The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-11

 UNION APPEALS

The American Union against Milf tarfsTn, with national headquarters in the Westory building. Washington, D. C., has issued the following ap- peal:
 Congress has adjourned, conscious of the rising tide of opposition in the United States to compulsory military training But when the new Con gress meets, it will be headed by men who seem determined, regardless Of the popular will, to fasten perman- ent conscription upon the country fl it is humanIy possible. Julius Kahn.
 who will be the new chairman o1 the House Committee on Military Af- fairs, has just sailed for France, as he says ito get the ideas of F'och, Haig and Pershing on the sort Of cornDuIsorv 1riIitary training system we ought to have He tight have employed the interval be-Ween this Congress and the next i'll an effort to ascertain the views Of the Ameri- can people. but apparently he prefers inc iE~-s of professional soldiers. When 4ze comes back, he will move heaven and earth, first, to commit the Republican party definitely to conscription, and then to force bill through Congress embOdying what he has learned.
 NOW is the time for the Ameri- can people to make themselves heard empha tcaTy All talk about our adopting a Swiss system is misleading for all the military training bills thus far introduced in Congress have been based. not on the Swiss system. but on the Prussian system. If We con- cede to the miIitaTists the principle of peace time compulsory military training-even for six months-they will continue to agitate unul they reach the goal set by the General Staff TWO YEARS COMPULSORY TRAINING AND S-GEICE for every l able-bodied American youth. Nobody in Europe will be deceived by our talk of adopting the swiss system; if we adopt any form of compulsory l training. 1t will be regarded as the l prompt mobilization of our entire l rnan-power for that next war" which l General Leonard Wood so cheerfully i predicted before the Kansas legisla- i ture. What we do. careless of our i huge strength and sure of our pioU 1 intentions others will feel forced 10 do in self-defense. It will be regard | ed as proof that we do not take seriously the professions of inter- l national good will with which we en- | tered the war. It will fasten the l whole world again in the grip of i nlilitarism.
 '"The Sixty-sixth Congress will mark i a crisis Either we shall adopt an ! irnperialistic course or one that will : give us the moral leadership and the [ friendship of the world. Now is the i time for us to assert ourselves. An | immense caste of professional mill ! tary officers and a huge, tacit league of newspapers are pressing day in i and day out for @ permanent conscrip- ton system disguised as universal | military training" If you are against 1t, join us in the fight. Send us a c~r1 -rib1ltion We need funds to ed ucato the people to the real facts. Our opponents are heavily subsidized by the s25,0O0.0OO Carnegie Corpora ton of New York City. Unless the r friends of democracy join in the fight, we shall be defeated by the combination now forming against us Send contributions to Mrs. Az nes Brown Leach, Treas. Westory Building, Washington, D. e.
 Among the names attached to the appeal are o. G. Willard, chairman; Amos R. E. Pinchot, vice chairman: Mrs. Henry G. Deach, treasurer; Owen R. Loveioy, Herbert S. Rige- b low, 1~H- I4hn Haynes Holmes,