Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-20
Six Months in Army at Age
of 18. His Plan for
Americans
OPPOSES WORLD UNION
100000 Regulars and Well.
Trained Reserve Is Best
Peace Insurance
By a staff Correspondent

universal military training and as al
opponent of league OF nations. unless
the United States under it can retair
al of its present rights.
Mr.. Kahn is the ranking Republican
on the Military Affairs Committee, an'
will be the chairman under Repuh
lican control after March 4. II wa
Kahn who took charge of the Admins
tration's selective draft bill in the Hous,
and carried It through successfully after
Chairman Dent, Democrat. and the othel
Democratic members OF the committe,
washed their hands of It and fought
for the volunteer plan. He has beef
one of the foremost exponents in Con
gress of army and navy preparedness
for the past decade.
Universal! peace and league of ma
tions have been discussed since thirty
one years before Christ, NJ. Kahn said
today, but none of them ever worked
Favors Armed Power
He favors universal military training
and the building of big navy. so that
the United States can stand for II:
rights before the world. In preferenc,
TO being tied up in a league Of nations
with lot Of other countries having &
diversity of aims, Mr.. Kahn said. Tt
be bound by such league would dives
this country of freedom OF national ac
tion and thought on the one hand. hs
said. and would make us part of worlc
police force to suppress every little in
ternationa. dispute that ever hereafter
arises in the world
The padding of our own canoe will
absolute freedom of action and the prep
aration of well-trained and equipped
army and navy through universal mill
tary service would insure the respect o
the world for us and would be prefera BIZ
to disarmament and participation in a,
illusionary league Of nations. declared
Congressman Kahn.
TO neglect our national preparedness
for possible wars of the future and tn,
defense Of our rights as a vigorous, in
dependent and progressive nation, Will,
We embrace the vision of a league o
nations to make wars impossible
would be the height OF folly" declared
Congressman Kahn today
Plans All Indefinite
I'VE hear much talk of league of ma
tions but so far | have seen no plai
giving promise of a definite and sub
stantial proposition. The idea is no
a new one. 1t has been the hope of tn.
leaders of, thought throughout the worlC
in all ages. Agrppa, the great genera
of Octavius Caesar announced that til,
time for universal peace was near afte
the destruction OF Antony's power
thir'y-one years before the birth o
Christ. During the years that have in
tervened the world has hoped ant
prayed for it, yet We have Just concluded
l,s l.. -
known.
1T is only natural now tnat all man
kind should he longing for II peace, tha
will be lasting and universal Many o
the suggestions OF today are but repcti
tions of those made hundreds of year
ago Early in the sixteenth centur,
there was the celebrated meeting be
ween Henry VIII Of England, ant
francis | OF France, at the fiel,
Jf the cloth of Gold. The twD
monarChs embraced kissed each othe
and vowed eternal friendship and peace
1t was not very long before the treat
became scrap Of paper Despite a
their well spoken phrases. war agai
broke out between the TWO countries
Emeric Cruce, in 1873 wrote IN
"Nouveau Cynee, proposing that In
European nations agree TO a permanen
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would Avoid Alliances
Il am opposed to surrender.ng ou
national defense of any American right
in the belief they will he upheld by
league Of nations" continued Mr. Kahr
Il hope we shall not become the world
policeman. We have enough great prob
lems confronting us yyitho,,t ,rudd'rn