New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-27

Of scores Of thousands of tons o
every conceivable requirement.
"BUILDINGS-Not rows of then
or streets of them, but miles of
them-dozens and scores of miles o
them!
"AEROPLANES-Not hundreds o
them, but thousands of them-a hun
dred thousand, and may be more!
RAILROADS, COAL MINES
FACTORIES, FARMS-Every pro
ducing factor and every distributin,
unit in the service of the Govern
ment in this business of war.
That's what it means; and i,
means more than that! If this Wa,
continues two or three years-the
Washington idea 10 three years.,
will mean that all of us-every one
will be working for the Govern.
ment to the limit of each capability
in an organization that will have
no thought of individual comfort, oi
individual right, but will have the
sole and compelling thought of serv.
Observation-Disclosures this business
of war, which has affected us 80 far
and mostly, in an indirect manner
Lot Il last two or three years and
there will not be an effective per.
son who will not be directly in it,
service, one way or another"
The President Knows
II doubt whether there 10 any man
in tho world who realizss a. ksenly
a. the President the truth of the
statement that the only way = dem.
ocracy can be successful in war il
by making il an autocraey, or any
man in the world who knows 90
accurately the limitations for such
a proceeding in this country. :"
"Ths task 10 gigantic, overwhelm-
ing. The President can always tell
what he wants, but hs must always
take what he can get. He may see
clearly that . certain need Of the
country demands q certain new, or,
let US say, revolutionary proceeding,
but unless he can induce Congress
to authorize that proceeding by law
he can not undertake il, except in
a most roundabout fashion; and even
then hs 10 liable to the harshest
criticism for infringing on the con.
additionally vested rights Of his CO.
workers."
President Isolated
"Moreover. the President of the
United States, even in wartimes, is
in so elevated q place and so far
removed from contact with the peo.
v~V> kh~k Al >e
his position, he is largely dependent,
in making up his premises for ac-
tion, on what is told to him by his
And the regrettable fact
10 that in most instances the men
who tell the president things tell
him what they think he wants to
know, talk in accord with his ex.
pressed or imagined ideas. They
conceal disaereeable facts from him,
and expand agreeable ones. This 10
an entirely human attribute, and
there is no place where it has reach.
ed more nearly the flower Of per.
lection than in Warrington"
Capital Psssimistie
" Washington is the great center
Of pessimism Of the United States.
10 q congenital bear on
any and every proposition. I have
known quite a number Of presidents
in my time in and about Washing.
ton, but ! have never known one
president who had the approval Of
Washinston-offieially or any other
way. They are Snug and superior
folks, those permanent Washington.
JAMS, and inasmuch ~ they have their
handed to them without
voice or even vote, they are in q
constant state of displsasurs con.
cernins the man in the White House.
the view Of Washinston
On any topic 10 aeutely political and
personal; for Warrington, official
y, doesn't hold that the chief func.
lion Of government 10 that it oPsrat.
% BY the consent Of the governed
Washington holds that government
operates for the benefit Of certain
'mall portions Of the sovsrnsd.". =
-. With these faets In mind IL
% we'll enough to discount . great
Zeal Of the criticism Of the Prssi.
lent that 10 now 90 common, -.
pecially in Washington. The Prssi.
lent 10 Woodrow Wilson, neither
,mniscisnt nor infallibls.
"Hs has . gigantic task. He is
10 new to Il, In all its aspects, - the
newest recruit Of three months ago
was to war. Il takes time to make
1 soldier and il takes time to make
1 war President. Neither springs
'ul1 panoplied from circumstance or
:ondition.
"Six months froE now will be am.
,le time to review the acts of the
President for defects in judgment
md action. -. Warrington never ap.
,raised a man or a President cor
'ectly since Washington was built.
rhe shortness of the view and the
,ias of the viewers forbid that"
Need Is Good Advice
"That is his greatest problem-the
retting of disinterested advice and
But, If il should develop
hat he does not seek to get disin-.
crested advice and information, that
vill be his chief weakness. Time will
that. Unless he does
eek it-and seek il assiduously-he
will not get Il; for some Of the
gentlemen closest to him are neither
advisers NOR infor-
nants."
After the statement that the pre-.
ent members Of the cabinet were
elected in time Of peace, and for
and political reasons,
Ar. Blythe points out:
Fl doubt whether there are five |
mem in Washinston who have the |