The sun., 1919-01-22
KAHN REVEALS HIS
IDEAS ON US. ARMY
FavOrs Standing Force of 10O,-
600 Besides Troops Abroad
and on Border. :
WOULD TRAIN BOYS OF ID
Warns That Government Own
ership VIII Bring Rule by
Bureaucracy.

Representative Julius Kahn of Call
fornis. ranking Republican member Of
the House Committee on Military Al
fairs. who probably will he chairman OF
the committee in the new Congress. waf
the chief speaker at the annual banquet
of the Nationa, Garment Retailers AS
ISOLATION at the Waldorf last night.
Representative Kahn's address WAS
warning against disarmament and too
ready commitment to the nebulous idea
Of league OF nations an advocacy OF
universal military training and the es-
adjustment of merchant marine tho
abandonment of policy Of paternalism
In respect to public utilities and de-
msnd for the immediate suppression OF
Bolshevism.
Doubts Millennium Has Dawned.
II am not one OF those who have be-
come convinced that the millennium has
dawned." Representative Kahn began
Il contend that war Is not thing OF
the past, much as We would all Ike 10
have 1t so. Man is fighting animal
Ho cannot help II. for he was born that
way. Set two infants on the floor about
six feet apart, Give one OF them q toy.
The minute the other observes 1t he
crawls over and tries to take It away
remains IN the hands OF the stronger.
The same thing is true OF the wild beasts
of the forest and the plain. The survi-
val OF the httest seems to be the result
that nature aims at and this rule has
dominated the world as long as human
history has been recorded.
Many well meaning and highly edu-
Gated persons seem to be Of the impress
sion that you can prevent war with the
M trata tnna nj
agreements. I wish l could bring my
self to that belief. They hope that at
the peace conference just beginning at
versailles the nations viii agree to u
plan of disarmament These good in
tsntioned dreamers seem to forget some
u the lessons Of victory"
Representative Kahn told OF the de-
feat of Prussia by Napoleon In 1872 and
Of the Corsicans demand that Prussia
reduce her army to $4,000 men. But
Prussia. he explained preferred to In
terpret Napoleons meaning as permits
sion TO train $4,000 men year, which
she did. until 1913 at Leipzig she was
able to march 10000 trained soldiers
against her former conQueror.
The California Congressman declared
that the military attaches OF the various
Powers At their embassies at Berlin
failed TO take note OF Germany's great
preparations for war. and said that the
first the allied nations knew ~ Ger
many's great forty-two cen,imetre guns
was when the Hun trained them OH the
defences o. Liege, Namur and Antwerp.
And So he went on, with these
tactical lessons before us IL would be.
IL my opinion, the height Of folly 10
neglect our own preparations for posi-
Bile wars of the future and the defence
Of our rights as vigorous. Independent
and progressive nation
Would Train Youths for q Months
Mr.. Kahn said that he believed the
United states should have standing
army OF l00. 900 men In addition TO regu-
lar troops in the Philippines, Hawaii. in
the Canal Zone. on the Mexican border
and in Alaska. In addition. he would
train all youths OF eighteen years for
six months between April and October.
For this purpose the speaker suggested
the use OF the environments established
throughout the country.
Speaking of the problems of recon-
struction Representative Kahn warned
against continuance OF the policy OF
Daternalsm exemplhed in the Govern
nent control OF public utilities. ct is a
serious proposition" he said. We are
In danger OF continuing system that
may ultimately lead to our undoing.
TO my mind We must curb the tend
ency to paternal!sm. The very country
with which we have been al war carried
the system to its ultimate conclusion.
The Government OF Germany dominated
industry through many agencies. II
owned the publ!c utilities. controlled the
corporations and participated in the or
ganization OF trusts"
Representative Kahn said that the
next great reconstruction problem 10 be
solved was that OF the American mer-
chant marine. lie demanded Il revision
of the navigation laws so that American
capital will find profitable investment In
the owning and operating OF ships to the
end that the American flag will not be
pulled down from tne masthead OF ships
that have been constructed for Ameri-
can shipping since The war began.