The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-03
CAPITAL ON GUARD
STATE, WAR AND NAVY BUILD
INes CLOSED TO THOSE WHO
HAVE NO PASSES.
WHITE HOUSE is PROTECTED
Ofers Of Service in Any Capacity
Come From All Over the Country
Political Pressure for Commissions
is Pleasantly Absent.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

mons, chairman of the finance commit
tee Of the United States senate: Sem
tor B"njamin +. Tilman, chairman o
the committee on naval affairs. an,
Gen. William CroZier, chief of ord
nance of the United States army, wer,
forbidden admission To the state Wal
ana navy building by the SrntripS on
guard because they did not have with
Them IN" passes necessary for admis.
zion.
ms goes 10 show how in these DAYS
OF national crises Washington is
guarding its treasury boxes of infor-
Hail"h. 50 far as Washington is CON
crrhed, it is still Il case of wotcbfuI
waiting, but Waiting has Work rs =
companion, and vigorous go-ahead
person the companion is.
Washington is on guard and ia
guarded. No one sees a trace of OK
cIteiheht here, but the unseen exists.
II Is serious capital today. Even
'he Few ordinarily flippant ones in
congress seem TO have felt the touch
or the subduing hand.
Ioday one needs what is equivalent
I'd military pass to secure entrance
| 10 the state, war and navy building.
/ RAISES To the White House offices also
nave been issued to persons who have
ilsiit 10 receive them. There is more
'nah suggestion of war days in the
vicinity of every government building. |
inside the armed service buildings one
Is In the presence of war.
ohiy one gate to the White House
grounds remains open. At every
crossed entrance and along the iron
ran fences which separate the grounds
from the street, policemen are sta
u"hed. The doors to all the public
buildings are guarded 1t is a repro-
uuced picture of the days just prior
ana during the Spanish war.
CONSUMPTION Might Be Necessary.
chapter Of patriotism is being
written into the history of the war
ana navy departments today. From all
over the country are coming offers of ,
service In any capacity helpful TO n /
country In need. Retired army and
navy oflcers in their old age are re-
That they may be allowed IN q
ger back into active service If war Y
snail come. All kinds of Industrial "
organizations are offering assistance n
ih'IVldualS, men and women are ask Il
ing what they can do to help. fl
IL might appear from the immense 81
NUMBER OF offers of service which are
DelhG received that ii would not be q b
thing for the United States al
n case of war TO raise ouickIv an II
lriny or 100000 men by the volunteer W
'iah' but even with all the surface in Tbs
hcatlonS that such an army at once vi
Quiz De called to the instruction Ia
amps, the officials fear that II will co
e hard to get such number of nbvs-
caiiy ut men without resOrting TO con- ca
criptiOn. -,
one of the striking things about the of
I1ers OF service which have been re- ret
eived at headquarters in Washington Oh,
ulat there is nothing like the no. fie,
tcai pressure being exerted thar Ru
lere was in Civil war and Spanisb TIL
ar days to secure commission nc q ROT
mixing officer for this man or that ina
an without regard to his lack of mil Sta
iry training. The European war the
ems 10 have taught each aspiring ma
htleman that influence in his ward VIII
thout an hours training does not the
tlrelE lit him to command mon ON tho
e field of battle. >.
II the preaching of preparation has ann
" us ciechlhG erect on the poll viSi
iahs ana political heelers who other tie
So would have sought high army the
1t may not have been on 1S6:
ely in vain. -
Planning for Censorship. n
newspaper correspondents in tha o,o
or Washington have taken sborn tho.
e OF the possible censorship ,,on
uiuonS Whlch are to prevail of ,
we snail have war with Germany ,oo.,
Tor that matter with any other for f-or
n power. The authorities already ou.
e been approached by the standing ond
lmlttee of press correspondents rorf
ch mas charge of press gallery mat- -.
s. ana plan will be adopted which 60,
r. dosiro -, Pe VIII meet StOn,
- "hlie III every waV safe no..
rdlng the government. .,,,
ort,oort So III the war whic
artment plans formulated over tvvo
rs ago and which were intended to -.
ern correspondence sent from tho ,,.,,n,
or from battleShips, or from the hann
of Washington, in case war was 60
AIRED with Mexico. 1t is under W..
That the war department had do,,,.
down rules so drastic as virtually o. 9,
eStroy the usefulness of tho wori, -
correspondent in the field ar in fona,
capital ieiice
win no a., army
,-o.I,;,.N. '"N"i vi the corps built
washington correspondents 10 So po,,.o,
doy.,, j., - va 'iie coiultl0nS 10 tin
u""n In the EXISTING plan. and CO. tbo "
''loh VIII be promised. So far as b.. -
sanding committee of corresnond- 81.
mas authority, in the name of av- ,.o,au.
who today is admit. TIM
" the press galleries of the two Ill
= of congress.
Don't Like British Methods a, ,i,,'.
Us lar no attempt has been mode hoa,,
authorities to censor dispatches on1 -
the city of Washington. Conf tha o.,