Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-13
Honorable Prevention of War
Is Urged in Speech to Ma
tionaI GuardSmen Assem-
bled At Camp Perry.
AM MERICANS PRAISED
FOR MARKSMANSHlP
Lauds the Records of State
Troops Who Served Over
Seas Public Doesn't APP
preCiate Their Services,

I
of force" was urged by Governor
Cox today in an address opening
the presidential nominees speaking
tour.
Speaking at the national rifle
! contests, he emphasized the toll OF
the war and declared that the peo.
ples OF the world now seek peace
| ful modes of settlement.
Il recognize" he said "that II
n sense you are assembled here fol
| the purpose of increasing the eff
! cheney of our military strength. and
yet | am convinced that the great
mass OF our soldiers is united in
/ purpose and prayer, to prevent
wars in the future, If it can be hon.
orably done.
There will always be a national
guard in the states. if for no other
reason than domestic defense, and
the military arm of the federal
government will be maintained, but
the hope that vast expenditures for
armaments are thing of the past,
possesses every home in America,
while the common impulse that
moves the great mass of people
world wide Is inspired by the vision
of peace and the settlement of con-
troversy by the arbltrament OF
reason rather than of force.
Praises Guardsmen.
Praising the national guards
mems record in the war, Governor
Cox said many had failed to re-
ceive commissions won by bravery
and declared that belated justice
now should be accorded them.
Governor Cox elaborated on a
theme in his acceptance speech,
government aid to eX-service men.
declaring many obstacles were
met on returning to civil life
These, he said, the government
should assist wherever possb bic
The governor also cited the
value OF American mark smanship
in the nations history and eX-
pressed the hope that America
would continue "a nation of sports
nen, devoted to the propagation
Of wild life, and building health
and sinew in the open"
| The occasion of Governor EoNs
address was the presentation OF
the governors cup" in the ma
tional rifle shoot. He returned TO
| Columbus tonight.
Expenditure in war of lives and
treasure was stressed by the can
didate in his plea for peaceful re-
| lations between nations.
Cost to United States.
"The cost to the United State7.'
he said, was more than one mil
lion dollars an hour for ove.' two
years. The total expense Of TWEEN
| lty.tWo billion dollars was su2li-
Gent to have run the revolutionary
war for more than one thousand
years Army expenditures alone,
| so experts claim. are neac ap-
proach to the amount of gold pro
dueei in the United States from
| the discovery of America TO the
outbreak of the European war
an yet the United States spent
only about one eighth of >he En-
tire cost of the war.
"If civilization has not had its
lesson, then there is no hope foi
Iit. 1t could not stand such wal
again. The genius of man has
most frightful.'
The American soldier, Governor
Cox declared, knows the meaning
of modern warfare.
"There was very little romance,
he continued. "in the long houri
and the slaughter of the from
| trench"
| Regarding failure to award pro
motions to soldiers whose galantrN
| had earned honors. Governor Coz
said he had given the subject mucf
thought.
Government Should Aid.
"The processes of promotion
| were slow in q great organization
even after it had been won ano
recommended" he said. There
were thousands of boys cited foI
bravery and advancement in rank
| who came home without utulai
honors they had won, Some may
| without serious thought. feel thai
| Il soldier returned without injury
| he is able to take UP civil life with
out difficulty. This, in many in
stances, is not true. Breaks in the
careers of many lives turned per
manently the whole course OF
things. Therefore wherever oui
government can aid it should do so
'It seems to me that the fedora
government even yet should make
conferment of these honors. The
private who won the recognition tC
a corporals stripes Is entitled tt
the attested record of n warrant
The sergeant, the lieutenant, the
captain, the major, the lieutenan'
colonel. the colonel, and so on
should have what justly belongs tc
| them.
Nothing would give me livelier
sense of genuine happiness than
the opportunity of helping to be-
stow honors richly won overseas
and elsewhere"
Service Not Appreciated.
Commenting on the national
guard, he said:
"It seems to me that the public
| has not the proper appreciation of
| the service rendered by the ma
tional guard troops. These regu-
lations were maintained through
out the years through the spirit of
comradeship. Their pay was small,
I'm the great conflict maintained
by American soldiers through the
Meuse- Argonne campaign of the
nineteen divisions under fire, eleven
were from the national guard"
American experience In marks.