The sun., 1919-04-02
VETERANS CALLED :.
FOE OF BOLSHEVISM
Returning Soldiers the Best
Friends Of Law and Order,
Organ Says.
APPEAL MADE FOR WORK
Bring J0bless Man and Man.
less Job Together, Little
ton Tells Merchants.

The returning soldiers OF the A. p F.
will be the best bulwark this country
can have against Bolshevism. Major
Gen. Organ OF the Twenty seventh told
the Merchants Association yesterday at
their luncheon in the Hotel Astor.
These soldiers have learned the neces-
sity for law and order, and will have
keen eye for what Martin w. Littleton
later described as the difference between
rule OF the mob and rule OF the people.
THE men Of my division are better
Americans now than they ever hoped
they could be before this war" said the
General. They are not excitable, they
arc not emotional, they are not enthus-
iastic. but they are tremendously de-
pendable. They are men who know and
appreciate certain fundamental things
which educated men know. and which
they know partly by observation and
partly by experience, and these things
are the necessity for law and order.
They know that when men work to-
gether in a common enterprise for the
common good. they are entitled. each
man. to have his own point OF view !;
but that when action commences, all the
points Of view must be coordinated for
the common good under authorized lead
ership. These men have experienced
victory, due very largely to morale. dis
cipline and coordinated effort under
leadership. They have followed q re-
treating army and have observed parts
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man was a law unto himself, and they
know what that means. Nobody can
fool these men on that subject"
Affection for British.
Gen. Organ said although many rea-
sons have been given for the soldiers
going abroad, they went with two main
ideas, the desire for adventure and Tight
ing, and the instructive feeling, bred OF
their school training, that they were to
pay back a debt they owed to France.
They expected and hoped to be with the
French army and when they found they
were going to be with tho British they
were a bit disappointed at first, but
ended by having high regard and even
affection for their English comrades. He
told OF the many German names there
were in his division. which prompted
Col William Hayward Of the Fifteenth.
when he rose. to tell story.
"One day when one of our first SER
geants was standing at the right Of a
company in line. and had given the COM
mand Right Dress which was being
slowly complied with, ne looked down
the line and began to call out the names
of the various soldiers who had not
dressed UP 10 the line. He called them
by name. George Washington, Andrew
Of you Presidential reprobates. dress to
the right"
Both William c. Breed of the Mer-
chants Association and Martin Littleton
asked the business men present to do all
they can to help the returning soldier
get work.
"It will take time to absorb and re-
place and restore and adjust these men
as they come back into our lives and the
lives of the nation, but the fact that they
come back and take up new pursuits"
said Mr.. Llttleton. pursue new ways,
choose new occupations will mean more
for the fibre and the strength of our
civilization than any other single thing
that has taken place in the history OF
the American people.
III we now bring together the tobless
man and the manless Job in this country,
so that they will have forward looking
ambitious programme ahead of them
these men will come back to this coun-
try to be the Anal answer 10 what Cen
Organ suggested was In the thoughts
of most men
Il do believe that we have to front
to-day the war between the mob and the
people. IT Is not a war between the peo-
pie and the privileged classes. 1t Is
var that traduced one stage OF the law.
q xIva- hntu 10 ~. Il, -
the mob and the free democracy and
constitutional government Of free peo-
pie.
The Final Answer.
"The only answer Is found IN the
Ideals of n constitutional republic. for
which these men fought and to which
these boys are returning. And they shall
make the answer final.
And II we at home have been lulled
into some kind OF security that seeks to
preach paciflsm and Socialism and COM
munism. that seeks to compromise with
IL. IL we have been lulled into the idea
that constitutional government can ever
strike hands with any OF these plaques
which have infected the world. the
boys that are returning to this coun-
try Will help give the answer, be-
cause they have seen with their ewes
they felt in their sensations. they have
experienced the terror and fear and tho
agony of war and have known the an
guish OF suffering. They know what 1t
means when absolutism is turned loose
in the world. I claim. my friends, that
we are not bold enough in the defence OF
our own Government"
Mr.. Breed said that he hoped a per-
manent memorial In the form of n tri-
nIa1
ism of the soldiers. but the practical Ap-
plication OF this meeting centres about
the returning soldier. Our first duty IL
TO them and their future 1t would fail
TO strike the keynote II we did not turn
to you employers in all lines OF industry
and in various professions and again
urge that you should not only restore to
the returning soldier his Job but II pos
slhle. offer him q better lob. because In