Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1922 — Page 11

ARMY OFFICERS WORRIED BY NEW TURN IN AFFAIRS Disposition of Congress Toward Military Matters Nettles Men of Rank. MANY MAY LOSE JOBS WASHINGTON, March 17. —These are B anxious days for the officers of the inny. The lads who polished the swivel chairs In Washington during the war. and likewise the men who led battalions, regiments, and even divisions Into the face of the enemy with no visible evidence of fear and trembling today are listening nervously for any sort of a tip as to what Congress intends to do about the military forces of the United States. The younger officers are frankly anxious about their Jobs and they will tell you earnestly how unjust it would be to ruin the career of one who has apent four of the best years of his life In such a place as West Point, only to be ruled out at a time when he seems to be In a fair way to realize upon his lr.To.,tment of weary weeks endured under the scourge of ruthless discipline. gall ror.icr AN ERROR. Officers of higher rank will give you a lengthy disquisition upon the unsoundnes* of a policy which permits a nation to run from one extreme to the other In the matter of national defense and will quote you long figures to show how much more inexpensive the World War would have been If the Government hadn't j made such errors more recently. They ! cite the recommendations of various j chiefs of staff of Illustrious fame to j prove that 2.’i0,000 —or Is it 150.000? —men ! are the Irreducible minimum necessary j for the safety of the United Stares, and j then they Inquire anxiously whether An thony of Kansas of Herrick of Okla- i has said anything fur* her In CcnPgress recently about reducing the Army to 60.000 men. OPINION OP EXPERTS. Prom Secretary of War Weeks on down the Army Is frankly worried. The higher authorities realize that, ’ike the j demand for reform, the demand for national defense comes In waves, but they are fearful that In the hysteria for re- J Auction es armament the country willj

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lose much of the valuable ground It gained by the experiences of the World War. The following quotations from a lecture recently delivered at the Army War College by Col. John McA. Palmer and published to the Army In an official bulletin, will show what the opinion of military experts on the subject Is: “It has been the practice of the United States upon the outbreak of war to expand a small professional peace establishment Into a great non-professional war army. These expansions have always been perfected without any perpetuity of doctrine or organization, through which the experience generated in one expansion could be utilized In the next. Or, to put It another way, at certain crises In our history, with a vast expenditure of treasure and human energy, we have erected a great war organization and then have demolished that organization after the emergency, without any provision for making that expenditure a permanent national Investment. After being forced to militarize a whole generation we have taken no

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precaution to make the sacrifices of that generation a : heritage of experience for the next generation that may be called upon to bear the stress of war. WHEN CIVIL WAR 11EOKE NO NATIONAL SYSTEM. “At the outbreak of the Civil War we had no national military system, and such military knowledge ns we had was concentrated In a limited number of trained most of them In the Regular Army, a few others in civil life who had servefi v . *he Mexican War. It suddently became tha v*sion of these men, without preconceived .*s.'uß, to Impart that knowledge to vasi citizen armies. Their visual experience had been limited generally to company and battalion units. I think it is fair to say that only one leader showed any conception of the practical business of troop leading in 1801. This was Stonewall Jackson, and it is Interesting to remember that he h3d left the piddling routine of the old Array shortly nfter the Mexican "War with the deliberate object of seeking an opportunity to study military art.

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“Even after the demobilization of the Army we remained for a time a great military power. For a few years our armies were still potentially in being, prepared If necessary for a speedy recall to the colors. This was so fully recognized by the world that in 1567 a mere hint sufficed to cause a withdrawal of the French armies from Mexico. A little later, however, the great war organiza-

tion had melted sway. Its officers and professional soldiers went back to the problem of the company and the battalion, with no arrangement for transmitting their lore and experience to their younger brothers and sons. Commanders and staff officers who had practiced great war at Gettysburg and Chickamauga returned to civil life, or went back to the petty routlpe of the frontier

post without any means of bequeathing their priceless heritage. From being leaders of the people in a great national crisis our American professional soldiers passed again Into an isolated caste, without vital contact with the body of the Nation.” It Is some such state of affairs as that pictured by Colonel Palmer that seriousminded officers of the Army have In

mind today when they note the tendency of Congress to cut down appropriations for the War Department. No doubt the element of selfishness enters Into the consideration In a few places, but In a majority of cases the thinking men of the Regular Army believe that the policy which now apparently has a dominating position Is “penny wise and pound foolish.”