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Baker Favors
Swiss System
In U. S. Army
aV
General Staff Believed To Be
Drafting a Bill to Con
form to the Seeretary's
Idea of Reorganization
Guard Has Many Friends
Compromise to Include
Regnlars May Be Final
Solution of the Problem
.Vciji York- Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. May 14.?Secretary
0f War Baker has returned from Eu
topc, like Julius Kahn. chairman of the
House Military Affairs Committee,
much impressed with the Swiss citizen
soldiery system as the solution of the
problem of future military prepared
ness in the United States, and it is re?
ported that the General Staff is now
drafting for submission to Congress a
bill conforming to his wishes.
It is not yet certain whether per
tnanent army legislation will come up
at the approaching session of Congress
or be left over for the regular session,
but the advocates of all the different
plans for the military organization of
the United States in the future are
busy getting their respective proposals
into shape. There are three principal
projects, which are:
First?Continuation of present
regular army and National Guard
systems, both greatly strengthened
a? compared with the past, but with
no - system of universal military
training.
Second?Small regular army, prob?
ably not more than 175,000 men. and
a greatly improved National Guard
of at least 350,000 men, which may
have anything like the Swiss system
grafted on it.
Third?Smaii regular army and a
system of universal military service
calling for one year with the colors,
or supported by the Swiss system.
Most Democratic System
The Swiss system is the most demo?
cratic military service in the world
because it is entirely a citizen organi?
zation, there being no professional
army whatever, and only a small num?
ber of professional officers to furnish
the personnel of the division and corps
officers and the general staff.
The conditions of service under the
Swiss system for an infantryman are:
In hi3 twentieth year every nt man at
tends the recruiting school or training
camp for sixty-seven days. He then
goes into training for thirteen days
each year until he is twenty-eight.
During this period he belongs to the
second line, and in cases of need this
line is the first called to the colors
after the twenty-year-old boys.
From twenty-eight to thirty-two
year.-; the citizen-soldier is excused
from all active service. At thirty-two
he enters the Landwehr and trains
seven days every other year. At forty
he is transferred to the Landsturm and
trains twice, seven days each time, be?
tween that age and forty-eight, at
which time his military duty to the
state ends. Hc thus servea a total of
200 days in twenty-eight years.
DuriiiF.' all that time he is a poten
'ia! active soldier and ha3 his conv
plete equipment in his possession and
knowg his precise piace in the war or?
ganization. ln this way Switzerland
maintains an instantly mobilizable
army of 450.000 men at an : nr.uai ex
pense of only $9,000,000.
Many members of Congress are op?
posed to the Swiss system on the
ground that it is not adapted to a
country large in territory and in pop
ulation. They also opposc it because
think Americans would oppose
eny system that keeps a man under
certain military obligations and bound
to some regular training until he is
forty-eight years old. Such Congres3
Dien are in favor of universal training
of any kind only as a last resort. In
'hat event. they hold, the citizen-sol
hould get all his faining in one
say a full year with the colors
and then be excused from any service
iccept in the event of a war.
Most of the members who take this
general vie;v favor a good-sized regular
army and a reorganized, improved and
rtrengthened National Guard. Some of
them, howeve-, desire a very small reg?
ular army, with the national defence
; tem based on the National Guard.
home advocate the application of some
measure of the Swiss system to the \a
;iona! Guard.
The ardent National Guard advo?
cates are chary of the Swiss system or
any other form of universal military
organization that may be coupled up
with the regular army. Friends of the
regular system maictain rhat to create
tn efficient military organization, ready
ror any emergency, the universal train
mg or servica idea, whatever its form
must be directly cobrdinatpd with the
ar army. This would make the
national Guard superfiuous.
May Be Easily Converted
'.hlJ?n vh??th,cr,.hand- St i:s ?>ointed out
?nat National Guard enthusiasta mav
be easily converted to the Swiss or
aome such ayatem. becauae under it
tne whole officers' corps, with the ex
ott.cers will be drawn from the citi
with,!0mn1tr8;SUCh^iaCes Koing to men
with military inchnatlona an* ability
who are wilhng to spend more time in
military study and training than the
average citizen would care for Thus
in the event of war, they would, from
t?rt,1iave a better standing than
bad in the recent war. These of
ficera would have an opportunity each
rear to ?b-al with large bodiea of men
great carnps, and would have far
ort aerviee, experience and authoritv
they have under the National
Guard system.
It ia understood that the General
htaff is becoming mort- and more con
?? need that it will be impouible to
- ?' im ?nough volunteer* to keep ur> ?
? ilar army that woal4 be aumefent
to meet a ^reat erdergencv. and is
therefore, cor.sidering with faror -,n*
fertioneteokint' to a jr^tly increaa?
aeeond Ime ot *.<>m?. a?rt. if ttie Na
ticnai Goard appeara to have the favot -
?t (,onZrpnft ?he general staff will shapa ?
wa r,r*n:i aeoerdingly, and ao alao if !
J^nfraea should indine to oniveraal !
military training. '
Cluh to Honor Generalf \
/' --igbt to Major Generali O'Byan and '
""?flder and to tha eolonels and staff I \
?a ih.u and 77th, Dinner will b? '
??7?4?t 7:20 to about twenty Vthwl I l
inelrtlng OeBeraJ Thomas BmTSm'l <
m**4ing tha Dapartment of tha'SatJ
aftd Admirala QUnnori and Kims. Thera \
JJ W???T gucata on behalf ot tha j j
New 69th and 47th
MayBe Federa lized
Organisations Act on The
ory They Will be First
To Be Selected hy Baker
Omcers of the new 69th and 47th
regiments, State Guard, are preparing
those units for possible Federal in
spections on the theory that they will
be the first selected for federalization.
Although no official word has been
received here as to the regiments to
be selected, it is generally believed
that these two bodies will ciualify most
readily. and for this and other r'easons
that probably would be considercd at
Washington will L>e named as the first
to come directly under Uncle Sam's
control.
One of the purposes of the colonels
of the regiments is to strengthcn their
organizntions both numerically and in
efficiency by adding as many of the
youthful veterans of the old *69th and
?17th as are willing to east their lot
with the guard for another three years.
But it is admitted that it is a little
early to ask the soldiers who have just
reached home to enter tbe military ser?
vice again. Colonel John J. Phelan, of
the 09th Regiment, said yesterday that
within a week or ten days he hoped to
accomplish much in thia direction.
Before thc guard bodies step into
the regular service every preeaution
will be taken to prevent the signing up
of objectionable voluntoers. Among
the conditions that are being fulfilled
are:
All married men must sign a blanket
waiver as to dependents.
All volunteers under eighteen years j
of ago must be dropped from mem- |
bership in the regiments.
Every company must be filled up to
its minimum peace-timc strength.
Every man must pass a rigid physi?
cal test.
Every member of the regiments fed
eralized must enter the service for
three years. ready to resnond to a call
to any part of the globe. such as is thc
case with regular army men.
This last feature has arottsed con
siderable comment among the members
of guard regiments, who argue that the
eighteen months for which they volun
teered in their present organizations
should be subtracted from the three
year period and held to their credit.
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Three Legless Men
In Jolly Party at
Hotel Peimsvlvania
Fifty Wounded Soldiers Are
Brought From Colonia, N.
J., for Luncheon and
Taken to See a Matinee
There was a wave of surnrise and
curiosity in the griil room of the Penn?
sylvania Hotel yesterday when fifty
soldiers limped or were cai-ricd in for
luncheon. Not the ordinary type of
convalescent, either. These men had
come from Base Hospital No. 3, Col?
onia, X. J., and it was the first outing
since they were wounded in France.
They were brought to Xew York by
the Pennsylvania Women's War Relief.
After being entertained at luncheon
they were taken to the matinee ner
fo'-mance of "Up in Mabel's Room."
Mrs. Robert Massey. wife of the
superintendent of the *Ne\v York Divi?
sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is
chairman of the committee responsibie
for the entertainment. The ambulancc-??
and motor cars which brought the men
lo Manhattan were Ioaned by the Rail?
way Branch of- the Motor Corps of
America.
Porters carried three legless men in
on their backs. The sympathetic face
of onlookers gradually lightened into
lines of laughter as the men themselves
jokod ancl made merry. This was no
sad party of maimed "heroes. It waa
a joyous, jubilant party.
"Tell them Perry and MerrilJ are
doing the 'shimmy dance,'" said Pri?
vate Floyd C. Merrill, of Binghamton,
with a grin, when questioned about
himself. "The rcason we are doing thc
'shimmy' is that we can't do anything
else without logs, and we've just'got to
dance."
Private ,lack Perry, another of the
legless trio, was in the van of the at?
tack the 106th Infantry made on thc
Hindenburg line last September. Fle
was hit by a volley of machine gun
bullets and lay in a shell hole for two
days and two nights. When he was
taken to the hospital blood poisoninf
had set in and both legs had to be
umputated.
Bishop Greer Reeovering
The Right Rev. David H. Greer,
Bishop of New York, was resting com
fortably at St. Luke's Hospital yester?
day, foilowing his operation for in
testina! trouble on Monday. A bulletin
issued yesterday morning read:
"The Episcopal Bishop of New York
is resting comfortably foilowing his
Dperation. Members of his immediatc
ramily called to see him this morning."
Another bulletin last night announced
hat Bishop Greer had passed a quiet
snd comfortable dav.
ADVEKTJSE.MENT
ln Peace and War Use
mm% reoT-EASE
j A prorainent Brltieh Governmenl
" Hcer, ln a speech about tbewartoa
; -??'".ly ?ald, "After tbe tlred Boldfo
^?"?tarned from a 12 mile imn^
? ? ? wollen and aeblng feet.ls thereu
:^b^and^fc?on,oFooUEa*(eto8cnd
People evcrywbero should reallzo
der to be thaitea Into the Bhoeu. i
-?-'?: tbe frlctlon from tbe eboe and
ilves Inetant relief to tlred, acblnc
:";";1'-". fchder feet, <-,rus, bunion?;
?>,;<uth and callou?e?,
Tbe Plali *bura Carap Manual mlvi*,
???il men ln traminjrtoebake Koofc-Easi
ln tbelr Hhoe* each mornlne. Trv 'n
? ;/ elfand Ifyou havea*on,brother
orfrlend in the army or navy, wbynol
mail him :i packagc kow. Sold by
dr ig and >''-;>'i tttoron eyerywhere.
Cummins Made
Senate Leader
By Republicans
lewa Statesman Is Named
President Pro Tem at the
Party Caucus; Borah In
surgents Nominate Him
Penrose Victory Assured
jWarren May Be Selected
on Military Affairs to
Keep Party Harmony
By Carter Field
New York Tribune
rVanhington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 14,-The elec?
tion of Senator Albert B. Cummins, of
lowa, ns Republican candidate for
president pro tem. of the Senate was
the only surprise of the Republican
Senatorial caucus here to-day, the sit?
uation otherwise remaining unchanged,
with the prospect of Senator Penrose
being chairman of the Finance Com?
mittee a virtual certainty.
The little band of Progressives who
have been meeting in Senator Borah's
office witn a view t.o defeating Penrose
decided at their final meeting, just be?
fore the meeting of the caucus, that
they would propose the name of Mr.
Cummins. This decision followed tho
final refusal of Senator Hiram John?
son to bc a candidate, even after a
delegation of Senators of both wings
of the party nacl urged him to accept
the place.
Republicans generally were much
pleased with the selection of Mr. Cum?
mins. His name is almost synonymous
with progressivism throughout the
country. He is from the Middle West,
from the state which produced the
"lowa idea" so much discussed in poli
tics a few campaigns back, and it is
believed that his selection will do much
toward offsetting any appearance of
reactionism which the election of
Penrose as chairman of the. Finance
Committee may have.
The "Stalwarts" were radiant when
they learned from the little Progres- |
sive conference that it had decided to
support Mr. Cummins. Senator Borah
placed him in nomination in the cau?
cus and he was nominated by acclama
tion. iMr, Cummins will figure largely
in the proceeding of tho new Congress,
for not only will he be president pro
tem., but chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which must
work out a solution of the railroad
problem.
Ihe caucus avoided a decision on any
of the disputed points by authorizing
Senator Lodge, who was reelected
chairman of the Republican Senatorial
Conference, to name the committee on
committees, which will decide on a
slate of committees for submission to
the caucus iater.
Penrose Selection Assured
This Committee on Committees, of
which Senator Brandegee is chair?
man, will beyond any question name
Senator Penrose as chairman of the
Finance Committee. The only ques?
tion is with regard to Senator War?
ren The best opinion to-night seemed
to be that Senator Warren would not
be permitted to be chairman of the Ap
propriations Committee, but would be
given either Military Affairs?which
Senator Wadsworth has offered to sur?
render in the interest of party har
mony?or Agriculture. Mr. Warren is
the ranking Republican on all three
committees.
Meamvhi'le, the "progressive" or "ad?
ministration" movement among the
Democrats of the House has coflapsed
much more thoroughly than the fight
against Senator Penrose among some
j of the progressive Republicans in the
Upper House. The large claims which
| were put forward by the anti-Clark
; Democrats have dwindled away and
most of the Democrats who were talk
j ing about defeating a leader so I
| notoriously anti-administration -is the '
| former Speaker are now rather anxious '
I that their insurgency should be for- '
! gottcn.
One of the big elements in the col- '
lapse of the fight against Mr. Clark
which as a matter of fact was never'
formidable enough to cause Clark's i
friends to loso any sleep, has been the !
recent increase in bitterness toward ,
Burleson. Mr. Burleson has beon con
nected by many members of the House '
as the "Cabinet member'' who was
working in the interest of the Presi?
dent to bring aboir; Tne defeat of
Clark. Mr. Burleson's oppositioi po
Iitically, just at present, is an asset
on < apitol Hill.
Tho Republican caucus to-day recog
nized the Middle West bv two other
important aasignments in'the "organ?
ization," in additon to the selection of j
Mr. Cummins as president pro tem.
: Senator Portcr J. McCumber, of North ;
i Dakota- one of the most persistent I
and consistent friends of the farmer in :
either house?was made chairman of |
I the committee on the order of busi?
ness, which is planned to be a sort of '
steering committee. Senator Harry
New, of Indiana, was made chairman
of the Committee on Patronage.
An Illinois man, George A. Sander
son, was nominated for secretary of
the Senate, and David S. Barry, of
Washington, \vlu> was in charge of Re?
publican publicity during the 1912 and
591(3 campaigns, was selected for ser
geant at arms. Each of these places
pays $6,500 a year. Former Repre
sentative B. L. Fairchild, of Pelham,
N. V., was also nominated for secre?
tary of the Senate ny Senators Wads?
worth and Calder, bui: Sanderson had
more than a majority of the votes
pledged.
Both factions of the Republicans
agreed to-night there was no doubt the
Wives Can Visit Soldiers
Abroad After June 15
WTASHINGTON, May 14. ? After
June 15 the inhibition against
granting passports to wives or moth?
ers of American officers and enlisted
men who may wish to go to Europe
will be removed.
It was announced to-day by the
State Department that passports will
be issued in such cases providing the
officers or men concerned are not
about to return to this country, but
wives and mothers who take advan
tage of this opportunity will not be
able to return to the United States
within six months. This time limit
is set to prevent congestion in trans?
portation facilities.
organization would be completed very
harmoniously on Monday, when the
Senate convenes, except for one possi
bility. This is that several other Re?
publican Senators join Senators Borah
:md Kenyon ih voting against Senator
Penrose on the floor of the Senate for
chairman of the Finance Committee.
In this event there is the chance that
no election on this will be reached
for severa ldays, after which, it is i
said, there will come a time when half i
a dozen or more Democratic Senators j
absent themselves from the chamber,!
whereupon the Republican majority
will slip over the election of Mr. Pen?
rose. Several Democratic Senators
have signified their willingness to do i
this.
U. S. Army Surplus Sales
$77,901^960^18 in Week
Total lo Date Since Januarv 1
$236,162,143.07 ,at Loss
of 12 Per Cent
WASHINGTON, May 14.?During the
week ending May 9 sales of surplus
war materials amounted to $77,901,
966.18, the War Department announced
to-day. The larger part represents
sales through the Ordnance Depart?
ment, a total of_ $45,883,995.74, over
half of which was realized from the
disposal of amonium nitrate.
The remaining surplus of amonium
nitrate will be converted into dyna
mite. The Department of Agriculturc
has purchased a large quantity for
$10,320,000, to be used in clearing land
for agricultural purposes. Large quan- I
tities were also sold to the Allied Ni
trate Commission and the Importer's
Association. The Ordnance Depart- l
ment also sold $15,000,000 worth of'
copper.
The Surplus Property Division re?
ported total sales for the week of '
$51,908,197.58. The principal items
were two auction sales of wool in Bos?
ton. At the first $17,019,801 was real?
ized, and at the second $13,765,812.
The total sales of the War Depart?
ment from January 1 to May 9 total
$236,162,143.07, representing 88 per
cent of the original cost to the govern?
ment.
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"Tl
Noisy Welcome
Is Greeting to
Jersey Troops
Harbor Aroused by Wild Din
as Transport Calamares
Brings Back 2,208 Boys,
Mostly From Hoboken
Four transports brought home yes?
terday from overseas service in France
6,967 officers and men bound for de
mobilization camps.
The first of ships to make port was
the Pesaro, formerly the old Hamburg
American liner Moltke, which served
as an Austrian hospital ship through?
out the war. She carried 1,407 officers
and men, made up largely of the 308th
Field Artillery, which went abroad in J
May, 1918, and supported the 90th
Division in the Meuse-Argonne sector. |
Among the civilian passengers was !
I rofessor Tracy Peck, formerly a pro- j
fessor of Latin at Yale, who returned
trom Italy. He said the Italian na- I
tion as a whole was pro-American, but
hat groups in various parts of the
kingdom were outspokenly anti-Wilson
Head of Religious Order Here
Another civilian traveller was Supe?
rior general E. Couet, of the Order of
the Blessed Sacrament. He comes to
visit the order in various parts of the
United States.
The Giuseppe Verdi from Genoa,
which stopped at Marseilles for troops
brought back 1,890 officers and men!
made up chiefly of the 307th Field Ar
tUlery ,n command of Major Francis
u. Baldwin, of Chincinnati.
Gino Speranza, of this city, attache
ot the American Embassy in Rome for
four years, was one of he passengers.
He said the flame of enthusiasm the
Italians felt for America is as bright
as ever and that there was never any
anxiety felt for Americans in Iralv dur?
ing the Fiume controversy in Farn.
"A guard of Italian soldiers was
thrown around our Embassy he said, i
but it was not necessary
According to several passengers '
close to the American Embassy in
Rome Ambassador Page will probably
resign when the peace treaty is signed.
The Spanish liner P. de Satrustegui
from Bordeaux brought home 1,462
officers and men in command of Major
Oliver A. Melton, of Atlanta. They
were made up chiefly of the 325th In?
fantry, the personnel of which consrsts
of southwestern troops with New
York and New Jersey replacements.
The Calamares with 2,208 officers
and men which she took aboard at St.
Nazaire was the last of the fleet to
dock. Bombs and whistles fired and
tooted along the New Jersey shore
from Bayonne to Hoboken gave pon
derous and prolonged assurance that
nghters from New Jersey were home.
The recipients of this rousing wel?
come-?the loudest this port has known
in months?were the 107th Machine
rn,a*i.BaAttf-1,1,on' the H3th Infantry, the
JiT E~A.rtl,nSry SuPPJy Company and
the 5<th Infantry Brigade Headquar?
ters, all in command of Brigadier Gen?
eral Le Roy S. Upton.
Fully three thousand persons gath?
ered in Hoboken when the Calamares
docked, and the military guards of
the port of embarkation had a trouble
some evening keephig them in place.
Befoi-e being entrained for Camp
Memtt the New Jersev warriors were
greeted by Governor Edge and Mavor
Patrick F. Griffin of Hoboken
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by remittance. Pronipt attention given to out-of-town orders, which must
contain information as to consignee and, if possible, two reserve addresses
should original consignee not be found.
Every assistance given in connection with applioation of licensc. and
should any license be refused money will be rcfunded.
Freight and insurance charges at current rates and collected after
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