training, will carefully and quietly leave the way open for its subsequent adoption. The situation then will be this: The elections will be over in November. Early in December the same Congress that is now in existence will reassemble for what is known as the "short session," which lasts from December to the following March. That short session has a peculiar psychology. Take the men in the lower House, for example. They have all gone through an election. Those who were successful have been reelected for another two years. In the phrase of yester-year, "they should worry." Those who have been defeated-well, they are in an equally carefree frame of mind. Old-timers tell you that it is in the "short session" that Congress contrives to pass its worst legislation, because the members are the farthest removed from popular reckoning at that time. Knowing this to be the case, Kahn will endeavor to bring up for the consideration of Congress a simple resolution authorizing the President to establish at some distant date— they are discussing 1922, or even 1923— universal military training. If the country, in the meantime, has gone for Wood or Lowden, they figure that the momentum of a reactionary election will carry such a resolution through the lower House. If the country votes more or less radical, then there will be a big fight. In the meantime we have the situation absolutely in our grasp. We can force the candidates for Congress to declare themselves: "If elected, will you vote for compulsory military training?" Now is the time to act. If we can get a majority pledged against it, we can enter upon the second stage of the fight, which is to bring America into line with the world-movement for universal disarmament. Will you personally enlist for such a fight between now and December?-C. T. H. SOME SENTIMENT This army program, in my judgment, attempts to bring into being a centralized military power which, to my perhaps conservative New England judgment, is one of the greatest potential dangers which the institutions of this country have to face. I am against centralized compulsory service. What this country needs, more than anything else, is a framework. It has been my experience, dealing with citizens who have donned the uniform, that it is a very quick piece of business to train them. For example, there is the One Hundred and Sixtyseventh Field Artillery Brigade of colored men, who went into the line with less than 60 days of actual artillery training, and who were highly spoken of by the French. They did their job in every case. Our men are very quick to learn. This talk that you cannot make a soldier in less than three years is perfect and utter rot, and I do not hesitate to characterize it as such. You can make a soldier in three weeks with the proper leadership; the whole question hinges on the proper leadership. Our general staff is patterned almost exactly on the pre-war German staff methods. Well, perhaps it would be invidious to go very much further on that line, but take, for instance, the question of saluting. Undoubtedly you gentlemen have talked to private soldiers. I can tell you that, as a general, going around in a Cadillac limousine, that my arm has gotten so lame from saluting that I have pulled down the curtains of my car so I would not have to salute. I have seen boys sitting along the road who would have to jump up and salute every few minutes, and if they did not they never knew when they were going to get called down. I have seen general officers stop their cars and get out and go back and call poor doughboys, treat them like dogs, because they were marching along the road, perhaps tired out, and had failed to salute. I have seen that time after time. 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