The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-14
GEN. LORD IN PLEA
 FOR REGULAR ARMY
He Arouses Enthusiasm of Boot and Shoe Men-CIub Urges Congress to Continue
 Centralized Financial Policy.

Boston, Nov. IA heartfelt plea for the "dependable'' Regular Army of the United States, for a keener popular appreciation of its marvellous accomplishments in the recent war and for the granting of some measure of the consIdera ton which is it's due at the hands of both the government and the people of this country. was made by Brig.-Gen. H. M. Lord, di rector of finance of the United States army, in an address Tuesday evening at the Army Night dinner of the Boston Boot and Shoe Club in the Copley-PIaza.
 '"When the war began" declared General Lord, "our army was a, pitia ble, contemptible little thing - and mainly through your neglect, through the neglect of the people as whole. It is unfair to lay the blame at the door of Congress. for neglect of the American people is the real cause of the trouble.
 Our Army ''Veritable David.'' Our army was sent across, as a veritable David to a Goliath-and as a slingless David, too-to meet the greatest military machine that the world has ever seen. But our army l through all those long years of neg i lect, had never allowed it's spirit {, 1 die and it had planned through al 1 that time how to meet the emergenc- 1 that was bound some day to come i And it forged that wonderful f1ghtin machine, which finally beat the Ger l man giant to it's knees and made l beg for mercy.
 ! You are glad, then,"' continued 1 General Lord, that you had thas machine. But now, Instead of con i gratuIations, all that we of the arm. 1 get is kicks, and instead of commen | dation we get condemnation. It seem 1 to the army of today that, instead 1 participating in a glorious victory Y
 must have taken part in some ignc 1 minious defeat. Since the end of th
 war more than 2,000 regular army O. 1 fcers have resigned thefr commissions 1 and gone into other fields of en- 1 detvor, so discourage had they be-
 come at the utter lack of considera-
 tion which was being shown to the | army.
 T want to make an appeal for the dependable Regular Army declared 1 the general, in conclusion, flor the army that knows no policy but the policy of the government, whose | motto is loyalty and obedience an6 | which Is the unquestionad champion 1 of law and order!'
 How Army Solved Problems. General Lords words aroused z tremendous burst of enthusiasm iron the 150 members of the club. EarlieI in his speech he explained something of the financial problems which the 1 army was obliged to meet in the wa and how they were solved by the con solidation of authority which hal ! formerly been scattered.
 His own appointment as director 0 army finance, he explained, marked
 the first time in the history of thi | country when all the funds of tn
 War Department were place unde a single control. Such asconsolidatic1
 of authority was rendered essential he said, by the complex and deviou
 nature of the financial problems aris ing from the war and has saved tn
 government many millions of dollars The Boot and Shoe Club passed , unanimous resolution recommend+nr 1T 1 to Congress the enactment of 1egisIa ton which will perpetuate the pres
 entent financial system of the arm. thority-and establish it as a sepa , i rate bureau of the War Department Magnus W. Alexander managin director of the National Industria 1 Conference Board. delivered an ad
 dress upon "Our Industrial Problem.
 during which he outlined the histor B of the recent industrial conference a Washington.