For A Citizen Army.

Discusses the establishment of a “citizen army” in the United States under the term of President Woodrow Wilson. Recommendation of the executive government to the Congress on the citizen army creation patterned after the model of Switzerland or Australia; Advocacy of Major General Leonard Wood on the volunteer federal militia; Lack of knowledge regarding the citizen army; Essentials of the Swiss citizen army; Chief attention given to gymnastics and shooting rather than parades and drill; Excessive money involved in the maintenance of the U.S. Army; Difficulty of any program of preparedness presented to the Congress.