Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-03-27

for the fact that it has gone into
 nearly every war unprepared, un- equipped and unarmed. The congress
 of the United States, which reflects public sentiment, is alone responsible for the fact that it has disobeyed the injunctions and admonitions of first one military commander and commits sion after another up to and includ- ing the present time.
 Under the old volunteer system the thickly settled centers of population furnished the volunteers, with the re- suit that isolated communities far from the seat of trouble, aS a rule, furnished no men. Under such sys tenn, you would find that treason dar- ed raise it's head in those communities where no young men had gone forth to battle for their country; but under a system which compelled all the young men to fight, we find that the sentiment which was pro-German in some sections of the country became pro-Amsrican. Every man, woman and child in those sections of/ the country where young men had gone forth, stood behind those young men who were representing the isolated communities of America; and so it will always be wherever a community sends forth it's quota to do its duty in time of emergency, you will find that community rallying around the Stars and Stripes, and doing their duty to America as well as the men in the trenches.
 There ought not to be any class in America except Americans! There is no place for hyphenation in Amer ica! There is no place for Bolshe- vism! There is no place here for dis loyalty, or loyalty to any other flag, or any other colors, than the flag that our boys have Laid down their lives to save. Let us see to it that proper military policy is prepared. Universal training will enable cur country, under the training and best type of instructors, to discipline the young men of America and God knows they need it above all other things in the wide world. It will teach these young men sanitation and hygiene. America lost thousands of men in France, by actual death upon the bat tlefield and by disease, but the lessons which these men learned in the camps in the United States, saved more men actually than we lost on the battle field.
 If you have not read it, you ought to read the recent report that was prepared by the Surgeon General of the Army and see the thousands of young men that have come into the army of America afflicted with social disease, young men who under the old system would not have been admitted to the service. They have been taken into the service, and not only have they been cured of these diseases, but they have made splendid soldiers on the battle fronts of France; and these young men and others who were not so afflicted, have learned lessons that will do more to protect future gen erations than any lessons they could have learned in civil life under the present methods of instruction in America.
 But aside from that, it develops the man physically and mentally. l have seen young men come into camp with sunken and stopping shoulders and within six months you would hardly believe they were the same fellows, with chests out and head and should CTS erect, showing that the army and the training they had received had made them real Americans, not only in strength and in size, but in morale