Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-23
PREDICTS WAR WITH
GERMANY AND JAPAN
Hanry A. Wise Wood, Talking
n Orange, criticises Pres
ident Wilson.

Predicting 'he1l IN this country" il
the politicians are to be allowed to
handle the question of preparedness.
Henry A. Wise Wood. chairman Of
the conference committee on national
preparedness, vice-president OF the
Aero Club of America, and member
of tho Naval Consulting Board, chided
the national administration in a talk
last night before the New England
Society of Orange. He criticised
President Wilson for failure to accept
tho suggestions of the conference
committee and predicted wars with
Eefsnanysand Japan.
sPresident Wilson is not competent
10 do this job insisted the speaker
He Is not competent by nature to
handle a tlImult such as exists today
No negative literary character who
looks at questions through academic
spactacles could take care of a sitn-
alton like the one that confr0nts this
country was the substance Of the
speakers frank criticism Of the chief
executive who had on previous occa-
sions declined to accept the suggestion
OF AIr. Wood that he, with Secretary
of War Garrison and Secretary Dam
isls of the navy, take Mr.. Wood into
for the future of the two branches Of
defense.
mr. Wood, who told the men he in
tended to speak frankly on the subject,
said we would likely have to face the
carnage and rape going on in Bel
gium and France unless America
woke up to the dangers of the future
and demanded that the recommenda-
fions of the army and navy officers
10 the administration be made public.
Mr. Wood went extensively into his
reasons for prophesying our wars of
the future. Germany will run afoul
Of us over the interference Of the
Monroe Doctrine with Teutonic plans
Tor colonizing Brazil and other South
american countries, while the Cali
fornia quarrel with the Japs will
cause the yellow peril to break on
the first sign of our conflict with am
other power. He said the California
quarrel was our fault, and during the
evening Rev Walter Reid Hunt. s.
tor Of the First Unitarian Church,
challenged the speaker on the een-
sistency of seeking to arm for 2
for q wrong policy and asked
be defended that idea,. ''wh
Gods name, are we going to-
Mr.. Wood replied that the Western
Hght against the Japanese was due to
Misrepresentation, and he told how the
Japanese, to gain property there, T.
down white mems falls, then take
them over at cheap price, after
running them. He asked the clergy
man If a race visited his community
with such practices would he not also
oppose their invasion. He pror~ tsed
an ,sIJlster rebellion" If the Americans
backed down in their attitude toward
the. Japanese. as the. Californians
would resent any support by our gov
ernment of the orientals in their
State.
He told of the activities of the Zep-
nelins in England and of the terrible
damage done in recent raids on Lon
don and vicinity. From private sources
ne had learned, he said, that one raid
resulted in damage amounting to sl0,-
100000 with a loss of 500 lives, m
elHding 200 babies in a hospital. There
W ere 1000 injured in the same raid, he
said The people in some places in
the vicinity of London sleep IN the
fields at night and bury ammunition.
The society voted to terminate all
snerial committees with the end OF
the administration that appointed the
bodies. This was an echo of the re-
cent row over activities of a fran
clbise committee which caused General
Edwin w. Hine to resign. The milk,
railroad crossings and public fran
chise committees died automatically
with the adoption of the measure.