The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-07
TRAIN ALL BOYS
SIX MONTHS
Congressman Kahn of Cali
fOrnia Will Introduce
Universal Training
THREE HEGOMONIES
TO RULE THE WORLD
Suggests This as Substitute for League
of Nations-Would Keep American
Soldiers Out of Europe-Warns
Against Paternalism.

BOSTON, March 7.-Congressman Jul
lius Kahn of California, of the committee
on military affairs, got great reception
at the Boston City club last evening from
more than 1000 of the members.
He urged the necessity of six months
of military training for all boys in the
United States when Is years old, and
a league of nations that will tend to
discourage wars, but which will preserve
to the United States her hegemony over
the American continent.
He was opposed to government owner
ship of railroads, telegraphs, telephones
etc, and believed 1T the duty of the gov
eminent to put down Bolshevism aud the
i. W. w in this country-putting out OF
the country by force those who are not
satisfied with the institutions of the
United States.
Congressman Kahn said it was fortu-
nate for this country that England and
France had been fighting Germany for
several years before the United States
entered the war, owing to the UMPIRE
paredness of the country IN spite of the
warnings of the late Congressman \. z.
Gardner and others.
Yet, perfectly good generals in the
| United States army had demonstrated
! to the committee on military affairs that
| they didn't know SO much about train.
| ing soldiers as they thought they did
! These generals told the committee that
! it took three years to train soldier
and that five years would be much bet
| ter In point of fact soldiers who hac
had only six months training went III
against crack shock troops of the German
army-highly trained men-and defeated
them at Chateau Thierry and the Ar
gonne.
This showed that six months intensiv,
training such as the men had in tn,
environments last year. would produce
good army, and boys taken when Is year
of age and given six months training
would, in the course of three years, Civ
the United States the finest army in tn
world There would be no need Of re
serves, for in case Of war all that woul,
be necessary would be to put the draf
into effect He insisted that the Unite
States must be prepared for war at al
times because with the best intention
in the world men have an instructive dc
sire to tight--it is the law of nature tina
is behind the principle of the survival Q
the iittest
He said President Wilson himself wa
convinced that the present proposal Q
a league of nations would not proven
wars and, accepting the Presidents opiI
ion, he felt it his duty to introduce bi
at the next session of congress providin
for universal military training, along tn
, lines he had suggested. This statemer
was cheered.
= He said be had suggested as an alte
: native or amendment to the propose
league of nations that the United State
with the A b. c. Nations of Amerie
be given the hegemony of this continent
that Great Britain, France and Italy |
given the hegemony of Europe and \
RIGA; and that Japan and China be give
the hegemony of Asia.
His idea in dividing the world mi
three hegemonies was to keep America
soldiers out of conflict in remote par
of Europe and Asia and let the Peep
of those parts Of the world settle the
}. own differences with their own milital
establishment. He urged everybody
read the great speech of Philander
Knox of Pennsylvania,
= He then turned his attention to ST
spirit of paternalism so rampant in til
country. He said if the COVERINGS
took over the railroads, telcgraphs al
telephones it would put upon the payrt