Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-25
SHAW TALKS PREPAREDNESS
Former Secretary of Treasury Calls
Inadequate Armament a
Crime.
ARMS SHOULD BE OF BEST

(From staff Correspondent)
DES MONIES, Ia, March A-CSpecisl
Telegram i'm an address here today on
preparedness. former Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. declared the
curse of God will and should rest upon
any country that will call its best blood
to colors without training them to pro
| tect themselves, without giving them
arms as good as those they will be COM
PEELED to face. without furnishing them
ammunition to last until the fight Is
over. without protecting their positions
and their movements with artillery as
ample in quantity and of as long range
as that of the enemy; In short without
doing anything and everything TO in
sure victory.
Any preparedness less than adequate
| is folly, he said War waged with anti
quated equipment is worse than murder
for It subjects those who heed the
call to duty and who answer to the
call of the country to ignomlnious de-
feat and shameless slaughter.
Hear Taft at Amcs.
Many state officers went to Ames yes
terday to hear William Howard Taft in
his lecture on ''Our Worlds Relations
The former president is delivering a
series of three lectures there before the
student body. Tomorrow he speaks on
THE Military and Naval Defenses OF the
United States-What They Are and
What They Ought to Be-" On Saturday
morning he will speak on THE Duties Of
Citizenship"
More Candidates.
Byron W. Newberry of Strawberry
Point, Clayton county. a member of the
state senate for three sessions, is again
a candidate for the senatorship. c. IL.
Dickey of Keokuk has come out as a
candidate for representative from Lee
county.
Labor Shortage.
There is a shortage OF common labor,
the state free employment bureau re-
ports With no immigration coming in
from the old countries and many having
returned to Europe. there is no supply to
draw from. The bureau has many appli-
cations for farm help. number of them
being for man and wife, the man to work
in the fields and the woman in the
house.
Deaths Increase.
In 1915 the total number OF deaths in
the state from all causes was 22,3s6 and
in 1914 the total was 22.259. according to
| figures Just COmpleQ Dy lIiS OiliSc VI thS
secretary of the Board of Health. The
state department has no statistics on
births and DR.. Sumner. secretary of the
Board Of Health. is endeavortnE to have
Legislation passed which will provide for
the reporting of birth statistics.
Move to Omaha.
The revenue accounting department OF
the Iowa Telephone company having
charge of state accounts is being moved
from Des Moines to Omaha The en-
pIoyes in that department are being
transferred to the Nebraska metropolis.
The northwestern group Of states, In
cluding Iowa, Nebraska. North and South
Dakota will all have their revenue &C.
counting departments at Omaha here
after. This department looks after state
accounts. but not local accounts.
Becomes Inspector of Guard.
Colonel George II. Morgan OF St. Paul,
who has been assigned TO the work of
inspector of cavalry of the Iowa Ma
tional Guard, to take the place OF Cap
tain George ]. Oden, reached Des Moines
today and will begin his work OF inspec-
tlon at once. The first place to be visited