Show ROOSEVEL TS WAR PROGRAM wants more warsh ps and add t onal officers ashington though president roosevelt has been awarded the nobel peace prize and is hailed by the hague conference as one of the tore most advocates ot the peace move ment he adheres to the old belief that the best way to ins ire peace Is to be eternally ready for war proceeding on that theory the administration will lay before congress next winter a pro gram that will if carried out largely increase the efficiency of the ameri can army and navy and make this country better prepared to meet any hostile nation in the event that future differences can not be amicably ad lusted to begin with the president will recommend the construction of tac new battleships instead of one as originally intended then he will rec ammend that the number of army officers be increased from to which means an increase in the stand ing army |