Arizona republican., 1917-01-28
BROAD SCHEME
 OF DEFENSE |S.
 GIVEN APPROVAL
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

" Jdll. Et.-IAIllDIdllc approval of a broad scheme of national defense was given unanimously today by the Congress of Constructive Pat riotism at the closing business session Of its meeting here under the auspices Cf the National Security League. In statement of principles che congress declared for universal military train ing, for restoration of the navy to sec ond place in the Atlantic and f rst place in the Pacific, for eVel)pment of Amer can woman power, for aa tor wide campaign fer patriotism through education, and for effective AmericaniZation efforts to destroy dual citizenship.
 Tonight the meeting came to an end with a banquet attended by more than 500 delegates who heard addresses by Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, Sena- tor Chamberlain, chairman of the sen ate military committee; former Sena tor Lafayette Young of Iowa, and George w. Wickersham, former attor- ney general. Admiral Peary outlined program for developing air power for defense and reviewed the part air at tacks have had in the fighting of the present war.
 In it's declaration of principles the congress affirmed the belief that the right of the individual to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the basic principle of the American gov ernment and then declared:
 And we hold that in our relations with foreign governments We should continue to affirm and to defend these rights"
 All Americans. it is declared, should be brought to recognize the dangers that beset our republic" inasmuch as We are unprepared to defend our na- tional integrity against other nations whose aspirations and theories of gov ernment may be in conflict with ours
 The congress also adopted com mlttee report outlining a comprchen- slve plan of spreading Knowledge on the duty and privileges of citizenship, and resolution urging the enactment of legislation ito secure a national eX- ecutive buaget system.
 In recommending universal training, the congress endorsed the following general principles:
 Military or naval training for all physically fit young men prior to the age of 21, and preferably in the 18th year.
 The training to be intensive, con- tinuous field or sea training for the period necessary to produce an effect i've soldier or sailor
 The system to be under exclusive federal control
 Obligation to serve in war as well as to train in time of peace"
 4 committee proposal to include in the section the statement: No pay to be given during training, was stricken out by the congress.
 Admiral Peary said the day was at hand when command of land or sea would mean nothing without command of the air, and that no attack can be iriven home on European battle fronts without the assistance of the air ser vice. He pictured some of the great advances in aviation that already have come out of the war.
 At the present time" he said, -four foreign powers, proba ply six, have the men, the machines and the expert knowledge that would enable any one Of them by issuing an order today to destroy Washington or any other of our great coastal cities from the air in a single night two weeks from now We have neither airplanes nor diri- gibles. nor aviators nor anti aircraft guns nor any other means of prevent ing such destruction"
 The United States, the admiral said, could be given an adequate air power through a program providing for a separate department of aeroEaut- ics, with a place in the presidents cabinet; an aviation class includ- ing many thousands of young men throughout the country: a driving home of broad conceptions of aero- nautic needs on the floor of congress; comprehensive aero coast defense system, including a continuous cordon of sentinel airplanes off shore; co-or- T .f nautics backed by powerful financial nautic manufacturing plant.
 To cover the expense of these meas ures, Admiral Peary said bond issue should be authorized. The millions spent on the army and navy he de- clared, will be wasted unless we have such an air fleet as will give the United States unquestioned command of the air for the continent of North America"
 Former Senator Young pleaded for | national efforts to weld the country into one nation. He urged that every practice of accepting foreign fashions and views, from philosophy to music and Women's dresses, be discouraged, and that mo immigrants be admitted to | citizenship until his every qualification l had been adequately tested. MT. Wickersham dwelt upon the | place the Monroe doctrine has played Tn American history.
 Our nation was greatest" he said, when it most clearly recognized it's re- i responsibilities and most courageously stood forward sword in hand, to en- force them; we have talked much of ' late-toO much-abOut peace, without regard for any consideration of what | reace entails.
 Some of us have talked and arg still talking about becoming part of a league to enforce peace apparently without reflecting that such a league is but another name fer an offensive | and defensive alliance such as oul whole national history and policy run counter to.
 If we are permanently to surrender
 our right to exclude the nations oi
 Europe or Asia @rom the extension oi
 their institutions to South and Cen
 tral America, it will be idle to talk ol forming an international peace league
 JACkLlNG SELLS HIS YACHT
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