El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-29

! paniments The affair Is 10 be- an
open air entertainment, and the pup
| lie is invited
( put q gallant little army on the other
side, but il was very small army
/ and entirelv uneQuiDped for modern
AFTER IL months this great and
wealthy nation has only been able
70 put IN the field an army less
numerous than poor, wrecked
Belgium or ruined Serria has In
the field, an army but little more
numerous than Portugal has sent
to the front,
that army abroad absolutely IN
equipped with the special weapons or
modern warfare. No army can take
the field nowadays without abund-
auce Of field artillery, Of autorifles
and OF airplanes-
other Deficiencies.
"Tet-we have not as yet been able
to put any field guns but as negli-
gihle humber Of auto rifles, not any
airplanes OF our own into action, and
we had only an insufficient number
OF rifles and Of heavy siege or fortress
harupressed allies, from the war worn
nations. to whose help we nomlnally
came, weapons with which we could
fight our own battles
Incompetence Partly to Blame
"Our failure has been due in part 70
grave Incompetence since Germany
forced Us into war But primarily i
prepare Our first business now Is
to put through the war. and therefore
10 speed up the war. Make our e1-
fort in ships, men. guns. airplanes
telI aoroad a the earllesI possl9ls
moment Let US realize the grim
truth that unless our men now fight
triumphantly beside our allies, some
day OF other we shah have 10 right
at home despairingly and without al
lies. Our resources are so immense
that II the end we shall begin TO
count in spite OF all our governmental
short cOmings; but as long as We
think Of the war as 5000 miles away.
and as long as some OF the most iu-
porlant divisions Of the executive
branch Of the government continue
almost chemically pure Of efficient or
ganiZarlon. or strength VIII be eE-
erted at g terrible disadvantage War
is won by brains and steel, not by
kid gloves and fine phrases.
aIset as begin TO do our fmme-
date duty by both apeeding up
the WIZ and making ready the
ships and the men necessary 10
win no matter how long the war
takes Let the ships be built by
working uiEHt and day, three
shifts In the - hours. Let Us
prenare for three Year, war
and begin now 10 make ready an
army Of 100000 men.
our next duty, duty the perform
ance Of which should begin at this
moment is 70 introduce the policy Of
permanent prepareduess-
Allow No PronteerinE.
In this war no pro1ireering should
be allowed Il should not be stopped,
however. by hampering production
Production should be encouraged in
every way. But the excess profits
should be taxed on a heavily lucrsas-
ing scale.
The government at Washington
has wholly failed 70 DO its duty ia
connection with labor, and g is 20
this failure that large part OF the
calamirous hreakcoWns IN the ship
ping program IS due. To say that we
describe disaster in the terms OF an
accident It is now apparent thar
the promise made q year ago as 10
the shipbuilding program VIII not be
more than q third fulfilled.
New Methods. Old Spirit.
The men under Pershing reflect
honor on this republic precisely be- {
cause they have those qualities Of I
courage hardiho0d. resOurcetulness I
and energy which were possessed BY Z
Stonewau Jackson, By the men who Z
followed Mad Anthony Wayne rEd 4
Light Horse Harry Lee So il is with 4
the great and complex machinery CT Z
our industrial and social life. The /
simple governmental processes " hich /
sufGced in the days Of Washington I
and even in the days OF Lincoln, are !
as utterly Inadequate today in peace ]
as the flintlock muskets Of Bunker I
Hil and the smoothhore muskets Of I
Bull Run would be IN war. We can T
not afford to tolerate flintlock meth /
DDS Of warfare in time Of war. or
linlock methods Of government for i
meeting the problems Of industry IN /
tine OF peace We need new weapons. I
But we need the old spirit back Of I
the new weapons We need to show /
the same combination Of idealism and Z
OF hard headed common sense, Of in ]
dignauon against wrong and sober I
caution, against being misled into I
foolish action against wrong that our T
fOrefathers have shown IN both the I
great national crises Of the past
People Cheer sfNextD President
DeViating from his prepared speech /
Col Theodore Roosevelt paid his re-
spects to the German-American al /
lance.
IF congress does its duty" he said I
1T VIII revoke the charter Of that i
organization and make a provision I
that membership IN Il constitutes I
treason against this country"
When he was introduced. one of
the Knox county delegates called for
three cheers for the next president Of Z
the United States, which were given
while the audience stood