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MONDAY. MAY i5. 1916.
The recent recommendation of
General bunston that a portion
of the infantry forces be tempor
arily converted into cavalrymen
in order to provide an effective
guardianship over that section of
the border touching upon Mexi
can territory, furnishes further
significant illustration of the
woeful lack of military efficiency
of this country.
Here we are at present facing
what even the officials of the ad
ministration concede is a very
serious prospect of war with the
Mexican people and yet we are
totally' unable to prevent a con
tinuous succession of trifling
bandit raids along a strip of ter
ritory whereon is mobilized the
greater portion of our military
forces without proceeding to
makeshift provisions. Funston
openly says that it is impossible
to properly guard the border in
the absence of the regularly con
stituted cavalry branch of the
service, owing to the inability oi
the infantry troops to cover the
wide stretches of territory e:<
poced to hostile attack.
Considering that probably six
ty per cent or more of the regu
lar military forces are concen
trated along the border, this ap
pears a rather startling admis
sion and also one that leads to
rather serious reflection as to
what might be the eventualities
if an active state of war existed
between the Mexicans and our
selves.
Did such a conditions exist, it
is very probable that practically
all of the Mexicans along the
border would constitute them
selves irregulars intent on dam
aging the United States and its
people by any means in their
power and the very natural re
sult would be that dozens, per
haps hundreds, of rai<ls would
occur along the far reaching
boundary line.
How we w'ould be able to
guard against them with the
bulk of our military forces en
gaged with the army or armies
such as the Mexicans would
place in the field against us, is
something of a question. If wre
cannot stop a few- raiders with
over half of our military forces
doing nothing else but watching
the border, how would we pre
vent a hundred raiding bands
from crossing the line when the
exigencies of war required that
our regular troops should be
otherwise engaged?
It will probably be suggested
that the duty would devolve up
on the state militia or that an
army of volunteer citizens could
be created for the purpose in the
event of the militia being called
upon to assist the regular army.
This is very likely what would
happen but, whether the forces
delegated to the task were mili
tia or volunteers, it is clear that
it would be a somewhat difficult
business for them to accomplish
what the bulk of the regular
army is seemingly unable to do,
especially as there would in all
probability be a hundred raiding
efforts to be guarded against in
stead of a very few as at present.
It is not to be doubted, of
course, that an adequate force of
some character could and would
be ultimately provided but one
dislikes to think of what might
possibly happen while our pro
crastinating government was
getting it ready.
It is also somewhat disconcert
ing to reflect that, if a war should
suddenly develop, untrained civ
ilian soldiery must be called out
by a great nation like the United
States in order to guard an in
finitesimal portion of its bound
ary line
Nice outlook, isn’t it? A coun
try with a hundred million peo
ple, possessing an incomparable
vastness of riches and yet unable
to prevent its borders being rav
aged with fire and sword because
of an absence of adequate defen
sive measures.
CHISELED GRANITE
MOUNTAIN WILL
Stone mountain, a great naked
dome of light gray granite, an
hour by motorfrom' kt'anta, will
possibly be transformed into a
colossal monument commemora
tive of the sacrifice and military
endeavors made by the south
during the civil war. In the up
per portion of the mountain’s
precipitious face it is expected to
chisel a frieze representative of
the once formidable army of the
confederacy. A handsome page
view in the April Popular Me
chanics magazine shows how
this will be executed.
The financing of this enterprise
is in the hands of the Stone
Mountain Confederate Memorial
Association, which is headed by
tile honorable president of the
United Daughters of the Con
federacy. It is estimated that
$2,000,000 will be sufficient to car
ry out the undertaking, and this
sum is to be raised by subscrip
tion in the south. The entire
facade of the mountain, enough of
its crest otp reserve its sky line,
and an 80 acre tract at the base
which wi'l be developed into a
park, have been donated for the
memorial. This property will re
main under the custodianship of
the women, although virtually
conveyed to the state.
One of America’s foremost
sculptors has been chosen to
execute the work. His compo
sition represents an army divid
ed in two wings, mounted and
loot, following the contour of
the mountain. Pressing over the
crest and keeping to its right wil1
be the main body composed of
‘cavalry, infantry, and artillery.
At one side of this, rounding the
monolith, will appear the other
force headed by a brilliant group
of horsemen consisting of the
figures of Lee, Stonwall Jackson,
“Jeb” Stewart, the Johnstons,
and probably to her great south
ern leaders of the ’60s. This
granite army, carved in full re
lief, will extend across the side
of the great rock for roughly
2,000 feet. The horsemen will
doubtless average between 45
and 50 feet in height, although
these and the former figures are
merely approximate estimates
There will be altogether some I,"
200 separate portraits, each uni
formed in the gray of the gran
ite. It is possible that nearly all
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•of these figures will represent
men who actually fought for the
south. The work will thus be of
sufficient size to be visible a dis~
tance of several miles.
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