New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-27
CALLS WOMEN
TO DEFEND u. S.
Continued from page I

year, "at the very beginning OF TINS
movement" and the apathy that pre-
vailed then throughout the country
Fright here i'm Washington he said
there was not q man but told us 10 was
homeless to expect Congress ever TO pay
any attention to such thing as uni
versal military training. And yet TO-
dsv. only a year later. there Is bill
now being framed i'm committee, Sena-
tor Chamberlains bill, and 1T IS soon
10 be presented 10 Congress, and l am
told there is a good chance that u VIII
PASS the Senate. Think OF II lhlhA
of the tremendous impetus that mas
been gained by this movement, when
was uuheard Of ia this country Wheh
the European war broke out.
"This movement is going on and Is
going to succeed But it cannot pc
said too often that NJ must be oil,
vorced absolutely from politics ana
from partisan considerations. III must
be grounded solely IN PATRIOTISM APP
pealing to all reasonable, patriotic
people in all parties
He attacked the pacifsts, after d.
vidiug them into two groups, the nom
est and the dishonest Among the lat
ter ne classed representative OF
my college. Columbia. who testified re-
Gently before a committee Of Congress.
! feel like apologizing,' he said mat
my college should send out such a
representative.
"Snobbery OF Eastman
Tie referred also to "the snobbery OF
man by the name of Eastman DOUBT
less the well known Max, who called u
snobbery that Mr.. Aston and his valet
slept iu the same tent az PlattaDufg'
But IL was not snobbery; it was democ-
cy-it is such pacltlst criticism as
this that is snobbery.'
The Navor referred TO the miserable
failure".of the Hay militia bill and the
psrt PLAYED i'm it's passage by the "po-
litical National Guard officers, the adj
infant generals of many states, many
of whom arc not soldiers al all. who
came TO Washington last year and lob
bicd actively and successfully Tor INC
continuation Of their own cmoluments.
"What we need. and what our pro
gramme calls for, is a system ln Which
every man shall DO his part. We have
computed the cost of maintaining a
system which would provide training OF
AZ least six months for 1000 men
each year. selected on the basis OF
physical fitness alone.
Cost of War Insurance
III would cost the nation approx
nmtely St5O00O, GOO a year. ! like 10
fcurc this in terms of insurance. The
average fire rate in this country is SIC
per thousand dollars "a year. Based on
the assessed valuations OF the Atlantic
.eaboard cities alone, this war insur-
aucc would cost $3.50 per thousand dol
lars Basng 10 ON the assessed valua-
tions of the seaboard states. It would
cost $500 a year per thousand. And,
Of course. 10 ought TO be based on the
whole country.
"But that Is not all. If there is one
thing this country needs to learn, II
is respect for authority. Universal mill
tary training will supply that need
Obedience 10 officers is not seryility
as some pacitists say; it is civility. Our
boys need 20 learn TO obey so that they
may learn 10 direct"
Nissen's Bitter Speech
Mr.. Nissen was so bitter in his re-
marks about TIE newspapers that the
reporter did not trust his own notes
but depended an the official stenogra
phcr. The most important parts of Mr.
Nissen's hectic speech were as fol-
lows.
81 admit that Senator Root made q
great speech one Of the greatest I ever
heard delivered in the proper place. But