Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-01


to be plain that our regular army is
too small. We are too great coun-
try to require OF our citizens who are
engaged in peaceful vocations the sort
OF military service to which they
are now called. As we'll insist
that our citizens in this metropolis
be summoned to put out fires and po-
lice the streets. We do not count
it inconsistent with our liberties, or
with our democratic ideals, to have
an adequate police force With pop
ulation of nearly l00,000,000 we need
to be surer of ourselves than to be-
come alarmed at the prospect of hav
ing regular army which can reason
ably protect our border, and perform
such other military service as may
be required, in the absence of grave
emergency. believe, further, that
there SHOULD be not only reasonable
increase in the regular army, but that
the first citizen reserve subject to call
should be enlisted as federal army
and trained under federal authority.
What Is Really Called For.
THE country demands that our
military and naval programs shall be
carried out in business-ike manner
under the most competent admins
trative heads; that we shall have an
up-to-date preparation; that the
moneys appropriated shall be prop
erly expended. We should also have
careful plans for mobilizing our in
dustrial resources; for promoting re-
search and utilizing the Investigations
of science. And policy of adequate
preparedness must constantly have
in view the necessity of conserving
our fundamental human interests; of
promoting the physical well-being OF
our population, as we'll as education
and training; of developing to the
utmost our economic strength and in
dependence. 1t must be based upon
profound sense OF our unity, and
democratic obligation. 1t must not
mean the abandonment of other es-
sential government work. but that we
shall have, in both, efficiency, and in
neither, waste or extravaganza We
should also be solicitous, by wise pre-
vision and conference, to remove so
far as possible the causes of irritation
which may in any degree threaten
friendly relations. In our proposals
there is, | repeat, no militarism.
There is simple insistence upon COM
mon sense in providing reasonable
measures of security and avoiding the
perils of neglect. We must have the
strength of self-respect; a strength
which contains no threat, but assures
our defense, safeguards our rights and
conserves our peace.
Organization Of Peace.
"We are deeply interested in what
! may term the organization of peace
We cherish no illusions. We know
that the recurrence of war is not to
be prevented by pious wishes. If the
conflict of rational interests is not
to be brought to the final test OF
force, there must be the development
of international organization in order
to provide international justice and to
safeguard so far as practicable the
peace of the world.
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within their proper sphere, but il
is worse than folly to ignore the linn
itations of this remedy or to regard
such treaties as an adequate means
of preventing war. There should be
an international tribunal to decide
controversies susceptible of Judicial
determination, thus affording the ad.
vantage of judicial standards in the
settlement Of particular disputes and
of the gradual growth of body ol
judicial precedents. In emphasizing
the desirability of such a tribunal fol
the disposition of controversies of q
justiciable sort, it must not be over
looked that there are also Legislative
needs. We need conferences OF nations
to formulate international rules, tc
establish principles, 10 modify ane
extend international law so as tc
adapt it to new conditions, to remove
causes of international differences