Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-29
EAvoRs COMPULSORY MILITARY
TRAINING AS OPPOSED TO
coMPuIs sorry SERVICE. 4 j
BROAD DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN TWO PLANS
National Association Defines Two Sys-
tems-PIans Being Made For En-
eampmsnt Of Fourth Regiment OF
Iowa Guard--Would Provide Fifteen
Days Of Practical Military Life.
specil to Times Republican.

SpeCU 70 Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 2s-Plans are now
being considered for an encampment
OF the Fourth Iowa National Guard
regiment and the place OF holding the
~encampment will soon be determined.
Waterloo is being considered and one
or two other cities.
The encampment would offer oppor-
tsnity for five days rife work and ten
deys general instruction or fifteen days
all told. It would give the men in this
new organization opportunity TO take
course OF instruction which they
could not otherwise obtain.
Heretafore the national guard en-
campments have been held in August.
During the war, or from the time Of
the calling out of the troops in 1915
20 go 10 the Mexican border, up TO the
present summer, the guard troops were
in active service.
In statement Just issued the Ma
tional Guard Association of the United
States makes IT'S position clear as to
its attitude toward universal military
training which seems to have been
Misunderstood because the guard OPP
opsing the passage OF the Chamber
lain-Kahn DILL and all bills OF a sim
liar nature. In this statement the as
sociation says:
For Compulsory Training.
The National Guard Association of
the United States favors compulsory
universal military training of every
young man in the country capable or
bearing arms.
AS an adequate measure Of pre-
paredness it favors compulsory mill
tary training Just as it believes that
every boy should be taught TO read
and write and trained to earn his own
livelihood and render military service
to the country, should the country call.
The National Guard Association of
the United States Is opposed to any
form Of compulsory military service
which unnecessarily seizes a boy from
his home and those good influences
which are necessary IN character
building As the technic of war which
he might be taught in professional
schools
The association favors that form Of
universal military training which will
give the young man in early youth
the rudments of military education
while at the same time he Is under
the guidance of his mother and in pre-
pairing for what will be to him the
real battle of life.'
The question naturally arises; what
is the difference between compulsory
t,~oi md mi.
Versal service?
Compulsory universal training Is
that form of education which will in
still in the heart of the boy love of
country and ambition to become
good citizen. ready to assume all the
obligations and to bear all the re-
spon sibilties Of citizenship: and at the
same time to teach him by duty in the
field the fundamentals which will pre-
pare him for the training which ne
should then receive as a member of
the citizen soldiery Of the United
States.
Compulsory military service thursts
him into the regular military house
hold OF an age ne is not fully qualified
TO decide for himself; and possibly in
fuencss him against the wishes Of his
parents and against what would pc
his ow mature judgment TO lead the
life Of a professional soldier with all
Its temptations and with the narrowing
influences which broad men know that
the soldiers life is filed with. At the
same time. 1t could not in three or SIX
months make a finished soldier out OF
4 him In the accepted sense of the word.