Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-03-20
DIGEST OF ARMY REGENERATION
 BILL ..3792..

him and his executive gent, the Chief of Staff; by providing for the creation and maintenance of division, corps and army staff; and by requiring lib- eral civilian representation on the sec tions of the General Staff concerned with the citizen army system.
 II. R. O. T. c. UNITS. The bill wisely provides for the instruction of all classes of officers and no-comn,is- stoned officers in army and civilian educational institutions and indus tries; and that the Reserve Officers Training Corps in colleges is to be maintained and developed.
 The following letter from Kenneth MacNichol, voices the sentiment of the intelligent veterans regarding opposi- tion to Universal Training. Mac Nichol first saw service overseas with the British Expeditionary Forces and later spent two years in France, first as an enlisted man of the American Army, and in the latter part of his enlistment as an editor of Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper of the A. E. F.:
 LET THE VETERANS DO IT
 "Mr. Mondell, representative from Wyoming and self-appointed financial watch dog of the House, is terrified at the probable cost of universal mil itary training. No one knows just what it will cost, but MT. Mondell is terrified just the same. He admits that it might be a very good thing and perhaps save lot of money, at some future time. But, just now, hay ing spent some $32,000, 100000 in two years, We just simply can't afford any further expenditure for soldiers. Mir. Mondell believes, very statistically, that Congress must save the finan- ciers of the country from the finan- cial disaster that, thanks to the pat riotism of the country, did not serious ly threaten during the period of the war MT. Mondell proposes to fur ther tax that patriotism and effect said salvation of the financiers t the expense of the returned soldiers-let- ting the veterns do it, as it were.
 "Mr. Mondell opposes universal mil itary training because we can console ourselves with the fact that we have 100000 splendidly trained young men in this country, and, thank God, there is no present menace to the Re- public.' And so, says he, let us take plenty of time to think about this matter, to talk about it, and deter mine upon it.
 "Mr. Mondell may blindly thank God that there is no present menace to the republic. He was probably en- gagged in some such thanksgiving on the morning of April 9th, 1917. Wis CT men, seeing the disturbed condition of the world, would be inclined to lack such didactic certainty.
 Never mind that. Here are the A. 100000 "splendidly trained" ready to fight again if need arise. They have probably forgotten already the results of Mondell programs of unprepared- ness-conscription; the hasty medical examinations; the jerry-built canton ments; the lack of shoes, clothing, I rifles, machine-guns, aircraft, and ar tillery; those crowded cattle boats for men; the mud-fooded concentration camps of "St. Agony" and Brest; the untrained troops thrown hastily into battle; the incompetence of untrain- ed officers; the inadequate hospital facilities; subsequent difficulties with allotments and insurance-the whole sorry tale. They have forgotten, if they have one and all been stricken with asphasia. Otherwise, not SO. Yet, no doubt, in case of national emergency, the veterans would be will ing to fight again and under the same conditions, in order that financiers might continue to finance, profiteers to profit, and the young and untrained generation continue to sit at home and take their csc. The veterans would probably rush into battle crying, "Let the veterans do tive know how" MT. Mondell is at least consistent. In advising his colleagues to "take plenty of time to think about this mat ter, to talk about it, and determine upon it," he simply carries forward the economic policy of a Congress that has been talking, thinking and deter mining for more than a year.
 The, veteran has lost only from six months to two years of lucrative en- ployment at war wages. He did all of the fighting and most of the suf-