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Show WEEKS DENOUNCES PIETO! MOVE WAR SECRETARY ADVICES PUBLIC PUB-LIC TO LOOK BEHIND PROPAGANDA Cabinet Member Thinks Veterans! Pension is Not Rightly Chargeable Charge-able to Cost of Wars Washington. "Pacifist' propagan. dists and organizatons in the United States were denounced as public enemies Friday by Secretary Weeks in a statement made public by the war department. Americans would do well, the statement said, "to inform themselves them-selves of the facts end to examine into the character and patriotism of those who are promoting the pacifist campaign, before taking a step that may readily align them with the enemies of the republic." Widespread circulation of ''incorrect ''in-correct and misleading statistics," Mr. Weeks said, had been accomplished accom-plished by pacifist agencies, including in-cluding "those forces in America who are preaching revolution and the establishment es-tablishment of a communistic government govern-ment and also those who seem to believe be-lieve that any army or navy is unnecessary" un-necessary" Uninformed but patriotic patrio-tic citizens, it was added, are lending lend-ing themselves to reduce, If not destroy, des-troy, the military safeguards of the nation as a result of pacifist propaganda. propa-ganda. Appended to Mr. Weeks' statement was an official chart prepared by the war department in graphic form to Illustrate comparisons between the regular army of the United States and those of foreign powers. "Active armies of 928,000 men in Rnssia, of 750,000 in France, 275,000 in Italy and 100,000 in Germany were compared com-pared to that of 130,610 in the United States, including the regular army, reserves on active duty and the Philippine scouts. |