New Britain herald., 1916-05-26

nois Staats Zeitung backs any move ment for that purpose. We pr.nt in the American-cand Judge La dis of Chicago is our auth ority for ca j0g our language tho Nm Eical instead of the English )--1algU~ G~. very Sunday the princ;plc, of the I-ilois Staats Zeitung. One of the blanks in that platform of principles is the national izing of the manufacture of arms and ammunition.
 Perhaps the colonel sees in that principle the move to keep our coun- try impotent. We don't. We see in it the move to save our taxpayers mill lions of graft from the greed of rapa- cious and dishonest ammunition sell lers.
 For Preparedness.
 we have repeatedly stated editor tally in both the American and Ger man languages, that we are for pre- paredness and we explain what sort of preparedness we favor. If the col onel sees a move to keep our country impotent against defense in every form of preparedness except the Roosevelt brand, then we beg to ex- press our satisfaction at being with some of his opponents rather than with him. We favor the Swiss and Australian system of military service. We favor preparedness in the public schools, by means of textbooks written exclusively by American-born citizens upon history and geography, by teach ing more of European history and less of English history, by preparing the bodies of our young people through exercises in turning and swimming; by compelling every public school student to learn one European lan- guage in addition to the American; by developing an American encyclopedia as our reference work in place Of the Encyclopedia Brittanica which hardly mentions our Declaration of Inde- pendence'; by nationalizing the manu- fracture of arms and ammunition for use of our government; by intoxicating stronger love for our government by means of laws that would benefit the poorer rather than the richer classes, so-called specializing laws; by compul- sory military service for each physi- cally fit male and compulsory hospital training for each physically fit woman, each for a short period during high school and preparatory school courses; by government subsidy given to uni- versailles and colleges that will grad uate officers for our army and for our navy under United States regulations and control.
 "We don't know what a German newspaper printed in the United States looks like. We publish an American newspaper in Chicago; it is printed partly in the German and partly in @l, A know what MT. Roosevelt means by German propaganda. We do know that we have no connection with the German government, nor with any foreign government, but that we are independent in finances as we'll as in politics and therefore dare to answer MT. Roosevelt's attack in a fearless and truthful manner.
 ITO be sure we praise the German people for their military prepared ness Without it, there would be no Germany today. The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it.
 But we do not advocate the Ger man military system for the United States-at least not now. Were Can- ada inhabited by double the number of the people in the United States (Russia possesses twice the popula- ton of Germany and Mexico by two- thirds the population we have (France bears that ratio to Germany and were both Canada and Mexico 'arming, ex- ercising and training soldiers and ma rines in ever increasing proportions; then we would favor stronger mili- taristic policy than Canada plus Mex leo had adopted.
 If there is any moral treason or any other kind of treason in these doctrines, then we are guilty, other wise not. Roosevelt breaches a kind of preparedness that requires an ex- 'propaganda' to keep it from being forgotten by our people, for they want naught of military We modestly preach a sane, moderate, military preparedness 1 and a more thoroughly educational 1 and physical preparedness"