The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-28
USE WOMEN ALSO
Register Them for Industrial
Training, Col. Roosevelt Says.
Make Universal Service Perma-
nent in Peace and War.
We MUST GIVE ALL MONEY
Government Has Right To De-
mand Fund From People.
Likewise, We Have Right To
Know Just Where 1t Goes.

Baltimore, Md, Sept. 2S.-Registra-
ton of young women as well as men
for Industrial training in peace times
as we'll as in war times was urged by
Col. Theodore Roosevelt in a speech
here today opening the fourth liberty
loan campaign.
I'VE now have an approach to the
universal service which some of us
have for years been demanding"
Colonel Roosevelt said. 1--WE now have
all men from Is to A. required to
serve their country and required to
register. Let us make this system
permanent and let us use it for the
purposes of peace no less than for the
purposes of war.
Let us extend the principles to
women no less than to men. Let us
have suffrage on service. Let US de-
mand the service from women as we
do from men, and in return give the
suffrage to all men and women who in
peace and war perform the service,
and to no others"
Register Young Women.
Colonel Roosevelt declared young
women should be registered just as
men are, Il would give them BOTH
he declared, certain fundamental
forms of industrial training training
in the things that are fund mental in
the ordinary work of the ordinary man
and woman in their business occupa-
in the things which it is good for every
man and woman to know.
LET there be better proportion
than is now the case in industrial life
between the service rendered and the
reward given. Gradually I hope to
see the wage-workers become in real
sense a partner in the enterprise in
which he works and to achieve this
end he must develop the power OF
seIf-control, the power of recognizing
the rights of others no less than in
sisting upon his own"
Stop Profiteering.
Touching on some of the things
that we should do at once in connec-
ton with the war" Colonel Roosevelt
declared one Of the first should be to
stop all profiteering by capitalists and
all Stacking and loafing. whether by
individual action or as result OF
union action" The colonel declared
he had "scant patience with the men
who treat the war merely as a chance
for profit, and least patience with the
rich men who keep their sons at
home"
The profiteer, he declared, should
be put to digging first line trenches,
and Ibis brother in wrongdoing, the
Stacker or loafer," should be put be-
side him. e ar
Colonel Roosevelt said he would
keep Just as far from Bolshevism as
from kaiserism.
In this country, he said, the Ger
manized Socialists have shown them
selves as enemies of the republic, and
should not be permitted to be at large
while the republic is at death grips
with a foreign foe.
Duty to Provide Money.
Colonel Roosevelt asserted it is the
duty of the government to demand all
the money it needs for the war and
the duty of every citizen to provide
the money, either thru bonds or taxes.
1T is also our business" he declared,
ito see that every official actually,
does his duty and that of the money
appropriated every dollar spent repre-
sentss 90 cents worth of service tc
the army and the public. 1t is our
clear duty to send men to congress
who will take this attitude.
There must be no skimping, no
niggardliness. Our representatives
must give the executive officers all the
assistance, all the money that is nee
sary. But it is their clear duty to in
vesdgate and supervise and see that
the money is well and wisely spent,
ana that from now on our men who
. tight at the front are backed with the
airplanes and the field cannon and the
tanks and the machine guns for which
we have paid
Shoot Hun Spies.
The colonel also advocated more se-
we're action against German and pro-
German traitors. saying, every man
who has the slightest feeling in favor
of Germany should be informed or
sent out of the country and if he ia
guilty OF serious disloyalty he should
be shot or hung. Let US go the limit
against every pro-German but save in
the case of spies and traitors and
preachers of sedition, let us insist on
a free press and free speech, for a
Tree press and free. speech are the
foundation stones of self government
by free people,"