Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-03-27
4 PEOPLES ARMY PLAN OF M. T. c. A. IN CONGRESS
By R. s. ADAMS


 Editors NOte-The following
 article by R. s. Adams, represen- |, tative of the M. T. C. A. in Mo have County, is we'll worth read
 ing. Adams, who was . first
 lieutenant with the A. E. F, and
 with an excellent war record as
 told by other Mohave County boys
 who were with him over there,
 can speak on this subject from
 actual hqwledge of active war
 fare, and tho there are some who
 think we will not be enmeshed
 in war again soon, we must not
 forget that this is what we, as .
 nation, thought just before the
 greatest conflict in history. Let
 us consider this Peoples Army
 Plan.
 "Since 1915, the Military Training Camps Association of the United States, has been working to secure the adoption of universal training as the basis of our permanent military policy.
 It supported and did much to help secure the passage of the Selective Service Draft law, which was approv- ed by the President May, 1917.
 During the war, the Training Camps Association devoted it's act ivities chiefly to such practical prob lems as recruiting for and assisting in establishing the officers training camps. Not for moment, however, did it falter in it's main purposes. Its members mostly in uniform-practi- cally all in some service were profit ing by the wars lessons. In the war department, in the line, in the staff, in the munitions factories, st home, in England, in France, in Italy, in Si- beria and finally in Germany, the members were studying, thinking, and waiting for the moment to accomplish the great reform, for which the Platts- burg movement was begun.
 At the meeting of the governing committee of the association, held in New York City on November IA, 1916, which was attended by a large repre- sentation coming from all sections of our country-unanimous support was given to the principle of universal compulsory military service, and the following resolution was unanimously adopted: I...
 Resolved, That the object of this association is to bring about a sys- tenn of universal obligatory military training and service for the young men of the United States under ex- elusive Federal control and that this purpose be publicly announced and fol- lowed as the policy of the association.
 Further Resolved, That the Execu- tive committee of the association take such steps as it may be advised to advocate federal legislation for sys- tenn of universal military training and service.'"
 This program has consistently been followed out and our executive com mittee has just completed careful study of the whole situation which has been embodied in suggested law, draft of which has been handed to Senator Chamberlain and to Confiress- man Kahn, and this draft has been introduced by them in the senate and the house of representatives.
 Our history shows that the demands sf great war can be met only by capacity to employ the entire man power of the nation. This requires that the education of each citizen shall include preparation for effective military service if war should be de- clared during his years of active man. hood. This fixes universal military training as the indispensable basis of . sound military policy.
 The American armies in every great war have been armies of the people. But in the past we have risked de- ferring their organization and train ing until the outbreak of war. The practical solution of the problem is simple. Within the past two years we have raised a great popular army ana US VGtcTduS dIc ICIuihiiS " Si''A life.
 What better military policy can we have than to perpetuate this institu- tion by giving it a permanent terr'- torial organization?
 Let the charter members of our new territorial army be the veteran officers and soldiers of the great war who are willing to enroll for time in the permanent organization in or der to transmit their traditions and experience to their younger brothers.
 We have just won, or rather, we have been the decisive factor in Win ming the greatest war in history. We went into it utterly unprepared. We commenced our preparations April 6, 1917. The great public is apt to for get some things, some of the circum- stances of Americas participations in this war. The great American public is apt to be full of confidence, and rightly so, in many respects-full of confidence in it's ability and the abil- ity of this nation generally to respond should occasion arise again to another