Vle hlgh,
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i"n5 @ @'it'ei ii'oiie ai'i'ieiy oii 'iie
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toI,i,lnv.oii nv ~ VI tlie ita.ioi E Ill support
~ Te'o +So ilet avtoat a. tie that tI' tIa .,u +bo
1rnitod Co. !. &c sao;s, Wy .asH H ~ vie
t.;ni % o."0ea 10 iinaiei'i I Gnu isuus-
~ aJ;. Nv, i. 49, VI eoulsG, ou1siue ol tne
t ilillieuLsIc L: Sie" " Ine war Dcpart-
reI, ,1 "nitIn ,t nv 1iuse t Joiicctn i'sel Prl-
,l nnd ny WIN ..ie ti'ou.lAaIloii, I .i"iiliug
offa;t ,,no =, VI sain4 ;l' TLo rLu &c. e'.lt
nti einSiel. use III co1lrilcl' m me nrst
piopiem VI '.e war department.
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Sio,l w ooiis iese oiii Mhiiil Moulu
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ing VI tia' .i.u pii ~ was necessafy "
coilSui! 'lc leceht eAperiehce VI 'ie
WIN gu IA iiiniI"ly iiiHIUcls. I .,:
me army, as aiieaoy au''loii@eo
ny raw, co13slstGo "a:
, The VIC fSe Mat;nan, ulan I1tmS. r,iana
. o.'e,, ne 4,acial aI'a uue,u. sa 49,
o-oucn VolulVee! ioieGs do WI
Had this establishment been relied
upon and no further legislation asked
beyond authority to raise volunteers,
the National Army would have con-
sisted of the Regular Army, with its
trained professional officers and en-
listed men; the National Guard of the
states, force Of widely varying de-
grees of training, and comprising
men from twenty-one to forty-five
years of age, enlisted in their state
military forces under the National
Defense Act of 1916; and Volunteer
Army, of men yet to be trained, who
might be moved by the pendency of
war TO volunteer for military service
during the term of the war. In other
words, we should have an army made
up of three elements, selected by no
uniform standards and under no uni
formity of obligations as to length
of service, led by officers chosen in
different ways, and drawn from the
body of the country without rccogni-
ton either Of the necessities of indus
trial support for the war or of social |
and economic relations Of men ac-
ceptcd for military service.
D-oe.;u h. p.;.;sh Ex,or;o,oo
ion's '' 'n O. INp !.
IL seemed OF tne llrSt Importance