Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-12
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COAST TO COAST
Message of Dr.. Scherer, Field Agent of National De
fence Council

way of things.
1.-THE object of the Council of
Defense is to mobolize all the re-
sources of the nation for the win
ming OF the War. But it has a more
far-reaching purpose than that.
Reconstruction is the most igno-
mlnious chapter in our history.
We know that it is just as incum-
bent to mobolize to prepare for
peace, as it is to mobolize to win
the war. These strong, non-poli-
tical bodies should be continued
after the war to touch up the poll
ticians and truly represent the
people.
'In North Carolina, | am proud
to say they have used their brains
to some purpose. They have even
modified the doctor, so that along
with his other medicine as he
travels to the remote districts he
inoculates his patients with a
brand of patriotism. The response
is magnificent; there is heroic
work everywhere. By an arrange
ment with the telephone company
three minute talks are given by a
woman at the telephone exchange,
giving the latest government re-
ports that may be of help to the
farmer, or of inspiration to every
one. Everybody in North Carolina
knows that if they take down the
receiver at a certain time they may
hear this information.
81 should like to take this Ger
man spy up north with me to New
England, where they use their
brains. There they haven't the
land to live off of, it is poor, you
see the ribs sticking through
everywhere. They have been fore
ed to use their brains. In Con-
necticutt they have developed a
system that would tremendously
help Delaware. A committee up
there found that there were many
motor trucks idle part of the time.
They consulted the owners and
now in the time they were formerly
unused they constitute a rural eX-
press, m ing transportation
charges lower, and relieving the
congestion of freight. The publ
city system of the state has erected
bulletin boards at the entrance to
the towns and villages upon which
are posted the honor roll for the
community. This keeps the patrio-
tic fervor of everyone at blood
heat, and assures a patriotic re-
spouse everywhere.
"We've all heard of the Pan
German scheme. What | fear more
than anything else, more than that
the allied line may be broker-that
is bent at times but unbroken, it
is bloody but unbowed-what |
fear so much that it wakes me at
night, is a movement for an in
glorious and yellow peace. (There
were shouts here of No, No. from
the audience). There will come
day when Germany will propose to
give back Belgium and restore it;
when she will be willing to give
back Alsace Lorraine; to give back
everything except her eastern pos
sessions. Then there may be many
who will cry for peace. But if we
yield we shall be the champion
yellow dogs of history. We must
fight it out to the finish to spare
our sons a greater war. In Con-
necticut they have a publicity sys-
tenn that enables anyone at a
glance to realize just what this
German scheme is. They have
posted on their bulletin boards
that poster the German Blot
thousands of which have been is
sued by our government.
I'D like to take that German spy
to Missouri, with its spreading
wheat and corn tlelds. In MISSOURI
they have produced ten percent
more food than ever before. They
have planted 100000 acres in corn
that were never in anything be-
fore. In New Mexico, one of the
poorest states as far as natural re-
sources are concerned, they have
appropriated S75O,oo0 for their
Council of Defense. California
with all it's immense wealth, has
only appropriated 100000. | felt
ashamed of California, my home
state, and began to search for the
reason for these comparative fig
ures. Then | remembered the Zim-
norman case, when Count Won
Bernstorff, while still enjoying the
friendship of our government, tried