The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27
WILL ExTOL GOVERNMENT
Speakers Will Show That American De
mocracy Is More Efficient in Her war
Preparations Than Her vaunted
Enemy, German Despotism.

It's a 'slong, long, way from Ger.
man despotism to American democracy
but that is the step that the Four
Minpte-Men are taking the present
week. Having presented the aims and
methods of Prussia they will now dis
cuss the purpose and progress of ou1
"own United States and thereby ar.
rive at a point from which compari
sons or even prophecies can be made
with some degree of certainty. The
new topic is con to Victory and it
will deal III the main with the wal
preparations of the national govern
ment. 1t contains numerous statistics
but will allow Of some elaboration and
thereby permit a liberal coating of ma
terial more attractive than the dry
facts of economic and military charts
A general idea of the material to be
used in the next talks Of the orators
may be gathered from the following
quotation from the latest bulletin:
Never before in the history of
the world has a nation built up
new organizations with such as
founding rapidity as the United
States of America this year since
war was declared. In six months
we have shown that the ability to
crystalize and. develop cooperation
in short, the faculty called by
business men executive ability"
can be applied to military needs
by men trained in the arts Of peace
as quickly, more quickly, perhaps
in the hour of need than by nations
whose study has been war. In
that sense, therefore, the period
of six months just passed at
Washington is not merely histori-
cal; it is epochal."
A more detailed conception of the
new topic may be gathered from the
epitome of the subject given in the
same pamphlet. It reads:
II. Despite flaws the
outstanding fact is the wonderful speed
with which the American people have
organized themselves for war.
IL. The army trained more than
$4,000 officers in the first officers camp;
has built 5000 wonderful environments.
III. (a) The navy, now completely
manned, is guarding out entire coast.
(b) The shipping board has start
ed to build the greatest merchant
marine in history.
w.. The railroads have organized a
war board to carry out the most
colossal railroad plans ever conceived.
v. Other Government Activities
The Red Cross; Food Conservation,
Price Control, etc.
VI. Effects of Huge Expenditure
No big war profits. Money kept
at home.
VII. Conclusion = Popular govern
ment is proving more efficient
than autocracy"
The assignments of the "Minute-
Men, for the next two weeks follows:
Sept. 80. Sept. &c.
o. L. Trenary Butterfly Columbia
j. r. Clarkson Rhode Virginian
C. E. Randall !. Crystal Butterfly
G.. A. Mittelstadt Burke Rhode
r. P. Cavanagh Blue Mill Crystal
W. w. Hammond Columbia Blue Mill
G. w. Taylor :. Virginian Burke
Oct. 6. Oct. 8.
I. W. Corey -. Rhode Virginian
f. H. j. Baum Crystal Butterfly
E. Marlatt -. Burke Rhode
I. 7. Parker -. Blue Mill Crystal
Fl. D. Maddox Columbia Burke
G. N. Trenlper Virginian Columbia
j. B. Maloney Butterfly Blue Mill
That the battalion of oratory is sue
ceeding in Kenosha is the gratifying
deduction to be drawn from tsGeneral y
Buckmaster latest dispatches to his
speakers. 1t reads in part: ct take
this occasion to say that, from reports
received from the several theatres in
the city, the Four-Minute talks are
having a good effect and are being
well received. y These words of com
mendation are highly encouraging to
the orators who have little if any way
of judging of their effectiveness and
who, from time to time, have felt as
if they were failures in their attempts
to advance the cause Of democracy.
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