The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
On Defense


First regular army provide garrsons and deenses
for army navy and air bases established be
lshed.
"Th may require eventually 1875 900 to $50 900 men with
the most heavily guarded points the Panama Canal Hawaii
Puerto Rico and several points in the
Second the regular must provide the nucleus
for coast defense and aircraft troops make
tai base within the United States it have eight
fifteen plane operate its air force provide
officers and instructors train the National Guard form
the skeetal structure which large army may
built in of necessity after MDay. And
broadened responsibilities of Hemisphere Defense
other function of recent development provide field
force highly trained fully equipped instantly ready for
poraton expeditonay force anywhere within the
ern Hem1sphere-to que with the help of the navy
force aennsped revolutions to seize advanced base to
repe attack hold until larger forces trans
ported, if necessary to assist it.
Such force certainly larger $50 900 men
perhaps half that number-about the number which
Germany only hundred miles away, seized Norway.
adding to this the numbers required for the armys other
functions the regular army even to fulfill its broadened
sponsbes larger than 100000 large
strength 100000; further increase is indicated but
should not be hard to fill the quota by voluntary
cruiting
Mr. Walter Lppman writing in the Washington Post July
27th "Why is Consumption Needed? lets the of
the Wall Street bag when he states:
Under conditions they apply country the
number of needed behind the lines about 25
pared with the number who should actually be used in
the fighting services The construction of the navy
of the air force and of the equipment for army mil
lion men stupendous industrial operation and CONSUMPTION
would be than useless if organized with the
clear purpose of carrying out this industrial operation
he great value of CONSUMPTION is that if properly admin
istered will this purpose The volunteer system will
not IT, therefore, the CONSUMPTION bill is to its real
purpose it must not be regarded as mere device for putting
one of 25 into uniform 1t must be regarded method
of mobzng the of the country for the much larger
more complicated task of Industrial preparedness
The National City Bank in its July Bulletin
By and large all expansion (of plants for defense
forward and be financed under private auspices this
will less burden the governmentess deficit gov
eminent bonds to be sold to preserve and
strengthen THE SYSTEM OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE,
WHICH OUR DEFENSE PROGRAM is MEANT TO PRO-
TECT."
WALLACEs FARMER AND IOWA HOMESTEAD in an
editorial Billion Dollars Chicken Feed
maybe the United States is defenseess BUT IF So
THE FIRST STEP SHOULD BE TO HOLD COURT MAR
THEY'VE BEEN SPENDING AROUND BILLION DOL
LARS YEAR" (Our caps)
Col Frederick Palmer noted military writing in the
New York Times July g. 1910 the possibility of Hlers
attack on the United States,
Suppose he conquers Britain in monthand venture to
predict this invasion will fahe will have prepare for the
blzlreig as he previous btzriegs
"He would hardly be ready before next spring BY that
time should have 900 planes He could not bring planes
aircraft carriers when his only two in construction will not
be finished and his axis partner Mussolni has
against long enemy plane flights would be short from
caribbean bases submarines and surface naval vessels
not enough planes would blast Herr Hters
ports off the sea-
Major Alexander DeSeversky noted filler and apane
sgner who visited Europe recently writing in the New York
Times July 22nd on the possibility of German invasion of
poned until next spring and cannot be undertaken with
Of unless British defensive bro
en- down This the present German equipment cannot
achieve"
Golfers Magazine its editorial "The Big Job Ameri-
cans" July goth states
"Our big job is to build up goodsized standing
pand the to far and first rank in the world stud
coasts with big planted where they will do the most
conceivable emergency and sppe stra
egic cities with anarcraft guns build powerful air
the dead timber and the goneoseed ideas out of all
fighting services keep this whole fighting machine shined
abreast of and invention and all of
he bills go along"
General Johnson Hagood described by Golfers he lead
ng authority defense in article in the June 22nd
ssue of Golfers states:
1.-TWO million dollars should be made Immediately
valable for the complete rehabilitation of whole system
(Atlantic) coast Defense small
forty billions during the last effort
top them the other side
with such system of coast defense at home with high
fleet strong be defeated in waters
fight abroad and relatively small mobile
bile of immediate expansion, need not ourselves