The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31
THE FUTURE OF ARMAMENTs

r HE OUTSTANDING features of the military convention
between Austria Germany prove the necessity OF
complete victory, before the is permitted to end
To all intents and purposes the German and Austrian
to be- through period of 25 years. one army IN
der German control The purpose to train the enre peoples
Of both nations that man Will be soder ana every
industry will be fully equipped to take its place in the war
machine.
"only thus" says of the paragraphs of the new
treaty future be of brief duration, for had the
both allies been in this condition in 1914 this war
would have been ended long ago."
The statement is probably true. Nobody can turn back
the clock say with certainty what might have hap
pened The knowledge to the world that Germany
Austria had consolidated of as high efficiency as
Germany army might have raised other forces than
that appeared such increased prewar efficiency OF
the armies of the Allies conflict might have been prec
plated United forces prepared other con-
ngencies might have asen such revolution within the
allied empires But other things being they when the
began such combined the treaty calls for must
have ended the present war long ago.
The lesson to the United States is plain Either this
must be such extent that the military power of the
central empires is exhausted or the United States must become
and remain, an armed camp for untold generations.
In States if the is lost it ends in draw,
a the inhabitants capable of bearing must receive
proper thorough military instruction. This is the Ian
guage Austrian German convention but it will apply
for America Railway lines and construction shall be under
taken unified pan, with view to the necessities of war
AS of old that only endure which has the strong
est of military organization All institutions, railroads,
factories and organizations must be directed into the form
which holds the greatest offensive power.
This plain situation which mind escape. If
Germany able in forty years to perfect military
organization of such power to threaten all the rest of
kind the end of four years of fighting, what will happen it,
with this war draw the combined German and Austrian
forces by millions Russians and Turks should launch
another fight?
Only world in prepared in the highest degree,
could resist such avalanche Nor is getting ready sim
pie matter it
Every state has history Of its own set of traditions
habit of thought and fixed methods of action It is thing to
these national habits during the period of war; and
another thing to conquer them during period of peace.
If this drawn fight the discipline of the Allies
be difficult than looks With the next en fifteen
or twenty years away the peoples might concevaby slide back
into their former careless and unmtary methods and might
oppose to strong and douby disciplined foe weakness
than they entered into this with.
The future would hinge upon such matters birth rates
ubordnaon Of self interest and the construction of nst
tons designed primarily in the idea that the state the chief
Organization and the only through which individuals
be guarded their persons and property Prussia would Prus
saniZe ALL
The history of the world is history of conquest Some
small people, little thought Of have risen again and again
conquerng all other peoples, through the requirement of
militant and effective type of civilization The best way
avoid another empire with its seat at Berlin to beat Ger
many and eectuay that not stone of her mill
tary power shall be left upon another.