Show WHAT GENERAL PERSHING THINKS OF DEFENSE DAY there I 1 is nothing militaristic about it sas sans retiring chief of staff patriotic citizens will not object to devoting one lay day a year to a fire drill heretofore when an international fire that is a war which called for assistance by the united j states broke out every man has grabbed a bucket and run for the fire patriotic but it is not up to date now we have good lays and an excellent volunteer tire fire department part parti ment nent with modern apparatus but we must have a fire drill signally sio nally or wa wont know what to do or how to use our equipment nt that is what the national defense day is and I 1 can not conceive how any patriotic or progressive amerlean american citizen can object to it t we I 1 C are a r a simply imply s going to test the efficiency of the company and try out the fire hose national defense day means nothing else there is nothing mili statistic about it this is the statement of 0 general john J pershing who expressed himself as amazed when he returned from europe this week eek that any one should object to national defense day |