The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-14
Jane Adams Attacks the
Doctrine of Roose-
welt
NO ENEMY AND
NO URGENCY
She Suggests Inquiry on the
Use Of Defense
Money

Washington, ID. c., Jan. l4.--Miss JANE
Adams, speaking for the woman's peace
party, declared TO the House military
committee yesterday that the campaign
for national defense in America was the
result of panic over what is happening
in Europe. She urged, in the name OF
thousands of women, she said, that TINS
country be not stampeded into military
measures which would render it ineffec-
tive when international disarmament be-
came possibility at the end OF the war,
There was no enemy against whom to
prepare, she said, and no need of any ur-
gency She urged that a commission be
appointed TO determine. whether present
expenditures on the army and navy were
securing efficiency, and also to find out
who were urging greater expenditures
and why.
Doubtless some of them are as clean
handed as can be-" she said. Doubtless
some are involved with self-interest."
Committeeman asked Miss Adams il
she had not supported former President
Roosevelt in his last campaign, and then
called attention to Colonel Roosevelt's
recent utterances on the need of pre-
paredness.
''He was not talking like this then"
Miss Adams replied. "There was moth
ing of the sort on our platform. 1t is
my sober Judgment that he does not
speak for any large body of people"
The room was crowded with women
while Miss Adams spoke and vigorous
applause greeted her sallies against mil
itarism.
1--WE women feel that one outcome of
the European war will be a renewed
for disarmament" she said.
'The United States should wait the con-
clusion of the war in order that it may
20 into that movement with clean hands. |
may be possibility, if the
United States then has clean hands. 1t |
will be an impossibility without that"
Miss Adams said preparedness agita-
ton in the United States already was
having its effect on other nations. Jap /
IN was talking of a larger navy, she
aid. Many of the immigrants among
whom she works, she said, came to the
United States to escape military service
md were bewildered over the talk of
service.
Miss Adams insisted that the women
# the country, in the quiet OF their
omes, and away from the stress and
excitement under which men labored,
we're likely to be less subject to a war
anic than men. 1t was the judgment,
he said, that no increase of the army
r navy should now be made, but that a
should make a thorough i
tudy of the army and navy expendi :
ures for six months, and that any in !
rease in preparedness should await the i
aport of that commission at the close (
the European war. |"
The committee returned to its exam G
lation of Major General Bliss, assist S
Mt chief of staff of the army, while !
Iiss Adams went to the White House
nd conferred with President Wilson i
YER the possibility Of restoring peace !
, Europe, and maintaining it after the |
ar. She said afterward that her talk D
as continuation Of one she had with
lie president several months ago, when
he proposed a conference of neutrals {
propose peace terms. Miss Adams I
cleared regretfully yesterday that she f
W no immediate prospect of ending the c.
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