Show Germans I ITo Expect To Fight Again By Grafton Gratton Wilcox Pleas for preparedness a warning against congressional destruction of ot the reserve officers ana a declaration dec dec- declaration that the German believe be believe believe be- be lieve they eventually will make war again on France the closing session in Jn Washington of the committee committee committee com com- of on foreign relations of the National Civic f federation Major General Clarence R R. R Edwards Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- wards of Boston retired who was one o of the principal speakers of the day resounded resounded the warning He 1 ad the mushy pacifists and demanded that the country never repeat the mistake of the last war in drafting mens men's lives but not drafting labor laLor and capital In his plea for fog General General General Gen Gen- eral Edwards pointed to the one nation na- na llou tion which has become involved ed in a war war war- war war-f S Jt c with v ith her lIer quickly i army a the rhe greatest which the small M amy my and navy advocates tes and pad pad- cannot meet moot He lIe advocates advocated adoption of the Swiss Plan VIan for military military military mili mili- tary training of the youth of ot this country for future emergencies Dr Harry Pratt Judson president of the University of Chicago seconded second second- ed th the plea of General Genera Edwards for tOT adequate preparedness He was wa followed fOllowed fol rot lowed by br Brigadier General Henry HenryJ J J. J Reilly Illinois national guard and head of the National Reserve Officers Officers' association who said I If congress destroys the reserve resene officer system through Inadequate appropriations as it lit threatens to do no one would be to blame but the citizenship and friends of or na national lonal defense who fail tall to awaken their representatives in congress to the necessity for attention to the appropriations appropriations appropriations measures measures on which the maintenance of defense measures de ap- Robert Underwood Johnson former Cormer form Corm er ambassador to Italy cited the words words' of ot Mathias Erzberger the first finance minister of the German republic t to prove Germanys Germany's I claim of Inability to meet reparations reparations payments Is not honestly mane made H He lie made the statement that France FranceIs Is absolutely justified In the occupation occupation tion lion of C tho the Ruhr valley under the terms of the Versailles treaty Now t ds As s to Francos Frances rears of future future fu future fu- fu ture attack from Germany the former Cormer ambassador said sala while at Rome I had unusual opportunities for getting at what was in the tho German German German Ger Ger- man mind and I found that almost universally the German thought Is that eventually they will have It out with France again and that the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans believe England will not be with France then TIley also profess to hold the tho opinion that America got Into the late war wal to safeguard her loans to the allies ames and that we will not be Interested in he conflict I to come |