The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-24
NATIONAL DEFENSE
 SYSTEM EXPLAINED
 BY ARMY OFFICIALS
Citizens Need Enlighten- ment regarding Menacing
 Dangers, Weeks Asserts.
By HARRY l.. ROGERS, International News Service Staff Cor
 respondent.

Washington, D. C.. July 24-With | the zero hour already set, the Ameri | can Army is preparing to go over the too. war by Congress ,but~the Harding | Administration has approved the | campaign the War Department has l embarked upon, and Secretary Weeks | is determined to 'tcarry on" till the | enemy hoists the white flag of de- feat.
 Casualties there may be in this newest war; but fatalities are unlikely. | for the attackers will employ not rifles nor machine guns, but public fty; not shrapnel nor high explosives. but facts.
 The opening guns already have been fired. Analysis of recent ad- dresses by Secretary Weeks, Assistant Secretary Wainwright, General Per shing and other Administration off, cials closely identified with the mih- tary branches of the Government. leave no doubt as to their conviction that grave dangers menace our instt- unn1istakably they have seen the ne ! cessity of placing the problem of military preparedness frankly before the people in a new and more com | prehensive light than ever before has been attempted in time of peace. Unrest Threatens Government. l In the unrest following the war Secretary Weeks and General Persh- | ing see what they believe to be a danger not to the Army alone, but to | American Governmental institutions generally, and Secretary Wainwright | in his most recent public utterancee Is even more outspoken.
 ''In come ways these times are as critical for the future of our republic us those of 1917 and 191S." he declar- ed, speaking for the Administration, | We have our enemies. although they do not wear a distinctive uniform; They attack from within instead of l without"
 Innumerab1e "isms" have sprung up | throughout the country hince the which have as an objective the de | strustion of Americanisrn, ''to which we owe all that we possess as na- tion."
 "Groups of peoples and classes are | organizing for every kind of purpose except a patriotic and national one,' he continued. ''Insidious propaganda Is being directed against all the fun | damentals of our Government. The l most pernicious of all those who are striving to substitute internationalism for nationansm. They would destroy from within what no enemy has ever been able to do from without-our ideals of government; constitution, in stitutions, liberties and leadership in the world.
 Pacificists Declared Dangerous
 "The pacafists, who were silent dur Ing the war and missing from the ranks of our defenders, would destroy
 
 Army and Navy-and render us a wcak1ing among the nations without Influence or prestige in the world g affairs. These internationalsts ana pacifists, working together and in most instances the same people are even trying to induce our youths to foreswear allegiance to our flag and | refuse to defend it. If such are not enemies, then who is?"
 These views are in effect those of Secretary Weeks General Pershing
 and in fact all those connected with the national defense branch of the Administration. Feeling thus, these high officials have embarked upon 3 campaign of education in Aner1can' , ism-that is, an explanation of Amer
 lean forms of government, the dan | gers which menace them. and the re lation of the Army and Navy to Am erican institutions.
 realize the two military services have
 a distinct place in American politica economy, and are attempting a new l type of national prepardness cam pnign designed to educate the pubic
 to such a realization.
 Says Publicity Is Necessary e The process of arousing public at 7 ton is of necessity, MT. Weeks be l 1 lieves, long one and the year tha ? will elapse before the size of thu :. icaI issue will no more than suffic = to lay the groundwork of under
 standing.
 Weeks and his assistants make n n l secret of their feelings that drast v | cuts in the Army establishment b. Congress this year have seriousi Y nenaced the military policy enacte' , | by Congress in 1920 They do no f believe public sentiment demande 6 any such reduction as was ordered:
 The average voter, Weeks hold . and even the average member of Con = gress cannot understand the highl technical questions involved in tn o peace-time organization of an arm
 without special attention to the sub
 feet The only men who do know, fo
 instance, what happened in Franc
 from a technical point of view an . why American losses were heavy l = one a ction and comparatively light e another are the Army officers wh ' have made these matters their III U study. It was for this reason that Mi V, Weeks directed the ban on public dis II clssion of technical military question by Army officers be raised and tha |, the trained military men be encouI u aged to explain to the public wha l the Army and the War department
 all about.
 The Secretary now is carrying hi
 programme a step further and him 0 self undertaking this public eXplana
 tion with the aid of the highest oftlc
 CTS of the Army. and looks upon m " work as in no sense a n1ilftar1su -e nronaeanda. but simple question ( IT oonular education in the A. B. C-s III national defense
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