LATE NEWS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 8

LATE NEWS

AMERICA'S ARMY UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING EVIDENCE BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE. (By Telegraph— Press' Association— Copyright) (Received December 26, 9.20 a.nu) NEW YORK, 24th December. Colonel Hustana, of Chicago, AdjutantGeneral of the Central Department of the United States Army, in his evidence before the Committee of the House, advocated universal military training of young men. owing to the utter inadequacy of the forces. If the whole army assembled at New York there would be insufficient men to man the guns on a war footing. If the entire national guard assembled there would not be enough to protect those guns against the enemy. New York's guns in their present condition were things more likely to help the enemy capture the city than provide protection. Colonel Hustana outlined a scheme for service largely on the Australasian model," by which youths could be taught essential military knowledge and protected against the false history taught in the United States schools. American children ought to be taught that America never really won a war against a foe worthy their steel. Britain during the colonist revolt was too much occupied with its own affairs. In 1812 Britain really won, but quite without insisting on her rights of civil war. It was merely a contest between two mobs of untrained men. The fights with Spain and Mexico were trifling affairs. If the Americans were trained they would make magnificent troops, all ready to die fop their country. '