Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1921-10-28

are those who entertain crave doubt.
except rs It may be- attained rs a by
product of the first Weakne has
never made combat improbable Two
babies Viii struggle foi the possession
Of lox AM while weakness appeals
TO the protective instinct IF the
strong generous man. H. appeals with
equal force To the predatory iHstiucts
Of the thug
The third objective die reduction
Of the burden Of taxation for urmu=
ment is vitality important But it is
an exceedingly involved problem
Prior TO the World War IL was Gus
tomary to represent military strength
graphically By pictures of soldiers. the
size Of the figures indicating the sup
posed effective strength This appeal
ed 10 the eye and gave an impression
as false as IL was lasting We all re
member the enormous Russian figure
in these drawings; We Az know now
how helpless that army was against a
fraction of the smaller German force
Modern Military Theories
Military strength does not depend
SO much upon the standing army as
upon the system of mobilization, the
number Of trained reserves, and the
munitions I'm storage And there is
also The navy which. IN It's relation to
the army in military strength. is de-
pendent upon thelnteution of the ma
tioH or example q strong navy
combined with strong army forms "a
powerful aggressive combination. a
strong navy with small army is pow
effal only fof defense against over
sens enemies. "a strong army with 1t
weak navy is effective for either the
offensive on the Defensive. bur only
against ncighhors ~ hose land from
tier. touch upon thu country With
these haste facts tand they are neon
troverfble truths, In mind, let us eN
anime the military organizations OF
the conferees. emitting China, which
has no navy. practically no army, and
no reserves Of munitions
A. far as can be- asecftained from
figure open to the public, standing
armies are being maintained as fol
lows
France 100000. plus small native
colonial forces
Great Britain 100000. exclusive
of dominion aed colonial native con
tingcuts.
ITALY $50 000
Japan sac. 1000
United States 1880
Potential Strength OF Nations
: All these nations except the last are
maintaining armies larger than nor
NAL The first four want 20 reduce
their forces as soon as conditions per
mt rhc United States has already
reduced her army 10 about one-half
authorized peace strength All eN-
ceptne Japan have still available
many veterans Of the World War A
close estimate Of these would be s.
Gee. Geo for France. $1,000 900 for
Great Britain (which number may be
increased To 5000 900 II the domin-
ions and colonies. including midas
100000 native veterans. are eonsid-
eredi italy 5000. 600 and the United
States > 500 .O00 But-and here We
come 10 the parting Of the ways
France and Italy have systems Of
compulsory training that replace each
year the veterans who become un-
available with young soldiers. while
the United States and Great Britain
teXeept for Australia and New Yea
land have no such means of replace
ment And even in France AMI italy
the thoroughness Of the system differs
la France we have a complete appli-
cation. in Italy it is only partially
enforced. Japan has universal com.
pulsory service law hut. as in the case
y Italy, i is NOT uniformly applied. (