The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-04
$4,000 TO MARCH
FOR PREPAREDNESS
ApplicationS Of $4,000 More
Refused, as Limit Has
Been Reached.
10000 WOMEN IN LINE

The Ctli2cns Preparedness Parade
Committee is turning away ny 'he
thousands applications im n place III
the tine of march cu May II. according
to the report made Yesterday AT 'he
meeting held m the Vale cum cot
Charles II. Sherull announced hat ~
goo applications had been refused since
last saturday. There ate now loh.ooo
meu enlisted from the various INDUSTRIES
NJ <nw York. with 5000 National
GuardSmen aud about 2o.oo0 women
workers and club members. This II ai
tina, ran bc handled without confusion.
the committee feels. even ~ n pafaue
lasting thirteen hours. and no more VIII
he admitted.
Some little discomfor, to n large mum
her of the marchers has arisen through
tho Hardness Of The call ISSUED Tor 'he
National Guard, A. n result ms"E
hundreds who have applied Tor the sec.
t,ors reserved for their professions VIII
have to turn out twice, once as hus'nrSs
men and again as euardsmen. II makes
a rather long day Of II Tor them. but
prac,ic.Ily To "A man they have sign'hed
ina, they viii 60 the route twice rather
than drop out Of the business sec'ioi
and give rise to the IMPRESSION ina theN
are losing enthusiasm
The National Guard bands viii have
10 march twice. for almost all have heen
engaged to furnish the music Tor the
business sections AS the MAJORITY WI
them are priva,e organizations and VIII
get paid for both appearances. however
they have no objections.
Vwtt of COLLEGE Women.
An interesting part OF the "omehs
division of the parade will lie a unit
~ college women. Miss Grace i'eish
~ the Women's University II ~ re-
ee,ying a large number OF applications
da,ly Miss frances Rowland. daugh-
tar ~ the late Judge Rowland. Is also
recruiting a unit Of professional ana
amateur nurses. and there will I've units
for sten~ographers, insurance women and
other professions.
Mrs. 4. Borden Hartman and Mrs
Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., applied for a
Mace in line Cor The womeIr of the COL
ony Club. Col. Sheriff. said.
"They asked what was the worst time
10 march, he reported. II told them
2 :2O T.. NJ. and they said, Give us Z 80
and let the working girls have the best
hours"
The Boy Scouts wanted to march, but
the rule was that no uniformed organi-
cation except the National Guard could
take part. Yesterday they applied FOR
permission to guard the line oi march
and keep the crowds back and this was
granted.
Parker Vow for Defence.
Major-Gen Leonard Wood. who Ia tn
b. one OF the reviewing officers. was a
guest at the meeting at the Vale Club
and so was Alton Il. Parker. Judge
Parker. who Is to marshal the law ers
division. told the committee he was for
peace and had once been a pacifst, hut
that he could not stand for the pacif1st
idea that the hest guarantee OF peace
was Ia We unahl. Ia defend ones coun-
try against war. lie ridiculed william
Jennings Bryan and advised the former
Secretary OF State to look to China for
practical results of his ideas.
Gen. Wood called the parade a move
IN the right direction and took occasion
TO refute the charge that army men
wan war.
I'VE want war EVEN less Than you
40, for we know better than you do how
terrible war is he said. you Will moi
ind "A ease In the history Of the United
States from the very beginning where
al army or navy officer has precipitated
AT international crisis. II is our bust
ness TO get you fellows out Of the trouble
that you get US IN. II IL not the army
that causes wars but business. with its
national s~ntagonism and its commercial
romDptitipu