Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-11
a Joins Allied Countries In Observing Ar7n;stce Day

gress passed the selective service act.
The enforcement of this act resulted In
the registration for military service OF
26,OO0,00O of the 54.000,000 males in the
population of the United States. OF
this number, 100000 either enlisted or
were called to the colors, of whom
1000, 900 served in the army, the re-
naming serving in the navy and ma
rine corps. AS a broad generalization
1t may be said that OF every hundred
men who served, 10 were national
guardsmeu. 10 regulars, and n national
army men.
Here. our government was confront
ed with the problem which the Ger
man general staff believed could never
be successfully solved. The renewal
Of unrestricted warfare by the deadly
and treacherous submarines was the
immediate cause of our entry into the
war. Germany believed that this form
of campaign was necessary in order to
starve England into submission. and
she believed, moreover. that 1t would
result in preventing the United States
from landing and supplying any con-
siderable army in France.
But to the glory of the American
navy be 1t said that we transported
1854 900 soldiers to France without the
loss of single troop transport on Its
eastward voyage.
"Our soldiers who were sent across
were organized into divisions each
of which consisted, roughly speaking,
Of 1000 officers and $4,000 men. We
organized and trained in this country,
and transported to France, Az divisions,
20 OF which took part in active combat
service, while the others were used for
requirements or arrived too late to be
engaged in actual hostilities.
The battle record Of the American
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% combat divisions. These divisions
were in active battle for about 200 days.
from the 25th of April, 1918. when the
first regular division, after long train
ing in quiet sectors, entered an active
sector on the Picardy front. AT the
time of their greatest activity in the
second week Of October all % Ameri-
can divisions We're in action. They
held Mt this time 90 per cent of the en-
tire Allied line and from the middle
| of August until the end of the war. they
held, during the greater part of the
| time, front greater than that held by
he British.
THE RISING MENACE
1T may happen that our coun-
try may never again have to face
a foreign foe upon the field of bat
! tie. But even as we say this we
! are conscious of the fact that no
| armistice has been declared in the
| field of our domestic difficulties.
Here a bitter struggle is on
! which apparently looks either to
class control of government or to
| its overthrow The abandonment
by the uniformed policemen of
| great commonwealth of their
| posts of duty. the deliberate call
| ing OF a great coal strike at the
| beginning of winter. notwith-
standing the sufferings its contin-
| uance might impose, are but recent
| illustrations of the tremendous
| forces of unrest and discomfort
which have been unleashed in the
! world.
| Eternal vigilance has always
! been the price of liberty but we
| have allowed our vigilance to relax
| and have supinely watched the
! growth and development of well
| defined movement to subvert law
! and order in this country. The
| existence of this reasonable senti-
| ment and the length to which it
! is prepared to go by the develop
! ments of the war and it's after
| math.
ANOTHER DANGER
1.-The patriotism of our people
| has been aroused and l do not an
| ticipate any immediate danger
! from riots or attempted revolutions
| which would seek by open force
| TO work the overthrow of our insti-
| tutions. / believe / see, however,
| hidden danger from another
| source,
/ ut is the danger that the ex-
| treme radicals, the forces of dis
| content, may obtain control of one
| or the other of our great political