The sun., 1919-10-18
GEN. WOOD SOUNDS
ANARCHY WARNING
Woman's Roosevelt Memorial
Association Urged to Aid
AmericanizatiOn.
S81,25O Is ADDED TO FUND
Musicians Union Is Kissed for
Not Letting U. s. Army Band
Play at Meeting.

The woman's Roosevelt Memorial AS
ISOLATION raised ss1,2b0 at a meeting at
Carnegie Hall last night, making total
of more than s1o5.00o gathered 30 far
toward the $1,000.000 needed to restore
the house at 28 East Twentieth street,
where Theodore Roosevelt was born, and
maintain 1t as a memorial to MIN.
Rough Riders from Col. Roosevelt's own
regiment sat on the stage. and Major
Gen. Leonard Wood, his old friend and
fellow officer, talked of his beliefs and
ideals In q manner exceedingly impress
sive from its soldierly directness and
simplicity. From these recollections
Gen. Wood turned to a warning against
the forces Of anarchy which threaten
order to-day, a warning Of considerable
interest seeing that the General i5 fresh
from quelling the radicals at Gary. Ill.
Theodore Roosevelt" said the
speaker, believed in one loyalty, 10y
atty to the people of the United States
and he stated openly that there was no
room In this country for the red flag.
There is no room here for the red flag.
Kill II as you would kill a rattlesnake.
and smash those who follow II, those
who are against everything that stands
for the home and for the institutions OF
the land. This Is a time for frank talk.
Events call for frank talk against those
who plan treason"
Gen. Wood said 1t had been Roose-
velt's great wish. and It was his, that
the Organisations which were formed
/ to do war work and which did such
effective work in the defence of the
country and the aid of our Allies,
should be continued to cope with the
forces OF disorder.
zone years hard work." he said.
1 would go far to wipe out the conditions
| which now rather threaten U.S." The
speaker appealed especially to the
women.
More Work for Women to Do.
you always had more influence than
men, because yoN had the training OF
your children" he said. land now your
power Is doubled. because you have the
vote Use 1t, concentrate on the prob
lens of to-day-and more-make your
men vote. One great trouble is that the
good elements are often indifferent about
voting. while the disorderly dom
fail to go TO the polls
You women did your part in the war.
You sent good clean men to battle. You
did magnificently Now the war is over,
but problems large and serious remain
to be met Bring to them the same
enthusia SIN which made US successful on
the other side. The foreign born must
be Americanized, and so far the Ameri-
canzation has been very superficial.
You can't conduct Americanization SIM
ply by parades and playing the national
anthem, and you can't do It in your
up town houses. Go down to the slums.
| You have work for the country to do
there.
I'VE are going to maintain this Gov
ernypeDf nv Americana nnHer the Con-
stitution."
Teachers, Gen. Wood said, were
| frightfully underpaid. and that was an
other element of danger. 1T Is danger
| GUS to have discontented men and
| women teaching our boys and girls, and
how can they help becoming dissatisfied
when a country teacher Is paid less than
| a chauffeur. and when college professors
get less than mechanics7 II Is a serious
| situation. and We can't trifie with It.
| The war took many of the best men
out of the colleges, and many won't
go back, because they can do 30 much
better for themselves in other lines
Human Element Makes Leaders.
Gen. Wood spoke affectionately OF the
| wonderful element In Theodore Roose-
| welt. only the other day, in one OF
| the Western states" he said. "an engi-
| neer on the train showed me his GER
| tificate Of membership in the Progress
| sive Party In 1912. Col. Roosevelt gave
| that to me- he said, and shall always
| carry 1t. No hand was too greasy for
| the Colonel to shake 1t Is the human
element. which Theodore Roosevelt had,
| that makes great leaders. When men
come back from war bitter and discon-
tented, II Isn't because OF hard word or
| deprivations. 1t is because the human
element was lacking in their officers. 1t
| is the human element such as Theodore
| Roosevelt's that is needed in the Army.
| in the Navy. In commerce
Theodore Roosevelt was denied the
opportunity to lead troops in the war,
but he Immediately turned his energy
| to the support of the Government There
| was no petty holding back on his part.
His sons went with his blessing And
you know how completely party lines
| were wiped out in the war and how the
| parties stood shoulder to shoulder from
| first to last. And there was no nrmer
| advocate OF preparedness than Theodore
Roosevelt-although he hated war, hated
It as l hate II. The soldier, the sailor
and the marine like war about as well
as the surgeon likes to be operated on.
They know what 1t means"
Mrs. John Henry Hammond presided
over the meeting. There was one discor-
dant note-the absence through compul-
| sion of the Twenty-second United States
Infantry Band. which was to have
| played Mrs. Frederick Nathan an
nounced that late in the afternoon the
president OF the Musicians Union tele-
| phoned that the union objected to having
the military band play, as It was COM
mercial meeting and It would constitute
unfair competition to professional paid
bands" A storm of Kisses from the au-
dience greeted Mrs. Nathan's words.
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