Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 28, 1920, Page 2

- WORLD I§ Great War, Hailed as “Last Conflict,” Leaves Heavy Yoke on Nations BIGGEST ARMIES AND NAVIES ARE PLANNED Baker Recommends 500,000 Standing Army for U. S.; England 485,000 By }l.enry Wood. (United Press Correspondent.) Paris, April'19 (by Mail).—Mili- tarism exists today in almost every country in the world on a bigger and more crushing basis than before the | war. . “La grande guerre,” which was to have been the world’s last war and which was . to . have .inaugurated an era of universal peace and reduced . armaments has had for its sole effect to date the increasing of the military burden. of almost every country in the ‘world. : In: fact the i . JOE those defeated countries whose arma-| man. He couldn’t help playing a bad’ { 0 . Davil's Tower in Crook County, Wyo. He has lived up to the name of his ments were limited by the pesce treaties, but even these—and notably Germany and Austria—are doing ev- treaty- clauses and increase their armies to a much larger basis than is now stipulated. Even the United States, presum- ably the most peaceful country in the world, has failed to escape from the mania for increased armies which “the last war” has entailed. Coupled with the increased cost of living, these increased armaments and their increased cost of maintenance will throw on the people of every country in the world a military bur- den infinitely larger and more crush- ing than was borne before the war. The only thing that makes it seem supportable at all is that if it is more than what it was before the war, it is at least less than what the military expenses were.during the war. ‘While all nations of the world have not yet succeeded in reorganizing their armies on.the basis which the recent war appears to have rendered necessary, yet in almost every coun- try: the reorganization projects are under consideration, and there is not a single one that does not provide for an increase over what the mili- tary effectives and costs were before the war. While, - theoretically, the question of the military force to be maintained is purely an internal one which every country has a right to settle for itself, yet as a matter of fact, every coun- try, as has always been the case in the past, is .obliged to govern the size of its military. effectives and strength by what its neighbors are doing. Likewise as in the past, Germany is still the world’s predominating fac- tor in this respect. The peace treaty originaliy reduced the German n;myl ‘to 100,000 men. Later this was tem- porarily increased to 200,000 in order | to enable Germany to meet internal troubles and possible bolshevik as- saults' from without. I reality, the most accurate in- formation from Germany shows that she still has 1,000,000 men under arms. These consist of her regular army of 400,000 men; of 12,000 sol- diers temporarily serving with the marine; and four large organizations attached to the ministry of the in- terior for internal defense totaling over 600,000 men. With every in- dication and certainty that Germany intends to mainfain as much of her Jnilitary strength as possible every European country is forced to take this into consideration in her own a¥my reorganization. E . England, for example, has definite- 1y decided upon her new army organ- jzation which' is .for 485,000 men di- vided into fourteen divisions and or- ganized into. a. regular and a terri- tor'al army. The budget for this. military organization is 125,000,000 pounds as against 29,000,000 pounds before the war. This means a mili- tary burden four times larger than! before the war. , Naturally, the size of England’s army, just as much as the size of Ger- many's army, dictates the size for every other country. At Washington despite the recom- mendations of Secretary Baker for an army of 500,000 men, the present bills before congress provide only for 300,000 men. Nevertheless, this is double the United .States effectives of before the war. In Italy the reorganization of the army provides for an increase from 108 regiments of infantry to 120 and from 38 regiments of artillery to 30 drawn by horses and 15 by tractors. While a shorter period of military service is provided for the financial burden is immeasurably increased. In - France, the -definite plans for the reorganization of the army have not yet been worked out. In the meantime France has just called to the, colors her entire class of 1920 and as her period of service has not yet been changed they come under _the old three year term of service andopted just before the war. With the n'eiegfit.yv,of furnishing the great bulk ‘of the troops that are to hold ¢ ‘matal county, playing the vicious but rather likable villain. Joe Ryan is now | - | et work om a serial in which:he will appear. as both hero. and . villain. erything in their power to escape the! - - : : down. the .occupied portion of Ger- many for the next fifteen—or thirty —years, as well as_ . furnishing the great bulk of the foreign expeditions riecessary for en- forcing all the various. clauses of the peace treaty, France hasn’t a’ghost of a chance of decreasing her pre- war military burden either in men or financially. While Sweden appointed a com- mission to see if her regular army could not be replaced by militia, the force of military events and increased military organization on every hand caused this commission to go out of business last December. In Holland, the action of the cham- ber in suppressing a military budget of 1,800,000 florins caused the war minister to resign. Hungary is more determined than ever that the peace conference shall let her have a larger army than orig- inally conceded. But the military pretentions—and consequential burdens of Germany, Hungary and the other defeated states—are tame indeed .compared with those of the new states that have heen born out of the war. All of the. new. .border states that have come out of Russia, for example, in- sist on. maintaining armies that will be an increase rather than decrease over what the Russian army was be- fore the war. Poland, Czecko-Slovakia, Rumania, Serbia all feel that their existence depends upon military strength. While they haven’t even had time to think about reorganizing their armies on a peace time basis, it is absolutely cer- tain that whenever that time comes, each will insist on an individual army that taken altogether will more than offset any reduction that might have been hoped for by the breaking up of the old time military levy of Germany and Austria. Aside from this actual increase in the standing armies of the world that “la grande guerre” has brought on the increased cost of living with its increased cost of army maintenance means that the world is looking for- ward to a greater and more crushing military burden than ever before carried, MANY MOVING TO MINNESOT. 8t. Paut, April 28.—Fred D.-Sher- man, state immigration commiesion- | er, declares Minnesota received &t least its full share of immigrants during the past year. Mr. Sherman quotes figures on the number .of carloads of immigrants movables haniied by the Minnesota Transfer Railroad company, ' which show. that’ the immigrant movement ito the northwest during 'the past month was-nearly double that'in a corresponding period a year ago. Out of a total of 1,047 cars of this class which passed through the trans- fer yards last month, 561 cars:were consigned to Minnesota points,’.216 to Wisconsin, 109 to North Dakota, 91 to Canada, and the remainder to | scattered . points. A heavy exchange of land owners in the state has been recorded dur- ing the past year, but in the opinion of Commissioner Sherman, Minneso- ta has lost but' few of its farmers. The heaviest transfer of property has been in the southern part of the state, with scattering localities in central and western Minnesota find- ing ready buyers for farm land. 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