The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13

be spiritual and mental preparedness. To prepare a great army and navy | without preparing a proper national | spirit would avail nothing.
 Duties of Each Citizen. Again. every citizen should be trained sedulously by every activity at our command to realize his duty to 1 the nation, In France at this mo- 1 ment the workingTnen who are not at the front are spending all their ener- gies with the single thought of help ing their brethren at the front by what they do in the ununit1on plant, ! on the railroads, in the factories, It Is a shocking, a lanaentabIe thing that many of the trade unions of England have taken a directly opposite view. am not concerned with whether it be true, as they assert, that their employers are trying to exploit them, or.- as these employers assert, that the z labor men ara trying to gain profit for those who stay at home at the cost of their brethren who fight in the trenches
 +-The thing for us Americans to re- aIize is that we must do our best to prevent similar conditions from grow ing up here In war time, when the welfare of the nation is at stake, it should be, accepted as automatic that the employer is to make no profit out of the war save that which is neces-
 
 business and to the living expenses of himself and family, and that the wage worker is to treat his wage from .ex- actIy the same standpoint and is to see to it that the labor organization to which he belongs is, in all it's activ ites, subordinate to the service of the nation.
 Now there must be some app1ica.- ton of this spirit in times of peace or we cannot suddenly develop 1t in time of war. The strike situation in the United States at this time is discreditable alike to employer and employe-
 The American Groups.
 During the last year and a ortarter it has been brought home to us in startling fashion that many of the ele- ments of our nation are not yet prop er1y fused, It ought to be a literally appalling fact that members of two. of the foreign embassies in this coun- try have been discovered to be i'm plicated in melting their fel1ow-couR- trymen, whether naturalized Anneri- can citizens or not to the destruction of property and the cripp1ing of American industries that are operat- ing in accordance with internal war and international agreement The nnalign activity of one of these en-
 
 rectlg to the ambassador in such shape that his. recall was forced. The activities of the other have been set forth in detail by the publication in the Eress of its own letters in such fashion as to make it perfectly clear that 5hey were of the same general charac cter- Of course the two embas- sies were merely carrying out the in-. structions of their home governments Following up this attack on the Gerrn1n and Austrian governments for a4ternpting to keep alive separate natio1Ja1 groups profoundly -Anerd- can f11 sentiment T the colonel said:
 Tt has recently been announced that i1le Russian government is toi rent a, house in New York as a nation- al ceirtre to be Russian in faith and patriq tlsn, to foster the Russian Ian guaga and keep alive the national ifee1in in immigrants who come hfthe1. All of this is utterly antago- nistic to proper American sentiment, wsaetAer perpetrated in the name of GerAnaJny, of Austria. of Russia. of Eng1a-ad, or France or any other coun- try.
 .-vFD should meet this situation by on itT1p ous hand seeing that these i'm nnigraS nts get all their rights as Ameri- can dtizens, and on the other hand l 1nsistAsg that they live up to their duties as American citizens" 1 Three Elemental Filings i The colonel suggested at this point ! that iisstead of a 1iteracy test for i'm 1 mi igraiIts they be forced to give a. bond t5o learn to read and write, and that every facility be provided them Continuing, he said:
 ATh,Jrefore, we should devote oI1r- selves as a preparat1ve to prepared ness,s ,3lfike in peace and war, to se- cure tI1e three elemental things. one, l a common language. the English 1an-5 1 guage. two,s the increase in our social lIoyaIt1 citizenship absolutely undi- ivided, a citizenship which acknow1- edges no flag except the flag of the United States and which ernphatically 4repudl lBtes all duality of intention or lnationttl loyalty; and third. intelli- gent and ,resolute effort for the re-. i17aoval of industrial and social unrest, an eff4rt which shall aim equally at. securing every man his rights and to make livery man understand that un-. less hs.S in good faith performs his l duties he is not entitled to any rights lat a11'S
 Colo.ae1 Roosevelt said he believed the only pernanent1y safe attitude for 1 this country, as regards national pre- paredness for se1f-defense. was along the lines of universal service on the Swiss model. which was free of n1ili-s i tarfsfn or aggressfveness. He made these further suggestfons: l We need that the navy and the
 army should be greatly increased, and l that t!teir efficiency as units and in the aggregate should be increased to
 an even greater degree than their
 iHfnbess. An adequate regular re- serve should be esta ab11shed Econo-
 my should be insisted on. and first of all. in the abolition of useless army posts and navy yards
 '-The National Gaaad should be i supervised and controlled by the Federal War Department. Train !. ing camps such as that at PIatts- 2, wide basis and the government
 should pay the expenses. Foreign
 born as well as native born teitizens