New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Business Principles Needed
in Our War Machinery,
He Says Here
No Attack ON President
Senator Hopes Wilson Will
See Every One Is Trying
to Help Him

Speaking at luncheon yesterday in
the Republican Club here, in the same
room where a week ago Senator Cham
berlain made one Of the speeches that
drew a reply from President Wilson,
! Senator William M. Calder commented
on recent criticism of the Administra
ton and declared: III feel we have not
found fault unjustly"
Senator Calder referred to Secretary
Of War Bakers failure to understand
the difficulty OF many problems" and
declared that the coal and the shipping
situations in this country would have
been the cause of no concern to-day
had men who understood the function
ing of those arms of the government
machinery been placed in charge Of
them.
The Senator began his address by re-
ferring to the sensation caused by the
address that Senator Chamberlain
made before the club last week.
"Ne got into serious trouble be
cause of his speech last Saturday,"
! Senator Calder remarked "and perhaps
| ought to refrain from following in
the same vcin.'
Cries of "Go ahead, Senator." in
tcrruptcd him, and he then proceeded
to tell Of the cautiousness with which
Republican members Of Congress
criticised the Administration for fear
that their words might be taken az
being inspired by party politics.
Now Is Time to Speak, He Says
'Now. how far can men 90 in criti
cism so that criticism may be helpful?"
he asked. Owe have gone along
now for nearly ten months. 1t seems
to me the time is here when men have
a right to speak out fairly and hon
esty, always sticking strictly to the |
truth. l think it is fair to say that our
Secretary of War has done pretty wells
lie has had a great problem, gentle
men; but the trouble is not so much |
with him as with the neglect to &c.
ready months before we Went into the
war.
"'The Secretary Of War has failed TO
understand the difficulty OF all the (
y. .tOiclilS ~ Has SctilCu W ne loI
many months that what we needed AZ
Washington was just plain business .
planning. II we had planned last spring
for our coal situation, if we had just
had some one in charge Of coal mat
ters-1 mean some one with knowledge
of the coal busincss-I am certain we
would have had no trouble in supply
ing the needs of the people. If We had
had some one at the head Of Il ship
i, I,D.x
had kept him there, who had some
knowledge of shipbuldng. we would
have had no trouble with our ship
building scheme, and SO right down the
line.
All Arc Trying to Help
81 am hopeful that, inasmuch as we
have begun to crticisc constructivcly,
when the President gets over be-
ing angry he will realize that no one
is trying to drag him down, but that
every single one OF us ut Washington
is more interested, much moro inter
cstcd. Il hundredfold more Interested,
in winning this war than we are in
taking party advantage. At the same
that, because We may differ with the
Presi dent in party politics, we should
be asked TO simply lie down completely
and give up our party"
The Senator counselled sympathy with
the present Russian government "They
should understand we sympathize with
them. We have a duty to perform TO
Russia and must take cognizance OF
the Tact that the present government
represents 81 considerable element Of
the Russian people.
"I hardly think it likely that the
imperial German government will make
a serious peace with Lenine and Trotz-
ky said Senator Calder. "Havc you
thought of tho danger Germany will
be in if She makes peace with gov
ernment as radical as that of Russia
today"
In concluding, Senator Calder spoke
Of the sacrifices that this war might
demand
"Sacrifcc? We have made no sacri-
flee yet" he said. 1--WE may be asked
to make serious sacrifices, for the sake
of our children and our grandchildren;
We should willingly make any sacr-
lice we are called upon to make, even
if it means giving up our lives We
Nathan Hale said. Let us give it will
ingly."
Says Germans Want War
William II. Skaggs. Of Chicago, said
that it was "suicidal" for the Amerj
N"A@.' =" iNNA NiiSy al IiOC IlldhlllS war !
on the German people
ut is foolish and a blunder for US
to treat separately the German people
and the government. For three years
the German people have been endan
gering our lives right here in our own
country. Their rulers and government
have been what the German people
wanted. If they desired a liberal. hu
manized government they would have
risen long ago, destroyed the military
caste and set up a real democracy"
Captain A. 7. Simmonds, an Ameri
can army officer who was in Europe at
the outbreak of the war, declared that
not per cent of the American peo-
pie realize they are at war America
must send 100000 men to France. he ,
said.
The Rev. DR. George Il. Van de
Water also spoke.
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