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SHIPPERS and RECEIVERS
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Effective July 25, 1940, the Santa Fe will establish
free Pick-up and Delivery Service at all its stations
in California and Arizona, on all eastbound and
westbound transcontinental less carload traffic.
Present rates, class or commodity, applicable on
less carload traffic, will include this service with
out extra charge.
Shippers, Receivers or their Agents, who may
desire to perform their own pick-up and delivery
service to or from our depots in lieu of our store
door service will receive the regular tariff allowances.
We hope this new service will be beneficial to
you and that we may serve you.
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Eliot Warns Against Confusing
Military Training and Army
Observer Sees Morale-Building Distinct
From Battle-Worthy Force
By MAJ. G. FIELDING ELIOT.
In considering any plan tor com
pulsory military training, we ought
to keep two of the objectives of such
a plan entirely separate. Otherwise
we shall have confusion both in
popular opinion and in official ad
ministration. These objectives are:
1. The creation of a battle-worthy
Army.
3- The building up of the popular
morale and national spirit.
For the first purpose, our objec
tives must be limited as to numbers
for the time being, within our capac
ity to train, arm and officer, and
within the needs that can now be
foreseen. Nothing could be worse
than to give our own people and
the peoples of the rest of the world
the idea that we are going to have
or are even on the very point of
creating a vast citizen army of
millions. We cannot do this for a
long time. We ought not to try to
build up such an army on any half
baked basis. If we have defined
anything from the present war, It
is the need for ample training.
Team Training Essential.
It may be possible in six or eight
months to train a man to drive a
tank or run a machine gun or fill
in a place on a direction-finder team.
But unit training, which is the se
cret of the German success, must
follow. Units must be trained in
the variant missions that may fall
to their lot in the field in conjunc
tion with other units of all types.
This cannot be accomplished unless
the men who are to compose our
Regular Army have at least two
years’ training.
The duties of our Regular Army
are, principally, the garrisoning of
our overseas possessions and the
provision of a highly-trained, in
stantly ready expeditionary force
within the United States for fire
alarm duties with the Western Hem
isphere. This cannot be done by
half-trained men nor by unseasoned
men. The Air Corps of the Regular
Army must provide proper forces for
the overseas possessions, for expe
ditionary service and for long-range
striking power which will be the
basis of immediate defensive meas
ures against a sudden danger aris
ing in the ocean in which our fleet,
for the time being, happens not to be.
Moat Create Reserve.
As to immediate readiness, either
all organizations of the Regular
Army must be maintained at full
war strength or there must be
promtly available a sufficient num
ber of fully trained reservists to
bring them to war strength within
a few hours—not a few weeks or
months. This means that whatever
military policy we now adopt should
include, as one of its features, the
creation of such a reserve.
But aside from the creation of a
fighting Army, universal service may
be said to have a second objective,
connected with national morale and
spirit. The youth of our country
could learn many useful lessons from
a brief period of military service.
They need those lessons.
It ought to be possible to combine
these objectives in a single system,
provided we keep them separated in
thought, provided we do not allow
ourselves to drift away on any tide
of illusion.
If the present Burke-Wadsworth
bill is passed, there will be a very
large registration; indeed, all men
between 18 and 64. This will provide
useful Information as to available
man power. But it should be made
abundantly clear that this is a regis
tration only, that it has little if
anything to do with available mili
tary power, that the registration of
say, 14,000,000 men does not mean
that we can ever hope to raise an
Army anything like that size.
Let us be quite clear just how
many we need, and for what specific
purposes. Let us first of all, of
course, have a plan for the national
defense as a whole. Let us see what
part the Army has to play in that
plan; how much money will be
available, how much ih the way of
resources; how much ought to be
allotted to the Army and to the
Navy and to other measures condu
cive to the national safety. We do
not have unlimited funds. We can
spend too much on one thing to the
detriment of others, if we are not
careful.
Primarily a Sea Power.
Let us not forget that we are pri
marily a sea power; that the instru
ments of sea power—a fleet, a long
range air force, defended bases, a
highly trained expeditionary army
are our first considerations.
There may be other ways of im
proving the national morale besides
spending more than is necessary on
an Army which, if it passes the size
needful for hemisphere missions,
may well become an instrument use
ful only for overseas adventures—
perhaps for a ghastly holocaust in
Europe in case the British-German
duel fights itself down to a stand
still.
Train Youth in Morale.
If, after examining the situation
from every angle, it seems advisable
to have a certain amount of mili
tary training for larger numbers of
our youth than are required for the
Regular Army and the National
Guard, let this by all means be
done; but let ua keep it entirely
separate in our minds from the
building utf of fighting forces. Let
us not say, "We have under train
ing this year 600,000 young men,
plus the Regular Army and Na
tional Guard, giving us a total Army
of over a million." This will not be
so. Its primary purpose is morale
training for our youth, and that we
should so think of it, while hanging
fast to a determination to have a
fully trained, immediately available,
battle-worthy Army as well.
I have been accused by one or
two correspondents of lacking confi
dent in the American soldier, be
cause I have insisted on two years'
training. This is not the case. I
have every confidence in the Amer
ican soldier. I believe we have in
this country the best potential mili
tary material in the world. The
records of many wars prove that
the American Midler will always
do a little better than is expected
of him—if he is well led, well train
ed and decently equipped. Modern
war requires a little more in the
way of training, equipment and
leadership than the wars of yester
year.
Copyright, 1840. hr Hew York
Tribune, Inc.)
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Home Loans Increase
Home loans aggregating $7,835,284
were made by Maryland’s 42 in
sured savings and loan associations
during the lint six months of 1M0,
Nugent Fallon, general manager of
the Federal Savings and Loan In
surance Corp., has announced. The
loans numbered 2JM.
Home mortgage loans on the
books of these Institutions June M
amounted to $31,686,020, Mr. Fallon
said. In the lint six months of
last year 1,530 loans, totaling $4,
817,411, were made.
New savings placed In the asso
elation* in the Initial six-month
period of thl* year amounted to
$4,901,853, and total private invest
ments as of June 30 totaled $26,
4444)00, as compared with $20,601,000
on the same date In 1939. Assets
of the associations June 30 had a
value of $38,299,000, a* against $29,
961,000 on June 30 of last year.
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