The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-20

New York, Jan. 19-The Nat:ona' security League paid tribute here to- day to Senator c. O. Chamberlain. oi oregon, and Representative .mlius Kahn of California, at a luncheon given in their honoy the speakers re- lerrlng to their efforts in congress iu the interest of national defense.
 Elihu Root said:
 It is hard to see how without Sen ator Chamberlain and Representative hahn We could ever have come to that seIectlNe draft based upon theory .ot duty or universal train ng which filled our many lacifists and pro-Cer- mans with double fears but which has been accepted by the people of the country with alacrity and patriotism.
 Senator Chamberlain responding to toas's discussed the military policy o. the United States or as he called the lack c9 military policy" He advo- cated the adoption of universal mil tary training and referring tn the se- ective draft law said
 "I sometimes reger that voldnteer- ing had ever been permitted for the reason that with the loss We sus aimed in the battles where there is a volunteer system as there was in Great Britain, we have a horizontal lJs> taking he young red oloodeu people that volunteer for service and leaving those Who ought to have shared the Ia of their colleagues at the first soma of war.
 On the other hand ruder this sys- tenn We take from the walks of indus trial, commercial and every day lie young men of all classes so tha. there is not this horizontal loss that speak of, but rather a perpendic loss where the nigh and the low the rich and the poor, the professional man and the artisan stand shoulder to shoulder and when losses come the loss falls on every SOC al strata of life
 Representative Kahn denounced the paciticist "The srOng arm O the government" he said. should reach out and ge. those people \ few prompt trials and a few quick hang inss woud prove most salgtJry at this time
 The pacificist the ultra-2acifist, never will want this country to pre- pare, continued Mir Kahn. He is living in the clouds, he takes no les - sons, he learns nothing from the teachings of history Wny they think this is going to be the last war
 Mir. kanu, quoted Shakespeare, a passage from Anthony and Cleopatra in which Octayius eyclsims the time of universal peace is near"
 And that was thirty-one years be- fore Christ was born continued the speaker. and the pacif,st has been talking of univ ersal peace ever since. And in this year 1918 we have the greatest war the world has ever seen
 What mus be our attitude as a nation? Wisdom will teach us that we must get ready to meet every emergency at any time in our couu- trys history. This is the time to write on the statute books a law for universal military training.
 We have been in this war ten months-we are not near ready The senator has told you that we ought tc declare a program. l agree with him We have done nothing of that kind The administration has sent to the two committees on military affairs ahe committee or the senate and com inittee of the whole. bill to amend he draft law SD that every young man who has attained the age o' 2l years since the fifth of June shall be regis tered for service, If l can shape the legislation | shall write it so tha every boy of sixteen and lover up tc twenty-ane shall register
 The phyehology of that alone would be great 1t would pe notice tc the imperial government d Germany that these United States8 intend tt mortgage their man pow,r for sis