Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
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CLASS HOLDS FIRST
BANQUET FRIDAY EvG
In the Vestry Of the Winthrop
Street Baptist Church, with
Many Present - Speaker of
Evening Is Prof. F. c. Tubbs
of Bates College, Who Gives a
Most I n teresting Talk on
"War"

In the vestry Of the Winthrop street
Baptist church at Z p NJ. Friday the La
dies Aid served fine banquet to men,
bers and friends Of the Baptist Club men
and their friends to the number Of about
40. The committee of ladies who were
in charge of the banquet were Mrs ].
M. Arnold, Mrs. J. F. Rabbit, Mrs.
Ralph Herln, Miss May Weston, Mrs.
Mrs. E. s. Philbrook
President Ernest Mclean introduced
the speaker of the evening, Prof. F. q.
Tubbs of Bates college, who gave fine
address upon the subject War" In
opening, he said that his lecture was
five or six hours long, and that even that
was inadequate to his subject. He said
that while living in the trenches is awful
enough it is nothing compared to the
Icing in the telegraph offices. and that
if he seemed to he describing the war
from the German standpoint 1t was be-
cause the Germans have been doing most
of the real work. He then went on, by
means of diagrams and description, to
show how from the start the Allied ma
tions have blundered, how the Germans
have systematized warfare, the results
of their system as opposed to the Allied
blunders, and gave a graphic account OF
the steady gains the Germans have been
making since the outbrea,- of the war.
He showed how in olden times battle
lasted from Is minutes to two hours, and
said that a battle front two miles long
was considered big one, while now bat
ties last weeks and the battle fronts are
$50 miles in length. In speaking of the
Verdun situation he said "Give up the
idea that the Allies can go right through
to Berlin when they are ready" and he
showed how the lines of trenches and
barbed wire entanglements cannot pos
sibly be taken.
He said: II am distinctly pro- Amer
lean, but I think that over there are
many things which we can observe
and profit by" He then said: BE
cause We have not thought it neces-
sary to prepare for war in times of
peace, and because we thought we
could take down the old flint-lock and
lick all creation, we have led inno-
cent men out to slaughter because
their officers were men who did not
know the A, B, C's Of warfare" He
showed blunders in the Civil and
Spanish Wars, and then gave clear
cut description of the colossal blunder
made at the Gallipoli landings by the
British. He stated that the popular
idea that Kings and Cars and En-
perors started wars in wrong, and
also said that every war for the past
100 years has been caused by the peo-
pie, who have forced their rulers to
declare war. In regard to Italy's ac-
complishments in this war, he told the
story of the boy who went rabbit
hunting and told his father when
get the one I'm after and one more.
1" have two" He stated that this is
Italy's position exactly.
Speaking Of our own preparedness,
he said: I'VE are in the position of
the boy who was taken seriously i'll in
the night. He asked his father to send
for doctor, but was told that they
were going to send his brother Charley
to medical school the next day, and
that in three years he would be ready
to prescribe for him." He told Of the
equipping Of 10000 men to invade
Cuba in the Spanish war, saying that
it took us seven weeks to get them
ready, and that when. they landed at
Cuba they found that everything they
needed at once was in the bottom of
the ships, that they had rotten beef,
and that the whole affair was series
Of tremendous incompetencies and
blunders.
His lecture was enjoyed greatly by
the audience Of good Americans pres
ent, and it could not help being i'm
pressive at this time.