The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-04
Mere Numbers No Protection
Organized and Well-Prepared People Alone
Can Keep International Highwaymen
From Countrys Borders
BY MAJ. GEN. LEONARD WOOD
BY MAI GEN. LEONARD WOOD
Commander Department Of the East United States Army

III
<sgs%SNaam Modern is fought a chemical basis and
mechanical basis well a basis 1t
Vx2TT#W and alone Of the trained
MA the essential thing Nothing has been produced
IN which take the place of the thing that
NM ~ made, and that is 1t is the who is well
"a trained and reasonably well armed but back that
&&M tremendous influences in the shape of equipment and
M all of apparatus and the production of these is
MM W based upon sound organization and development Of
GEN WOOD chemical extent before thought
Of You have that this abroad being fought with
fire brought the
battlefield other 1t very unpleasant think Them
They be half attractive ceacu bullet
they there they things meeting
tm if the enemy the field The purpose
kill pleasant procedure especially for the fellows who
be killed Remember great prepare
have than have and prepared And remember
other thing that the whining
prepared and unready that determines whether there is arb
tratont the strong weprepared nation which finally
whether arbitration force is o be employed
great people will tell that preparation troub
v.;o. ~. n oy that you cannot be strong without be-
,.u.r. g.; " ing vicious that you cannot be pre-
''' ''s 'ss'S'o'S pared without being aggressive 1t
people
short of insult intelligence and decency We both
prepared and ready and tolerant just and retraned We
going but the right to prepared All
presidents urged preparation every message of the
first presidents who had something all presi
DENTS you warning preparation early days.
shortly after the birth the nation especially emphatic They
sound and big patriotic their advice al
to be prepared the best avoiding trouble
The house that well guarded protected less liable
be attacked by the burglar than the house that unguad and full
of sp And is the of the international hghwayman
counts the
You have based patriotism public impulse where
sometimes the power
gon for possession trade the lands necessary for
racial and increased trade based generally the
country going of that class figures out what going
20 1t that others
hesitate to attack
If the advice of presidents sound when the
real barrier when foreign country had large weorganzd
when the transportation the difficult when
the OF few type and simple and
and become familiar with and of forefaters m
lar with the the mu and the other armshow much
seriously that advice be taken today when steam has divided distance
and time when nation earth except China and
selves well organized defense least when the of
intricate machines requiring deal Of time to manufacture still
time to become familiar with?
Our aggressive extending
:, -.,., all the world, while our lands
No Wo was CVe r,'9"eeu the Caribbean al
Wy 'e o'-e VI r'o0A. China New conditions have
simply heed them We must not simply have
and think nothing preparation Nothing will help but
will No wolf frightened
by the size of flock sheep 1t the organized and wprpad people
who You do anything the onrsh of modern with
undeveopd nation with undeoped resources Is helpless,
unless organized. e&s
undeoped good deal like upon
point land surrounded by timber with the ground under his
feet everything hand build fleet and points out
ready equipped and wrepad fleet front of him and There
the enemy where he And he his
and Here have unlimited and build the biggest
fleet EARTH But the "He the fleet have to fight
which ready work half hour You cannot be ready four
or five years."
That unlike the condition country We have got the mate
rial and have have responsibility and have not done the
work of construction We have hardly commenced it, and must
be continued and be continued through the force OF public
representative government
the people really and the represent their views and
be presented They must be sound WE'LL
thoughtout views