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Show CONGRESS OF PREPAREDNESS Thcodoto Roosevelt has promised to submit a paper to bo read nt the National Security Congress' in Wash Ington, January 20-22, if clrcumstnn& ea prevent his personal attendance. Tho Congress Is to be hold under the auspices of tho Nntlonal Sccurltj League nnd tho threo days' session will bo dovotod to a discussion of the Important question rotated to preparedness. pre-paredness. It wlil be tho aim of tho Congress to demonstrnto that preparedness docs not consist alone of an incroaso of land nnd sea dofen-slvo dofen-slvo forces hut nlso In tho utilized nation and mobilization of Industrial and transportation resources. In ad ditlon to tills, tho obligation of tin-Individual tin-Individual tc tho nation will bo emphasized. em-phasized. Colonel lloosovelt will not he the only distinguished participant In the Congress. An ncceptnnco from Sen ntor Henry Cubot Lodgo of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts has been received and his topic will ho "America's Danger." Ills thorough ncqualutnnco with Amorlcan Am-orlcan history as woll as his broad knowlcdgo ot International nffalrs will make his address a noteworthy fcaturo of tho Congress. World poll-tics poll-tics and our country's' relation thereto there-to will ho tho' broad nnd all important import-ant subject discussed by Dr. David Jayno Hill, former Ambassador to Germany, Hon. Jumes M. Heck, ox-assistant ox-assistant Attorney General nnd other oth-er eminent speakers. It Is expected that Professor Henry Emery of Yalu will discuss Japanese clllclcncy whllo German efficiency wilt nlso bo presented pre-sented by n speaker yet to bo selected. select-ed. Tho session to ho devoted to tho Navy will Include addresses by Hon. George von L. Moyer, former Secretary Sec-retary of tho Navy, who will speak on Our Naval Requirements, whllo Henry A. Wlso Wood will talk on Naval Policy. President It. O. Sch-wcrln Sch-wcrln ot tho Pacific Mall Steamship Company has been Invited to speak on tho Relation of tho Mercantile Mntluo to tho Navy, and to Preparedness, Prepar-edness, and tho details of tho Navy program will bo technically rovlowed by C. E. Curtis, President of tho International Turblno Company, n recognized naval oxpert. Details of tho military program aro to bo presented by Hon. Henry 1. Stlmuou, former Sccrctnry ot War, Major Genornl John P. O'ltyan and Frederick L. Huidekoper whoso recent re-cent volume on our mllltory unpro-paredness unpro-paredness has oxcltcd widespread attention. at-tention. "Tho Army's Case," Is a subjoct assigned to Captain Matthew E. Hnnnn, U. S. A. whoso knowlcdgo knowl-cdgo of military matters is recognized recogniz-ed us most extensive. Tho Development Develop-ment of Auxlllnry Forces ot Rcsorvo Officers drawn from tho Professional Profession-al Class will ho discussed by Wm. Marclay Parsons, tho eminent engineer, engi-neer, whllo A. D. Lambort of St. Louis will deliver an address on Nn-, val and Military Aeronautics. Erie Fisher Wood, nuthor of Tho Noto Book of an Attacho, will discuss dis-cuss tho Swiss and Australian systems sys-tems nnd their applicability to tho United States. Ex-Attornoy General George W. Wickersham Is nlso scheduled sche-duled for a speech and George W. Porklns will discuss Industrial Mobilization. |