Show SAY IT II WITH MUSIC PRESIDENT HOOVER Is commander in chief of the army and navy while wit lie the navy league purports to be a clel civilian it an organization interested in naval defense d let ise but mr hoover has assal assailed led this militaristic I 1 I 1 arit group whose leader attacked him says a washington correspondent at the same time secret secretary ary ot of the navy adams whose hose sympathies are known to be with the navy league criticized a statement of a world peace organization the situation I 1 however Is if significant chiefly because it reveals how public opinion Is being massed tor for and a against militarism in these days ot of depression the average american merican Is more interested than formerly in the tact fact that our army and navy are spending pending s about annually and that a small group of 0 military dictators igors would increase this sum it if possible almost every dally paper caters to the stimulated public interest in international events and tile the disarmament problem by featuring these subjects in both its and editorial columns it Is notable that the anti militarists are expressing themselves more vigorously and in a manner that would have been impossible a decade or so ago for example we q quote not e mrs walter ferguson whose column one womans comans opinion Is a dally feature of the scripps howard hoard newspapers our new york welcome to the french premier which was broadcast to thousands of listeners WILS was very typical of the wide difference that separates our words from our beliefs monsieur laval and mayor walker each declared his big nations desire for world pence peace then the music began and the audience sang lustily first au all about our rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air and next net the bloody french marseillaise Marseil MarsellI laise alse to arms to arms e braves the av engers swords dunsheath un sheath 1 the words proclaimed pence peace the songs declared war just how a child who might have been listening could have reconciled the proceedings cee ce clings edings in his own mind Is beyond knowing perhaps he would just have to let them pass because we grownups grown ups are always doing something that must puzzle children who usually think straight until we teach them otherwise the national anthems of all countries are battle cries set to music they r 0 chosen long ago to stir the fighting g motions emotions and they may have been useful when men believed that strife was good and honorable but they are incongruous in a world that has just finished a war to end war yet in every land where schools are conducted we can visualize them these rows of tables bables chanting together the words of bitterness and hatred the hot bot words of battle the pious words of god and right the thought should be a sad fad one lor for christian hearts |