Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-21

fectiye regulation OF business.
I'VE should at once begin govern
mental encouragement and control of
our munition plants. To make war on
| them is to make war on the United
States: and those doing so should be
treated accordingly, and all VINO en-
courage them should be treated accord
ingly. The existing plants should be
encouraged in every legitimate way.
and provision made to encourage this
continuance after the war.
Big Navy Needed, He Says.
For adequate defense we need a big.
efficient navy. small. efficient army
Cone of quarter of a million men
which. relatively to the population of
the nation is no larger than the police
force of New York city is to the popu-
lation of New York;, and finally and
most important of all. system of uni
versal military training in times of
peace which shall be a basis for what
ever service. military or civil is needed
in time of war.
AS regards the navy, the important
point is to remember that it should
be built up now and not ten wears
hence: and not by plan that VIII only
find fruition ten years hence Even
five wears hence may be too la.e
But | do not believe in large
regular army. The proposed con-
tinental army is an absurdity. If
passed. it may for a year or two prove
a partially successful rival to the Ma
tional Guard and attract some young
men. But serious-minded men who
have their way to make in the world
cannot and ought not go into any such
army, winch proposes to penaliZe pa
triotlSm by making the patriotic man
incur a heavy loss in time, or in money,
or in business training. or in oppor-
tunity. or IN all four, at the very period
n
that he should not be put at a disad-
vantage compared to his less patriotic
and more selfish competitors and rivals.
! believe that universal service would
be IN every way beneficial to the state.
and that it would be almost or quite
as beneficial from the standpoint of
those who consider the interest of the
state IN time of peace as from those
VINO are interested in the welfare of
the state in time of war
There should be military training. as
part OF a high school education which
should include all-round training for
citizenship. This training should begin
in the schools in serious fashion at
about the age of sixteen. Then between
the ages of eighteen and twenty-one
there should be four or six months ac-
tual service in the field with the COL
ors
The larger Americanism demands
that we insist that every immigrant
who comes here shall become an Ameri-
can citizen and nothing else; If he
shows that he still remains .at heart
more loyal to another land let him be
promptly returned to that land; and, il
on the other hand. he shows that he is
in good faith and whole heartedly an
American, let him be treated as on a
full equality with the native born. The
larger Americanism demands that we
native born also be wholehearted in our
allegiance to our country and our flag;
that refuse to be sundered from one
another along lines of class or creed or
sect or national origin; that we judge
each American on his merits as man:
that we work for the well being of our
bodily selves. but also for the we'll
consider safety, but that we put honor
and duty ahead of safety. Only thus
shall We prove our possession of the
valor of righteousness. Only thus shall
we stand square to >al1 the winds of
destiny, high of heart, the masters of
our own souls. fit to be the fathers of a
race Of freemen. who shall make and
shall keep this land all that it seemed
to the prophetic vision OF the mighty
men who founded it and the mighty
men who saved it..
President Expresses Sympathy.
President Wilson in a telegram to
Judge Clarence N Goodwin of the
Illinois appellate court, who was APP
pointed chairman of committee to
formulate plans for a national coun-
Gil which would facilitate the work of
Americanization of immigrants, told
of his sympathy with the objects of
+ha conFarepce and his willingness To