The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-02-08
National Defense News.
BY LILY LIKES ROWE

The frat gun in the campaign for
patriotic education in Prince George g
County by the women section OF the
Council of Defense will be fired on Sat
urday evening, February 9, into an
audience of patriots to be assembled in
the Episcopal Parish House of Hyatts-
Vile. Professor Bomberger of the Ex-
tension Service of the Maryland State
College will be the first speaker of the
schedule of lectures which will 20 into
April and his topic will be President
Wilson's now famous docum that the
"world must be made safe for Democ-
racy".
The keynotes of the addresses have
been selected az being most pertinent
to the questions arising in the public
mind at this time. They are the closest
approach to the open forum of public
thought that the Council has yet effect
ed and it is expected that such address
es will contine throughout the duration
of the war. to prepare the people gen
orally for patriotic understanding and
sympathy. 1t is a we'll known condition
that the most highly trained intelli
genee gives the greatest service. to the
state and to the individual, hence the
more rapidly Prince Georges County
becomes educated to the causes and
drifts of the present world wsr, the
less drastic will need be the laws i'm
posed for successful and efficient sup
port from the homes of this section.
In democracy such as America as
pires to be, the achievement of its
ideals depends on every man and
woman striving to live up to the best
interest of the State, voluntarily.
What the Council hopes to do is to help
each citizen of the county come to
clearer realization of what constitutes
his and her patriotic duty.
In monarchies such as America has
to fighting, results are schieved by the
enforcement of laws MAZE by an exclus
i've class of men whose interests are
not for the state but themselves.
Herbert Hoover has said that the only
police power to enforce the Food Con
servation laws is the woman in the in
dividual kitchens of the American
homes. Germany would have such
laws enforced by an insolent military
official allotted 80 many kitchens as his
territory. 1t is hardly necessary to
point which is the better method and
why American men are willing to die
that the democratic state of the pres
ent day America may be the heritage
of their children. Such state how
ever incurs the responsibility of think
ing of the part of each man and wom-
an, to induce thought of the right kind
and along the right line is another pur-
pose of the Council in holding these
lectures. Propaganda of German
origin is too liable to have innocent
Prince Georges assistants in the per-
sons of credulous people who do not
mean to be disloyal in repeating rumors
but who have not thought deeply and
intelligently enough about the matter
in circulation to demand its refutation.
70 create public sentiment against
the dislo val utterances and premature
peace, to mould public thought into
far seeing vision of saved America
and to make a county 10 patriotic that
it turns a frowning countenance upon
the man or woman not giving personal
service in some form for his or her
country is the gigantic task undertaken
by the women of the Council. Unless
every person aids this move in every
way possible by attending the lectures
if humanity available and talking of
them among their neighbors, the drive
| will fall short of its aim.