Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1917 — Universal Military Training Tends to Abolish Senseless Class Distinctions [ARTICLE]

Universal Military Training Tends to Abolish Senseless Class Distinctions

By LIEUT. GEN. S. B. M. YOUNG

President Association for Universal Military Training

We advocate military training of all young men physically and mentally fit for at least one year with the colors in any year from eighteen to twenty-one. because of its value in building up their health. Ihe physical condition of our young men. as shown by the date examiftatroff of National Guardsmen. calls for at least one year of military framing —wnd regular living as a necessity on the basis'of health, the development of manly and independent qualities, alertness of mind and body, promptness in action, individual hygiene and discipline, respect for authority, obedience to daw —a weak point in our national character is our impa- ' tience at all legal restraint—add the unifying influence created by the assoCTHtioir of youug men of all races and all- classes. . There is m> doid.t in my mind that a shoiilder-to-shouhler association will tend rapidly toward the decline of our unmanly.Siiggnericaß and senseless class distinctions.