The Glenwood post., 1919-03-15
NATION HAS GREAT DUTY

New York, March l2.-MaJof ueAo1A
Leonard Wood, in an address today,
warned the American public not to
Iet anything, whether League Of
Nations, high tribunal or an interna-
tional arbitration system, replace pol
icy of sound rational preparedness II
the country is to remain in state Of
peace"
The general, who spoke at the open
ing of the Methodist Centenary move
ment, declared that "verbal message,
however skilfully applied, will not
maintain a permanent peace"
He reiterated his well known stand
for universal military training, assert
ing that whatever may be said by its
opponents there was "nothing bad
against it,"
With radicalism, and wretched, mis-
cradle Bolshevikism, stalking through
the country" said the army officer,
"some soldiers would offer fertile
field for its seeds of discomfort if they
were allowed to go home feeling that
the country had not been thoughtful of
them.''
awe sent them to our home camps
and overseas" he continued, "with
every form of encouragement, making
them feel they were crusaders in holy
cause. Now they are coming home,
having fought in the war which was as
much our war as it was the war of any
country from the day it began.
"Some of these men, wearing the
uniform of our country, lack work,
funds, place to sleep, even food.
Some of them have wasted their money;
thousands have been drugged and
robbed. Many of them are unreasona-
Bile, irritable, as result of shell shock
Of the constant mental photograph be-
fore them of slaughtered human beings.
But they are our soldiers and we must
return them honorably to private life.
The general declared that men dis
charged from the training camps were
entitled to as much consideration as
those returning from Europe. He called
upon his audience, composed of wealthy
business men Of the Methodist faith, to
lend their aid to the task of providing
work for every soldier in need of it.
Declaring that "the red flag" was
trying to break up American institu-
tions and the American home, General
Wood urged for the country lone flag
and one language" advocating that NO
tongue but English be taught in the
elementary schools. He pleaded for
teaching of American history, with
no loose boasts Of what we are supposed
to have done," and favored nation
wide recognition of the need Of higher
salaries for teachers, asserting that
the present niggardly pay policy"
endangered the future of American cit
izens "whose thought is moulded by
the men and women presiding in our
class rooms.'
In support of the statement that
America "will always welcome the for
eigner who will assimilate our ideals,'
the general said it was "well to re-
member the devotion of thousands of
our soldiers born in other lands" add
ing that cone cannot but be impressed
by the large number of names of Ger
man origin on the lists of American
soldier dead"
The central department commander
described the national army as "a true
cross section of the American people,
with the bad and weak elements
dropped OUT What had been accomp-
lished with it, for the soldiers them
selves as well as for the country, proved,
he declared, that efficiency of a sys-
TEN of universal military training.
Bishop Luther B. Wilson termed it
the business of the church, to inter
est itself in affairs of state, to give
"careful scrutiny to international pre-
jects, such as the League of Nations -
and to see to it that no man went to
any country as n representative of The
United States who did not truly rep.
resent the altar and the hearthstone.