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Show "FARM AND ARM" SLOGAN. Colonel Roosevelt Lty-ges Immediate Action in War with Germans. Chicago. "Farm and arm!" With this buttery Theodore Roosevelt entered en-tered Chicago April 28 and in two stirring stir-ring speeches urged that every energy of the entire nation be directed toward making the potential might of the United States felt In the war against Germany, and he demanded that not an hour be lost in dispatching troops to the trenches. His first speech was made at a luncheon lun-cheon at noon ; his second at a mass meeting in the immense amphitheatre at the stockyards. He advocated universal uni-versal training as a permanent policy; he advocated conscription, but he pleaded that he should be allowed to recruit a division for immediate service serv-ice with the allies. He was roundly applauded when he ergod that during the war the use of grain for the manufacture of alcho-b.olic alcho-b.olic beverages be prohibited |