Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-02
sTArE DEFENCE COUNCIL sEcRE-
rARY FINDS ENEMIES OF
OTHER BREEDs.
MErcALF TELLS WHY
COUNCILS ARE NEEDED
Main Purpose 10 to Organize States
Resources, Both in Men and Materials,
% Help Win War-Grsat Task Has
Been TO Make People Realize We Are
at War-ssvsral Ways to Fight.
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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines Jan. I'm an address
before the Des Moines Advertising
Mems Club ct the Chamber Of Com
merce today II. J. Metcalf, secretary
of the state council Of defense pointed
out that the main purpose Of the en-
tire organization, both state and coun-
ty councils In Iowa, Is to organize the
resources Of the state in men and ma
terial on a war basis.
'The demands, on the states re-
sources, agencies and institutions will
become greater day by day." he said,
land II these demands are to be met
it is absolutely necessary to organize
and prepare for the Forthcoming strug-
gle, in fact delegate to the state de-
tense council power effectually to do
the work.
1.-THE time has long since gone by
for any discussion Of reasons why and
the supreme purpose of the Iowa state
council Of national defense is to carry
out every wish. directions and order
of the national council of defense, the
war department and the president to
the end that the federal government
receive from no state a support more
enthusiastic. more intensive or more
loyal than that which fomes from Iowa.
The county councils must and will
move to that end"
He declared that the state council
Of national defense in Iowa has the
loyal support Of every Iowa patriot
but that it's greatest task has been to
make the people realize that we are
actually at war.
And that task has not yet been ac-
complished,' he added. 1.-THE spirit is
lacking. Not the spirit Of giving and
doing but the spirit which makes a
man want to give until it hurts him, a
spirit which, as Governor Harding puts
it gets people to fighting in their
minds as our boys are fighting in the
trenches
I'VE haven't that spirit yet in Iowa.
often wonder whether it is going to
take a list Of fatalities from over seas
to awaken U.s."
Pro- Germans Not All Germans.
Secretary Metcalf declared there are
great many pro- Germans in Iowa and
they are not all Of German extraction
either.
I'm fact, it has been proved that the
most dangerous man we have among
us today is the American born pro-
German he said This man is shrewd
and crafty In his work. He buys a
liberty bond, contributes a few dollars
to the Red Crosse and poses as pa
triot. His work IN secretive and in
sidious. He does not preach his rot
ten propaganda from the public plat
form or the street corner but sneaks
about the home and takes a crack at
the Red Cross, liberty loan and such
other matters as may tend to stir up
discomfort and uneasiness at the fam
lily fireside. He plants the seed of dis
loyalty IN the mothers heart; he is the
instrument by which the father speaks
his discomfort over the consumption
act: he Is worse by far than the pro.
German agitator, for we are guarded
against this class Of traitors but not so
the bad American.
It's high time that Iowa awakened
to the true situation. Let's stamp out
for all time the scandal monger, the
circulator Of gossip harmful to the Red
Cross. liberty loan and other war
measures and campaigns"