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Show GREATER NAVY AND ARMY THE THEMEOF TAFT Former President Discusses Preparedness for War Before Members of Bonneville Club CLOSE FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT SHOWN Says Situation Is Not Des perate, but Urges That Conditions Must Be Remedied Soon A greater navy and a greater army are imperative neeess ties to our na tional defense the members of the Bonneville -club were told yesterday by Will am Howard Taf t former pres dent of the United States Our navy muBt be ncreased to a po nt where t will be greater than Germany a navy great er than the navy of any other country in the world save England. Our army must be so enlarged and equipped that it wdl form a nucleus around which an armv adequate to defend the nat on against an invading foe could be quick ly built These suggestions of Jndge Taft were made in an impartial businesslike man ner lie showed a close familiar ty with his subject and spoke with coniction on the need of greater preparedness. Judge Taft deplored the fact that pjans for national defense too often had a partisan tinge and that one side at tacked them often unjustly and the other side in its desire to defend its policies often overstated oar condition. Not an Alarmist. The former president laid he waa not an alarmist that the situation was not desperate, but that careful steps should be taken to remedy conditions, lie said the expend tures for the army and the na boo ild properly be left to the experts of war and navy departments constituting a council of national defense, de-fense, and that congTess would make a mistake if t undertook to detail each item for which the apropnations should be expended. Judge Taft predicted that the next congress would take steps immediately on convening to provide for our national defense He said that increased expen ditures in the war and navy depart ments would necess tate economy in all other d rect ons and in an increase in taxation He called upon the people to bear this increased burden of taxation cheerfully knowing that the money was needed for the defense of the nation Bamberger Presides. Judge Taft spoke at a luncheon given in h s nonor by the Bonneville club 3 es terdav forenoon at the Newhouse For mer State Senator Simon Bamberger pre e ded as toastmaster at the luncheon and inspired his auditors with his plea for patriotism. Senator Bamberger praised the course of the president of the United States n international af fairs and declared it to be the duty of every American rrespective of his or gin to stand squarely beh nd the pres dent In impressive manner Senator Bam berger said that in times like the pres ent n the relat ons between this coun try and any other there was but one s de for every c tizen who has taken the oath of allegiance without mental reservat on Mr Bamberger sa d that he was born in Germany and was bound to that country by many t es of affect on Germany, he said meant more to h ra than did France or Eng land but it did not mean aa much to h m as d d America. He appealed to every cit zen to r se above every self sh codb derat on every trace of racial prejud ce and remember only that he sac tizen of Amer ca Vigorously Applauded The stand taken by Mr Bam be ger was agorously applauded by h 3 a dence While t was not ment oned the tenseness of the relations between the Un ted States and Germany greatlj stra ned by the torpedo ng of the Arab c was n the atmosphere and it seemed f tt ng that the patr ot sm ex pressed in the addresses of Senator Bamberger and Judge Taft should be en thus ast ally re echoed by those who were pn lege 1 to hear them The luncheon was one of the most sue cessf ul ever g ven by the club The attendance exceeded that of any of the d nners heretofore given by the club The meal itself was del c ous and it was excellently serve! The sp r t of patriot sm aroused by the gather ng was reflected n the appointments of the luncheon Each guest was given a small Amer can fla wh ch he wore on h s lapel The musical programn e rendered by the Newhouse orchestra was composed largely of patriot c a rs Distinguished Men Present Many of the d et ngu shed membe s of the Ame can Bar assoc a on a ended the luncheon These nc uded members of both houses of cong ess and d s ngu shed awye s and judges from a o s par s of he T n ed Sta es Among those who sat at the speake s ab e at be uncheon we e Judge W am Howard Taf Sena to S mon Bambe ge P ea dent Geo ge O Re f of he Bonne i e c ub Go ernor W am Spo United States Senator (Continued on Page Four) dilEfj III ill II? THEMEDF TAFT Former President Discusses Preparedness for War Before Members of Bonneville Club. (Continued from Pace One.) dfov'e Sutherland. L'nHed States Senator R"d pmoot. Mayor Samuel C. Park, Cnited States Senator Ja mns 1 la mil ton T.ewis of Illinois, former T nitnd States Senator .1. R. Thornton of Ixuiisiana. for-mpr for-mpr United S rates Senator .1. W. Bailey O! Texas. Up Mar Smith of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. JucJstp Frank B. Norcross of tha Neveda suon'mc court, C. y. Groesbeek, Herbert R." MarMUlan. L. R. Bccles of , Opden. General Peter W. Meld rim of Savannah, Sa-vannah, re Urine president of the American Ameri-can Bar association; Dr. T. B. Beany, Jndpe Emilio del Toro of Porto Rico, Judt-e Philip T. Van Zile of Michigan and Stephen H. Love, secretary of the Bonneville Bon-neville club. President Relf opened the speeches at the luncheon with the introduction of Senator Simon Bamberger as toastmaster. Mr. Rfif paid the club had decided to suspend its activities during the summer moi'ths; that it seemed to he a time when ousioins were being changed and precedents prece-dents broken, so the club had followed the march of events and changed Us mind that the members mi?'H have the honor of entertaining: the former president of the United States. It was largely due to Judee Taft. Mr. Relf said, that the contention con-tention of the American Bar association was secured for Salt Lake. Mr. Relf mentioned that the next dinner of the Bonneville club would be for ladies as well as for men. and that Harold Bel! TVrieht, the noted author and speaker, would he the guest of honor. Makes Eloquent Speech. Following Mr. Relf. Senator Bamberger spoke briefly and eloquently in introducing Judpe Taft." Mr. Bamberger said,: Mr. President: Gentlemen of the Bonneville club: I desire to express to you all my appreciation of the honor conferred upon me on this occasion. oc-casion. It is always an honor, indeed, in-deed, to preside at a meeting of this exclusive organization, but ft is particularly par-ticularly so today, when we have with us one" of the foremost citizens of the world, one who has filled with dignity and credit the highest post-t post-t ion that nmbition cy n reach or the American people can bestow. The last time I had the pleasure of listening- to our distinguished guest was on March 13. this year, in New Vork City, at a dinner given by Gotham lawyers to Senator Root. Immediately after that dinner, and after listening attentively to that speech. I was sent to the hospital, where I was compelled to remain for about two months. But I don't think the speech or the dinner was the cause of rnv ailment. I want to be fair, nut will admit, however, that the soeech kept ringing through my ea. until finallv I had to have my head out open, and, strange to say, that speech hasn't bothered me since. Tribute to Taft. There are men with whom we may ' differ in politics, religion or conduct that we like as well as we do those with whom we get tired of agreeing-. Our guest today is one of these. We may never have gone to the same church he attends, if he attends any; we may never have voted with him, or for " him. in our lives; we may not smoke the same brand of cigarettes cigar-ettes or drink the same flavor of mineral min-eral water, but we have always ap-plav.npd ap-plav.npd his fairness and respected his . holes' y of purpose. He is big ana bc.ad and deep, and we love him as j "a conspicuous American. 1 Tn trving times like these, when an 1 earthquake or passion shakes the world, and civilization seems about to iose all that U has struggled through centuries to achieve, when our country coun-try in confronted with a crisis, it Is t!. hope of the republic and the i n s p i ra t i o n of American y o u t h t h a t a man like this may be seen upon the loftiest peak of patriotism. TV may have our choice between foreign lands, arid our taste in crowns may be influenced by birth, relation-slip relation-slip or inclination, but between this country and any other there is but one side for a man who ha taken the oath allegiance without mental reservation. Patriotic Utterance. I was born in Germany. 1 am bound tn its people by many ti'-s. Their- a re, t he recollections of my youth, the associates of my boyhood. To me it means mop than Franco and more than England. But it does tiot. mean as much as A meriea. No country ever did; no country ever will. li should be the ambition of evevy-fme evevy-fme living in this republic, no matter whether he is a unlive bv Rff-ifient or a citizen by choice, no matter whether he had the cons t i t u t ion 1 1 must upon him or ol'in!-er--d h so'cnm oath to up'inld it. his aim shouid he to rise above every selfish con s id era t ion, ror. tracf of racial prejudice, re-m re-m mbf-ring only thai he is a citizen of th'- grey ' fst govern m1 nt in the u orld the f i rst h nd foremost nat ion in pc-ai-e. prosperiiv and juomls. F'efore closing v.aul to congrn t n -la : i hp people of Uta b upon ti clr loyally to the president and his ad- 1 m ! m ? t r.- 1 1 on and ii e press of on r stare for iu- impartial fairns. I take pleasure iti announcing; one who needs no introduction, who is a patriot before he is a partisan; a i siatfsnan and not a potitirinn. hut an -Vmr-ricii n first. last and nil (he time Honoiablc William H. Taft. As Frnat'T Ba m bprg.T turned to Judse Taft at the conclusion of the introduction, everyone in the room rose to his feci and applauded and ear ered for several minutes. min-utes. Judge Taft's Address. Judge Taft indicated 'hut he enjoyed Mr. Bamberger "a bit of humor at the expense of the distinguished guests. He said: The toastmaster has warned von of the effect you may expect from a speech of min1. I hope the hospitals of Sri It TV-ike City are ample to meet t he demands t hat will be made on them as a result of my address to you today. I had heard that it reouired a surgical operation to get a joke into a Scotchman's bend, but Senator Bamberger's experience is the first Instance In-stance I had heard of where it required re-quired a suraical operation to get the effects of a speech out of a man's had. Your toastmaster will recall that on the occasion of my address in New Vork to which he has referred, I told of an Incident resulting from an article arti-cle 1 had written relative to the a vailahili ty and eminent I'd n ess of Senator Root for the presidency, and shortly after the publication of the article 1 received a letter from a man in Ka nsas City reading somewhat like tins: "I ftfe you are obtruding yourself Into the political situation acain and giving your opinion as to whom you think would make a good president. I should think that from your experience experi-ence in 1912 you would realize that the people don't care a damn what your opinion is!" Glad to Be Here. Having that in mind, perhaps It would be just as wed if I said nothing noth-ing concerning your toastmaster and Ills laudable aspirations. It is wit' a grent deal of pleasure that I attend this luncheon of the members of the Bonneville club. I have heard considerable of your club, what It has done In the past for the good of the state and the. community, and know of evidences of future benefits bene-fits to come from the activities of this club. However, there appears to be a preference in (he hospitality that is accorded the guests of the club. 1 understand from the president's remarks that another speaker who ts to be a guest of this club is to meet the ladies. 1 know that T should have enjoyed meeting the ladies very much. This is my third visit to your state. . Tr is always a pleasure for me to come to Utah. I know something of your state from my visits here and also from my acquaintance with your members in both branches of congress. Utah has acted wisely in retaining the same men in office as members of the senate and the house. Service in congress is difficult and important. Skill and experience must count. T know of no other place where seniority of service counts for so much. The states which manifest the good sense to keep the same men in congress have more than their share of influence influ-ence in that body. Expresses Friendship. ' I say this not so much because of my warm friendship, though I have It, for the members from Utah. I believe that any state which is well served in congress and which wants to continue men of the same political belief in congress should re-elect the men of experience and skill. Any state that practices the silly policy of rotation, rota-tion, like my oj.n state of Ohio, is continually sending fresh men to congress. con-gress. That is the spoils system that we are getting away from. We should have congress do its work on businesslike business-like principles. Kxpertness and prod ahiliry should be our standards ot qualifications for membership in congress. con-gress. Utah is most fortunate in t hese respects. Reed Smoot is one ' of the best informed men in the United States senate. He possesses a great knowledge of matters on all subjects coming before congress. George Sutherland is a grat constitutional consti-tutional lawyer. Than him there Is no rearer lawyer In congress. Nineteen-fifteen, my friends, is a sad and gloomy year. Tt Is sad because be-cause of the great war that has made a battleground of almost all Europe. It is sad, too. because of other disturbances. dis-turbances. We have the Mexican situation sit-uation on our hands, a most distressing dis-tressing state of affairs. Nature herself her-self seems to have joined in making this a sad year by her volcanic disturbances dis-turbances and her disastrous floods. Even at home we find a lack of an-precis an-precis t ion of law and order that shocks the nation. Must Face Situation. Each day as we read the headlines of disaster in the newspapers we scarcely can repress t h q wish that we lived at some other period of the world's history, that wiy lived at a time when all the world was at peace. But we are men and we must fa'e the situation. it is given to us to work out these problems as best we may. Already we have learned lessons from this great war. We have learned that the war is not so far away from us- We have learned the de-structlvenss de-structlvenss of new insirum'-nts of warfare. We have learned of the speed with which armies can be moved and explosives sent. We have learned that with chynges in warfare war-fare there havo hen cbanpos in the rights of bdligrpmH. w have learned, too, that nroiiral states have now a much greater Interest In sup-pr-.-ing war. The MexWn, situation Is confront-in- us. What I shall fav regarding this situation shall not h said in any pari 1 san spirit. The course taken by this administration seems to me to ha vp been a mistake in not recognizing recog-nizing Hurta. Our course In not recognizing rec-ognizing Huerta, or at least In not withholding: the declaration that we n""'T would recognize M uorla, ;i nr our a'fi-ma th e action In aiding Villa and 'arranza, who are certainiy not bet--ter than Huerta, bv t he removal of the embargo on arms and the capture of Vera Cruz, makes us In h nu-asur". rfponsihle for the condition which now exists in Mexico and which makes Intervention li kely. We must all sta nd hy the ml ministration at this time, however we may criticise It for occasioning these problems. May Be Called Into War. We are in a state wh-re we may be called into war at any time. If we are not fools, we will prepare to niet our obligations, Altruism among nations Is not. so apnarent that we can see it clearly. We can. perhaps, respect re-spect persons who hold tn the opinion that we should never prepare for war if thev are consistent in that tit ti - tude. The So. doty of Friends would ; not fight, no matter what the provo-cafiou. provo-cafiou. We can respect them for their attitude, but we can scarcely respect the statesmanship of one who would make such an attitude the policy pol-icy of a ration. To rely on t he equity of a nation under such circumstances would be to adopt the principle of the modern anarchist an-archist that there should be no law and everyone would be retrained from doing wrong by his own morals. Tiif same principle forms the basis for socialism. Now you and I don' t believe in any such theory. And if wc don't believe it we ought not to act on it. Now let us look at the situation as it is. T.et us see where we fall In our defenses, and in our defenses only, for we do not want an army to invade in-vade the lands of others for the purpose pur-pose of co no. tiering territory and for the purpose of aggrandizement. Enjoying Great Advantage. We seem at present to be enjoying a great advantage. We are busy manufacturing and selling ammunition ammuni-tion and supplies to the belligerents, making everything for them that they ha ven't the time to make for themselves. We are enjoying prosperity. pros-perity. Pome say that the contlnu--nnce of the war is going to be of great benefit to us. This statement Is most unsound. Tt would be unsound un-sound even if it were not uncharitable. uncharita-ble. We em't have a war In Europe without disturbing our own finances. Besides, there is no certainty that our prosperity will long continue. Kvery da y capita 1 Is being withdrawn. with-drawn. You can't destroy wealth in Kurope without feeling the effects In America, no matter what the present pres-ent prosperity may be. In view of t lie lessons of the European Eu-ropean war. what ought j&-e to do? Our present preparations sem perfectly per-fectly ridiculous. Troops lost In a. single day in Kurope exceed all of our combined forces. Trench warfare, submarine attacks, battle lines thousands thou-sands of miles in length, seem to us 1 o be the vagaries of dreams, but they ar startling act tin li ties actualities actu-alities so disheartening I hat it seems I almost as if we should not try to do j anything. Navy Comes First. j Washington spoke, of our splendid I isolation. Well, we are not as Isolated Iso-lated as we were in Washington's day. Transportation has been revolutionized revo-lutionized and .distances vastly de-j creased. We are disposed to look on the Atlantic and Pacific as our great I defenses, placed there by providence to defend our shores. P.ut we should i remember that the Lord helps him j who helps himself. Before we can regard i hose orea ns as our defenses we inut make those oceans available avail-able for our defense. Our navy is our first line of defense. de-fense. We must first have a navy larger than any countrv in the world except England. I make the exception excep-tion for two reasons. First, we never could have a navy a large as England's Eng-land's navy. ami. second, our relations rela-tions with England tor more than a hu nd rd years have been so i radi-t radi-t ioually friendly and we have so got-' got-' ten into the habit of settling our differences dif-ferences wj;h England pacpably that '.here appears only a remote possibility possi-bility of our ever eoing to war with England. These reasons, it seems to me. justifv the excpption. We started out to have a navy equal to that of Ormany. We have fallen behind wi th the sloth t ha t ccchps of prosperity. The money was often needed for oilier purposes and it seemed easy to trim the naval appropriations. ap-propriations. We spent too much following nostrums and fads that were neither lucrative, or beneficial. We niut learn lo economize. We started out to build two battleships a year. Then we dropnM io one. Now wo need four balfleships a yRr. r;.-u ma ny has t wHve d read nought s and we have ejeht. Germany has a number of battle cruisers and we have none. I'lcniianv has many more submarines sub-marines and torpedo-boat dfrroyers a nd oi her equipment than w c have. Wp also n-d men. Our navy ami 'oh st fort I f i--m ions lack 1 S.i'ufi men and !Ho officers to equip the Hhips and man the guns we now have. Not An Alarmist. By building up our navy we are not becoming a military nation. Von can't Invade a land with a navy. The function of the navy- is the defense of our shores. I don't believe t lie alarmist a ricl-n that have neen ap-pearine, ap-pearine, stating that a foreign power could land ".Vt.'iOO or 3"0,ouO men near New Vork alio" quickly march to Washington. No country would expose ex-pose her troop uhlpH to the Inevitable sinking by submarines and 1 n 1 1 1 -ships so long as our navy remained on the sea. It is pointed out that troop ships conlrl not enter our reat harbors near our co-i si ! t b-s her a use ,, our coast fortll'lca f lonM, but tha t along t hn con si t here n ye many u n for l i f le. places -where an easy landing mlghi be afforded. fty our e..as! defences we. do not mean that we are lining our shores with cannon, We defend our cities and harbors by coast defenses de-fenses to prevent a naval lin'Hsion, to leen a hostile navy nut of our harbors, that the opportunity for occupying oc-cupying a large rlly and " encting tribute from li may not be afforded an enemy. Our const defenses relieve re-lieve our navy fioni the flutv of guarding cities and harbors and leave il free to p:i t ro! 1 lie COR-St 10 pre -veni mllita ry Invasion at unfortified poi nfs and a Isn free to rnguge, the hostile navy on I he high seas. - One t rouble, wit h a d Iscnsslon of our national defense tn that it is usually approached jn ;, partisan spirit. The whole situation h; not reviewed. Oim side overstates the lack of preparedness and Ihe other fddc, in Itw to defend itself from the' rdinrgc, lake-- loo optimistic u ; vie w of I ho situa t ion. j Should Increase Army. Our second line of defense ts the nrniv; ihat is. I he mobile nrmy, j which. iI'mh not Include our coast at'- I tdlery, Helore we e;,ve the subj-.-t. I I should like to :-a y I ha t our coa.it j defends are H -nod as h ny In the : oiid. There are none better to be f-'-und. It is I rue thai wo haven't the sivl en-inc-i iruu. but we have the l - c e . 1 1 1 1 1 gun, 1 lie "e a f (on of wlp'-h may be Increased to I ' degrees, de-grees, tdving just us lone a rang" a f.oR 1 ale. The rn ng" (d our com st defense gutiM is 0.jrtO yards. iit you ever st"p to think hov small an object Is nt ?eij L'rnM, yards diMHIil'.' Toil can scarcely ,,,-e H gun thai distance dis-tance even llil"u:rh a class. Tw base ; line of H war . es e it; scar.-e- ;,,, lon;er Hi. in Ihe wsse Itsell. The base irie of our cr.aM defense guns Is uioie Muni a mile In ien :ih. A vcf-.-el at s'.-i wouldn't 1 1 1 1 a const fort I - !' I so. 'I, as ''e have oil'" ill a lmndred time-, e en if she did onl-ram.-e our g i-r-. nd even tf she did bll the fortHicallor,. , -, , likelv Ihat f.he woidd damace the yun, be.-;i use our u ns h re In pi's on d if--appearrnc cat i-ia k'es. Il'n too tltllirult and too rxpeuaive for a iijivv to life a -.Tea t gun pi lime-- on the i etnol e -harce i,f bllMnif once. The rri!e,d Maw e-.e,- a :tSeii'blr . I In ' he b! - lo- v of M.e v mi M ..ni o the I ia--. la i.cll-M to a ! la k t lo- roast rorilfi. allon- The i.u:. eM .;; ;, . 1 1 , had ,inri:ii:;p 1 1 M . e r - i i . 1 1 ui-s. Ti'e guitw ou the luorr biillerie:. al first v .- out- teu-lneh gun-. Wl.al -Attn I the i c;aiir: The r.liorv i i 1 1 CI i.. s were able to wit'nstand ibis great na- and the warships were withdrawn from the channel, n n J ice attempt is now being iiiant' tu capiuit? the foriihcu-tions foriihcu-tions t,y a land movement. The condition of our coast defenses is not one that will cause you i o keep awake nights or send you to a hospital. We peed. however. in.uOO additional men a nd lin-i 01 ticcrs to adequately man our coast del entcs. Ko:- our infantry, cavalry and light artillery, our moode annv. we. should have a total of U0,ii(.m.i men, regularly , enlisted soldiers. Deduct from this .j."Uu men to garrison our dependencies, dependen-cies, and our continental mobile army will consist ot o'i.ulhi men. At. present we have available as a mobile army on tii is contna-nt ;,,imu men. a force just double the New ork police force, as Secrerarv Garrison Gar-rison so aptly puts it, a force entirely inadequate for the defense of one hundred million people. 1 low . ridiculously ridicu-lously small our army seems when we think of tiie ten millions right i ng in Europe. Some have said that we could raise an efficient annv in twenty-four hours. They have never tried and probably neyer will, for the people peo-ple are not likely" to entrust an von with such a lack of a ppreoiatinn of the m-eds of a great annv with the responsibility of raising one. Experts tell us that we would need an army of 5 0 0 , u un re. e i i to - p e 1 an Invading army. Our national guard is composed ol" 125.0it"). The guard, with the mobile army proposed, would constitute con-stitute an army of 2tKi.0.io men. With this army as a nucleus, we could probanly enlist and train, not efficiently effi-ciently perhaps, but in a measure at least, 300,000 additional men between ti.e ti:tv; of the oubreak of hostilities and the arrival of ihe invader. That would give us our army of half a million men. Would Have More Officers. We would need then, first, plentv of trained officers. To yet them we fdiould enlarge West Point, create more academies, increase the facilities for technical military : raining. We should maKe a military education attractive at-tractive and make it possible to train a large number of officers and experts. ex-perts. At the conclusion of the course of training, those pa rticuiarly adapted to the technicalities of a military career would go into t he army as regular officers' and the others would pass to private life as reserve officers, available for the Important Im-portant duties of trai niug troops in time of need. We need probably more ammunition, ammuni-tion, more arms and other supplies. We have the finest torpedo in the world. We have a splendid control of cannon fire, in thse respects the European war has noi developed anything any-thing that would cause us any alarm. The proper defense of this nation is not impractical. Both parties are to blame for our unpieparedness. It was always easy to reduce military appropriations. 1 know how it is, for I have experienced the same fetiing myself. " It didn't seem possible tliat we would ever 'nave a war. and, anyway, any-way, it always seemed easy to postpone post-pone action with a view to doing something in the future. Now we're up against it. The crisis is at hand. Something Will Be Done. I am glad to observe that the need of greater defenses for ihe-natinn has reached the ad minis ti at ion and tha t plans are being made by the president ami the executive heads to do something some-thing in this direction. You should alt join In making your representatives in congress understand that the tlrst thing to he done when congress meets this fall is to pass an appropriation for our defense. I believe that congress con-gress ts beginning to feel impressed with the situation and will do something some-thing to improve it. Proper prepaiatlon for our defense does not ni'-an that we are throwing our hat Into the ring as a challenge to lihi anyone, but u d "P mean that we wis.'i to have established reasonable reasona-ble means of proteciin ourselves so that our pro: est s, when our rig b l s are violated, wiil have some weight. We are in a bad way financially. Our deficit at the close' of .h" year was seventy mtl'ions. We have to practice economy and increase the taxes to proide funds for our defense. de-fense. It isn't going to be easy to do it. Everyone is in favor ot taxation taxa-tion so long as it is where he watt's Iris bod, on the otber fellow. We've got to be aroused to the necessity of the ihing we warn done. I rave everv "confidence real the idea wilt permeate the c-apttol at Washington and that rite appropriation for our defense ill be made. Expert Advice Needed. We want to see, also, that the expenditures ex-penditures of the appropriations will be well d i reeled. We hope t ha t ex-perls ex-perls will tie called inlo i onsultat ion. Wp hope t ha t t lie chairmen of rom-mitiees rom-mitiees will not tiy to do the work for which we have the experts. A little knowledge Is a dangerous thing, a t id oft on the chairmen of t he commit! com-mit! ees having charge of such ex-penditures ex-penditures know just enough about the army and navy lo make their k nowlwigc dangerous. If your child was sick and a delicate operation was tn be performed, you would call in a physician, an expert : vmi wouldn't call in the mob to diagnose the case or per for tn the ope rat ion. Much discretion should be given the experts in the expenditure ol the appropriations ap-propriations for nationa I defense. Their plans should not be obstriu-ied by memia'rs of the senate n nd louse committees. We should cad in a council of national defense io have i-lia rge of prepn ring oui defense. A large fund should be given this council, coun-cil, under proper restriction, to be used by tt in carrying oui the difficult diffi-cult and delicate task lo which il is assigned. S 1 1 rei - we should have fo: esigh t enough' to provide for ihe defense of those who are to come after us in order that they may be abb- to maintain main-tain t hem selves as f ree Americans ought. |