Show GENERALS TALK LIKE THAT major general james G har board retired on a fat pension and drawing a still fatter salary as head of the radio trust delivered a panegyric on war at the new york state convention of the american legion last week after indulging in his favorite outdoor sport of lambasting lam basting those dreadful creatures known as pac the doughty genara general I 1 delivered himself of the following we all join in the chorus of the pack and chase the distant rainbow of permanent peace but those of you who served your country in the world war must know that there is nothing left for you in life as your d days ays wane that will ever seem quite so much worth while in truth there is in war itself SOM something ething beyond mere logic and anc above cold reason it is the mysterious power that war gives to life rising above mere life the savior himself d did id not hesitate to draw from camp and field and he pronounced no anathema against war it may be that the peace he died to promote was not the peace of ending battles but the peace within the soul needless to say general harbord did not march in the ra ranks during the world war true he commanded troops in action but during most of his stay in france he was back at general headquarters where there were clear skies excellent ec ellent food good wine to wash it down and the society of fair ladies and gallant gentlemen general harbord will probably never experience anything quite so uplifting lifting as that but how bow about the poor devils who wallowed in muck and faced death in a hundred terrible forms do those who escaped that inferno believe that war was the most enthralling experience they can hope for if the public does not want to pay much heavier lie avier taxes the public will have to force down federal armament epen expenses ses already there is a deficit of more than a billion dollars by next june the estimated operating deficit will be upward of three billion dollars maybe more some federal appropriations must be increased no major cuts are possible except in the army navy cost therefore any talk of federal fede ral economies which does not center on armament reduction is political moonshine every year for a decade the public has been misled by that moonshine that did not matter so much in prosperous times it matters now with the thel government plunging down the financial f I 1 slide and with hunger and job riots starting even before the severe winter ahead our armament e extravagance is suicidal about two thirds of the federal budget is eaten up by war charges these are official figures they cannot be ignored as propaganda there is no chance 0 of cutting the present and continuing cost of past wars only armament cost which is provoking another war can be cut if the taxpayers tax payers object to a three billion dollar deficit it is time for public pressure on the president and congress |