New Britain herald., 1918-04-26
TALK WITH ENEMY
WASTE OF ENERGY
Speak to Germans With Big Guns,
Understands Advice

Hartford, April 26.-'|There is onlv
one way to negotiate with Germany:
that is with the biggest guns and the
most highly perfected system Of mod
ern warfare,,' said George w. Wicker
sham, formerly attorney general of
the United States, during the course
of an address yesterday afternoon at
conference held by the Connecticut
War Savings committee at the CAPT.
tol for the purpose of raising the
$1,200,000 in Thrift and War Savings
stamps allotted to this state to be sold
in the retail stores before December 81
Of this year.
Negotiated speech with Germany"
said Mr. Wickersham, is as possible
as negotiated speech with the devil.
Even more Impossible, as | am told
that his Satanic Majesty has so.ac
slight signs of the qualifications of u
gentleman. The present is not a time
for the upbuilding of political ma
chlnes. 1t is time to get busy and win
this war. Freedom is at stake Wher-
ever you follow the trail of the Ger
man serpent all that You find is bad
German propaganda ruined Russia
Caesars dream of dominion did not
com pare in magnitude with that of
Germany for the past IS years. 1t is
a glory to the rest of the world that
we failed to take this vision seriously.
How long will we protect ourselves
behind the wall of our allies-France,
England and Italy? How long will it
be before we take the part of a great
world power in this warp
During his remarks Mr. Wicker
sham said that it was time that we
rid ourselves of the mediocre ex-pro-
fessors" at Washington and filed
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business men. He added that he did
not refer to the president in this
statement, then paid a glowing
tribute to the nations chief executive
Mr.. Wickersham began his re-
marks by stating that the war say
ings campaign was organized to offset
the slogan of business as usual"
which was much In evidence at the
beginning Of this war. He continued
business cannot be carried on as
usual in time of war. There must
be 81 readjustment. Business as usual
means waste as usual. Some wise
man then evolved the war savings
plan. The idea of accumulated
wealth had to be changed in Eng
land. Wealth was nothing unless it
was producing something. The war
savings idea was to place the golden
stream Of earned wealth at the dis
posal OF all the people.
when we came to this war year
ago it was thought by four-fif of
our people that the end was near. 1t
was thought that we would be in a.
the finish, have an important part in
the peace negotiations and finish in a
triumphant manner. How different
are our feelings at the present time.
Dr., ~
Trenton is near New York Her ia
vorto targets are the things which
stand for higher object than brute
force. We would like to think that
We had enough men on the other
side so that we might be deciding
factor in the war. We now have as
many men in action as Portugal Or
possibly poor little Belgium. We
must have clearer and bigger vision
of the conflict. We must throw
100000 or 100000 men into the
conflict. and we must have ships to
carry them"
Mr.. Wickersham was introduced
by Governor Holcomb, who in a few
words paid eloquent tribute to the |
war savings campaign and the war |
savings idea.
Howell Cheney, state director Tor |
Connecticut Of the National War Say |
ings committee, presided at the con- |
ference, and made the opening up |
peal. At the conclusion of Mr.. Wick |
ersham's appeal, the session was
taken in charge by Joseph T. Mt
Weeney Of Hartford. state director of |
the retail merchants section Of the |
National War Savings committee. r.
l.. Howe, federal director of that
branch explained the war savings
campaign as applied to the work Of
the average merchant.