Word: calling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Rumors frequently claim that the draft limit will be lowered to nineteen years. Although European countries call for men below majority, we have been reluctant to follow their example, chiefly because younger men are not sufficiently developed. If the present system turns out the best possible army, and continues to do so, we gain by it. If, however, there is doubt as to its durability, or if men under age are as good soldiers, it seems fair to summon the latter, especially since they are less likely to have dependents. There are many between nineteen and twenty-one who have...
...significant fact, nevertheless, it that three men mention the belief that the War Department wants to call the younger men. "I believe it will be lowered to 19 on account of the opinions held by the War Department," wrote Senator Kirby of Arkansas. Representative Mott of New York thinks that "military authorities are unanimous in maintaining that it should be as low as that." Hon. Bertrand H. Snell thinks that the younger men will be called for training but will not be sent across the water until they...
...Cross has asked our help in the past not in vain; surely our response to this new call will be as prompt and as willing. R. W. GORDON...
Equally well selected and equally various are the subjects. One finds Rupert Brooke's "The Dead" and "The Soldier." Cammaert's "Song of the Belgians," and Bourdillon's "The Call." One poem seems, for the moment, a bit out of place in the Collection--Miss Burr's "Holy Russia," a glorification of the new (now wavering) democracy...
During the summer of his 20th year the young Swiss must pass a physical and literary examination, and then he enters intensive training for 60 or 75 days. From the age of 20 to 32 they are called together for 16 days every year. After that year they are in a class of trained reserves liable to call at any moment