Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-27
Prominent Speakers Favor
Universal Military Service
for Men and Registration
of Woman Power.
ROOSEVELT WRITES
APPROVAL OF PLAN
Former President Scores Hay
Law as Inefficient Says
American Navy Should Be
Second Only to EngIand's,

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Washington, Jan, 26.-The full
scope Of national preparedness ideas
now abroad in the country. reaching
from universal military service for
men, to registration of the nations
woman power against a war emergen-
cy, was spread before delegates to the
Congress of Constructive Patriotism.
by speakers here today and tonight
Senator Duncan L. Fletcher of Flor
ida Walter c. Piper of Detroit, Her
mann Hagedorn, Jr., of Fairfield,
Conn; Miss Grace Parker of New
York, and Charles Nagel of st. Louis,
former secretary of commerce and la
Dor, took occasion to declare emphat-
ically their allegiance to the cause of
universal military training and SER
vice. Letters were read from Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Governor Edge of
New Jersey. expressing the same
views.
Education for Citizenship.
Mr.. Hagedorn expressed the key
note of the congress when he declared
that education toward citizenship was
the vital part Of national prepared
ness, the only hope of the abolition of
war.
ASSdlIiIH tHt AlleEtCdn SuUCbtlOildi
system as calculated to produce men
pe ent to national affairs, Mr..
Hag 5uorn said, lit is treason to be in
different. The stupidity of standpat
educators makes quite as much for
war as the stupidity of munition
makers
terized the Hay bill, which sought to
fn1a Al a,I N
second line of defense, as being fool.
ish and unpatriotiC, and bit of as
flintlock legislation as was ever put on
the statute books
Should Have Great Navy.
The former president said the navy
should be second only to Great Bri-
tain's, and that only because Great
Britain had a greater need of navy.
For the army, he urged a regular es-
of 250,000 men under the
direct control of a general staff, and
the adaptation of the Swiss universal
service system to American needs.
BE it remembered" he wrote
that such force as that for which /
ask, while very powerful for defense,
would be almost worthless for aggres
sion"
National preparedness. Colonel
Roosevelt pointed out meant spiritual,
civil. industrial and military
and the thorough Amer
of the country.
Loyalty to America.
citizenship" said his letter,
means undivided loyalty to America;
here can be no citizenship on a fifty
fifty basis. We must insist peo-
pie who work here, live here, that
hey are not birds of passage from
ibroad. We must insist on industrial
Justice and we cannot get it if we let
ignorance and needs be preyed upon
,ither by vulpine cunning or wolfish
and if we do not train the
and the needy up to self
eliance and efficiency"
Mr.. Roosevelt paid his respects to
hose who preach the ignoble cult of
he professional pacifist, the peace at
my price men," and added;
Hope for Universal Peace.
"We hope ultimately the day will
ome on this earth when war will |
ease. But at present that hope |
alton of that other hope that some /
lay in the future, all crime shall
ease"
AS presiding officer of the day ses-
ion, Senator Fletcher called atten-
ion to the fact that the army and !
avy budget now before congress had |
cached total of $S3o.000,000. TAX
lg up the failure of the national guard |
nd regular army to recruit up to au-
horized strength. he declared the |
ime had come when the burden of
Military service must be shared by
II and shared alike"