The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1918-03-06
COUNTY DEFENSE COUNCIL
70 Be ORGANIZED HERE
Preliminaries Arranged at Meeting
With Governor Boyle and Party
Last Saturday Evening

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the Council for National Defense Wis
tied Fallon last Saturday in the
course of a tour of the State in the
interest of organizing subsidiary
councils in every county seat.
A large and attentive audience as
embed at the Temple theatre in the
evening TO listen to discussion of
the necessity for a closer and more
intimate cooperation of the people
with the National government in its
prosecution of the war. Attorney A.
L. Haight presided at the meeting
and introduced the speakers.
II. A. Lennon. Director of the
State Council for Defense was the
first speaker and explained the OBJ
jects sought to be accomplished
through the organization which COM
prises as its head six members of the
Cabinet and is now completely or
ganized in every State and county in
the Union with the exception of Ne
yada. Mr.. Lennon stated that the
organization was strictly non-parti-
san in character as was evidenced by
the mixed political affiliations of the
gentlemen composing the party. To
the Council for Defense is delegated
the task of conducting sixty-eight
different departments of war activi-
ties and which includes practically
everything from food conservation to
making contracts for guns and am
munition. In order that the utmost
cooperation of all the people may
prevail, the plan includes working
organization in every State, county
and school district in the country
through which every question touch
ing the conditions may be made
known almost instantly and such
changes or notifications in the regu-
lations may be made that will best
be adapted to the particular situa-
tion ii is made to fit.
Governor Boyle confined his re-
marks to the necessity for such an
organization in order that the full
strength of the Nation may be mobil-
lied and inequalities of the present
system of contributing to the Ma
tional defense more equally distrib-
uted among those best able to bear
the burden. In this connection he
pointed out that heretofore it has
/ been demonstrated that only a mi
nority of the people have taken SER
+ iously the absolute necessity for
more liberal support of the govern
ment and that with a third Liberty
bond issue pending that will prob
ably be double that of the last, ii is
obviously impossible for the State of
Nevada to longer rely upon a small
number as in the past to subscribe
the States apportionment. Hence,
some means must be devised to
reach those who have heretofore re-
sisted all appeals to patriotism and
to see that each and all assume a
just proportion of the burden.
Ex-Governor Oddie spoke interest
ingly on the diffeernt phases of the
war and impressed upon his hearers
the fact that measured in terms of
military accomplishment Germany is
undoubtedly winning the war and
] that in order for the United States
and her allies 70 stop the victorious
onrush Of the Hun, 1t will be neces-
sary for the people of this Nation to
awake from their pleasant but false
dreams of security and throw every
ounce of energy into the task of pro-
yding the sinews of war to back up
our soldiers at the front. AS an IL
lustration of what the Allies must
face within the next few days or
weeks, he instanced that the col
/ lapse of Russia has released so di-
visions from that front which will be
hurled against the French line,
Marching four abreast with their
artillery and camp equipment on mo-
+ tor trucks, this would make NOV
ing line that would reach from New
York to San Francisco, and all this
in addition to the tremendous force
of Germans already on the front in
France. He added that 1t had been
stated that we were sending $4,000
soldiers a week to France, but that
this number would not compensate
for the weekly loss on the English
front alone.
The outstanding speech of the
evening was undoubtedly that OF A,
Grant Miller, who has recently re-
signed from the Socialist party be-
cause of its pacifist stand on the war.
Mr.. Miller, always a forceful and in
teresting speaker, was at his best in
enthusiasm, although somewhat
handicapped by huskiness in voice.
It is impossible to give even an out
! line of his address in a short news
paper article, but suffice II to say
that those who were not present
missed one of the most eloquent and
impassioned pleas ever listened to In
Fallon. With burning words, tipped