The Washington times., 1932-03-12

letting which the world required, like doctors, on
larger scale.
Patriotism and War
The appalling idea of nation under of civilians
rushing to their muskets is invention OF democracy
It was foreshadowed in the War of Independence on
the winning side regrettably The British had in the
first line their professionals and in the second the hired
Hessans; the American coonists, having no regular
army compelled to offer to every man the chance
of learning profession and dug out OF the classics an
isolated and entirely uncharacerstc remark to the effect
that it is sweet and proper to die for ones country
Loyal Noncombatants
The error lies in the association of two ideas which
have naturally nothing in common: the idea of pa
trotism and the idea of bearing arms The plays OF
Shakespeare full of patriotic rabble, no member
of which would dream of rushing to the defense of the
flag Soldiers were dragged, drugged, tricked into
service and good aristocrats were loyal and DEVOTED
to their motherland without imagining them
selves bound to go forth expeditions In those days
it simple matter to begin or to end war; because
wars were made without passion, without FourMinute
to find new enemy each time, because in the END
money had to be collected and people mated to suffer
starvation in beleaguered town; but these were the
accidents of war. The normal thing was simple and
Unconditional and comparatively clean.
No Civilians
The best part of the old system that, strictly
speaking, there were no civilians, just as strictly
the first case civilians didn't exist separate cate
gory-because the army was not composed OF citizens,
but of experts; to say that there civilians and
civilians and jabirds in New York today In the next
war; for the purposes of bombing, the enemy will
slider that all soldiers and they will be very
nearly right.
The Bad Old Men
But there will always remain enough old men not in
uniform to give full taste Of the horrors Of war.
The habits of the last ngraned by this time;
the distant smoke of burning Chinese villages sets
paving the ground, and we have already had as
good atrocity stories-on both sides!--as
out of Belgium. By proxy are already participant
ing in drives, hunting spies, and crucfying nonsub
scribers to loans; somewhere in obscure colleges
- busy proving that Confucius not Chinese and
that the Japanese cruel to goldfish A war is
war, even if we are not in it.
War for the Warriors
My proposal is simply the restoration of professional
armies No one who went through the rigors of camp
life in America in 1918 honestly say that the
age is competent to deal with the mechanisms of
war; For myself, broke down in the third week when
petrolated rifle was issued to and ordered
to clean it. which involves taking apart some of the
intricate bits and restoring them less to their
original positions. By the time the next comes,
most of the soldiers will have subcaber machine guns
we can learn from our gangsters even if we cannot
Jail them. The issue of masks will be elaborate,
one for bacteria and one for chlorine and so on-up
machinery feel that most of will be incompetent;
leave behind will be wasting motion -
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