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GOVERNOR ATTENDS
DEFENSE COUNCIL
State Representatives ut National De-
Tense Conference Told of Critical
tIiiitar, And Economic Condition
OF Our Country.


Hilitar. And Economic Condition
OF Our Country.
Washington. May > The federal
government today took into its con
lidence governors and other State
REPRESENTATIVES here for national
dcfen<ec difference and outlined the
problems til, patton faces in making
war on Germany. Cabinet heads. eX-
planned the situation and asked ala
in putting into effect the govern
ment's war measures.
Al a second conference tomorrow
the Council OF National Defense will
present a definite program TO the
States for co-ordinating their work
in carrying out military and econom-
ic plans.
President Wilson received The del
egates today at the White House
and urged that the States draw all
energies and efforts together into
common action.
Governor Harrington. of MARY
land. was oneo the !" governors
from as many States who attended
the conference of States today. GOV
ernor harrington was accompanied
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the Maryland Survey and Prepared
ness Commission. who remained over
in Washington tonight to attend to-
morrow's session of the State confer
ence. Governor Harrington returned
10 annapolis atper this afternoons
session OF the conference.
Daniel E. Willard. CT the Baltl-
more and Ohio Railroad, member
of the advisory commission of the
Council of National Defense, will ad-
dress the governors conference to-
morrow.
Out of a strenuous day of speech
making. conferences and attendance
| at war school they were advised:
To eliminate lost motion and get
sGuarely behind the federal govern
ment and work in cooperation by
President Wilson.
That the war is not question OF
days or weeks, but of years, and
that all their energies should be bas-
ed upon that assumption by Secre-
tary of Interior Lane.
To facilitate the operation of the
Draft Bill and to make registration
| day a festival occasion by Secretary
| of War Baker.
To keep boys under military age
from rushing into the Navy by inn
pressing on them the fact that they
best serve their country by remain
| ing on the farm. and 10 encourage
shipbuilding to the fullest extent by
Secretary OF the Navy Daniels.
To try not TO lower the standards
of workers living and to refrain
from attempting to ''conscript an in
dustrial army by Secretary of La
| Dor Wilson.
To plant, plant, plant and reap,
reap peap. by President Pierson, OF
the Iowa State College of Agricul-
ture. speaking for Secretary of Agri-
| culture Houston.
The governors and the State repre-
| sentatives started a busy day by at
| tending war lectures in the office of
| Secretary Baker. The Secretary
dWelt principally upon operation OF
! the selectiye draft measure which
will shortly become operative.
Judge Advocate General Crowder
then outlined to the governors the
| operation OF the bill. The whole mat
ter is simple, he said. and should
take only - days Registration will
be conducted by the local govern
ments. Blanks will be sent out from
Washington to every part of the
United States Five days after the
proclamation is issued every State
should be supplied. BY the eighth
! daX- regissration- hoards-s should have
been appointed and the actual regis
| tration concluded by the tenth day.
At the end of the twelfth day the
War Department should have the
| names of every citizen of the United
States capable of bearing arms.
SECRETARY of War Baker explained
the exemption clause in the bill.
! No citizens, he said. would be eX-
empted as a class but the munitions
! W orkers. farmers or what not.
; After announcing the heavy sub
marine toll of last week, Lane de-
. clared the blockade was not only
threatening the existence of England
! and France, but was alarming the
| United States. Study of inventions
to combat the submarine menace is
being diligently pursued in the In
terror Department, he said.
The United States must build
ships as rapidly as possible, he told
the delegates.
If we don't fight the war on the
other side he said, we shall have
to fight it on this side of the Allan
tic
Secretary Lane declared he be-
lieved the war would last several
years and that every resource of the
country must be brought into play
to bring it to a successful conclusion.
Many persons thought" said Sec
rotary Lane. that all we had to do
was to issue bonds and that Germany
would bow her head in submission.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. We do not know when this
war will end. 1t may not be one
year war. Personally. l believe it
will last several years. Herbert G.
Hoover has informed this govern
| ment that Germany has food enough
to last two years, perhars longer.
Germany has put up the greatest
fight of history and she has the ad-
vantage of now fighting a defensive
warfare. Don't go back home and in
spire your people with the thought
that immediate action can bring this
wax to an Immediate end. Your peo-
pie must look to this years crop and
next years crop, and the next after
that"
Secretaries Lane. Baker and Dan
iels declared the one need of AmerI-
ca and the Allies now is ships.
Secretary Daniels asked the aid of
the States in recruiting the naval
personnel to $50, 900 men after the
new bill is passed.
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