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Ashamed of Inefficiencv

A nation like this should be ashamed
TO use an inefficient instrument when il
can make its Instrument efficient for
everything that it needs to employ it for
and it can do it along with the maeni-
flying and ennobling and quickening of
the tasks of peace. But we have TO
create the schools and develop the schools
TO do these things. and we cannot at
present wait for the slower processes
we must go at once to the task of train
ing very considerable body of men TO
the use OF arms and the life of camps
and We can do SO upon one condition. and
one condition only. The test. ladies and
gentlemen, OF what we are proposing is
not going 10 be the action of Congress :.
1t IS gong to be the response of the
country; 1t is going to be the volunteer
ing of the men to take the training and
the Willingness OF their employers 10 see
10 ii that no obstacle is put in the w.v
of their volunteering
1t will be up to the young men of this
country and to the men who emniov
| them. and then We shall know how IA :
ii is true that America wishes In nrena 70
itself for national defense Not a matter
Of sentiment. but a matter of hard nrac-
tce.
Are the men going 10 come ont and
are those who employ them going to IA
ciltate their coming OUT / for ono he
lieve that they will. There are many self
ism influences at work in this country AS
| I'm every other. but when it comes To the
| large view. America can produce the sub-
stance OF patriotism as abundantIy ar
any other country under Gods sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

When we summon the young men of
this country to volunteer for brief
training every year in order that they
may be a source of security for the
nation and it's ideals. 1 know that the
response will bring something more
than a few hundred youngsters into
the field 1t will bring the spirit of
America back to self-consciousness.
and we shall again know what it is
to belong to country that throbs
with the spirit of life that will arrest
the attention of mankind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
Gentleman in Black Commands.

a plain gentleman in blackstone
times very plain gentLeman-presides
over the military force of the nation.
and the thing is symbolic. We think
first of peace. We think first of the CT
william life, think first of industry-we
want the men who are going to defend
the nation to be informed in these pur-
suits of peace. But we want to have
them know how. when occasion arises.
to rally to the assistance Of the pro-
f.,ssiouaI soldiers of the country and
show the nations of the world the mind
of America Such men will not defend
war. such men will dread ii as the peo-
pie dread it. Such men Will know that
the happiness of their families and t."
prosperity of their cOuntrysides and the
wealth of their cities and everything
upon which their life depends. is root
ed and grounded in peace. and they
will also know that upon occasion in
finite sacrifices must be made of Ire
and of wealth. and that there are things
that are higher than the ordinary oc-
cIIpationS of life-namely. the aSser-
lions of the ideals of right.
am not going before an audience
like this to 20 into the details of the
program which will ne proposed at the
Congress of the United States. because.
after all. the details do not make any
difference. believe IN one plan
others may think that another plan
can be substituted. and | hope that any
mind is oDen to be convinced that ii
can. But what | am convinced, and
what we are all working for, is that
there should be provided. not great
militant force in this country. but a
great reserve of adequate and available
force. which can be called on upon DC
cason.
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MRS. M0HR CONCLUDES
ORDEAL BEFORE COURT
Witness in Own Behalf on Murder
Charge Better Part of
Three Days.

PROVIDENCE, r. L., January %
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Mohr today ended a
long ordeal on the witness stand dur
ing which she made a personal defense
of the charge that she had hired three
negroes to murder her husband, DIR. c.
Franklin Mohr. widely known as ply
stefan in this city and Newport. The
examination extended through the
greater part of three court days In
this time she faced friendly and I'M
friendly attorneys who drew from her
every detail of her life with DIR. Mohr
Never Waivers in Denial of Guilt.
Many of these details were given re-
luctantly. She never wavered in her
declaration that she had nothing to dc
with the murder. Also she objected
strenuously to her husbands attention.
to other women.
The testimony of Mrs. Mohr was re-
garded by the defense as the most i'm
portaDt at the trial Cecil Brown and
Henry Spellman, two negroes, who, the
state charged, killed DR.. Mohr and
wounded Miss Emily Burger. his com
panion. are yet to be heard. George
w. Heals. the physicians negro chauf.
feur, turned states evidence.
Validity of Marriage Admitted.
A letter written by DIR. Mohr in 100:
IN which he admitted the validity o.
their marriage, was introduced over
the protest of the state. Mrs. Mohl
was questioned closely regarding DR.
Mohr's statement that II write this II
defense of a good woman at present"
At that time, she said. she was MOI
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Great Army Not Involved.

Those plans do not involve great
army. because that is not America s
way of being efficient in respect of her
physical force. We do not intend. we
never intended. to have an army. a
standing army. greater than is neces-
Sary for the ordinary uses of peace.
But we want to have back of that army
people who can rally to it's assist
time they are called on to do so; but
who in the meantime are not profess
sional soldiers. who do not take the
professional soldiers point of view in
respect of public affairs. whose thought
is upon their daily task of peaceful in
dustry, who know that the civilian
takes precedence over the soldier in
the United States.
Your chairman has just told YOU that
the Constitution of the United States
makes the President commander-in-
chief of the army and navy of the ra-
ton: and not often has the President
been a soldier. have sometimes said,
playfully. that it was very awkward
when dressed in a frock coat and Il
silk hat to ride a horse and review
troops: and the only reason | have
consented to do so is because the for
NAL garments, tie very somber and
formal garments which constitute Il
mans full dress in the daytime, are
the symbols on such occasion Of that
sort of supremacy of the civil power
over the military.
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Germany Reduces Flour Prices

BERLIN. January 20. by wireless !; 10
Sayville. y. Y.-The price of what
-four has been reduced from 81 tot44
pfennigs a pound and rye flour from
"a to % pfennigs, the Overseas News
Agency announced today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
ATTEMPT MADE TO BAR
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
United Mine Workers Convention
Proposes Change in Member
ship Qualification.

"
An attempt was made in the convention
of the United Mine Workers of America
today to incorpora tie in the constitution of
the organization a provision barring from
membership any one who belongs to or
joins the National Guard or state con-
stabuIary. Adjournment hour interrupted
what promised to be a warm debate. and
further discussion went over until Mon
day morning.
Motion Made to Amend.
The effort to amend the constitution
in this respect came up when that part
of the unions organic law was reached
which bars from membership mine man
d gers. top foremen. operators commission
ers persons engaged in the sale Of in
toxicating liquors and members of the
civic federation or Boy Scout movement.
The committee on constitution had recon-
mended non-concurrence in the amend
ment relating to militianen and the state
consta bufary, and Adolph Germer of IL
linois opposed the recommendation.
John L. Lewis of Illinois. temporarily
in the chair. ruled the amendment out of
order. on the ground that it confiicted
with the military laws of several of the
states and possibly the federal law.
Instantly many delegates clamored
for recognition. but the chair recog-
nized Frank harrington, president OF
he Illinois miners and chairman OF
the constitution committee. who de-
clared that it was to the best interests
of the union that the committees re-
port be adopted. He had no love for
the militia. he said, but he would not
allow his feelings to carry him to
what may be Il dangerous position.
Hired Gunner" Blamed.
He said militiamen did not do the
killing in Colorado, but that it was
done by hired gunner" lie further
| said that in the anthracite strike OF
1902 the Pennsylvania militiameu took
strikers into their camps and fed them
where the organization was unable tic
do it
There was some Missing while Far
| rington was speaking. \ motion to
close debate was voted down over
whelmingly and then the adjournment
hour stopped further discussion.
Consideration of constitutional aues-
tons took up most of the day. Reso-
lutions to reduce the salaries of the
international officers were voted down
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No Anxiety About Congress.

have no anxiety along those lines. and
have no anxiety along the lines Of what
Congress is going to do. You elect men
to Congress who have opinions. and it
is not strange that they should have Diff
fering opinions. l am not jealous of de-
bate. II what I propose cannot stand de-
bate, then something ought to be sub
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Loan of Tents and Cots Favored.

The Senate joint resolution authoriz-
ing the j. OF | 900 tents and 1000 cots
of the War Department to the United
Confederate Veterans encampment at
Birmingham next May was favorably
reported to the House yesterday by the
military committee.
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living with her husband, but was at
her mothers home, in Massachusetts.
The trial was adjourned until MONDAY.
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Make Yourself Vocal"

And what 1 want you to do is this: /
want you to make yourself vocal.
want you to let everybody who comes
within earshot of you know that you are
partisan for the adequate preparation
of the United States for national de-
Tense. 1 have come to ask you not merely
to go home and say: The President seems
to be good fellow and to mean what
he says. l want you to go home de-
termined that within the whole circle of
partisan, but as a representative of the
national honor. will be backed up by the
whole force that is in you.
i know that that appeal is not i'll vain.
| know what deep fountains of Senti-
ment well I'D in America. | know that
the surface Of our life sometimes seems
sordid. I know that the men who do
most of the talking do not always hear
the undertones of our life: but I know
that the men who go in and out of the
farms, men who go in and out at the
factory door. the men who go in and out
of the Offices the men who go abroad
upon ships. the men who travel up and
down the country to quicken the courses
OF our commerce-underneat the sur
face of every one of these men there is
the beating of a heart which is willing
to make a profound sacrifice for the
country that we all love. Those hearts
are now going to be guided by very
hard-headed minds b. minds that Know
how to think and plan and insist and
out of what seems an intricate debate
there is going to come d great plan for
national defense. of which we will be
proud. and which will lead US to forget
thusiasm for the United States of
America.
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then steadfastly maintaining the
same attitude throughout great con-
troversies. we have SO far held DIM
Guilty at arms length. But want you
to realize the task you have imposed
upon your government. There are two
things which practically everybody
who comes to. the executive otuce al
Washington tells me. They tell me
keep US out of this war. and in the next
breath what do they tell me? People
are equally counting upon you to main
tain the honor of the United States
Have you reflected that a time might
come when I could not do both? And
have. you made yourselves ready to
stand behind your government for the
maintenance of the honor of the coun-
try as well as for the peace of the coun-
try"
Must Have Necessary Force.
If 1 am to maintain the honor OF
the United States. and it should be
necessary to exert the force of the
United States to do it. have you made
the force ready? You know that you
have not and that the very fact that
the force is not may make the task you
| have set me all the more delicate and
all the more difficult. And so l have
come away from Washington to re-
mind you of your part in this great
business. There is no part that be-
!, longs to me that I wish to shirk. but
wish YOU to remember the part that
belongs to you, and ] want every mar
and woman of you to stand behind me
in pressing a reasonable plan for ma
tional defense. The only possible rea
sonable plan is an American plan. The
American plan is not great military
esta adjustment. The American plan Is
great body of citizens ready to rally
to the national defense and adequate
to serve the national defense when il
is necessary to do SO. And as the
heart of our politics lies in the breast
of the average man, so the strength OF
the nation rests in the capacity of the
individual man. He ought to know
how modern arms are made and how
they ought to be handled. He ought
to know the rudimentary principles Of
camp sanitation. He ought to know
the elements of military discipline. sc
that when he goes to the defense Of
his nation he won't be raw recruit
but "A man who knows what is expected
of him. and needs only the guidance Of
competent officers to do it. You know
how every constitution in the United
States. the Constitution of the natior
and constitution of the states, lays il
down as d principle that every man ir
America has the right to carry arms
because you would converse with Z
| man who had a gun over his shoulder
perhaps in different tone of voice o.
that you would converse with him II
you didn't see n gun.
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Relations Becoming More Difficult.

While year ago it seemed impos-
sihle that a struggle upon so great d
scale should last whole tvelvemonth,
it has now lasted year and half.
and the end is not yet and all the time
things have grown more and more diff
cult to handle
1t fills me with "A very strange feeling
seems to be implied that am not the
friend of peace If these gentlemen
could have sat with me reading the
dispatches and handling the questions
which arise every hour of the twenty
four they would have known how in
the peace. and they would have be-
lievcd that | was the friend of peace.
But ] also know the difficulties. the
real danGers-dangers not about things
that | can handle, but about things
that the other parties handle-and I
cannot control them.
1t amaZes me to- hear men speak as if
America stood alone in the world and
could follow her own life as she
pleased. We are in the midst of a
world that we did not make and we
cannot alter. and it's whole atmospheric
and physical conditions are the condi-
tons of our own life also. And there
fore. as your responsible servant,
must tell you that the dangers are in
finite and constant. Therefore / should
feel that / was guilty of an unpardon-
able omission if l did not go out and
tell my fellow -countrymen that new
circumstances had arisen which made
1t absolutely necessary that this coun
try should prepare itself. not for war,
not for anything that smacks in the
least of aggression but for adeuuat q
national defense
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Proposed Army Comparatively Small

| have proposed that we should be
supplied with at least a half million
men. accustomed to handle arms and
live in camps. And that is very sina II
number. as compared with the gigantic
proportions of modern armies. And,
therefore. it seems to me that no man
can speak of proposals like that as if
they pointed directly to militarism.
When men talk of the threat of what
il proposed wonder if they have really
stopped to consider what is proposed.
II is astonishing how many men Cf
straw are set up and sallantly knocked
down. II is astonishingly easy to
prove that something is wrong which
* not going to be deceived by the
fears OF gentlemen who are fearful
only Of those things which they have
imagined We are not going to be
estopped and daunted by ghosts and
fancies. We are proposing very bust
nesslike thing. and l. for my part, be
lleve that | am proposing thoroughly
businesslike thing. For I am propos-
porary.
II is my conception that as the gov
eminent of the United States has done
a great deal. though even yet probably
not enough. to promote agricultural edu-
cation III this country. il ought to do "a
great deal 70 promote industrial educa-
ton III this country and that along with
/ thoroughgoins industrial and vocational
training it Is perfectly feasible to in
struct the youth Of the land in the
mechanism and use of arms, in the SAM
tation of camps. III the more rudimentary
principles and practices of modern war
fare and so not to bring about occasions
such as we have sometimes brought
about. when, upon a sudden danger,
youngsters were summoned by the
proclamation of the President out OF every
community, VINO came, crude and green
and raw. into the service Of their coun-
try. infinitely willing, but also wholly un-
fitted for the great physical task which
was ahead of them. No nation can waste
its youth like that
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Addresses Overflow Meeting.

In his speech here today at the over
flow meeting the President said:
II feel that I was lured here under
false pretenses. ] was told that ] was
to address an audience of women. and
the men. as usual, have been usurpers
and come in. So they need not listen.
When ! reflected what ] should say
to q body of women about military
preparation for national defense, it
seemed to me that there was no eX-
cuse for making any difference be-
tween what I should say to them and
what I should say to any other body
of citizens of the United States; un-
less indeed. there was this reason for
a distinction: There is a sense in which
the women of the country live closer to
the life of it than the men. The pre-
occupa tons of business for the man
who has to work for his daily bread
and for the bread of those whom he
loves and who are dependent upon him,
are such that sometimes the material
side of life seems the only real side Of
life. I find that very few men stop to
think of the life of the family, of the
life of the community, of the life of
the state and of the nation. Their
absorption is necessarily SO great in
the daily task that the spiritual needs
do not often or very closely touch them
and it has seemed to me that in the
in the anxieties for the moral and the
daily conduct of this life. which they
live. the women perhaps feel the pulse
of the country more than the men do.
And IT is in order that we may pre-
serve the thoughtful ideals of America
that it is necessary that we should
make preparation for national defense.
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The Thing That Challenges.

The old plea for the defense of our
to be a very handsome appeal 1t is
easy-to love what Is your own, and it
is easy to fight for what Is your own
No man who has drop of manliness
in him would do anything else. But the
thing that is hard and the thing that
challenges him is to fight for the things
that do not Immediately touch him. in
order that the great rivers of national
do not live, and do not even know, in
ored that the great rivers of national
life may flow free and unobstructed,
in order that the great ideals and pur-
poses of life, in people that we never
saw might be realized. That is the life
of nation. No man ever saw the peo-
pie of whom he forms part. No man
ever saw a government. | live in the
midst of the government of the United
ment of the United States. Its per-
sonnet extends through all the nations
and across the and into every
corner of the world in the persons of
the representatives of the United
States in foreign capitals and in foreign
government of the United States. 1t is
ideal thing. l must learn its spirit
by the fact of it's imagination. I must
make myself part of it by thinking
the things which separately and of my
self l would not think. the thoughts
that are national. the things that move
great bodies of men to devote them
selves to great tasks and even to great
adventures. And l suppose that as the
women of a country look upon the life
that surges around them there must
very often come into their hearts some
thing of the profound feeling that
pulses through great national exist
ences.
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Nation Must Serve Mankind.

America was born into the world to
90 mankinds service, and no man Is
an American in whom the desire to do
mankind's service does not take pre-
cedence over the desire to serve him
self If I believe that the might of
man in the world 1 would wish Ameri-
ca to be weak. But l believe the
might Of America is the might of
righteous purpose and of sincere
love for the freedom of mankind.
FOR my own part ] am very much
stirred by every sight that get of the
nag of the United States. ! did not
used to have that sentiment as l have
1t now. but If you stood in my place
ladies and gentlemen, and felt that in
some particul ar and unusual degree
the honor of that flag was intrusted
to your keeping, how would you feelp
Wouldn't you feel that you were a sort
of a trustee for the ideals of America !?
Wouldn't you feel that you ought to
go out and seek counsel of your fellow
America to be. what they thought you
ought to do honorably and perfectly
to represent America? Wouldn't you
feel that If anything were incumbent
upon you more than another, it was to
understand what that flag stands for?
That flag was originally stained in very
precious blood--blood spilled, not for
any time. not for any small contro,
versy over national matters. but in
order that a little body of 100000
men in America might make sure that
no man was their master.
As this nation has accumulated in pop.
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Trance of the Pacifists.

OF course, there are some gentlemen
who allow themselves to be deceived
by very handsome sentiments If a
man is SO in love with peace that he
can't ina gine any kind of danger, 1 al
most envy him the trance that he is in,
and so long he is in the trance he is
not going to do anything but enjoy the
vision. But such men are not many
America is a hard-headed nation, and
Americans generally want to see the
the facts of the world are such that it
is my duty to counsel my fellow-citi
zens that preparation for national de-
tense cannot any longer be postponed.
l am not one of those who believe
that a great standing army is the
means of maintaining peace, because if
you build UP great profession those
who form parts of it want to exercise
their profession and ] cannot bfame
them for it. / should myself hate to be
ready to do an expert thing and never
be permitted to do it.
But for my part we have never
wanted, we have never encouraged in
America the spirit of militarism, and
we shall never have the fact of mill
tarism in the United States. What l
am particularly interested that my
fellow citizens should distinguish be-
tween is militarism in any form and
the things which are now being pro-
States. If men are engaged nine
months out of the twelve in the pur-
suits of commerce and anufacturing
and agriculture and are in camp to do
d little training only two or three
months in the year. do you suppose
they are going to have the spirit of
the three months and not the, spirit OF
the nine months?