The sun., 1917-05-31
T. R. BIDS RICH
|, LEND LABOR TO
HELP TILLSOIL
Colonel Warns Against En-
plOying Men in "NOn-
useful Things"
REVIEWS NASSAU CORPS
Urges Enlistment and Says
"If You Won't Buy Bonds
Don't Snarl at Wall St."

Nassau county's first citizen--Col
Roosevelt of course--reviewed the
Sheriffs Reserve Corps at the Mineola
Fair Grounds yesterday and exploded
many by Georges :" over the heads of
the 1000 home defenders who marched
past him and around the racetrack. A
few had rifles. almost all had clubs, some
companies were uniformed. some wore
merely their Sunday best. but the way
his own home folks marched after a few
weeks OF drilling after work hours
/ tickled the Colonel from the crown of
his wide black hat to the tips OF his
stub toed boots.
Then with the paraders massed before
him on the track and with the grand
stand behind him and the lawn on either
side filled with men. women and children,
lot Of whom he calls by their first
names, the reviewing officer turned ex-
horter and delivered Memorial Day ad-
dress that in parts wasn't really an adj
dress at all but plain and pungent talk
about the things that Nassau and every
other county ought to be and probably
, are thinking about just now and an ap-
peal for every sort of patriotic endeavor
Z by tht stdN AT dS NNtil as tnOSt
who are going away.
AT times the Colonel whitfield his
sentences with the knife OF sarcasm. II
Is just possible that he had certain Long
Islanders In mind when he whirled
around to facc the grand stand:
Men OF wealth. this is a bad summer
TO hire laborers to do non-useful things.
Don't move trees around or build brick
walls that look as IL they were meant to
BILE labor released for agricultural work -
Plea for Food and Bonds.
The Colonel asked the farmers to raise
more food and everybody to buy Liberty
bonds.
And IL you don't buy" he cried. "for
heavens sake don't turn around later
and snarl At Wall Street for being more
patriotic than you."
The Sherirs Reserve Corps. composed
Of units from all OYER The county,. assem-
bled at Hampstead and marched the four
miles to the fair grounds. In the West
bury mounted troops which rode ahead
were a group OF men famed as polo
players. including Devereux and George
Milburn, J. Watson Webb, Robert Low
Bacon. Elliott e, Bacon and Samuel
Willets. Their ponies cavorted in front
OF the Colonel, beside whom on the stand
stood Brig. Gen. George L. Dyer. y. Y.
y. G.. and his stsff; Frank l.. Crocker.
chairman OF the Nassau County Home
Defence League and Clarence II.
Mackay. not forgetting Cutey Gardner.
the roly poly special deputy who polices
every Nassau county function, high low
or middle.
About 10000 persons were on hand
when Col. Roosevelt without being in
troduced mounted a table top and began
TO speak.
II believe with all my heart" he said.
lin commemorating the great days OF
the nations past, but only on condition
that We make each commemoration an
incentive to do our duty In the present
II We gather to commemorate the cour-
age of the men who died that the ma
tion might live and yet ourselves refuse
to render service we merely write our
names down In shame and dishonor
| With every ounce OF emphasis at my
command ! say IL any man here Ia not
prepared to do everything in his power
when the nation calls let him go home
T. n. Urges Loyalty.
Such man is unfit to be the fellow
countryman OF the men and women
who are loyal to the men and women
of the civil war.
II want you to think not In terms Of
self-sacrifice, but Of SERVICE" he went
on. II do not pity the man who has a
chance to risk his life for his country.
! envy him, and / thank the Lord we
have at last got rid OF those male and
female creatures who sang 4 didn't
raise my boy to be n soldier | think
thRt particular !nfamy has floated down
the tide toward the past.
"I want you men TO realize the SER
BUSINESS OF the war. Those who call II
a paper war are in error. Three or four
years aso n leading public character
remarked that in case of war a million
men would spring 10 arms between sun
rise and sunset. You men before me.
how much springing have YOU done in
the last few weeks? A good many OF
you haven't even arms TO spring to.
You couldn't have performed the simple
maneuvre OF marching past this stand
II you had not prepared by constant
practice in the past few weeks.
Then think of the preparation that
has got to be made before you can go
I'D against a nation that has been train
ing for fifty-five years for the day that
has come.
Cali for Prepnredncss.
"Shrill voices have said. If you are
unprepared for war you will avoid war
We have not avoided it. Prepare In
every way. Many OF you are farmers.
I make a special appeal to you to grow
food And all OF you see that the high
price Of food is not higher, and that il
gets into the hands OF the man who
grows 1t and doesn't stop somewhere In
between"
1 He urged the farmers to buy Liberty
bonds, saying