Show national af affairs fairs by FRANK P LITSCHERT it has been the favorite method of attack by the professional pacifist who would disarm the united states in what he be claims Is the interest of world peace to charge that those sound americans who do not agree with him are favorable b ae to war and are seeking to make the th united states a militaristic nation nothing could be further from the truth nd and it t is a c oming coming to be pretty generally recognized recognize d that the real sound constructive tive pacifist who would keep uncle sam at peace with the Is the man or woman who believes in adequate pie pa redness tor for defense the assertion of george washington that the best way to assure peace Is to be prepared lor for attack was never truer than today an illustration of the soundness of the statement that the real agent of peace is the citizen who believe in adequate defense Is found in a recent stirring address delivered before a notable audience under the auspices of the cam aron club at alexandria virginia by senator arthur R robinson of indiana 0 of 0 thi til statesmen of our upper national legislative body who can always be bc found on the side of sound constructive nationalism senator robinson presented his audience lence with some Etri lOng statistics on the terrible losses which came to america because of the world war in addition to the loss of life in battle and the expenditure pend iture of billions of dollars the senator stated that at this time thirteen years after the signing of the armistice we have not yet reached the peak of usability so terrific Is war in the modern a sense sixt sixty y thousand american he de rard sea lj he b burard i and awaiting g the judgment day on foreign soil and there are sixty three veterans hospitals in nearly every state stale in the union with bed all occupied ard with huge waiting lists in addition this he added does not begin to tell the story of human sacrifice and suffering while on the material side there Is depression and lid ft a mon money y I 1 loss which wll finally mount to a hundred billion dollars all AH of abic which 1 I ought to indicate that senator robinson himself an e service man Is not a militarist in any se sense or of the he word yet he declared in the some same address Pd dd dress ress while we do not want war ard and recognize it as a terrible thing ling t the way ak y to 0 avoid such suffering in the future Is to be p prepared to defend our land against it so that other nations will hesitate to attack us international agreements me n ts when the crisis comes are futile th things i n as the recent events in manchuria well prove to us no sane person in the united states W wants ants war or desires that our country engage in war yet every sane person who studies the world situation carefully must realize that as the richest na nation tion in the world if we destroy our de defensive armament and depend on international ter agreements entirely we will 0 only ly invite attack at the first opportunity from some nation which does not place its faith in scraps of paper equitable reduction of armament by worldwide agreement Is of course much to be bel desired although not to be confidently expected at any time in the near future but to advocate that uncle sam sink his navy abandon his army and abolish military training as a pacific example to the rest of the world Is charitably speaking but to show ones asininity especially in the present state of world feeling I 1 we were rot r ot prepared to defend ourselves at the beginning of the world war had we been adequately prepared it is possible that some of the terrible loss which senator robinson Ho binson so graphically described might have been avoided d and there Is today as senator robinson recognizes no sane argument against adequate preparedness tor for de tense lense the me men and women who ad advocate such preparedness are the real constructive tive pacifists paci fists ot of america |