Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-10
MILITARY TRAINING
LAW TOBE URGED
Representative Kahn Also
Plans Fight for Automatic
CONSUMPTION Act.

Fight to have Congress pass uni
versal military training law will be
! renewed by Representative Julius
Kahn, chairman of the House COM
| mttee on military affairs. when Con-
gress reassembles. Coupled with this
will be a provision for automatic con-
scription the moment this country de-
clares war against another. or when
war is made against the United States
Representative Kahn, as ranking re-
publican, led the fight in the House for
the selective service law which en-
abled the United States to put 1000
600 under arms to fight the Germans,
and when he became chairman of the
committee Immediately championed
universal military training.
AS to the work of the military af-
fairs committee in the coming SEES
sion. l have not yet been able TO map
out program. My own personal
views regarding universal military
training and the necessity for pre-
paredness have undergone no change"
| said Mr.. Kahn
Ready for Emergency.
| World events convince me that
while we all regret that conditions
are SUCH that war is going on in sew
eral parts of the world at the pres
| ent time-and probably will continue
to go on in the future as in the past
| it is the safe and sane policy for this
country to be ready for any possible
emergency.
| Il still believe that such A course
will be the best insurance for peace
and hope we will have enough mem
! bers in the House who view the sit
| uation in that light. At any rate I
| intend to do what 1 can to prepare
atty"
Chairman Kahn believes that with
the universal training law in opera
tlon 1t VIII be easy to throw an ade-
| quate army into operation on short
notice to repel any act of aggression
anu to make such an eNer-ready army
he will urge the automatic conscrip-
! ton act.
Experiences in the world war show
the need for such preparedness Mr.
Mann says, and points out that I'VE
LOST three months by not having the
selectlve service act on our statute
books when We went in to fight for
human liberty. Such a DELAY might
be fatal to our cause another time"
ne continued, when there might not
be any allied forces to hold the enemy
IN cneck until We were ready"
Amend irmy Bill
He says that +" IS in favor of
amending the frTy reorganization
bill passed at 4, list session Of CON-
1 -iSs'o % MAJ s''flIttOl would be
automatic with tI.S country's going
TO war That olid be a great guar
ant"e of reac.,'' t,.- assumes
| The Kahn bill for universal mill
tary training was Endorsed by the
House committee, Il to 3. in the last
session. A caucus of democratic
members of the House refused to
allow 1t to be conside red, even though
IT was strongly Endorsed by Secretary
Baker.
Representative Kahn is also in
favor of amending the Army reor-
i ganization bill SO that aviation as
great national arm of defense can be
properly developed. He views with
alarm the progress made in aviation
/ by Germany since the armistice, in
comparison with the way in which
the United States has dropped this
branch of military preparedness and
protection. Representative Kahn
favors an annual appropriation of
about 100000 to be used solely for
Invention and development of airships
as matter of national protection
He believes that this would be cheap
in comparison with the $6s0.090, 900
spent on aviation while we we're at
war without getting planes at the
front.