Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1919 — Universal Military Training Is Lesson of the Great War for America [ARTICLE]

Universal Military Training Is Lesson of the Great War for America

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

Universal military training in time of peace and equal national service in time of war, for the United States, is the lesson of the world war, now victoriously ending. The forces are active^ for and against this policy; the issue is on; it has become a live political question—not in a partisan sense, but in the sense that any national policy is essentially a political question and must be acted on by those in authority, supported people. , This is the *most important and serious matter the war has placed before us and it would be wise for all those who desire to forward the will pf the people to give to it ja whole-hearted and aggressive support. The National Association for . Universal Military Training feels that if this is not done the confidence of those whose suffrage they enjoy will he forfeited.