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Show BAKER PRAISES GREATIMETRK OF BUSKS Ii. Says Support of Govern-; ment in Its Great Emerg- j ency Is Making Us a Stronger Nation. I ! A I ; K I S 1 5 1 ' K(J, Pa.. Cel. S. Secretary i,f War Baker, addressing fne annual meeLine of the Harrisbur?; chainner of coalmen -e toniLjiu, declared iliat ihe i manner in whi.-n the imsiness n'en of tlie country had gathered to the support, of j the national j; overtime ni in its supreme emergency of war was making- "a stronger strong-er nation, a greater democracy and a iireaier hope for mankind." The secretary secre-tary said that he warned the business men to know that he was proud to pay the tribute. "1 believe thai under the examp'e America we will be able to make such arrangements that war will give .place to the virtues of peace for many years to come," said "the secretary. Mo praised, congress for creation of Lire council of national defense, which, he said, had prepared pre-pared the country's resources, and said that when the fatefui hour struck the business men, voluntarily and in mass, assembled to fiive their best, Talks of the Army. The national guard and the military reserves of Die states had formed with the regular armv and West Point a nucleus nu-cleus of a fighting force that will before long number over l,;iv0.000 men. Heview- . ing the organization of the national army, , Mr. Baiter said that it had been done hv a nation totally unaccustomed to war. hut which bad not only subjected itself to a selective draft but had diverted its i rid list ries into many unaccustomed lines ,f production. "Kven (Germany was never able to do this." he declared. "Let me sav to von that when our army takes its place abroad it will be armed as well as any and better than most," de-clared de-clared Mr. Baker. He said that for every soldier abroad now there were five rifles in France and every regular and national guardsman at. home 1ms a rifle, while the stream of rifles, now lon.ooo a month, will soon be MO.IWO. Safe for Young Men. , The young men in the army, said Mr. Baker, " will ' be surrounded by safer conditions con-ditions than ever known before. This had been done by "adopting: the wholesome whole-some spirit of the youth of America." remarked re-marked the secretary, who said the curative cura-tive policies of the celleges had been put into force. The secretary said there bad been no Aladdin's lamp or fairy wand about the building up of t he equipment and ordnance ord-nance supplies and the launching of a great shipbuilding programme or the start on t he immense airplane construction. What has been done has been accomplished accom-plished through hard work and the mobilization mobili-zation of American inventive and business busi-ness genius. The speaker declared there was no doubt that America was next on tiie German programme and said, "We must win (his war or admit democracy a failure." Ill maKllig a pica roi co-orunia-iiuii m , I financial resources such as there has j been of business, Mr. Baker said the I j country must buy of Liberty bonds "until it hurts." |