Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1929, Page 10

10 : HURLEY DESCRIBES | UL PREPARATION Radio Forum Audience Told Peace Value of Emergency Defense Activity. of the United States must be rapidly expanded in time of war, how millions of citizens must be called to the colors, be fairly divided, industry mobilized and control centralized. He said that industrial and labor leaders are taking an active part in planning for this work, many of them having ob- tained commissions in the Officers’ Re- serve Corps. ‘The foundation of the whole military Policy of the United States, Col. Hurley declared, is the assumption that all our citizens agree that it is “unjust and dis- honest to, expect one man to die for the Republic while another is profiting by\ war.” Preparedness, he declared, is not be- | ing forced upon the citizens by the | Government, but is “the program of the people.” { Col. Hurley's address in full follows: ‘The founders of our Nation were con- fronted with the great problem of de- termining the line of development of these United States. They could de- velop an all-powerful, centralized Government—a course which leads to imperialism; or they could develop the individual—which leads to practical idealism. It is indeed fortunate that they had the wisdom and the foresight to adopt the latter course, for, as a con- sequence, we belong to an America ‘whose object is spiritual, educational and economic progress. But this em- phasis on the individual lays upon you, my hearers, an added responsibility. ‘You have not only the obligation and privilege of serving your country in time of war; yours is also the duty of seeing that in time of peace we adopt common sense measures of national insurance. Our history is a history of wars, imany unavoldable, all fought for worthy motives. In the 153 years' existence of the Republic we have been entirely free from war only 41. By the very nature of our Government, our institutions and our traditions we rely for our defense on our citizenry. The citizens assume this responsibility in acknowledgment of their obligations to a Government that they themselves have created and in ‘whose blessings they participate. In our past wars our citizen soldiers have asbundantly proven themselves ‘worthy of their trust. With an unselfish devotion to duty and an inspiring patriotism they won our independence; they forged an enduring commonwealth in the face of tremendous obstacles; they were the vanguard of our Western expansion; they won in @ series of bril- lant victories the great Southwestern States; they preserved the Union; they relleved from oppression and exploita- Hon and gave stable Government to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines; they threw their strength into the balance of power along the western front and gave victory to the allies and self-determina- tion to millions of people. Soldiers Prove Worth. To these soldiers, from Washington's iyeterans to those of the World War, our country owes a gratitude that can be expressed only in a consecration to the future. America has always relied on Ther citizen soldiers and they have justi- fled the Nation’s confidence by obtaining victory in every war, but they had to y a tremendous price in life, in blood, x'l.luflefln'. This has been so because until the passage of the national defense act of 1920, there was no real machinery established to afford the citizen an op- portunity to acquire the degree of train- ing which reduces losses. One has but to observe the hundreds of thousands of young Americans now 4n training camps established for the ‘National Guard, the Organized Re- serves, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and the Citizens’ Military ‘Train- ing Camps, to be convinced that our citizens desire to avail themselves of the opportunity for military training. The earnést response to the invitation of the Government is taxing the in- stallations and personnel of the Regu- lar Army to take care of and train young Americans in practical citizen~ ship. This Summer 169,000 National Guard, 15,739 Organized Reserves, 7,610 Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and 37,500 in the Citizens’ Military Train- ing Camps, s total of approximately 230,000 citizen soldiers are fitting them- selves to shoulder the full responsibili- ties of citizenship. Their service, like all other peace-time service, is entirely woluntary. Unpreparedness Shown Unwise. To be convinced that unpreparedness §s uneconomical, unwise, we have only to look over the pages of our own history to see the inefliclent way in which we have carelessly poured the recious lives of our finest young men to the red caldron of war. ‘There is something wrong with s ieivilization that must periodically bathe ftself in the blood of best specimens of the race. But in that civilization we live. We must do all in our power to outlaw war, but until it is made impos- sible we must be in a position to de- fend our national existence. We hope that the day is not far distant when the golden rule will be accepted as the fundamental principle of international intercourse, but until that day comes 'we would be faithless to our trust were we to jeopardize those national prin- ciples and institutions which have brought about our unparalleled intel- Sectual, spiritual and material progress. Our Government has done more to ‘eliminate poverty and to promote edu- cation and spiritual development and, since its establishment, has brought more happiness to more. human beings than has any other government. ‘The political, economic and educa- tional ideals that have brought happi- mess to our citizens are entitled to pro- tection. It is our duty to make our democracy safe in the world and to in- sure to posterity the right to continue the development of our national ideals. Peace is necessary to the develop- ment of these ideals. To maintain peace we must be prepared for any emergency. Our measure of preparedness must be reasonable. Like insurance—it must 25 commensurate with that which we TROUBLED WITH DANDRUFF Had Eczema in Patches, Hair Fell Out. Cuticura Healed, “I was troubled with dandruff| and eczema on my scalp for years. The eczema broke out in patches and formed dry scales. It itchedand burned so at night that I scratched, causing it to bleed, and it was very sore. My hair fell out and was life- less and dry. The trouble caused me to be very frritable. b “f using Cuticura Soap and Ointment and after six weeks’ treatment I was completely hesled.” ) Mrs. Della Young, Rt. 2, burg, Pa., Oct. 29, 1928. Keep your skin clear by using| cw:'- Soap, lgmw and Tal- cum toilet purposes. and itching, if any, with Cuticura Ointment, bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water. %8e. Ointment 35 and S0¢. Talcum Me. Sold %‘lfi.fil‘ ( Ht TELLS COL. PATRICK J. HURLEY. OF NATIONAL THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. DEFENSE districts. ‘The Army tives in each district, having a te and con- crete probable demand, confer with the manufacturers of that district and es- timated schedules are prepared. In the end the War Department determines where and how and when its estimated war-time needs can be supplied and industry learns the extent and nature of the contribution it will be to make. Many items of the Army's war-time necessities are of commercial bring. Many other essential items are not commercial, but are peculiar to the Government's war-time needs. The as- surance of an adequate and timely supply of these involves considerations of conversion of plants to new pur- poses, of a present accumulation necessary jigs, gauges and dies and of the preservation in commercial estab- lishments of the requisite technical skill for the manufacture of munitions. ‘When a citizen is called to the colors the War Department takes over the re- :sponslbullty mof {eedlnlg,‘ c‘l:tdhlnl. hous- | equipping, transport- | ing nifn, "It must provide for him as & 1 . father provides for his child., It must —Star Staff Photo. have to protect; but it must not assume such proportions as will give others occasion to consider it a menace to their freedom and national existence. Above all, it must be preparedness against war, not for war. Safeguards Own Rights. ‘The United States does not desire to transgress the rights of others but means- to place itself in a position where its own rights will not be trans- gressed. Expressed briefly, the idea of maintaining the agencies of national defense is two-fold: To prevent war in so far as possible by making available to the Chief Executive a force suffi- clently strong to deter other nations from any hasty, ill-considered, unrea- sonable inclination to adopt an aggres- sive, overbearing and unjust attitude towards us; to diminish the costs of war in men and money by making any wars into which we may be forced in defense of our national existence both short and successful. There is nothing aggres- sive in this policy; nothing which is out of harmony with our long established ustom of exercising a wise and sympa- thetic spirit in dealing with matters which involve other nations. armament conference, the Kellogg treaties, the Geneva conferences, and the present discussions between Am bassador Dawes and Premier Mac- Donald are conclusive evidence of our willingness to further the cause of world peace to any extent short of im- periling our liberty. Appreciative of the fact that war- fare is no longer the relatively simple business of the past, but is the most complex science of the age, a small group of specially trained officers is quietly and conscientiously exploring the vast new country of industrial pre- paredness. Imperceptibly, as these officers have labored and have con- tributed immeasurably to it, a new literature has been added to the mili- tary library—a literature in which authorship has been shared by the loyal patriotic civilian and the Army officer. Planning for war-time procurement comprehends the consideration of three questions: What will the military forces require? How much of each specific item will they need? Where will they procure the several items? Organization Must Be Sound. In any endeavor of the size confront- ing the supply agencies of the War De- partment the sound and capable of rapid expansion. ‘This is evident when we recall that dur- ing the World War the Government expenditures rose to forty-four million a day. The economic principles under- The dis- | organization must be | lying the Army organization are the same as those upon which our great industrial organizations have been built. ‘The good business principles of division of labor, specialization, centralization of direction of policy and decentralizar tion of execution are followed. Although the War Department is charged with the supervision of procurement, the seven supply branches of the Army have been given definite supply duties. To the Quartermaster Corps has been given the duty of the procurement of all gen- eral supplies common to two or more branches of the Army, except those supplies of a special, technical nature. In accordance with the best recognized principle of industrial organization, the procurement of these technical ai ticles has been left to specially trained experts. The Ordnance Department has been given the highly technical duties of design, manufacture and procure- ment of ordnance material, such as heavy guns, tractors, tanks, trailers, bombs, small arms and ammunition. To the Corps of Engineers’ have been left the duties of procuring surveying, engineering and railroad ~equipment. The Signal Corps has been charged with supplying all forms of communica- | tion material, from carrler pigeons and signal flags to the most intricate tele- phone and radio equipment. The Medi- cal Corps is responsible for the supply of drugs, laboratory, hospital, X-ray and other medical, surgical and dental equipment—a task requiring specializa- tion acquired only through constant association with the medical profession. Due to the many technical and intri- cate problems involved in the art of aviation, the national defense act cre- ated a new corps, the Air Corps, charged with the design, test, development and procurement of aircraft for the Army. In the same manner a Chemical War- fare Service was created to look to the ever-increasing importance of gases in war and the defensive measures re- quired to combat these new weapons. Thirteen Procurement, Districts. For the purpose of industrial pro- curement planning, the United States has been_divided into 13 procurement SHIELDS’ TREMENDOUS PURCHASES ARE YOUR PROTECTION With heating materialé advancing in Thousands of ®price, Shields gives you the benefit of Satisfied Customers A Shields heating plant includes every- thing that goes to make up the highest type modern heat- ing system. Expert Engineers Th e best that modern heating engineer- ing has to of- fer is brought to you by] Shields. This saving able us to the same sensational prices. 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And this demand hknw meet it—handicaped as it is by with- drawal of men for military service and by the ne: ty of adapting its fac- tories to the production of articles with which they are ibly unfamiliar. And yet the additional load must be carried with as little interference with the needs of the civilian population as Articles Being Analyzed. In addition to our plans and prepara- tions for production in our factories, we are analyzing and tracing back to its fundamentals every article that we ex- fect to have to purchase in war. By its fundamentals, I mean the raw ma- terials, the labor, the power, the trans- })flfllflen, all of which will be needed or its uction. For example, if we should be cut off from foreign sources of rubber for our truck tires we will want to know what can be accom- 1929—PART 1. plished by & well organized system of rubber reclaiming. If we should be unable to obtain nitrate from Chile for atmaspheric nitrogen plants in country able to meet the demand? any of our greal power plants should be disabled, what can be done to trans- fer the load elsewhere? These and many other problems of a similar nature are being worked out with the A.fl‘adt &l our. great civilian technical asso- ns. Industrial and labor leaders of the entire country are taking an active part in this work. Many of them have ob- tained commissions in the Officers’ Re. serve Corps. These men, and the list is raplidly growing, are convinced of the wisdom of Washington's precept, “In time of peace, prepare for war.” I have outilned briefly for you the military policy of the United States. Our preparation, as I have said, is not a preparation for war; it is prepared- ness against war. It is the sanest and surest method for the maintenance of peace. At the very foundation of this na- tional defense policy is the assumption that all our citizens agree that it is unjust and dishonest to expect one man to die for the Republic while an- other is profiting by war. In time of national emergency, it is wrong to place will promote . peace. paredness is not being forced upon the citizens by the Government. preparedn: the contrary, ess is of the people. e Stumbles on Crocodile. BRISBANE (#).—While walking at nlfi:u along & main street of Towns- ville, principal northern port of Queens- land, a policeman kicked at a big Jog in one of the water channels that run through the city. The “log” snorted and tutned into & huge, policeman. He ‘summoned help and drove the beast into captivity. A business bu! nearing comple- tion in mnmmflfinfl designed on e lines of the Washington Monument. tAhn :;zrl-l beacon will be installed on e tip. 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