Arizona republican., 1917-01-27
SCOPE IT PREPAREDNESS
 iS GIVEN LIGHT
Republican A. P. Leased Wirel

lRepubllcan A. P. Leased WireJ WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.-Tlfe full scope of national preparedness ideas | now abroad in the country, reaching from universal military service for men to registration of the nations woman power against a war emergen- cy, was spread before delegates to the Congress of Constructive Patriotism
 by speakers here today and tonight. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida; Walter c. Piper of Detroit; Hermann Hagedorn. Jr.. of Fairfield Conn; Miss Grace Parker. of New York and Charles Nagel, of St Louis. former secretary of commerce and labor, took occasion to declare em-
 phatically their allegiance to the cause of universal military training and ser vice. Letters were read from Theodore 1 Roosevelt and Governor Edge. of New Jersey, expressing the same views. Mir. Hagedorn expressed the keynote of the congress when he declared that education toward citizenship was the vital part of the national preparedness and the only hope of the abolition of war.
 Assailing the American educational system as calculated to produce men | indifferent to national affairs, MT Hagedorn said: Tt is treason to be 1 indifferent. The stupidity of stand pat educators makes quite as much for war as the stupidity of intuition
 makers"
 In his letter MT. Roosevelt character ized the Hay bill, which sought to
 federaliZe the national guard as a sec
 ond line of defense, as being foolish and unpatriotic and a bit of as flint
 lock legislation as was sever put on
 the statute books"
 The former president said the navy
 should be second only to Great Brit
 aims and that only because Great Britain had greater need of a navy.
 For the army he urged a regular es- tablishment of 250,000 men under the direct control of a general staff and l the adaptation of the Swiss universal ! service system to American needs.
 Be 1t remembered" he wrote, that such a force as that for which l ask, while very powerful for defense, would be almost worthless for aggression National preparedness, Col. Roose- welt pointed out. meant spiritual, ma terial, civic, industrial and military preparedness and the thorough Amer canization of the country.
 Citizenship" said his letter means undivided loyalty to America; there can be no citizenship on a ifty-fifty
 basis. We must insist that people who work here, live here, that they are not
 mere birds of passage from abroad We must insist on industrial justice and we cannot get it if we let ignor- ance and needs be preyed upon either by yulpine cunning or wolfish brutality
 and if we do not train the ignorant
 and the needy up to self reliance and
 efficiency
 Mir. Roosevelt paid his respects to those who preach the ignoble cult of the professional pacifist, the peace at any price men," and added:
 We hope ultimately the day will come on this earth when war will i cease. But at present that hope seems as far in the future as the realization of that other hope that some day all crime shall cease" As presiding officer of the day ses- sion Senator Fletcher called attention to the fact that the army and navy budget now before congress had
 reached a total of $S30,000, 900. Taking i up the failure of the national guard l and regular army to recruit up to | authorized strength, he declared the
 time had come when the burden of
 military service must be shared by
 all and shared alike