Show e re at ar by GENERAL JOHN J I 1 9 at fk I 1 t 0 alf 41 ulf T A k V k 11 4 alk XI A A 2 9 vt 45 all 6 1 I 1 ere er e I 1 aviv far 4 t t Z 1 A here s a stirring call to arms that summons the spirit of those half forgotten days of resolute men article I 1 years ago an army of two million american ican citizens was gathering in france they had lift their homes and families and businesses they lad fad traveled three thousand miles across submarine infested seas and now they vere ready to lay down their lives if need be for their country If millions illions more in america were prepared to follow them and do likewise today the nation faces another crisis in which the enemies allied against us are more insidious but not less dangerous pervasive self seeking and corruption which the chosen officers of the law seem powerless to suppress eup press the sinister growth of the underworld whose tentacles reach out to touch us all the ever increasing extravagance of government and the mysterious paralysis of our economic system these are the enemies which now confront us they the y have been allowed to encroach upon us largely through our own carelessness and neglect of duty as citizens in the battle against them the average citizen is at a disadvantage because he is unprepared he is willing enough but he is bewildered bewilder eJ H yet realize that he himself is primarily to blame hence he is taking no serious part in the conflict by average citizen I 1 mean a great many men to whom we should look 1001 for leadership as well as the larger number who possess no t for it it in fact too often do citizens of all classes assume that politics and crime W even economics are DO no business busl nesi of theirs thelm it does not occur to them that they are every one individually responsible why li Is it that patriotism bums to 0 brightly in times of war so dimly y in times of peace it Is just as iDec necessary essary jn in meeting the complex obligations of peace but these cb b libations ligat loni ions do not stir the igana uon lion like the primitive emotions of war the average citizen feels that somehow the problems of peace will be solved for him and falls to realize the possibility trat calamity may result from his pvn I 1 indifference still can be proud we have as much reason now as we had bad fourteen years ago to feel proud of 0 conr country and to love it we believe with some jub justice tice that it Is the creates test republic in the history of the world under no bag tag in the world docs a people enjoy f more freedom or find end greater happiness we boast of public edu cation universal suffrage liberty of bf speech and the press we enjoy righta tights undreamed dreamed cn ot of in ancient greece and rome let yet even with the sounder principles upon which to lo base the hope of permanence of our institutions we toe too may some flay day r go down as did these older republics unless we recognize and live ore op up to our civic obligations it cannot ie le tc too tco o strongly impressed upon every cluzen in a democracy that it Is 13 hie his daty duty to help belp actively ac aati rely helpin help in ln the task cf of government the otner day I 1 fecs Ls talking to a business mau from new fork york we were discussing an is lalue latue of increased latr eased taxation then op tip before the bouse house of representatives by the way I 1 said who Is the representative from your district distri ctr lie ile grinned sheepishly 1 I dont know he be said sold uy friend pays a goodly chare share of taxes to support the jovern government ment and yet he know who votes A tor for him on oil the tax question he ile relies on a substitute and even know who the Is to I 1 this tl Is something of a ret retrogress rion don from an earlier period when cur dur gorc government was founded oar our forefathers did not let unknowns represent them they made it their business to know all about the character and achievement achievements of the dei mei they elected to public office the outstanding men in the country took part in politics ind and most of the high positions vere held by them political leadem lea dere then were chosen by the voters now through the apathy cf of the voters they are often chosen by other politicians changing social life this change ie Is partly due to our changing social life many of us do not even know our next door neighbors but it Is a manifestation of a deeper and more sinister change the tendency of the average citizen to let somebody else do his thinking for him that ten dency deacy threatens the very foundations of demoa democracy acy VAIL ome some one ono else do the thinking that easy doctrine la Is injuring ns us not only in politics N but in other fields under it crime flourishes and business some international bailers ban lers dicce the war have been careless in aeed ing other people 1 money on foreign securities tim others have been charged with something worse thin than carelessness but the citizens who against sound business principles put up the money were not without blame in their eagerness for gain they too often refused to think tor for themselves they preferred to delegate that task to some one else it was well known to all who reid read the newspapers that certain governments bad had already default ed on debts to tapir own ovum people greedy investors did not nat balk because of that but cheerfully put up billions to loan to states cm ran and industries of those same governments tbt Is not an essay on econom ics acs I 1 am arn not an economist I 1 did not foresee the depression nor flo do I 1 know when it li 13 going to end though past experience teaches me the upturn Is bound tr te come perhaps slowly perhaps suddenly when we least expect it it no matter how sure yon you are of victory never fall to make full provision for a reverse this rue rule Is aromatic with every capable military leader but it was ignored by most of our hail bul ness leaders during the bholi boo o years few made plans for any thing except triumphant advance from one obJect objective lye to anothy many burned their bridges behind then them then men the advance was halt ed and the recession begun it can i not dot be gal cald d that they were to blame for that recession for apparently parent ly our puny human minds 4 R 1 1 11 il X v 4 U A 4 ki fc Z I 1 14 24 4 e A 1 v 0 C 0 XV rt WIL r ef AI 4 4 le 44 1 A ir at 4 1 lulled into complacency by pros pro out citizens passively accepted this growth with small concern bare have not yet solved the riddle of the business cycle they were to blame for having made no plans to keep the retreat from turning into a rout business might profitably write that military axiom into its books for the years to come we have made two other hlll tar tary blunders we began by CD un the strength 0 atif the clemy and pro progressed from that to overestimating it it the cry we are tire just turning the corner of 1029 30 wn wits the equivalent of we will have the b boys out of the trenches by christmas of 1914 IS 15 and our this country Is going to the doa of if li the of the central power are bw ble of march 1818 2 1 nave have beard leading men given over to fear prate of national failure fil lure bai crupt cy and bolshevism III li Is rj fj time for craven cringing looking out of my window I 1 NO the shaft of the monument to washington I 1 think of valley forge forg and wonder how those who BOW DOW lament and old wring their bandl bonds would have en joyed winter this la Is iash aih antons ln loni bicentennial it Is 1 eilif for tot i a new reckoning a new tr a new courage living baing the winter past ninny many i a good man willing and able to vi work ork hai has lone one through a 1 bell of unemployment and uncertainty remembering mem bering that we may also find end that omo some good along with the 1111 evil cornea comes out of all depressions I 1 am not a str arger to depres economists tell ns as that the panic of ism wn was the closest anal ogy agy which history furnishes to our out present troubles uy my father a well todo to do business man and farm er la in wai was caught in that general disaster I 1 was just thirteen year old one day my fi ther told me the whole story john he said everything I 1 ova own has been swept away except the farm which li Is covered by dy a 1 heavy hwy mortgage we juilly fah illy led ica t 10 it 1 I 1 must try to make money by traveling as a salesman while I 1 am away you must take care of the family and manage the farm fam during the next three year years my brother and I 1 ran the farm farms we plowed owed sowed and reaped we took our produce to market markel those days were cot not so different from these for the farmer I 1 remember we had ft a field feld of timoth hay bay which wa wits particularly fine I 1 baled it up a of it and sent it by rail rall to SL st louis louls hoping ta receive a top price but it did not bring enough to cover the freight charges during those years my attend ance once at school wai was limited and I 1 had ad to do the best I 1 could to keep up with my classes by studying at night those were certainly hard timed yet sweet are the uses of 0 adversity and it was the best thing that ever happened to ILC le 11 II taught me more gave me greater corill confidence derice and a keener sense of responsibility than anything else have done ed powers fowers I 1 die my own experience merely to 0 o show bow how men and women ac se dually gain a new strength and courage when thrown upon their own resources and responsibility la in times of crisis they find in them selves powers they never suspected the life of a military man fur bishes another example valuable in times like the present in every army amy career there corae come occasional occa slona times of dullness the officer sta cloned at come some remote army post has his routine duties to perform when these are completed he finds the temptation almost overwhelm ing to give over his leisure to cards light reading social evenings painless time wasting it Is the officer who resists that tempha tion who spends hard hours each day studying the latest advances in artillery lery in tran tra nort in tactics it Is this office ollice who receives recognition when the for active service comes so it Is in business in this time of extreme dullness many have sunk back into a kind of lethargy but the wise business man like the conscientious officer Is using his present leisure to prepare for the battles to come he Is el levis iril new economics economies of production action and find distribution ile Is to utu studying dying the problem of how his product may be varied or made attract attractive it iva he Is 13 getting ready to ti ke addan tage of the upturn when it comes lie Is to not accepting gloomy defeat ism ile la Is thinking tor for himself I 1 have touched at some length on the depression because it has so 80 glaringly us the folly of carelessly delegating Int our thinking to others it has also thrown a bright cold light on the flaws la in our leal methods and on our crime problem duran during the years of prosperity fol lowing be the war viar an underworld onder world ol 01 gang gangstead stera and racketeers unparalleled alle led in a any other civilized nation grew up and flourished in our cities the criminals who manned this nn rin eer er world u etere ere cf of a new dew tyl tyre e they were not the m masked and shabby who filled it abe jails ID in earlier years they were expensive ly dres dressed bed they owned machine guns high powered cars and speed boats they had money in the bank with this conoy iron they were able ab to establish a relation with corrupt official and collm which seemed to make them immune from prosecution 0 06 mil dl nell NM service to be concluded Conclude a next week |