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Show 1 PREPAREDNESS BIG TOPIC AT NATIONAL SECURITY LEAGUE MEET H Committeemen of National Security league. Left to right, top: Philander Phil-ander C. Knox, Gov. G. W. Clarke and S. Stanwood Menken. Bottom: Bot-tom: Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and Oscar Straus. Believing that there can be no national na-tional security except through tho development of tho individual's sense of obligation to the state, the National Security leaguo will hold a congress in Washington the last three days of this week for the discussion dis-cussion of the vital issue of prepar-ddness. prepar-ddness. Its purpose is to demonstrate demon-strate tho need of preparedness, to increase public knowledge of tho problems involved, and to encourage the enactment of laws providing for adequate defense. " |