Arizona republican., 1917-07-27
ROOSEVELT SAYS UNIVERSAL
 MILITARY TRAINING MUo1- Asyss7 j
 CONTINUE AFTER WAR ENDS
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cheers of thousands of visitors gathered here for the International convention of the Loyal Order of Moose, former President Theodore Roosevelt today de- clared the continuation of universal military training in tne United States after the war Is the nations only se- curity against a repetition of unpre paredness such as now has handicapped the country in the present crisis and which, he said, amounts to a miracle of national inefficiency."
 The former executive assailed the theory that the war can be financed by a tremendous tax on incomes and de- clared for heavy and progressive taxes on excess profits. While a reasonable profit should be given on government war contracts he said, mo. man in America has a right to become tre- mendously wealthy as a result of this var
 "We are in a war and our first busi- ness is to fight" said MT. Roosevelt. Only a few months ago l heard people say they would give money, potatoes and other things, but would let some one else fight for them. This is pawn broker patriotism. The foremost place in patriotism is that of the American who actually goes to face the shells and cannon"
 nother brief address earlier in the day MT. Roosevelt said all his kin .. .4o welo eligible had lined up" for military service and that it isn't my fault that I'm not over there now"
 A war relief fund of $550,000 was voted today by the convention. It will be raised through a membership assess ment of one dollar per capita.
 A monster parade tonight in which MT. Roosevelt appeared, was the clos ing feature of the dav's program.
 The parade, in which over 10000 marchers were to appear, was demor- aliZed when word came to some of the band directors in the procession that non- union band was taking part. Sev eral of the bands stopped playing and stepped out of line, leaving a large part of the parade without music.
 Colonel Roosevelt and high Moose lodge officials left the reviewing stand when the cause of the trouble had been learned.
 Prepare for the next national emer gency by introducing the principle of obligatory. universal military training for young men in time of peace and universal service in time of war for every man and woman in the country was the admonition delivered by Colo nel Roosevelt in his address tonight
 As compared to the other great ma tions of the world, he declared, Ameri eans-had in this war exhibited them selves a miracle of inefficiency
 Asserting that the United States government announces that the pre- pare6ness now in progress is tempo rary and will be stopped as soon as the emergency is over, Colonel Roosevelt characterized this as criminal re- fusal to provide for the future" He summed up what America had accomplished since the declarati7n oT war with Germany by saying that the 1 United States did not have a. single air plane fit to send across the German lines and that months must pass before one could be manufactured, that Amer ica had no heavy artillery and that Pershing and his soldiers would have to trust to French and English guns. t-'arican submarine chasers operating i with the British fleet, he said consti1 tuted only a tiny fraction of the Eng fish force. It would be a year after the declaration of war before America would have a fair number of big cargo ships
 i We have not enoueh rifles for o-' men," said Colonel Roosevelt "We are painfully short in equipment. We | have not yet begun to assemble the draft army, the first elementary of l ficers' training camps have not beer 1 finished, the national guard has only ijust begun to mobilize.
 This is the sum total of the activi- | ties of a nation of 100000,000 people and in possession o1 incalculable wealth. boundless resources, during the 1 six months following it's entry-afte1 two and enc half years warning-intc l the greatest war in history.
 The simple truth is that we shall always be inefficient during the first vital months of any war until we learr emergency because we2 did nothing tn p~aparo in advance. We have beer caught utterly unprepared in d terrible until the emergency actually arose, ant now our government announces that what we are doing we shall stop doing as soon as the emergency is over ant will then remain equally unpreparet 1 for the next emergency.
 Tt is this blind refusal-from the ma. tions standpoint I can only call it tho criminal refusal-to provide for tho future that forces every honest anC | f1r iOI of tO