Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-20
TRIBUTEPA TO
MILITARY S0l0NS
Security League Praises the
Efforts of Chamber
lain and Kahn.
ROOSEVELT ALSO CoMMeNDS
Universal Training Advocated
More Hangings for Paci-
fists Wanted.

NEW yORk, Jan. is--Tho Ma stlonal
Security league paid tribute hero TO
| Senator George ". Chamberlain OF
Oregon, and Representative Julius
Kahn Of California Rt a luncheon
given In their honor. tho speakers re-
| terring TO their efforts In congress IN
the interests OF national defense.
Elihu Root said:
1T is hard to 500 how, without
Senator thSG Gberlsin and Rcprosen-
tative Kahn we could ever have come
To that nclective draft based upon the
theory OF the duty OF universal train
ing which filled our many pnclfistH
and prU-Germans with dubious fears
hut which has been accepted by tho
people of tho country with alacrity
and patriotism"
Senator Chamberlain. n responding
to toasts, discussed the military policy
of the United States or ~ he called
II, tho lack OF military policy"
Advocates Universal Training.
lilo advocated the adoption OF uni
versal military training and. referring
Ia the selcctiVe draft law. said;
II some times regret that yulun-
teering had ever been permitted. for
with the loes we sustained IN the bat
ties whore there iH n volunteer UyT-
tine as there was In Great Britain,
we have n ,horizontnl loss. taking the
young, red -blooded people that Voiun-
tecr for service and leaving those who
ought To have shared the fate or their
colleagues at the first sound of war.
"On the other hand. under this sys-
tenn we take from the walks OF in-
dustrial, commercial and everyday life
young men OF ali classes, 80 that there
is not this horizontal loss that | speak
~. but rather porpendicular loss,
whore the high and the low, the rich
and the poor. the professional man
and the artisan stand shoulder TO
shoulder. and when. losses come the
Loss falls on every social strata Of
pnclfists Denounced.
Representative Kahn denounced the
pnCifsts.
The strong arm Of the govern
ment" he said should reach out and
get those people. A few prompt trials
and a few quick hangings would prove
most sAlutnry at this time"
''rhe paclfist. the ultra-p -pacifist.
naver will want this country TO pre-
pare continued Mr.. Kahn. ''lic IL
livingybn the clouds, he takes no les
sons, ,|%he learns nothing from tho
teachings OF history. Why. they think
lHlN W Etluk W uf INC lhHl wal
MIR. Kahn here rc-quoted from
Shakespeare n passage frem Anthony
and Cleopatra, In which OctaVius ex-
claims, '"rhe time OF universal peace
ls near"
"And that was 81 years before
Christ was born" continued the
speaker. "and the pacifist has been
talking of universal peace ever since.
And In this year 1913 we have the
greatest war the world has ever seen.
Wisdom Teaches Preparedness.
What must be our attitude 90
nation? Wisdom viii teach, us that
we must get ready 10 meet every
emergency at any time In our coun-
try's history. This is the time TO write
on the statute books a law for uni
ycrsal training.
I'VE have been IN this war ten
months we are not near ready The
senator has told you that we ought
to declare program | agree with
him. We have done nothing OF thst
kind. The administration has sent to
the two committees on military af-
fairs bill TO amend the draft law