The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1928, Page 14

; ‘ ‘ : 5 ¥ vi ¥ i Ni Ny : . , fA sie of ours; that of Cre: PAGE FOURTEEN V. S. DEFENSE ACT IS NATION'S | INSURANCE POLICY, SAYS OBERST' The following rticle c National Insurance Policy” sent dla trainin in Lael Ne-| warfare is due for early murder at! Bee op reneent oF Ne the hand of the enemy and is not) braska Reserve Officers’ As-) given a square deal by his country. | : a This component is the principal! soziation Tells of Steps Tak-| safeguard of fo richest nation on| earth. They buy their own uni- en by United States to Pro-| forms, they may ERD a few eeu i i ¥ training once in three years and all| tect Itself in Time of War | try ask 1s that they be given suf-| ficient support so that if this nation | “Our should need them they would be able | was) to lead the, ae soldicry with repared by Major Byron B. Oberst, | s skill. 4 Ey setntantey feserve, former vice . 7. Cand CM T.C. | resident of the Nebraska Reserve is now ten years since the ficers association and_ now title; World war and many of its veterans attorney with the New York Title| are i yc too old ee eee as dg ye was therefore necessary to provide/ “Meld soe some method of replacing the offi-; By MAJOR BYRON B. OZERST U.S, Infantry Reserve cers required for the organize reserves. Two methods were pro- The founder Were not or that f: trange that this republic, which was builded upon their genius, should have failed for almost a century and a half to give ightest heed to their wi 1 ls. of our gov In view of | = = oe as born ap ed and fifty s of strife a: . Our freedom was 0’ tained through the heroic efforts o ‘a comparatively small number c’ poorly armed, half-fed and half- clothed citizen soldiers. Our fe fathers, aware of this fact, 4 igite vas the pr liberty, but we have failed to their cou of the world ‘as re and the siren | dpa This country, in its entire hi from Lexingion to Relleau has never been called upon to de herself against an enemy anyw near her own size. Credit Due to Lacy Luck In the Mexican war, in the war, in the Spanish-Ami and in the World war--La our deity—has won for us an ay promptly erased from cur mem every act of those tragic dr: except the fortunate ending, and on the altar of we have offere: up, each generation of our nation2. life, thousands cf brave, but trained, soldiers xs human sacrifices to our wanton ne; from this act, plunged into the World war. On: more the goddess of luck gave us protection, assisted, ia this ir. s by the blood and sacrifi turopean allies. We fi ilized, equipped end parti: large numbers of our ci sent about two milli equipped them many instences with cottcn uni for winter service, trained them with wooden cannon and drilled thom di carded rifles. British and ¥ chine guns, eutomz* and airplanes p. their suppiies shed bz allies. They foug’: with a nol worthy of hi i but against heart placed upcn them by those w ideals they had gone out to pr: We von, kus in the story of winning our statesmen ct last sa the light, and in 19: act. This act constitutes or policy, and i: definite military ing the existeac Every citizen i: * to be femiliar & opinion th: + the lifetime visions of this act to the severest t of our nation w: its functioning. on Furdamente! Poiicy This act is based upon a furca- mental policy of ocr nati democratic pri t every ab! izen is bozrd to the defense of the emergency. But the a: that principle a riza: which 1 garded. Under its terns th: who offers try will be given assur ill be led ing off. ue ts 7 count although in the Yard it has bees ce be ns ‘ ‘er compere 8 in our national defensc: This idea is v i eA EAM MCE | First, the reg: | the nationz! guard, zed reserves. * peace these three componcnis ¥ ‘widely different prograi Regular Army Our regular army is very In proportion to the population, t! army of Russia is 2 1/3 2 3/4 times; that of Japan that of Italy 27 times France 37 times. The reg: 4 ig the smallezi component v: itary establishment. [ts mi: two-fold. In time of peace it administrative head cf the er defense system and eupervi conducts the peace-time t: r ‘the civilian components. In time of war it furnishes a nuns é shout q our manpower can be formed, National Guard ‘The Laped com) gue 2 th gtionsl gu .rd. marily it i contro! of the state in Che “In time of war for the defense of the nation iced. g th lar ar Oapanlaed Wevezvs eomponent ie OTEeNe ves, ‘which consist of 2 fe or skeleton of commissi non-commissioned c. ae ach to Pr. vide tre mnel to trein fl addidonal force, requiz . This co: i Pecraited peizly fro ment| vided by the national defense act. The first of these agen is the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Today about seventy universities and colleges are enjoying the bene- fits of certain grants conferred by congress, whereby in return a course of military instruction is given. By means of the training in these institutions a certain number of men each year receive commis- Siona as officers, The second agen- cy provided for replacing the nec- essary personnel is the Citizens’ Milicary Training Camp, which will be explained later. This plan of national defense of- fers a system conforming to the ideals of the American people. These ideals provide for the defense of our nation in any emergency by the citizen soldier rather than by the professional. Washington and his associates first voiced this idea and it has been adhered to ever since, ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE the present policy we hi decided that, since we will again call upon them to Jead us to safety, justice demands that we give them an op- portunity to learn something about Adhere to Basic Principles In doing this, however, we are their task. | adhering to basic American prin-| | We are already failing to pay many of the. premiums due on our insur- ance policy, through lack of suf- ficient appropriations to carry on the necessary training. Certain of our citizens have pro- fessed to see a grave danger to our democratic ideals because of the! “ict that groups of our young peo- ciples; first, that our standing army|ple are being trained to defend shall be small and shall serve only} ‘': o3 the admini_trative head and as the nucleus for our man power in case of an emergency; second, that when an emergency overtakes us, each individual citizen is legally and morally obliged to do his share and third, that since our regular army is but a nucleus, it is incum- bent upon us to provide at least the see ideals, The charge is made that the war department is foster- ing a spirit of militarism; that it is making military training com- ere being impregnated with the lust fcr war; it is well that all of us should know that these statements te nik true and why they are being made, rudiments of training for some of our citizens. This plan, then, constitutes our! national insurance policy and has Our nation seeks no quarrel with any other nation. It is our present policy, as in the past, to avoid by {possible means controversies pulsory and that our tender youth| life THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 192 upon to take part in a conflict of] the purpose of emkanadied ch and arms; but ‘1 a country which -has|-every one of these principles. Our seen at least one major war for] most eminent danger today exists every 30 years of its existence|in the well-organized and constant and ina world which has seen 21; assaults which are directed against majcr wars since the great war—|these principles; The ambassador in a world which still has its breed-| of anarchy, the representative of ing places of hatred, aggression and| revolution and the preacher of pa- political ambition—there still exists} cificism are laboring.to break down, the danger that any nation may at|.in the breasts of all our citizens, some time find itself at the point| the principles which have made this where its individual peace can be country great. Many of these teach- Preserved only at the price of its|ers of sedition are but dupes led national honor or of its failed to analyze, but working with This country was founded upon them and manipulating their act: certain definite fundamental prin- ciples, among which are love of| objective is the destruction of country, protection of ideals, foster-| morals, religion, patriotism and or- ing of the home, sanctity of mar-| ganized government, and the turn- Tiage, respect for religion and the| ing over of this nation to commun- right of the individual to the free| istic forces. use of his earnings. All of these; Today we are the creditor nation are basic principles, necessary, if|of practically the entire world and national] into an activity. which they have] R ities is an organized group whose! Heretofore we have compelled our young men to defend our ideals in| Without training we have | sent them out to defend us. Under! i heretofore been functioning very) a But every insuranc d| each generation of this nation’s; policv requires that the premiums’ ¢ i necessary to maintain it be paid, if it is to continue to be a Protection. | n factorily. tf] ich lead to quarrels. To our na- ional wish and desire for peare we stantly add our labors for peace. ery one of us hopes that this ion will never again be called dure. peaceful organized society is to en- But today sinister forces are con- ducting a most insidious and by no means unsuccessful campaign for! permitted to continue, we will soon are cordially hated ‘by most of it. Luxury and love of ease, aided and abetted by pernicious propaganda, are undermining our manhood. If be at the mercy of the first comer; and history may repeat itself, ’ We are taught that when thd Phoenicians first founded Cartha; they were a hardy and manly race, and due to that fact spread thi power ik authority of Cartha; over a wide expanse of territory. Gradually the riches thus atid undermined the manhood of thd country and Carthage became a ready victim for Rome, then in th adolescence of its power. In turn ‘ome and Venice were destroyed, due primarily to the fact that their citizens were not prepared to sup. port them in time of need. No patriotic citizn wishes our country to come to such a state, but if we continue to rely on Lady Luck and continue to Permit sub- versive propaganda to make head- way, we will eventually reach that state. It is therefore the duty of each of us to lend our support to the system of national defense, to insist that our insurance policy be kept in force and to combat this type of propaganda, She Fastest _Telegrap Service 77 of the - ASSOCIATED PRESS Now in Operation in the Office of the Cut out the coupon—fill in and mail to Bismarck Tribune. North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper : Bismarck, N. Dak. 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