Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-02-03
CHURCH COUNCIL
CALLED R.O.T.C.FOE!
Secretary of Corps AssaiIS
Activities in Address to
Woman Patriots.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Lieut.. Col. Orwell Johnson, executive
secretary of Reserve Officers Training
Corps Association, today told the Wom-
ems Patriotic Conference on National
Defense the greatest menace" to the
Reserve Oficers' Training Corps lis the
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
in America"
This is only true because the good
church people do not realize to what
extent they have been misled and mis-
represented by the few who have sue
ceeded in controlling the small gather
ings called church study conferences,
at which political subjects are acted
upon, johnson said.
ITO Just the extent the Federal
Council of Churches succeeds in in
ducing our young men to refuse proper
ly to prepare for and to perform the
full obligation of citizenship, they have
helped them On the road to Com
munism, the first step of which is
atheism.
Big Problem, He Says.
How to protect the Protestant
churches from the paciflst preachers
is one of the greatest problems in
America at. this time"
johnson said it was absolutely
necessary" to increase the number of
student officers when economic con-
ditionS permit.
The pacifists and radicals in this
country fully realize the fact that
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they have destroyed our whole scheme
of national defense" he said
This is no time for America alone tc
sacrifice her security to impart a
nominal success to the Geneva Con-
ference" declared Senator Hale OF
Maine at the session. He called the
attention of the conference to the
fact that the United States, alone
of all the world powers, had
failed to carry out the program per
mitted her by the London treaty, and
since that time had steadily permitted
her Navy to become Obsolete"
Since the Washington Conference
said Senator Hale. the United States
| has done very little building and while
we've hoped other nations would follow
| our example they have not done SO
| All other nations have kept building uI
their navies and Japan has gone ahead
| as SHE has a ftght to do, so that by the
end of 1886 she will have within sever
ships of her allowance.
Living Standard Cited
| While the United States spends more
on its Navy than any other nation, the
! Senator declared that those who COM
plain of this fact fail to realize that
the American standard of living is
/ IC1a Of OIL 1rV
and that the United States pays its
enlisted personnel a decent wage"
Urging support of the conference If
| demanding the passage of the Navy bill
authorizing the building of the United
| States Navy to treaty strength, Senator
Hale alleged that the effect of thu
! passage of the bill would have bene'
fetal effect upon the conference in &c.
EeVa, as it would show other nation!
that the United States would no Longer
continue to support disarmament while
other powers continued building VI
their navies
Warnings of the dangers through thu
doctrines of Communism were sounded
by John B Chapple, managing edito
of the Ashland, Wis, Daily Press.
The purpose of certain groups" IL
the country is to weaken or under
mine the American Nation and thus Il
prepare the way for a new social ant
economic order" said Mr.. Chapple.
With the declaration that both Sen
ator La Toilette and Gov. La Follett
OF Wisconsin are vice presidents of tn
"Step-by-step to Socialism" organiZa
ton, Mr.. Chapple remarked that 81
does not surprise us that the preSen
activities of Senator La Toilette her
at Washington and of Gov. La Follett
in Wisconsin are highly praised by So
cialists such as Norman Thomas"
This afternoon the three-day con
ference will be concluded with a visi
to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
the pilgrimage being directed by Mrs
Amos A Fries chairman of the Amer
lean Legion Auxiliary.
Feohet BIames Pacifists.
At the conclusion of yesterday aft
ernoon's program, at which Maj Gen
James E. Fechet, former chief Of tn
Army Air Corps, told the conference
that due to pacif1stic influence in tn
country, the United States is nov
rated sixth place in national al
defense fifteenth place in grount
strength and second place IN sea power
delegates numbering approximately so
visited Capitol Hill to urge members o
Congress to support immediate pas
sage of the Vinson Navy construction
bill.
The representatives of the AZ patri
otto societies. coming from every Stat
in the Union, individually paid visit
to Representatives and Senators. Will
Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart presiden
general of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, called at the office o
Speaker Garner.
Representative VinSon author of tn
Navy construction bill, was also greeted
by Mrs Hobart, who treasured tn,
| Representative that he was fully sup
ported by the women of the patriotic
societies, declaring: We came to ash
| you to bring your bill out on the foo
of Congress and then see that it il
/ passed.
Resolutions Are Passed.
A resolution calling upon Congress.
to build up the Navy in ships and per
sonnet to the limits of the Londor
treaty, and opposing further reduction
of national defense by curtailing neces
sary appropriations was adopted by thu
conference at its meeting in Constitu
ton Memorial Hall
Further resolutions asked fer thu
building up of the National Guard ant
the Regular Army, asked that no cut
be made in appropriations for tn
r. O. T. c. and the Citizens Militar,
Training Camps; opposed the abolition
of Army posts on the Mexican horde
and stressed the Importance of con
tinuing and maintaining chemical war
fare service.