Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-02-07
PREPAREDNESS OF TWO KINDS
Along Industrial and Military Lines 10 countrys Need Says
Rev. DR.. Slocum-Co mnends Views Of Wilson, Whit
man and Palmer-Special Musical Numbers at Central
Baptist Church.

ed. They are ready at any time to
fight for the vindication of their char
acter and their honor. They will at
no time seek a contest, but they will
at no time cravenly avoid it. Becatse
|tif there is any one that the country
ought to fight for, and that every ma
ton ought to tight for, 1t is the integ-
rity of its own convictions. We can
would rather surrender. our territory
than surrender those ideals which are
the staff of life for the soul itself"
Then the president further calls at
tention to the fact that this ques-
ton OF preparedness has two sides
the military side and the industrial
side Then he went on to outline a
system Of industrial and vocational
education, under federal guidance and
aid, for the education OF our young
people and business.
In this connection I wish to call at
tention, said DR.. Slocum, to an article
in the New York Times by Frederick
Palmer, the great war correspondent.
He says the United State must CO.
ordinate her resources for use in time
OF war. In that article Mr.. Palmer says
. we are at least prepared in one OF the
great essentials in case of a war-we
are one Of the greatest manufacturing
nations of the world. He refers to
Germany as a country that was pre-
pared not only in military way but
QIGPdESu AAQdSLIAd1iy ny lie sdHl1cI-
ton of all her Industrial resources.
We have some soldiers and some
guns, says Mr.. Palmer, but it has not
occurred to us as nation to co-ordi-
nate our industrial resources, so that
they would be ready, on demand, to
| resist any invasion of the United
States
Then Mr.. Palmer calls attention to
| the naval preparation of England, who
had ready years supply of coal and
every vessel in her great navy ready
| to strike tan hours notice. And back
| iZatfon of merchant marine and all
| kinds Of supplies.
| This was not SO true of England'e
army and in this war England and
| France, too, have paid a costly price
for lack of immediate preparation. II
| England and France had been fully
prepared, 1 doubt If this war had
| started at all.
| Then Mr.. Palmer recommends that
! the kind Of preparation we should
| make Is to do everything we can thai
will not take a single man out of civil
| life. but merely put him into a system
| of industrial preparedness.
No nation has to pay so much fol
| its soldiers as we do. Any increase In
| our fighting force will be costly. We
make machinery take the place of mer
| in our factories, and therefore we
should at war. The lesson Of this wal
| Is the value of machinery.
Before bringing his sermon to Close
Rev. DR.. Slocum called attention to the
religious application of the question a,
| suggested by the text, Amos 4: IL
! Prepare to meet thy God. This mes.
sage is one Of terror or of biessednes.
according as we are unprepared OF
| prepared. God through Amos is call
] ing the people to task because the,
/ have not needed his various warming
1 and now the last call has come, Pre-.
pare to meet thy Cod