Show DEFENSE D DAY Y IS S COOL COOLIDGE PLAN BUSINESS WILL NOT BE DE CIS n BY Y NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Observance of Day May be Governed by Local Conditions Condition it ii Word Given Out by Chief Executive Lincoln Neb President Prec President Coolidge denied that the war department plans for national d defense day contemplate contemplate contemplate plate a disruption of business in any anyway way In a reply telegraphed to Governor Charles Charies W. W Bryan Dryan Democratic vice vice- presidential nominee the president defended the war department orde order The people of the several leveral states state II are r expected to participate in accordance accordance accord accord- ance with such opportunities n ne a. th thy y may have for a patriotic d demonstration tion said President Coolidge National defense defence day plans for the patriotic demonstration are dependent depend ent on on state and and- local desires and andare andare andare are intended to be purely voluntary the pre presidents president's ident's message said The Bryan Dryan telegram to the president president prest dent quoted d General message message mes meso sage on national l defense efens day as such action will be taken by th the assistant secretary of war as he considers necessary to to t test ll his plans plane for industrial industrial in in- mobilization of or war time procurement of supplies Governor Govenor Bryan Dryan asked the pr president president sr- sr dent whether it 1 is- is your desire that the plans plans and desires of General Duncan bo be carried out on on national defense day or whether General Duncan Duncan's Duncans Dun Dun- can cans can's plans and suggestions ns should be disregarded and the national t test st day plans plane be confined to the demon on the part Dart of the military y forces of the country state and na national national na- na and patriotic so societies ieti s as originally understood President Coolidge held that the message message of General Duncan made clear the attitude of at the war war department depart depart- ment which ment-which which he fully endorsed The letter of General Duncan of May 20 to you from which you quote in part the presidents president's age message said undertook to make this clear by this statement no fixed form for these ceremonies Is suggested They should be planned to fit conditions in each particular lar locality Their plans the war department d do not contemplate a disruption of business in any way General Duncan Duncan Dun Dun- can an attempted to make malte it clear in hl his instruction of July 18 13 in which he stated the hour for holding the defence defense de de- de fence test and patriotic demonstration tion will be left to the unit commander command er ez- and the local committee e in order that su such h assembly m may yA be held at such time as will vilI best suit local conditions conditions con con- and least interfere with the normal duties of those participating The people of f the several states are expected to participate in accord accordance accordance ance with such ruch opportunity as they may have ha for a patriotic demonstration tion said the president President Colidge said h h he was informed informed in formed that the war department plans contemplate a practice by all military forces and officials national nation nation- I al ai state and local associated with steps necessary to demonstrate the defense enacted by congress I |