National Defense: Appeal to Reason

This week, at posts along the Atlantic seaboard from South Carolina to the Canadian border, soldiers of Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum's First Army fell in for special Armistice Day formations. To hardened Regulars, newly mobilized National Guardsmen, Organized Reserves, one-year volunteers—all the components of the new U. S. Army except conscripts—officers intoned an order-of-the-day. To many a top sergeant, Hugh Drum's dicta on how to train the new army sounded new & strange. Expecting that it would, Hugh Drum had pointedly commanded his subordinates to post his order where their men could...