Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-15

method of draft In time OF peace uni
versal training"
Boys must register with local boards
10 be created, when they reach ! . yea =
OF age and their training IL Ia 10, iOt
three months instead OF six in the
ChamborIa.a bill. He provides pay at
So per month for these young so
diers
Kahn would hold these hu's aftcr
they complete their traialag, f9r 'w1
years during which time thcI ca De
called 10 the cuIurs by the pgCSdoat
in an emergency"
The Wadsworth bill, which Is tho
bin prepared 10y the general start Of
the army, with the Chamberlain bill
and Kahn biil us "A model t. NOR. Ike
the Kahn bin than the ChamD rIs.n
monstrocity.
Opposed to All.
All OF this is Prusa.an mi !turism to
the last degree. 1t is an insult to the
patriotic people Of the nation and COM
ing at the time that the senate IS con-
siderlng approval or the league or
nations treaty, is sublime nfironiory
in it's Inconsistency.
The National Guard Association Oi
the United States composed of the
adjutant Generals Of all states and
leading guard officers are thoroughly
alarmed over the pres entation OF these
three bills They fear that the junker
element In the army and in congress
will railroad one OF them thru before
the public, busy fighting the high cost
OF living caused by the recent war,
awake to the situation. The Iowa ma
tional guard association has asked
Iova'S delrgatiOn IN congress to vote
against the massage Of any one o.
these bills. or parts thereof and I
am now requesting friends Of the
guard and Of the league OF nations and
all those who love our personal liber
ties and oppose muitarism in any form
to write or telegraph their senators
and congressman to oppose these
measures.
The national guard association Of
the United States has gone emphat-
ically on record in opposition to all
three bills. It has called attention 10
its Prussian character and pointed out
that while England has thrown out
CONSUMPTION in times of peace. Ameri-
can junkers are endorsing il.
1T is estimated that if tho general
staff bill becomes a law it will take
into the army every year about $4,000
boys in Iowa and the Kahn and the
Chamberlain bills would draft many
more. Probably these men would be
forced into camp during the summer
time. when there is the most work on
the farm
Il have not the slightest doubt but
that these three bills are aimed at
the guard, and there is cooperation
between the friends of each of them.
The war department a short time ago
ruled that lettered guard companies
would consist of a minimum Of sixty
five men and officers. About the time
these bills were introduced the war dc
partment ruled that the minimum
must not be less than 100 men. This
makes i very difficult. il not impos-
sible. to maintain guard companies
in the smaller. towns in Iowa, altho
We have in the past maintained
minimum of sixty-five men well
enough.
Citizens of Iowa. friends Of the Iowa
national guard. who have money in
vested in armories in a score Of cities
and towns, must understand that if
America is Prussianized by the war
department and their junker friends
that the guard will die and the ar
mories. for which the state pays
rental. will be empty of guardsmen.
Il am aghast at the effrontery of the
militarists at Washington, who, in
these days of peace. with the league of
nations almost a fact. have the auda-
city to seriously present measures of
this character for serious considerat-
ton"