Arizona republican., 1919-03-09
WOODPLEADSE0R SOLDIERS WORK
 ALL OVER NATION
Also Says Universal Train ing Is Requirement Of Preparedness Men From Camp Deserve Same Con Sideraton As Those From Overseas - Would Vel come Foreigners.

NEW YORK, March S.-Major Gen eral Leonard Wood, commander of the central department, in the first public address he has made in many months, today warned the American public not to let anything, whether q league of nations, a Hague tribunal or an in- ternational arbitration system, replace policy of sound. rational prepared ness if the country is to remain in a state of peace.
 The general who spoke at the open ing of the Methodist centenary move ment, declared that verbal massage, however skillfully applied, will not maintain permanent peace"
 He reiterated his well known stand for universal military training, as- serting that whatever may be Said by it's opponents there was nothing bad against it.'
 With ''radicalism and wretched, mis- erable bolshevisn stalking through the country" said the army officer some soldiers would offer a fertile field for it's seeds of discontent, fl they were allowed to go home feeling that the country had not been as thoughtful of them as was their due We sent them to our home camps and overseas" he continued, with l every form of encouragement, making | them feel they were crusaders in . ! holy cause. Now they are coming | back home, having fought in tht war which was as much our war ai | it was the war of any country iron i the day it began.
 Are In Pitiable Flights
 Some of these men, wearing thu uniform of our country, lack work ! funds, a place to sleep. even food. Som of them have wasted their money thousands have been drugged ant | robbed. Many of them are unreason
 able, irritable, as a result of shel shock or the constant mental photo
 graph before them of slaughtered hu
 man beings. But they are our sol
 diers and we must return them hon
 orably to private life.'
 The general declared that men dis
 charged from the training camps wer
 entitled to as much consideration a
 those returning from Europe. II
 called upon his audience, composed c
 wealthy businessmen of the Methods
 faith, to lend their aid to the tas
 of providing work for every soldier i
 need of it.
 Declaring that "the red flag Wa !; trying to break up American institu
 tions and the American home, Geners ]; Wood urged for the country ''on , flag and one language" advocatin that no tongue but English be taugf in the elementary schools. He plead l ed for sound teaching of America } history, with no loose boasts of whs
 we are supposed to have done,' an favored nation wide recognition of th need of higher salaries for teacher ? asserting that 'the present niggardl pay policy endangered the future } American citizenship, whose thougl . is moulded by the men and wome presiding in our class rooms.' : Always Welcome Foreigner In support of statement tn; , America twill always welcome tt foreigner who will assimilate ol
 ideals" the general said it was 'we , to remember the devotion of thousand of our soldiers, born in other lands
 adding that "one cannot but be in
 pressed by the large number of nam, of German origin in the lists of Amel , ican soldiers dead'
 The central department command, described the national army as .
 true cross section of the America
 people, with the bad and weak el, ments out" What had been accon
 plished with it, for the soldiers then
 selves as well as for the countr
 proved, he declared, the efficacy of , system of universal military trainin Bishop Luther B. Wilson termed z 'the business of the church" to intere
 itself in affairs of state, to give "car
 full scrutiny to international projec
 such as the league of nations" and A see to it that no man went to al ' country as a representative of il
 United States ''who did not truly re-
 resent the altar and the hearthstone