New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
ne Greatest Man Power Draft in the Worlds History
It Takes Democracy Only Two
Weeks to Guarantee an Army
of 100000

gentleman think that supreme sentiments
Of humanity actuated them in keeping the
children for the last rather than putting
them in at first?
Mr.. KAHNI object to the word "chil-
dren."
Mr.. CHANDLER, of New York--Will wy
then not be charged with being lacking in
sentiment if we, before we have exhausted
the manhood of the country, send the chill
dren into the trenches right away?
Mr.. KAHNI again object to the use Of
the word children" The trouble probably
is that the English and the French and also
the Italians, who emotional nation,
as we'll as ourselves, have had consider
able sentiment against taking the young
men. But the more I study the question
the more | am convinced that war is not
matter of sentiment; that it is practical,
a deadly practical propositio l. In war
sentiment is frequently wiped away, and it
would seem that the nation that wipes
sentiment away and looks upon a. as a
practical question is the nasio. that gen.
orally has reaped the victory
Mr.. CHANDLER, of New York-Has not
Germany acted upon the principle of wiping
out sentiment and being severely practical
Mr.. KAHN-Yes and to-day sne occupies
all Of Belgium practically To-day she oc-
cupies all of Serbia To-day she occupies
all of Montenegro. To-day she occupies
good part of Northern France And we.
by looking upon this question as a practical
one and not as sentimental question, pro-
pose to drive Germany back across the
Rhine because going TO deal with
her as she has been dealing with the rest
of humanity in this war heretofore. {Ap-
plause.)
1t was in the same days debate,
Thursday, August %, that Senator
Wadswortn. of New York, one Of the
younger members of the Senate, di-
gressed momentarily from the discussion
Of the man-power bill to impress upon
his colleagues the need for early action
if American aid is to be effective at it's
highest power The mode of address
has an ancient flavor, not unlike the
"conscrpt fathers" with which the Ro-
man Senate was greeted
n. u,AncWnpru c...A D:
collapsed last Christmas, and 100000
men were taken from the Allied
armies by that collapse and it is no,
until August, 1918, that America males up
her mind, through the &C on of her govern
ment and her Congress, to make good that
loss. But we have made up our minds now,
believe, and we are serving notice upon
Germany and our allies that we are in this
thing to the bitter end, with all our force,
all our resources, and that never again are
we going to be overtaken by an emergency.
We are going to move ahead of an possible
We need men, Senators. We may iced
more men than are contemplated under this
act, but it is imperative that we pass this
act at the earliest possible moment thar
men shall become available to be put into
the camps and trained and sent wherever
they are needed to fight the Germans.
This is the way the House, in part,
yiewed the new registration law. The
speaker was Mr.. Mckenzie, of Illinois,
who asked consent to address the House.
Mr.. Mckenzie was the author of an
which would leave the boys
# nineteen and eighteen years to be
allied after all men Of other ages had
,een called:
want to say in passing that ar, for
he 100000 army l never did believe
hat It was good policy to try to bore a
wo-inch auger hole with a gmlet am
or the big army. Why the shortage of
nen? We registered between ten and
leven million men between the ages of 7
wenty-one and thirty-one in this country.
hey were classified under regulations pre-
cribed by the President Of the United