. Review of reviews and world's work. rve the country in a smallway for purposes of home defense, but whollyunfit to be transferred on momentar> noticeto the national service and shipped severalthousand miles to meet a foreign have now perhaps ninety thousand Na-tional Guardsmen in Texas and elsewherealong the frontier. Most of these are fromSrw York and the P^ast. Many of them aremarried men with families de|>endent up salaries. Itis grotesquely unfitting that they should bekept in camps for months not e\cn doingpatrol duty, when there are thousands ofac I Soiif ricrs who c
. Review of reviews and world's work. rve the country in a smallway for purposes of home defense, but whollyunfit to be transferred on momentar> noticeto the national service and shipped severalthousand miles to meet a foreign have now perhaps ninety thousand Na-tional Guardsmen in Texas and elsewherealong the frontier. Most of these are fromSrw York and the P^ast. Many of them aremarried men with families de|>endent up salaries. Itis grotesquely unfitting that they should bekept in camps for months not e\cn doingpatrol duty, when there are thousands ofac I Soiif ricrs who can ridr anu •, and v. juld be made part of a iemp*»rary force that would take excellentcare of frontier conditions. For many of the Guardsmen—ip,toii« particularly the young, unmar-ried men—thin prrc and•eemingly nrrdlr\stall to the .Mrxuan l>or<lrrwill have proved an interesting and perhapsa r rxprrirmr. Hut the whole epi- •otJ. 11 iijpha/ard in the extreme, and illiiv-. }iill?^ra|Il *>? Harri< A- Kwitig. \\ .iviiinglun AT THE NATIONAL GUARD CAMP, FORT MYER. VA.(Secretary Baker, on the right, and General Scott. Chief ofStaff, on the left, are calling upon Gen. William E. Harvey,iiead of the District of Colunibia National Guard in camp atFort Myer, in the suburbs of Washington) trates the simple fact that our rulers andlawmakers at Washington have not foundout what is requisite for national will be necessary to build up, as Secretary(iarrison so clearly foresaw, a federal armyreserve expressly designed to meet have plenty of partially trained youngmen willing to go into the regular army fora period of one year, if they may then beretired to a reserve. The present system isnndemocratic. chaotic, obsolete. A s\stem ofuniversal training is the only one that is justand reasonable. Very brief and intensiveser\ ice in the army; no rei-nlistments per-mitted; the rapid building-up of a great re-serve force. These arc some of
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