The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-07

which the war department found it
self at the outbreak of the war upon
congress.
One by one he took up the charges
made by the Oregon senator and by
quoting from Secretary Bakers testi-
mony and from other official records
sought to refute them.
Almost at the very time Won Bertl-
ing had appointed to state his terms a
time when internal doubt and dis
tress reaching out for peace were
threatening to topple thrones and to
Danish dynasues, Mr.. Chamberlain
without warning of any description
projects this astounding statement on
the government of his country.
"The military establishment" he
said, was a myth--it was non-exis-
tent! That's what Reventlow and Tir-
pitt had been teaching. That's the
doctrine with which scornful masters
of the German people had been solac-
ing their discomfort and quieting their
fears of disaster
How obliged to Mr. Chamberlain
and his kindred spirits will be the
kaiser for thus public confirming his
estimate of American willingness and
American capacity to fight for Ameri-
can freedom. BY this speech declin-
ing morale of German citizen and SOL
der will be retrieved Who can fore
tell the sequel of this? Thousands OF
American boys who might have es-
capped may be manned in battle;
other thousands who might have sur
vived may find their last resting place
in the plains of Flanders"
The first of Chamberlain's charges
taken up by Glass was that France
had to supply American troops with
guns and ammunition. This was
fact, he added But what members
of congress does not very definitely
know, he asked, that France is fur
nishing the American army with guns,
not because we sought to deDlete her
'meager stores but because her chos-
en- ambassadors asked the privilege
of arming our expeditionary force
from her over supply arsenals"
He revealed that Marshal Joffre had
warned against the folly of hurried
ly attempting to throw into France an
army of unframed and INFESTED Am
erican troops" Joffre suggested that
but one division of the best trained |
France for its moral effect.
when ii was suggested to Joffre |
that we had no immediate equipment" /
he said "it was promptly replied that |
France had an over abundance"
as it because of ignorance of these |
facts Chamberlain sought to have the |
country believe the military estab-
lishment was myth" Glass demand |
ed. 81 hope it is ignorance because
l would not like to believe that any
adversary of the government is NAL
evolent enough perversely to employ
the sympathy for France in an as
sault on the American government"
Glass staunchly defended General
Crozier in his conduct of the affairs
of the ordnance department. AS for
the machine gun controversy he said
there was abundant proof that Croz-
Ter was justified in rejecting the Lew
is and selecting the Browning gun for
use abroad. General Pershing, he as
serted, he sent word that the Lewis
gun could not be used on his front
for land fighting
The American army, Glass insisted,
has the best rifle in the world. Glass
challenged the assertion that "any
half witted American could have fore
told our entrance into the war" He
pointed out that Woodrow Wilson was
reelected because he had been wise
and brave enough to keep us out
of war and could confidently be relied
upon to do all that any mortal could
reasonably expect to avert that ter
rihle affliction. For this reason he
said the ordnance bureau could not