Equality of military. service will. however. increase the. pride In citizenship and bring. home to every. man an. enlightened: sense of having to play a partin our scheme of national existence. . I . . . I . . .. . .: Universal military training can not. help. but impress. the American immigrant with the idea that he owes something to his adopted Government and that this country is really something more than an asylum of refuge or a place of sordid commercialism. The immigrant will soon learn that America will .tolerate no such thing as divided allegiance. and. oncetaught to love our flag and respect our institutions.: the immigrant will. become the citizen and will know. no other allegiance. ! � Universalmilitary training will discipline the mind and. train the body of our young manhood and will teach tie lessons of selfrestraint and selfcontrolall tending to sturdiness ofcharacter and greater individual and national. efficiency. " Universal military training conteumplates a better understanding between capital andlabor. for it provides that the men in tIle service and in the reserve are to be used only in the event of war and not in the settlement- of industrial. disputes. Members of labor organizations and their sons who have lheetofore refused to join tle- National Guard -because oftie fear of being calledupon to quell strikes and labor troubles can nothave the same objection to serving in an army that is to be used. only for national defense or actual warfare. Last but by no means least. universal military. training will do more than anything else topreserve the great heritage for xWhich ou1rfathelr fought .and which they have handed down to us.
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