The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01
WAR NOT AT END
 SAYS GEN. WOOD
Describes TaIy That Any Covenant Csa Keep World From It as 'Twid- kle. Twaddle and Dream of
 MoIlycoddles."

Detroit, April 22.--Describing as ~twiddIe. twaddle and a dream of nnollycoddles" talk that any covenant will protect the world from future war, Major Gen. Leonard Wood told men of the United States army gen. eral hospital No. 36. this afternoon, in fhe language they knew, that "if America wants peace she must al- ways be ready to fight for il"
 No allied nation, outside of France, General Wood declared, was prepared for hostilities in 1914.
 "The pacifsts, moreover" he said, ~tell you lies when they say that war, as an institution, is dead. Don't lis- ten to the mollycoddles. Be citizen of common sense. The world is tired of war only for the time being.
 A Lesson in Unpreparedness.
 aThis war has simply been lesson. War will go on. The lesson is that we may not always have somebody to hold the line while we get ready, and that, since war is unreasonable, when rye go in again we must be ready to go in quickly"
 than ever. They have got to be looked nfter and placed.
 General Wood briefly stated the program of reconstruction. ''This work is to be carried out very fully and very carefully" he promised. "Our country sent it's men away with every kind of encouragement. The public has got to understand that having gone where they were sent and having done the work they were ordered to do, the same men are finer
 sWe looked with good deal of suc- picion, too, on those who lived with us and yet had the blood strains of the enemy It was worth the whole cost of the war that we have proved indi- visible. You have but to read the list of the dead to see they were all straight Americans. We had in our army Jugo- Slavs, Greeks, Serbians. men who were Germans by extraction, Bulgarians. Let us not forget they were all Americans when the trans ports stood out to sea-
 Must Work Together.
 There was warming in General Woods closing: You are going to be a powerful influence in this country. You will be dominating force. It's mp to you and me to stand closely to- gether. We did it then and we must do it now. Remember, there are 4 million of you coming back. A hun dred thousand are dead, but the rest are returning to their old or more im- portant places in our national life. They went where they were ordered, did what they were told and deserve equal esteem whether they went over seas or never went farther than the training camp.
 We've got to kill Hun propaganda" Don't forget that if by bad feeling now the Allies can be separated and set to quarreling among themselves the boche has won the war"
 General Wood addressed himself to the officers in concluding his address.
 ''The discipline of fear isn't worth rap" he said. "It's the discipline of confidence and fairness we must have. Bear that in mind when you get back 10 civil life. If you are an employer of men, hope there may be in your memory the recollection of an army incident in which you thought you got a hard deal. Recall it if you are tempted. back again in civil life. to give somebody else a hard deal. Never do anything to a man that will make him ashamed of himself or his job"