Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-14
ARMIES CHAFE At
DISCIPLINE WITH
FIGHTING ENDED
Our Men at Front Fear Lest
the Soldiers Discharged at
Home viii Take Pick of the
Jobs They Had Counted On,
By Herbert Bayard Swope
Copyright, 1919 by the Press pub
fishing Co

(lne New OK world,
Especial Gable Despatch to World
and Albuquerque Journal)
Paris, Jan. lG.--As the final peace
settlement grows nearer. the prob
lem of military rehabilitation be-
comes more serious. It's gravity is
not confined to one nation but 1t Is
worldwide.
Two elements contribute to the
seriousness of the situation, the first
being the reluctance of the soldiers
To remain under arms with the fight
ing over and the second being the
system OF releasing men and provid-
ing work for them upon their dis
charge from military duty
Misgivings over the method adopt
ed in Mmerica are accumulated i'm
the minds of those who are studying
the matter ny conditions which are
developing In Great Britain, which
has laid down a formula generally
considered even moro efficient than
ours.
British Plan Has Faults
ASK for the man you want is the
catch phrase epitomizing the method
employed in England Rut recent
events at Folkcstone and other places
have shown defects of the plan,
According to the project evolved
by Sir Eric Geddes. British demobi-
lizatou is held 10 be almost entirely
an industrial problem The first sol
diers to be freed are the pivot or key
men the next to go are those work
ers in vocations sufferding from la
Dor shortage: and thereafter, other
men are assured jobs by so-callod
otI ietf ,,pr ,f a. Ia l. D..
ing in writing that an employer has
need for the man.
Although this scheme was consid-
cred the best that could he devised it
has not proved entircN successful.
That fact is occasionng much con-
Germ,
Industry Must Figure,
Bv the American method there ie
no discrimination in the DISCHARGE OF
men. but they are released without
considering whether or not Jobs are
waiting for thosn discharged
When Rernard M. Rarch was
chairman of the war industries board
he had his associates prepare n plan,
which treated rehabilitation as an
industrial matter, and he arranged
a method whereby men were to be
released according to demands for
the sort Of labor they could perform,
Gen. March chief of staff, insisted
that the matter was wholly military.
and he in 50 treating It,
Fears are expressed that there will
he y meeting Of idle men in the large
centres fortified with arrcarages OF
pay and with their allowances for
transportation home, and that this
will lead TO increase both Of unem-
ployment and Of crime.
Americans IN the army Of occupa-
ton are chatting under their present
restraint, The American spirit does
not make them good peace soldiers,
although they are as fine material as
the world produces. in military
sense. As the result of present dis
content, military records are reported
as showing great numbers Of alb
sences without leave and more SER
ious offenses.
Morale Important Now
The morale OF the troops was never
of more Importance than now, with
the keen edge of active service and
battle removed. Presen conditions
furnish fertile soil for agitators, of
whom there are seemingly many.
They are we'll provided with money,