The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-20

To pus5de for the common defense.
IA our duty under the Constitution
We all hope that war widsnot coma
and at least. that It VIII not come
mere In America, until have time
to get ready
But we should begin provision now
n any man is not Convinced OF this
by what has already happened and
been said. he cannot be convinced by
argument make NO sarEumeqt-
How best 10 provide Is q question
chiefly OF ways and means, IN other
words fnancia1-howS to getsfhesmost
defensive prepaTedneas for QUE money
= We have not frstrate vessel OF
any class-a vessel possessing the
best modern speed
Our navy must be mo6erntzed, and
fifty uaiIldcn dollars year will give
us two battle cruisers a year which
can keep the seas becauseaof their
speed, while dreadnoughts. such as
now form the largest part ofo navy,
fear torpedoes from submartness or
in fog dread attacks From torpedo
boats
FIFTY million dollars more will give
us annually a good number OF rhe
fastest cruisers. which like the
Enden and Dresden, and~f the old con-
stftu6on, will hold the seas and laugh
at slower navies. Speed used to be
and ought to be distinctly American
Fifty ntlHont dollars more wtMEgfve
a yearly supply OF torpedo boats, sub
marines airshipS, unHneA torpedoes
and ammunition.
Fifty million dollars more Will re-
payto American ship owners the year
ly wages or difference, In wages OF
over a. hundred thousand american
officers and sailors It would make
our merchant marine a success and
the payment could be on CONDITION
that the officers and sailors should
be enlisted and the vessels pledged
Tor naval reserve and ready for use
in case of need. So much, Tor our
first defense. Two hundred million
dollars would be we'll spent dn CIV
ing US the best kind OF a navy. such
as would make it unsafe for any for
eign vessel to enter our sounds or ap-
proach our coasts.
II that defence fail we must rely
on am army.
And warfare Is now not question
OF standing armies, but OF being able
to give officers and arms to the whole
nation. TO our twenty million able
bodied men
It is rifles. artillery and brains that
are needed for the millions They can
be provided for i've million men at
a little over half than the annual
Cost Oh e41ASt4AS ,41tV 44AAA4A4 SAAONA-~Fa
and men.
Fifty maulon dollars q year would
maintain fifty thousand cadets In mill
tary academies that could be run In
barracks or even in camps This
great corps OF cadets would not be a
permanent standing army but if war
came 1t would be from the first
better army than any otne1 because
st would be an army Of selected men
II war should not come, then, at the
end of four years, there would be
fifty thousand trained officers ready
to go into civil life and ready at or
after graduation to give an officer to
every one hundred men OF an army
OF i've million volunteers Even in
civil life 1t IS impossible to everest
mate what these graduates would do
for the national guard and for school
Fifteen million dollars a year
would give 15eutenant:s pay for one
thousand graduates of colleges and
technical schools, many would accept
a temporary commission TOR a year
in the army to learn TO defend their
country as officers, and then return
to civI life. -,
Eve million dollars a year would
give four hundred rounds of rife car
trsdges to each OF our five hundred
1housand coNegSates and high school
boys i'm order to practice marksnan-
ship, and i've million dollars more
would give i've. hundred dollars in
competitive prizes for every hundred
scholars and would encourage that
enanlatton IN the military game that
has made Other games almost the
chief end OF the school and college
boy.
Two hundred million dollars a year
will provide arms, artillery, ammuni-