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Show HB IN CASE OF WAR B Tho chances that the United States HB will becomo Involved In tho war may HB , not ho largo. Hut until that conflict HB is ended, no American can fcol safe H If Germany should dcclaro war B against tho United States, tho light- BB ing could reach our shores only In BB ! caso tho Tcutonlt allies should largo- BB y overpower tholr adversaries. This B ' may bo unlikely, but ovory posslblo BB ! contingency should bo faced. BB j Tho United States has plonty of H j available material with which to BB mako war. Tho problem of organ- BB - P Izlng that material would tax tho BB i biggest Intollcct In tho nation. Tho BB government at Washington In tlmo BB of peace undor all administrations Is BB conducted hy tho class of men call- BB cd politicians, rather than by bust- BB ness men. In caso of a sudden out- BB break of war, tho politicians high nnd BB low of ovory party should feel tholr BB k limitations. BB i They ought to expect to call to BB their aid a sulllclent forio of tho most BB capahlo business executives. Of BB ' courso army and navy methods have BB been vastly improved slnco tho con- H fusion of tho Spanish war. But tho BB country Is so far unpropared that tho BB , problem of developing military re- HBj I f sources would bo boyond tho powers BBj ' of any group of men that over gath- HHJ ' era at Washington. BB! In caso of war thcro would bo H', plenty of enlistments. Whllo tho av- Hj crago citizen shlvors nt tho thought Hj of enlisting, thoro is plenty of young BBji blood hot for battlo. Every hint nnd BBj! thrent of war always stimulates on- BBj llstmcnts. Tho country has no avla- BBj, tlon forco worth speaking of. Hut It BBj, has a host of amusement flyers who BBj could bo mobollzed. Its equipment H for feodlng an army would bo only H a fragment. Hut tho strcots nro BBj , swarming with motor trucks that B could ho levied. Arms and nmmunl- BBJ ( tlon nro woefully inadequate Hut BBJ the country Is full of machlno shops. BBJ t ', To systematize resources for sudden BBB ' , call Is a problem far greater than ! anything that falls to any slnglo group of our oxccutlves In tlmo of poaco. It Is a tlmo for tho most do- BBJf tnllcd plans to ho formulated. BBJ 1 -- . |