New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Congress ofPatriOtism
to Awaken People
to Danger
MEN AND WOMEN
TO BE ENROLLED
Restoration of the Navy
Is Demanded by
Delegates
From The Tribune Bureau

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Jan. 27.-After two days
Of speech making, some of it violent
and irresponsible, but most of it in
spring, like Mr.. Roots, or practical
and instructive, like Mayor Mitcheps
and Grace Parker's, the Congress Of
Constructive Patriotism nat to-day
soberly and earnestly and adopted a
programme OF activity designed to
make its name a fact.
Universal military training and SER
vice, the purpose for which the Ma
tional Security League was organized
two years ago, remains the goal of the
bigger movement that has grown out
of it, but it has been realized at this
congress that, as Albert Bushnell Hart,
of Harvard, declared at to-dsy's meet
ing, this ideal cannot be realized until
the country demands it, and that the
country will not demand it until By a
process of education it is brought to
see not only the defensive necessity,
but the fundamental democracy Of it..
Resolutions adopted also declared for
restoration Of the navy to second place
in the Atlantic and first place in the
Pacific, for development of American
woman power and for efforts TO destroy
dual citizenship.
Pledged to Teach Patriotism
Professor Hart, in a stirring speech,
presented the report Of the committee
on patriotism through education" !"
apd it was adopted without dissent
ing voice by the hundreds of delegates,
each Of whom pledged himself or her.
self to "go back home and become a
centre for the propagation of these
ideals"
The report carries a programme Of
education for the American people in
patriotism, national efficiency. interna-
tional relations, national defence and
universal training. It proposes to eff
feet this education through coopera-
tion with other agencies, such as gov
eminent departments, clubs and organ
zations, chambers of commerce, farm
ers' Institutes, Chautauqus societies
and the like; through influencing COM
mon school education toward greater
accuracy in the teaching of history,
greater breadth in the teaching Of
civics and government, and by pro-
vision for vocational and military edu-
cation.
II is aimed to establish a speakers
bureau in connection with the leagues
work, to supply able lecturers for all
public forums and to promote discus
sion of patriotic questions. Printed
texts will be prepared and distributed
dealing with various subjects germane
to the purpose of the league. The press
will be supplied with matter and the
motion picture houses will be furnished
with films encouraging a patriotic view
Of national needs.
Power Behind Propaganda
Behind this propaganda will be per-
manent national organization with local
ard state branches everywhere and a
committee OF one hundred on finance.
Professor Hart told of the discus
sion in his committee of eighty on the
report, and of the unanimous agree
ment that "if the plan was to teach
anything it must be to teach universal
military training. We have got to
show every American that universal
training is best for his own interests
We have got to show that defended
America is a better America for the
working man as well as for the bust
ness man, and that an efficient America
must be the ideal of every American,
rich or poor, who hopes to see his coun-
try take and keep its place in the
world.
1--WE will make war" he continued,
amid applause, ION every individual
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