New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
AMERICA MAKING
 FULL STEAM AHEAD
Sec'y Lane Defends Congress and
 Its War Preparations
TALKS TO BUSINESS MEN
We Know How to Make Money and War, He Tells United States Cham- Der of Commerce-Declares Ger many Must Be Defeated.

Atlantic City, Sept. 1S.-Business men asking their duty to the nation in war were told by Secretary Lane, addressing the war convention of the United States Chamber of Commerce here today, to change the word "duty'' to opportunity" and seek the answer from the khaki-clad American boys who are crossing the ocean.
 We have come upon new day and new philosophy he said. We are to judge men henceforward not by what they have, but by what they give.''
 The secretary declared that the United States, having determined to fight Germany's efforts to master the world with high explosives and low, intrigues," was making full steam ahead.
 eff anyone doubts that" he added, "let him look at the record of con- gress, which has cometin for so much of derision and reproach. I presume to say that no other preliminary body in so short a time ever passed so great volume of well-considered and pro- phetic legislation as has our present congress in the past five months.
 I've have supplied money for our friends, raised an army of million and a quarter, inaugurated 8 new in- dustry, that of making of airplanes; revived an old industry of building ships; placed powers over exports and prices over industries and resources. in the hands of the president that will give him the weapons he needs; made laws to punish domestic enemies, and courageously placed the burden of fQ xr1, up under it--this is record that no nation has excelled. It is a record that shows purpose. an unflinching purpose.
 Know How to Make War.
 We of America, it is conceded, know how to make money, and we also know how to make war, whole hearted, resolute war: war that means organization, machinery, science, war that means men by the million and money by the billion, war that means h heart-breakings, ruined hopes, @ lit- tie glory, perhaps a certain self-re- Spect, 8 world that men can grow in.
 We shall make war in earnest, for we know that if Germany wins, the world will turn aside from the sys- tenn of law and liberty which we know and exalt that military caste and sys- tenn, which is the historic enemy of personal liberty. We make war in France that we may not be compelled to do battle here. Let Germany have Canada, or Mexico, or even Cuba, and we would go to our daily work. iko the Pilgrim Fathers, with our guns in our hands.
 This is in truth most distinctively our war, for we claim proudly that we gave the impulse to Europe which turned its face toward dem ocracy, and for that reason, in fighting with France, England, Italy and Russia. we fight for those who follow in the way we led, though children of the Amer ican conception of government, as servant, not master
 President Rhett in his address said:
 Business has been groping in the dark because 1t finds the very foun- dations of commerce have been up- turned. Demand and supply can no longer be permitted to control prices, because the extraordinary demands of the government have completely un- balanced the scales.
 'The president has we'll said that this war Is not a battle of armies but a conflict of nations in which every national resource must be called into play.
 Let me emphasize the primary and paramount purpose of this conven- ton. Our countrymen want to know just how the business men feel about this war. Our allies, likewise, want to know if the business men of Amer ica will let them know, whatever the cost, whatever the sacrifice if they propose to place every resource at their command behind the govern ment and it's allies in their determin- alton to see that liberty, democracy,