The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-10-27

an inventory of how these things were
being produced and how their produc-
ton could be co-ordinated an ra"n
tos1ther for the national use in case
OF necessity.
"One Of the great lessons or thu
iluI. pean war h been that the eco-
uor:c mobilization OF the country, the
economic coordination and co-opera-
l;on Of it is just as important as
..il:,. .rv cooperation. The advantage
we s.w was this, that if we could
m he the various manufacturers, the
scientists in the practical laboratories,
the engineers undertaking the great
tasks, some of which are now char
acteristic of times of war, realize that
the nation was not safe in time OF war
unless they co-operated, an inevitable
result would come, that the nation
would see that it was not safe unless
they co-operated in time of peace, too.
81 am not expecting this country
to get into war. l know that the
way in which We have preserved peace
is objected to and that certain gentle
men say they would have taken some
other way. am not expecting this
country to- get into war, partly be-
cause am not expecting these gentle
men to have chance to make mess
of it.
Problems of Peace.
81 am very glad to take advantage
of the present concentration upon the
problems of war to make it evident
to the country that those same prob
lens are the problems of peace.
"In the immediate future this coun-
try has got to draw upon its re-
sources in the most intelligent way
and has got to make conquest Of all
those men who refuse to cooperate.
THAT is the intelligent thing to do.
Almost anybody will see it if you
point it out to him. 1t had just not
been seen by a sufficiently energetic
body of men and now we are see-
ing it.
Some of my most interesting ex-
periences in recent months have been
in connection with this. For example,
representatives of the great merical
and surgical societies of the United
States, when they saw what we were
after, came and offered to cooperate
with us to the limit in developing the
kind of cooperation which would be
necessary in time of war. Represen-
tatives of the great scientists Of the
countrY have done just what the en-
gineers have tried to do with regard
to the industries. My friends, this
country is waking up to its unity, to
the sense of partnership and co-opera-
ton and coordination which has been
by intention at any rate, and hope
by performance, the impelling motive
of the present administration.
Worship on Empty Stomach.
THAT is the reason we recently ap-
propriated $36,000,OO0 to these vari-
Gus undertakings that l have been de-
scribing as against only s24,0O0,ooo i'll
previous administrations. That is the
reason why we have worked upon this
philosophy you cannot worship God on
empty stomach. You cannot be as
patriotic when you are starving. The
spirit of the nation IN some sense
comes from the feeding of the nation.
There is an interesting illustra.
ton Of how much the Bible illuml-
mates the human spirit in the fact that
in the Lords prayer the first petl>
tion was give US this day our daily
bread and that the spiritual injunc-
ton, the injunction of what we are to
do with our spirit came after the
prayer that our bodies should be sus-
tanned.
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