New-York tribune., 1918-07-09

three front rows, whore sat $50 men,
the fruit of the first days recruiting.
"1f we can't win this war with a
craft ago of thiruy-onc years, we'll
raise it to sixty-onc," said Secretary
Daniels. "Thc draft law was passed
to give working basis upon which to
select an army. 1t has worked well
and we have raised an enormous army
and We can raise larger one by the
terms of that law. If the men under
thirty-one cannot win this war there
is no law Of the Medos and Persians
by which we cannot raise the age
limit.
Defines Slaclters
Besides this we have the voluntary
selectivc draft for men over military
age, who are serving their country just
as truly as the boys in khaki. The man
be he fifty or siXty-who isn't con-
tributing everything he can to win this
war, is just as much a Stacker as the
man Of thirty who seeks to avoid mill
tary service. They are the men on the
home firing line, the men in industry,
the men who are keeping American
spirit at the white heat of patriotism
"This is the first war in which we
have learned that if man is to shoot
straight he must also live straight.
The government. therefore, is throwing
every possible safeguard around the
lives of the young men OF the expedi-
tionary force and in the training camps
here. We know that more mothers in
this country are afraid that their boys
will come back moral wrecks than vic
Tins of German bullets.
"The first organization that recog-
nized this. and threw all the weight of
its inhuencc behind this policy was
the Young Mems Christian Association.
No other agency in the world is com
parable to it."
cts service is known all over the
world. for its aggressive helpfulness
wherever there is opportunity to serve.
Never was a greater opportunity pre-
scented, and never has any organization
met the challenge that opportunity Of
fered more nobly than in the response
this organization has made since April
6, 1917.
There is no place in this organiza-
ton for the man who wants a trip, who
wants to see the sights. 1t is a place
for virile manhood. for militant Chris
tianity, for men who know that SOL
diers in barracks amt no plaster
saints" '"
Secretary Daniels won the hearts of
thirty sailor musicians from the Pei
ham Bay naval training school when
he brought the audience to its feet
again to salute them
Then Secretary Daniels turned the
laugh on the proud, blushing musicians
by saying:
"Lcst these particular boys think all
that applause was meant for them, will
hasten to say that there are 100000
just like them in the navy. 7 had the
privilege last Thursday of looking into
the faces of thousands of them-boys
who had given up all the ordinary hopes
of boyhood, of careers and ambitions,
and all the chivalrous dreams of young
manhood, and had responded to their
country's call by putting their lives in
jeopardy. They found they only want-
cd one thing, and that is, they all
wanted to go on the ships that were
going Immediately to France. And they
preferred to go on the destroyers, be-
cause they are seeking their duty in
the place of danger
"But we cannot build destroyers fast
enough for all Of them, although we
are building them pretty fast, and we
are going to continue to build them TO
the full limit of the resources Of
America, SO that no German submarine
will dare show it's face on the seas
While the great audience waited for
the Secretary of the Navy, an address
was made by Fred B. Smith, former
Young Mems Christian Association
man. who has Just returned from q
visit to France.
"The Germans have not yet begun
their last drive" he said "Their clev-
crest hand in spy work has not yet been
shown. That greatest drive will be, not
through France, but down through this
country. crying for an untimely peace.
When that hour comes, God give this
nation iron in its blood.
Sees Peace Move
~ should not be surprised to hear
within thirty days that Germany had
offered to indemnify Belgium for every
dollar that has been stolen. I should