Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-09

wonder that we were unpreparod fol
tho war? Any wonder that on the
very day when Austria was delivering
her ultimatum to Serbia one minister
was proposing to cut down our army
and navy? Any wonder that when
war broke out minister after minister
confessed he was taken altogether by
SURF rise? Remember, too, that for
six years the head of the army was
n lawyer. who told US the other day
that when he first went to the war
office he scarcely knew the differ
ence between a battalion and brig
ado Away with the lot of them.
| Let us put the control OF affairs
into the hands OF one strong man til
| the war Is over assisted by an exc
cut!ve and an advisory council
know the difficulty Is to find him,
but don't tell me that in all the Brit
ish empire we have not one person of
grit and determination and force OF
character a man who would lead and
dare not lie'. In any case. no man
OF average intelligence could do as
much mischief as a score of medioc-
rites Let us find him and give him
trial, ana II he doesn't suit we will
find arother, and so on until we get
the right one. And then parliament
must pass an open vote Of credit for
any amount which may be required
and forthwith adJcurn sine die"
Executive Council.
Mr.. Bottomly makes the search for
the man" more difficult by naming
on his executive council to assist the
dictator Kitchener. Fisher Sir Percy
scott, Sir Henry Dalziel. Lloyd
George. +. Il. Smith, Bonar Law and
Asquith. This list includes some of
hxF fnr hn
leadership of the empire in the forth
coming reconstruction, and the only
prominent figures not in 1t are Lord
Derby Carson. Lord Curzon, North
cliffc and Winston Churchill.
Leo j. Maxse, editor Of the National
Review, u powerful Tory political
monthly. advocates Kitchener for su-
preme control He suggests that par
lament abdicatc in Kitchcners favor
until October !, when If he has failed
to make good he can be ousted. The
man in the street, however. has not
made up his mind, and 1t Is this keeps
the government in office. lie will.
nine times out of ten. hotly declare
that the government has muddled the
war and ought to go. but nine times
out of ten he Is quite unable to sug- |
gost man. or group Of men, to put |
In its place.
The most serious cause Of discon-
tent. os course. is the failure Of the |
government to win victories. But |
this feeling is rather subconscious, |
for put in that way everyone realizes |
that it is unreasonable, and no criti-
cism ccnters on the particular issues
which will now be considered.
Most serious Is the recruiting |
tanglc. because II vitality affects a |
part of the population.
and the humblcst citizen knows from |
his own experience that 1t has been |
muddled. When tie Derby scheme
was carried out last autumn. married |
and single mon alike were assured by
the canvassers tLat If they enlisted |
under the group sS stem they would |
receive better treatment than If they |
refused to enlist and waited for con-
scription. Both AsGuith and Lord
Derby. director general of recruiting.
mace solemn pledges in order to in
duoo the reluctant married men to
join that they would not he called up
until single slackcrs'' had been
forced into the army, provided the
number of single ahirkcrs was not
negligible. Lord Derby's report
showed six hundred and fifty-one
thousand single men who had not at
ested. and accordingly bill con-
uDattcsted single men was
passed. Meanwhile the single men
Who had attested were rapidly called
o Ihe colors. and rCtices have already
,cen posted summonirS on April II
I'll attested married men up to the
Ige of 35. Before the end Of April
he last group, that of married men
# 20, will have been enrolled in the
Irmy.
Single Men FNcmptcd
A prodigious howl has arisen from
cores of thousands of attosted mar :
led men. They claim that Lord
Dorhy's pledge that single men must
20 first has not been kept. ard point
o hundreds of thousands of single {
non who are engaged in starred" I
cclipations or who have obtained ex-
Itior on any enc of hundred
rounds from military tribunals. It {
rs been the starring" system, as ,
lose observers predicted from the
tart, that made all the trouble. The :
oard of trade and scores of other 5
rgani2ations were given power to
reserve" certain occupations the ,
'orkers in which were held to be do
1g more good where they were than