Weekly journal-miner., 1916-02-16
TIMES EDITOR GIVES HIS
 VIEWS ON COMPU[S|ON
Lord Northcliffe Tells Associated Press Representative What He Thinks Of
 Service Movement.

house lives young married man who wants to serve his country, feeling that his country's peril IS his own. So he gives up his job, and enlists.
 Right next door, in that house, lives another young fellow who is his mothers darling and who doesn't want lim to expose himself to dan ger. So he does not enlist, but stays at home-yes, and gets the other fel- lows job. Now those very rows of houses arc i1 every street in every city. town and village in the country. And so I invented the phrase Single men first, and that carried it. It has been long struggle; we've been at it many months; 1t went slowly al first but gathered force as it went along, until it became overwhelming and practically universal, and single men first carried is through, and its ended, yes ended-we will have our army, an army equal to our needs, with the country behind it, and we're just beginning the war;
 Lord Northcliffe speaks calmly, without demonstration. but with pos tiveness and with ideas which crowd each other to find expression.
 Your American Civil war gave us some lessons o1 hoy an army had to be raised in a great emergency" he went on. What did Lincoln do when he needed men? lie called for them; issued a proclamation calling them to the service of the federal government and putting it up to the governors to furnish them-first. 100000 men, then 250.OO0 men tnen 500oO0 men, and so on. And they had to be fur nished; the men had 10 enlist or find substitutes: there were drafts and riots, as there always are when slack CTS arc made to do their duty to their NOuht y. -hhu SOu SON HOui "i my not volunteer army except in nomin- al sense, but an army calculated in numbers in advance, adequate to the country's need. And we will be doing just what Grant did-fighting 1t out on that line if it takes all summer piling on more men, nammering at a given objective, and massing over whelming numbers until they yield by the sheer weight of numbers. That was Grants tactics. and it will be ours now that we have an army and are ready to begin
 We will have another experience much like tl,at in America" continu- ed Lord Northcliffc, and it will be the same here and ill France and Ger many, all through Europe where great armies are being organized. You re- member after the American civil war that the soldiers came back to civil life proud of their service for the country in the field. These returned soldiers were scattered all over the country, in every city ana town. form ing a vast aggregate of sentiment and influence, with just pride in the achievement of having shared in serv- ing the country in lis need. Out of this sentiment came the Grand Army of the Republic, which took hand in civil and political affairs, all bound together in a common impulse rami- lying all over the the country. And as a result you had soldier presidents fol twenty-five years-Ge1eral Grant Gen cral Garfield, General Hayes, General Harrison. and soldier candidates for president, Hancock, Mcclellan and the rest
 And that will be our experience, here and in France, when this vast body of soldiers comes back to civil life. They will be the great co1troll- ing factor with a common sentiment 1t will be even greater influence than that of the returned soldiers in civil life in the United States. for we are sending six men to the front for every one man you sent. yes six. Already there have been three mil lion men sent forwar ], and with those in process of enlistment and to be brought forward it will be six mil lions. And they arc the young and middlc-ageG men. the men Of the fu lure, those who will come back into our civil life and be the controlling influence of public opinion. Those will be the men who shape our poli- cies for us for the future and will make and unmake cur ministries and governments, just as they did in Am erica after the civil war.
 You remember what Oliver Wen dell Holmes said about the stacker. the man WHO failed % respond to his country's need for military service, in his D0c,n ou- t-c 'Svyect I ;ftfc l