Arizona republican., 1918-03-29
COUNTY COUNCIL IF DEFENSE |S FORMED; WARREN PETERSON, HEAD
Three Score of Representative Citizens Meet to Form
 Important Auxiliary Organization for War Work in Maricopa-Patriotic Addresses Delivered by Men Who are Striving to Back Up Men at Front in France

Maricopa county has entered into the war, through the organization of a county couneil-of defense. It was started yesterday afternoon in the hall of the Water Users building, after the three score of representa- tive citizens present had heard the gospel of militant democracy eX- pounded by three earnest speakers, all of whom urged efficient organiza- ton, that the enemy be beaten OH his own especial ground.
 The officers of the new council are:
 Chairman, Warren Peterson, chair man of the county board of super visors.
 Secretary, C. M. Scott, superintend- ont of the Arizona Eastern railway lines.
 Treasurer. Charles Woolf, attorney for the Southwest Cotton company.
 There remain to be chosen four members at large. they to fill the chairmanships of the important com- mittees on public defense, welfare service, production and finance. These will be announced at an early date and then will be started campaign of development and utilization of natural resources, on lines of fullest cooperation with the state council on the one side and on the other with community councils that are to bs started in every city, village and school district within the county.
 Similar county councils have been created in almost every other Ari- zona county. on a system here evolved of united action, one that has had commendation from the council of national defense.
 Could Invade Arizona
 The meeting was called by the county board of supervisors. whose chairman, Warren Peterson, presided.
 Professor J. $. r. Tatlock of the Creel committee on public informa- ton, had been hurried from Globe to Phoenix by auto and was the speaker of the day. Within forty minutes, he gave his auditors what might be called a business talk on the indus fry of war making, from point of view hitherto unknown in this city. He brought the war home by sug- gcstion that it is entirely within the bounds of possibility for Arizona to become a second Belgium, were u German army. fresh from European conquest, to enter through Mexico on an invasion of the Pacific coast states. The western ambitions of Germany now are well known. The speaker himself had seen three sets of plans for invasion of the United States. In such contingency therr might be fuller appreciation of the .meaning of German "kultur,' psycho- logically based upon frightfulness.
 The speaker did not minimize the gravity of the present war situation. In Washington, where every other man is in uniform, the present stage is considered serious. though not necessarily desperate. Germany has heeu relieved of the terror of the Russian menace, has access to- great natural storehouses of grains and copper and has been permitted to swing her battalions and cannon over to the western frontier. Even greate; has been the effect upon German morale. which now is fortified by successive victories and immense ac- squisitions of territory.
 Germany Victor Today
 If the war were to stop today, Ger many would be victor. The work that Russia has thrown down must he assumed by us and maintained till the end. a man. sized job that will tax our every resouce. To talk peace now is treason. Peace takers he called "treacherous submarines seeking to torpedo the nations lib critics.
 Though in danger, America still does not appreciate the fact, though she may when the fires of destruction have come nearer. one hundred and fifty million people are acting together di- riccted by Berlin. Here there has been no such unity of action, but there must he if the war is to be won. America must wake up. She must appreciate that it is a peoples war, not one oi capital. as has been said so falsely Jt is war for humanity and individual freedom. as opposed to militarism. II is not impossible that our own nation will have to turn to a similar mill tarism, as her only means for safety in the event the German foe is not crushed in the present struggle. Noth- ing but internal revolution can cure the Germany of today, nation young in years, yet acting on the brutal con- bat theories of fierce ancestors of cen turies ago.
 War Cost ircalculable
 The cost of the war is almost incal- Culable. An average cannon shel costs $30, and millions of them arc fired in n single battle Tho cost foi