Evening star., 1924-04-11
MILLIONS TO SHOW
u. S. WAR STRENGTH
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ciently. peacefully. almost unobserved
and unknown, without interruption Of
their productive pursuits and depend
ing only on the ability and voluntary
patriotism of it's men and women,
will, in the opinion OF Gen. Pershing,
be an achievement greater than any
thing which he accomplished in
France. Though the operations and
training Of the, general staff under
Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum has been
working on the plans for several
months and will have them completed
to the minutest detail before the date
agreed upon, everything has been
surrounded with the Strictest secrecy
in Army circles. Recent details have
made II impossible to prevent discus
sion in the Capital and political ranks.
Experts Mere ou-Lookcrs.
On mobilization day itself, however,
Washington, or the War Department,
will not direct, but merely observe.
The local communities and the re-
sponsible local citizens viii work out
the problem with the machinery
which is in their home cities and
towns today. Except for the militia
company, an occasional recruiting Of
ficer, a graduate of an officers train
ing camp or reserve officer, none
with a definite duty in vast skei-
eton organization, this machinery
was not there when the last war was
declared.
Mobilization DAY will educate and
test the American public in the mean
ing and operation of the national de-
fense act, the bulwark OF the Consti-
tuition of the United States and Of the
nations defense. Each community
tsyilI he va oysttt zl,p-
what it can do. The men and women
who already have pledged themselves
as reserve officers, members CT the
National Guard or otherwise, will:
show how efficiently they can direct
the work.
Headquarters will be establish ed /,
National Guard companies will fill up
to fall strength, volunteers for other
units will be enrolled and detailed
according to their individual quaiifi-
cations, motor corps will be organ
i2ed, Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls
will turn out. welfare organizations
will plan their activities. and even
factories and other industries will be
mobilized TO do their part In the i'm
aginary war work. This is only a
sketchy outline of the vast detail for
the day in every city and village
Mobilization day will show whethe err
the United States has an organization
iliCil Gail Ue TIE OASIS Oh q real cltl-
zens' army, an economical and demo-
cratic defense for the nation. The
public will make it's own test of it.
self
The organization is a lesson from
the war embodied in the national de-
Tense act. In former times, when war
was declared, everybody who could
not rush to Washington either tele-
grsphed his congressman Offering to
do something or enlisted at the near
est recruiting station. to be sent to a
concentration camp for training, the
men living under abnormal conditions
and the government staggering un-
der the expense. Under the present
system mobilization at the early
stages of training will be in the home
community.
Newspapers and the radio broad
lie with the part which it can play in
the days event None of the Army
appropriation win be used to detail
officers through the country to MAKE
arrangements or to participate in the
mobilization. The civilians who will
be in charge in the thousands of COM
munities have their instructions and
1t will devolve upon them to show
whether they can carry it through
successfully.
Each community-whether it is a
country cross roads or metropolis
of millions--will do its part alone.
Each will report the result of its
days efforts to the general head
quarters in Washington. Then after
the local parades and the celebrations
and the last reports have come in,
Gen. Pershing will tell the nation
over the radio what the day has brought
forth.