Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-09
WOOD APPEALSFOR. RATIONAL ACTION.
 IN UNITED STATES.
Warns American Public Not
 to Let Anything Replace
 Sound Policy of Prepared ness if Peace Is Maintained

NEW YORK, March S.-Major Gen. Leonard Wood in an address today warned the American public not to let anything, whether League of Nations, a Hague tribunal or an inter- national arbitration system replace a policy of sound rational preparedness if the country is to remain in a state of peace.
 The general, who spoke at the opening of the Methodist centenary movement, declared that verbal mes sage, however skilfully applied, will not maintain permanent peace"
 He reiterated his well-known stand for universal military training, as- sertaing that whatever may be said by its opponents there was nothing bad against it."
 Must Encourage Soldiers
 With ''radicalism and wretched, miserable bolshevism stalking through the country" said the army officer some soldiers would offer a fertane field for it's seeds of discontent if 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 every form of encouragement, making them feel they were crusaders in a holy cause. Now they are coming home, having fought in the war which was as much our war as it was .he war Of any country from the day it began.
 Some of these men, wearing the uniform of our country, lack funds, a place to sleep, even food. Some of them have wasted their money; thou- sands have been drugged and robbed. Many of them are unreasonable, irri- table, as a result of shell-shock or 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 Meth Odist faith, to lend their aid to the
 
 dier in need of it.
 Declaring that the red flag" was trying to break up American insti- tutions and the American home. Gen. eral Wood urged for the country 'one flag and one language" advocating that no tonigue but English be taught in the elementary schools. He pleaded for sound teaching of Amer ican history, with no loose boasts of what We are supposed to have done" 1" and favored nationwide recognition of the need of higher salaries for teachers, asserting that the present niggardly pay policy" endangered the future of American citizens whose thought is moulded, by the men and women presiding in our classrooms !"
 In support Of a statement that America will always welcome the foreigner who will assimilate our ideals, the general said it was well to remember the devotion of thou- sands of our soldiers born in other lands" adding that one cannot hut r0e impressed by the large number of names of German origin on the lists of American soldiers dead
 The central department commander described the national army as "a true cross section of the American people, with the bad and weak ele- ments dropped out" What had been accomplished with it, for the soldiers themselves, as well as for the coun, try, poyed, he declaedg the efficacy of a system of universal military train ing.