South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-27
MORE PARTISAN CAMOUFLAGE"
AT EXPENSE OF PATRIOTISM
AND BRAINS.


SEN Iii Johnson California demands "pitiIess
publicity" ard that Is Outrage that
the administration failed 10 protect American
youth on the battle front with aircraft"
sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts serves
warning that henceforth lie will endeaVor to give
the American people the truth To the best OF his
abiltyr-whch isn't much "IIs ability to speak
the truth when falsehOOd will his partsansup
better is a negligible quantity.
Sen Harry New of Indiana. me who adjutant'
general i'm the spanish American war, poisoned our
soldiers with "cmblamed beef" also took occasion
poison the atmosphere with his roar. determined,
apparently, along with the rest let the Germans
know. not only what they are able TO find
through their spy system but everything that
one knows, by advertising il to the world.
There you have the cast, the west. and the mid
die. with rcpubiicO-senatoriaI fringe attaching
them from everywhcre-and all because Mai. Ger
Leonard \. wood has got back from Europe; a
very appropriate flame To touch of six weeks
suppressed combustablc
II is very good indeed of Mai. Gen. Wood re-
turning from tire western front. to inform 'cOn-
fdcntially.' through the senate military affairs
committee which seems TO have held IL very "COnfi-
Dental" indced-tiat army i'm France isn't big
enough.
Wouldn't that "jar' Won? The little "tin god"
have stopped at Oyster Bay on his way back
10 Washington, and got into touch with his "brass
lord"
Sure we should have more men in France: per-
haps 100000 and perhaps more. We should also
have 100000 in reserve at home, and perhaps
more.
We are getting them too just as fast as the ma
chinery OF government gather them i'm.
We also building ships, ships. and ships
perfect bridge OF ships.-to get the cover
there"-just fast American ingenuity can
produce them; this too, Notwithstanding that Capt
William II. StaUon of the very auti-admnistratiOn
Navy league. who addressed the Indiana club last
Saturday, in charge OF the building.
But as to why we haven't these 100000 cover
there" and another 100000 "Over here" is
different matter.
is a point that lot of American fools, and a
quite equal lot of American partsans refuse
We might have had that 900 ready for war;
and for reserves at home. all trained and equipped
not only when declared, but when the
Lusitania sunk, and beyond that-when
Woodrow Wilson took Office.
We might have had the ships ready take them
over, and plenty of airpIanes. and we might have
had all those of American invention that the
Germans are using against us.
But AYE, there's the rub"
We have been peaceful people, trained To
Christian ideals perhaps unsophisticated i'm the be-
lief that the Of the world like us but any
how. not much given to preparation for slaughter
we did not know that there 'mad dog in
Europe ready TO break loose.
Only America. t. Roosevelt o Oyster
Bay, seemed to have enough of that mad" blood
IN his veins to want to make preparation for war
nations main business; that is. only he and
''wise men" of the Army and Navy leagues-f-
nanced by Bethlehem. Midwife and United States
steel, and the Du Points and de Nemours
Roosevelt, while president with
n congress tOp-heavy with the weight of his own
party could get action i'm the way of building
great war machine, to make America military
nation.
The navy which, by inspiration the Venezuela
affair, Grover Cleveland made second TO none hut
England. passed third place under Roosevelt.
and fourth under Taft.
Even the Spanish American war. i'm which Cleve-
lands "whitc squadron" played virtually the only
parC, failed to inspire with military aspirations.
IL wasn't a partisan matter. IL American.
Love of peace. and that love so strong that it be-
faith i'm peace, seemed TO surge through
every American vein.
The late Augustus Peabody Gardner. as chair
of the military affairs committee of the lower
house of congress, stood stone wan against the
carrying of frcSt ROOseyclt'S eXtravagant mill
tary and naval programs.
It different however. soon as woodrow Will
son entered the white house.
When after months the guns OF Europe began
to roar, the aforesaid Gardner, along with Roosc-
welt and the rest, could for the life of
them. right away, what the new administration. not
of their partisan faith had been doing that we
hadn't an army and navy to make all Europe look
like so cents
The propaganda has been going on every
since.
For 16 years the republicans had literally sat on
the army and navy, keeping IL down a very min
imum. It terrible of the democrats not TO have
overcome il i'm "A couple of
Mai Gen. Woods hair Drained political criticism
is merely continuation OF that propaganda, con
fdentiaIIy" gotten to the public through same
type of hair Drained political committee
He is wind-bag for T. Roosevelt. and that is all
ne il. ever and all me is capable of being.
sure, should have 100000 men i'm France
the earliest possible mOmcnt,"-and will have
We will equal number reserves al
home, trained for service and the transports too
"soOn get them"
And dear old Iii johnson; depend upon il Iii
that those aircraft are heading for France. ant
effectively serving American youth there grea
deal more than your wind jamming is protecting
them at hOme-and on the other side. beyond Their
front.
Aircraft is another of those things that American
military genus, the Lack of it, consistently ne
elected up TO the last minute. IL was a republican
/ that broke poor Prof. LangcyS heart
/ Any American who has followed recent develop
knows that tIIc aircraft program has beer
held up not by the administration, but by in