The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-14
anSdOwne Says Everything
Needed for Campaign
Was Lacking.
NOT ST RE EVEN NOW
OF SUFFICIENT MEN
Registration Bill May BE
Followed if Necessary
by CONSUMPTION.
FORCED TO COMPETE
IN ALLIES MARKETS
Waste Of Lives Impossible
TO Compute. Declares
Cabinet Member.
Sn.c.M CahI, DcApa,ch 70 Tmr sly

Sp'r'1i 'obIs Despu'ch IA Tur >tN
IoNpoH. July i3--If there has been
any doubt that .he Government, devised
ard planned its registration" bl! as a
measure OF precaat!on against the neces-
s.ty OF compulsory military service 1t
was dsp,ilel to-day by the Marquis
OF Llusdownc. speaking in the House
Of Lords. He said that the bill did not
IN Itself mean the immediate inaugura-
uon OF compulsory scrviCe--additional
Legislation being necessary before such
n course would he possible--but that it
ga mean that the Government would
he prepared, II the need arose. TO place
its hands on the men wanted
In the course of his remarks he
frankly admitted that the British Gov
ernment as national organization had
proved itself wofully lacking In the
expedlents necessary at the time Of a
great crisis. He said nobody would
ever know what this lack of proper or
! ganization and efficiency cost the coun-
| try in the lives of its citizens. in money
and In prestige. In a sense. his speech
| was bitter arra!gnment of the respon-
sible heads of the Government when the
war began and up TO the time of the
| Governments reorganization.
This measure" said the Marquis OF
/ larsdowne, lays The only foundation
on which any country can organize its
| resources In a crisis similar to the one
/ through which We are passing at pres.
ent. We have suffered gravcly for want
of proper organization. But no one Will
deny that Il there have been confusions,
misdirec'ed energies. great disappoint-
ments and II these things have resulted
IN disastrous consequences this has rot
been due to a lack Of patriotism or good
will or skin on the part of our people.
but to the defects of the machinery of
our national organization. to our "a lure
20 collect in good time the necessary
knowledge, To marshal, the facts To-
take stock and 10 classify.
state Unable 10 Guide.
at is because of our failure in these
/ things that the state has been unable
! to supply that guidance without which
no member OF the community can be
sure that he is applying his zeal and
energy to the greatest advantage
we have been convicted as ma
ticn. We have been found guilty by "A
foreign critic---a friendly critic-of pro-
| de'ous inet'iciency in our national or
Fanl2ation. IA 10 the lesson to lie
learned surely II is this. that the Coun-
TRY should not tolerate "A recurrence ~
the kind of incidents of which We have
had recent experiences. | do not think
| go too far when | say that no GOV.
,,,in
rlnd or retain the confidence OF its
peuple unless IL takes steps 10 render
such miscnrriages of effort and energy
and good will impossible In the future
There has been great awakening Of
public opinion. II was the general con-
Ception of our responsibilities in war
up to a year or six months ago that We
should have ii strong navy. "A home army
of sufficient strength To defend our
shores and an eXpeditonary force Of
six divisions ready to be thrown into
any struggle on the Continent in which
we might be Interested We believed
that recruits could be taken from any
source. and that the markets Of the
world would be open to supply us with
all necessary munitions in the meantime.
We left the civil population to itself II
was free to sell it's labor as II pleased.
when II pleased and where II pleased.
II was permitted To work at half speed,
MY Lords, we have now realized that
all that was inCompat BILE with the safety
. Of the empire, We have realized that
the old go-as-you- please system has
, broken down completely.
81 Division. at Front.
"The six MISUNDERSTANDING with reali-
/ ties have been followed by others uu-
Ill now. unless | am mistaken, there
; are twenty-five or twenty three divisions
tabOut $4,000 mem in the European
theatre uf war. New armies had 10
: be created The volume Of men
,, necessary was surprising We had
!, not paused to consider whether or
! not we were taking the right men. The
. stream of equipment did not flow SO
> satisfactorily our own factories We're
unequal to the strain. our great con-
\ tractors left us in the mrch in the
r foreign markets we found ourselves COM
I p.ting with our allies. There was n piti-
e able scramble for munitions, and YOU
p all know how grevously unsatisfactory
' the result has been,
"prodigious efforts have been made 10
l overtake the arrears and they have been
$ attended with a considerable measure of
! success. but we shall never know what
those defects in the organization OF our
Government have cost the nation in
money, In anxiety, in lives and In the
prolongation of this war, Even now, are
, which are that every member OF the
e community should take part In the great
e national task in the direction for which
IL Asa.