Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-12-15
CR0HDER SOUNDS
DEATH-KNELL TO
VOLUNTEER PLAN
URGES sEIECTRE SERVICE SNs-
TEN PERMANENTLY FOR
UNITED STATES.
HAS BEEN GREAT SUCCESS
Provost Marshal General Asserts IL
Would BE Calamity to Revert
To Former Methods Ina lu-
turc Wars.

~ Associated ireN
NEW YORK. Dec. 14.-'Taps Co
the volunteer system OF raising arm
les In war time hy the United States
was counded here tonight by Mayor
General EuOch H. CrOwder provost
marshal general, In an address to Che
retiring members of lNs New York
draft boards he earnestly advo-
Gated that the selcctiye service sys
tenn should become the permanent
method of raising armies Boo The iu-
turo
General Crowdcr declared that the
selective serciso law had enabled the
government IN this war 90 register
23.740.0O0 Americans, put into the
field nearly 5000 600 fighters and
90 have in readiness to ontraiu on
November n. when the armstico was
signed. 100000 more soldiers. AN
within a period of eighteen months.
II would be- calamity Dee said
for the United states 90 revert to the
volunteer system IN vicw of such a
successful test of soleciiye service.
lie added that the men selected had
shown the yalor, aEgressiyencss and
initiative ot the most seasoned
troops
Praise ScleCtiVc Service.
General Crowder's speech was an
exposition Of the successful work of
the selectivo service law which ho
said, had responded so smoothly
and So weil 10 our dual Nrm %
state government and national con
troll that q would be calamitous ID
u should not become q recognized
part OF our governmental system lni
the raising OF armies in time o.
var
The provost marshal general con
trasted the draft methods OF Che
United States with those Of England
land and showed how this couutr,
had proftcd By the mistakes mad,
hy the British who. after three year.
of trial with the volunteer system
and the Discrimination 0f industry
were Obliged % adopt conscription
Test Has Bccu Met
Pointing out that when Germany
hurled her challenge to the domoc
racies of the earth 10 became uccos
sary for those democucics for solf
preservation. 90 organize their re-
sources as she had done and "mak.
every man a soldier" active or ro
severe. General Cr1Wdcr declare,
this test had been met
AFTER seventeen months OF wal
had Witnessed the disastrous firht
Ing 90 Gallipoh Nosopotamia and th,
Balkans and the deadlock on th,
western front. ho declared "th,
new army of England was 100 OOl
short OF iis then authorize,
strength The volunteer systeu
was abandoned bo added. after Il
had threatened tho industrial life %
the nation aud undermined the whol
economic structure
Traditional Method strong.
When the United States wnr de
rartmeut Boz its effort to heed fh
lesson learned by Enlland. sorrh
the enactment of tho selecfiye sar
vice act. General Crowdcr said fha
the traditional method of r4isir.
armies hy the volunteer system Va
500 strong with fhc American peopl
mat q was deemed cXpedient q
The very bin the war department pro
scented 90 congress FOR enactment t
provide that limited voluutocr.n
might go ou
We recalled tho great opposition q
draft and how through the insist
cuco ~ the president ably supuorte
hy The sialvart and aggressive lead
Representative kahn. iu the resro,
tive houses tho day was saved
Rcierriur .I 'he ealcrtito servfe
system. 4a "Ihs worry essence uf a,
moruoy' thc general appraised th
faults Of thn volunteer system
-naw che prorfH,,s