The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-05-03
CAN'T Be SENT NOW
AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS WILL
NEED MoNTHs OF TRAM
ING As SOLDIERS.
RAW TROOPS ARE USELESS
Rseviav ~ Needed 10 Dim md ~
strvet Recruits, % Pew oar -
epArsd Now 10 b DlspatoAsd Over.
D. EDWARD D. CLAIM.

| ~ 6OWAHO . CtAHA
Wasfiagtoo. q the orpost
lion which developed IN congress 70
the plan b. raiss m army by cOnscrfp-
Don In order that rfch md poor, high
and Low. might share alike the duty
of service. was based ON the feeling
expressed by members 0,at American
youths would volunteer Instantly II 4
was certain that they were TO be sent
quickly TO the fighting line. In other
words, chat Americans want 10 aght
and fight eft the reel"
Army officers In Washington are try
ing their best b convince civilians,
and particularly civilian Legislators,
that no Americans can be sent 30 the
fighting line instantly unless II he the
regulars, OF whom there Is only com
paratively smaI1 force, n force which
army men say cannot be spared, be-
cause OF the need Of the regulars 10
instruct new men In the greater army.
II IL the wish OF American army Off
GERS that American youth be iru-
pressed with the fact that their eff
cheney as soldiers, the very safety Of
their lives and the safety Of their
country depend on their willingness
not only to fight but 10 undergo a long
preparation In order that they may
know how to fight.
The army that win be called into
the field In this country must be
taught everything. army officers shy,
from the position OF soldier TO the
ultimate higher things which the sol
der must learn. This takes time, pa
tience, ready submission to discipline
and n willing, enduring spirit. Army
men point out that the chances Of
successful outcome and of minimum
loss Of lie depend upon the willing
ness OF the men to learn In advance
what they must do and how.
Experience Of England.
Great Britain sent into France at
the beginning OF the war about 5000
men as an expeditionary force. II
was composed Of soldiers who CORE
spond to our regular army. They were
trained to the minnie. They made a
splendid fight all the way on the en-
forced but strategic retreat from Bel-
GUM TO tho valleys Of the Marine and
the Grand NORM. Then this little
body of regulars. or what there was
left Of It. turned totxee attach and
aided the French In dlsYing the Ger
man troops back
There was little left of the British
expeditionary force. and It was this
fact that made It doubv hard for
England to prepare It's volunteer force
and later It's conscnpted troops quick
ly for che field The officers and the
noncommi ssioned officers Of tl,e pegu-
lars who know how 10 trntn gveen
troops nnd to give them the spirit Of
the established soitliefy largely were
killed OF or disabled. IN the awful
fighting from the Belgian line TO the
line running east from Pnris, and IN
! the later advance to the hDe which
Che Germans had prepared for what
rhey hsped 10 b a permanent plase
Of resistance.
n win be seen. army ofnosys say,
readily enough from The experience
OF Great Britain mat this country
must needs conserve a hree part Of
ifs recsinr force 10 net rs instructors
Of tn new troops In the ffeftl. This
fast. Il 10 said. probably win prevent
mo dispatah Of force of regulars 70
the European battlefield or at kast
prevent sbs immediate sendina Of a
force greater IN strength than a d.
visloA.
v he rreaatNo Camps.
In NJ. 1915. tae writer Of Tits m
uols vsitsd ths training camps OF
thS Brtish ssidtsss It AltSessafst md
SAAshaxy. TAs sDs9 Ghsse wsn b>
nauDduAsd ahssoy N IN pnised
SsH6s. Men " ofvffian1 clothes came
iato tho oamps In hnndredA host Of
thssn never had seea IN army CAM
bekopa, and most Of them never had
hanil>d n rife md did MT know
enough about military matters 10 real
We mat when standing "at attention.
they should keep their heels together
At Aldershot and Salisbury ther'
were many old retired officers Of tn
British army who had gone back int
the service to net as instructors. o
course there was contingent of reg
ulars, and there were members OF tn
territorial army who had advance,
sufficiently In their studies to becom
Observation-Disclosures men were there I
bring the new army into shape, and
Job they had of 1t.
One thing struck the visitors I
these camps of the British. Their
We're men who had been there four o
Ave months and who to all appear
ances were just MS good soldiers a
the flat-backed self-reliant regulars
hut these men themselves knew othel
wise. They knew that their trainin
was by no means complete, and thG
they must have weeks and perhaT
months more OF II Just behind IN
fighting lines In Europe before the
would be ht to uphold the tradition
of their colors In the face Of IN enem
who had been preparing forty yeal
Cor his work.
So II Is, army officers In Washingto
say, that the American youth mus
reconcile Its ardent spirit 10 Il Ion