The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-30
ARMY OFFICERS ARE WORRIED
 BY FEAR OF LOSING THEIR JOBS
Men of High Rank Nettled by Lack of Apprecia
 ton for Defense Work.

1 WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30. - These are anxious days for the offic- l CTS of the Regular Army.
 The lads who polished the swivel chairs in Washington during the war, and likewise the men who led bat talions, regiments, and even divisions into the face of the enemy with no visible evidence of fear and trembling ody are listening nervously for any sort of a tip as to what Congress in tends to do about the military forces of the United States.
 | The younger officers are frankly anxious about their jobs, and they will l tell you earnestly how unjust it would be to ruin the career of one who has 1 spent four of the best years of his 1 life in such place as West Point, only to be ruled out at a time when he seems to be in fair way to real ize upon his investment of weary weeks endured under the scourge of ruthless discipline.
 CALLS POLICY AN ERROR
 Officers of higher rank will give unsoundness of a policy which per mits a nation to run from one ex- treme to the other in the matter of national defense and will quote you long figures to show how much more inexpensive the world war would have been if the government hadn't made such errors more recently. They cite the recommendations of various chiefs of staffs of illustrious fame to prove that 250,000-or is it 150,000?-men are the irreducibe minimum neces sary for the safety of the United States, and then they inquire anxious l ly if Anthony of Kansas or Her rick of Oklahoma has said anything further about reducing the army to 6O,OOO men.
 1 From Secretary of War Weeks on down the Army is frankly worried. The higher authorities realize that, like the demand for reform, the de- mand for national defense comes in waves, but they are fearful that in the hysteria for reduction of arma- ment the country will lose much of the valuable ground it gained by the + experience of the world war OPINION OF EXPERTS
 The following quotations from | lecture recently delivered at the Army War College by Colonel John McA. | Palmer and published to the Army in an official bulletin, will show that the opinion of military experts on the sub | jects is:
 ''It has been the practice of the United States upon the outbreak of war to expand small professional peace establishment into a great non- professional war army. These expan- sions have always been perfected without any perpetuity of doctrine or organization, through which the ex- perience generated in one expansion could be utilized in the next. Or, to put it another way, at certain crises l in our history, with a vast energy, we have erected a great war organizas tion and then have demolished that organization after the emergency, without any provision for making that , expenditure permanent national in- vestment. After being forced to mili- tarize a whole generation we have taken no precaution to make the sac rifices of that generation a heritage ] of experience for the next generation that may be called upon to bear the stress of war.
 "NO NATIONAL SYSTEM"
 "At the outbreak of the Civil war we had no national military system, and such military knowledge as we had was concentrated in a limited number of trained soldiers, most of them in the Regular Army, with a few