Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-20
(From Wednesdays Dailv)


 are remaining on the battlefelds tc help us.
 4 dread idea that has not beer lacking in the back of the minds oi the American people since the tardy realization came that this nation is ir the greatest conflict of all ages, was expressed thus last night to Pres. colt audience by R. E. von Klein. Srnid, president Of the University oi Arizona. speaker for the State De fense Council in behalf of prepara- tory measures for war America is not getting into this war in order to help European nations preserve their own liberty, so much as 1t IS to accept their help in preserving our own.
 Dr. von KleinSmid spoke to a large audience in which were many women. His address was advertised 10 be one along the lines of service in the kitchen, to help the world feed itself economically out of the scant food supplies that will be available during the next years of the world war Rather, he talked to all citizens on the need-the downright need of each doing and suffering and sac rifcing, in order that a democratic principle may triumph against autoc- racy. Never before was the subject presented to a Prescott audience so frankly and daringly as ii was in the ringing address oi this educator turned war advocate.
 The speaker described America as a nation of mixed peoples, including in its body polite elements of strength and weakness from scores of races and nationalities. In that mixture, he declared, there was strength to fight this war-strength that comes to a cosmopolitan popula- ton from the very diversity of its origin, by reason of the fact it exists for and because of the principles of liberty on which the Union is founded
 America has been careless, tardy to respond, indifferent to demand, and these things have discounted 50 per cent, the chances the greater alliance for world freedom has of winning the Har
 ''We are free thinking. And we arg free acting. it takes us a long time to decide that anybody has right to tell us what to do It is hard for us to accept the dictates of necessity"
 Dr. von KleinSmid described the period of confusion that followed for a month after the declaration of war "a period in which orders and plans were announced one day, to be coun- termanded and revised the next. This, he said, was due to the fact that a great social organization exercising governmental control over hundred million people had run mp against a series of absolutely new conditions that could be mastered only after trials and suffering, mistakes and changes of plan.
 President Wilson recently told the international secretary of the Y. Nj. (. A. that America, to win the war, must depend on three agencies-its military forces, the Red Cross and the Y. Nj. (. A. Preparations to form an army were we'll under way when l0,O00,0OO men registered for the draft on June 5. The Red Cross is a free gift of the American people to the government. So must the Y. NJ. C. A. be a donation from the public, even though in military circles, it is recognized as the thing that is abso- lutely essential to keep spirit in the fighting men.
 Taking up the Liberty loan, he said that it was not so necessary 10 raise the two billions of dollars, as it was to raise it by small popular subscrip- tions. Germany had said that Amer ica could not raise volunteer army This was admitted. Germany then published broadcast, its belief that the American people would never submit to the draft. That falsehood has been crammed down the German throat by the voluntary enrolment of the l0,- 0O0,0O0 eligibles. Now, Germany is saying that the people of this nation will never give two billion dollars to the war. As swiftly as possible, this lie must also be sent back into the face of the German government which uttered it. No other agency will SO