The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-02
ACTIVITIES OF PROTESTS ARE
 IN EVIDENCE
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

WASHINGTON, March 2-(Special : Correspondence) - Despite the fact : that the military and naval unpre- paredness of the United States was . apparent to all when the World war began the pacifists have again re- newed their activities at this session 5 of congress.
 Several years before the world war . began congress, particularly the . house, was infested by a dozen or more "pussy-footed pacifists," as the : late President Roosevelt termed them, These men did their best in and out of season, to cut down the army, navy and national guard. They : were obsessed with the idea that uni versal peace was soon to occur and .a the millennium was close at hand, Chief among the pacifists in the house, strange as it may seem, was Representative Dent, of Alabama, at that time chairman of the military af- 5, fairs committee. Dent was beaten : in the primary for renomiuation to : congress just prior to the last Mo- : vember elections and will no more ;; be seen in the halls of congress. The Alabama representative carried : his hostility to adequate national defense to the point where, though chairman of the house military af. . oY1off a had been declared on Germany, he ]: actually opposed enactment of the draft law and as chairman brought in an adverse report on the legisla- ton to the house. It remained for a then minority member of the con- m1ttee, Representative Julius Kahn, : of California, then whom no more pa triotic and able American ever : served 1n congress, to bring in mapority report, take charge of the legislation and put it through the house. Without this legislation it is
 doubtful, in fact certain, in the opin- ion of many congressman, that the war with Germany would have been
 greatly prolonged. Mr Kahn is now chairman of the house military af-
 fairs committee. He is, by general
 opinion, the best chairman the con- mittee ever had.
 Dent was a type of the pacifist which also existed at that time ia
 the various government depart
 ments. The bureau of education, in particular, was infested with pa- cifists who endeavored to put over'' on the public schools their unpa- triottc propaganda, which at times actually verged on treason.
 At this time, now that the war is over, the pacifists in congress and the government departments are
 again beginning to raise their heads
 and clamor for a little" navy,
 small navy, a small army, and many
 of them would rejoice to see the
 national guard abolished.
 The revived pacifist propaganda is seen by many Washington observers to find expression in the continued agitation for disarmament, in the movement to reduce the regular army to 15O,000 men, and in the work being done by certain deluded sen- ators, who are deemed mere cats paws for the pacifists, to halt con- structton on the present naval build ing program of the United States, ten battleships and six battle cruis- CTS now being under construction The hand of the pacifists and his in- fluence was strongest in the senate when the effort was made to tie up the United States with the League of Nations.
 It has also been noticed in Wash ington that whenever discussion over disarmament, reduction of the navy, or limitation of armaments occurs in house or senate there is an im- mediate echo heard iu the govern ment departments.
 The department of labor, it has been charged on the floors of sen ate and house, is honeycombed with people with Bolshevist tendencies, all of whom are fierce partisans fav- bring disarmament and pacifist schemes of various kinds.
 Only recently an official of one of the government bureaus here lec- tured before a club and showed by his own figures, however, that of the $54 which every person in the United States was taxed by the fed eral government during the year 1920 only about $3 was needed for