New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1917, Page 5

YOLUNTEER FORCE | *But Not Belore Taking Shot at President Wilson Oyster Bay, May 21.—Theodors Roorevelt announced in a statement Jesterday afternoon the disbandment Of the divisions he had enrolled as _ & volunteer army to go to France, 1884 advised the men to serve the oountry as best they could in other ‘Ways. However, in abandoning his effort to take a fighting force to Eu- EODe, the colonel quoted The Brooklyn h{lo as attributing to his effort the Jfact that General Pershing, with a farce of American soldiers, will soon be In France. He regarded this as & compromise on the part of President Wilson. The colonel sharply criticised the statement of President Wlilson, in Which he refused to accept his army. Referring to “the errors into which the president has been led,” he denied that he had any political purpose in wanting to go to France. He denfed al#o that he had sought a high com- . mand. # Had he obtained the permission he . sought, Mr. Roosevelt said, he could bhave had his men assembling today, &nd could have had two divisions on the firing line by Sept. 1, the date on which Secretary of War Baker, he pointed out, had announced that the assembling of men under the select- ive draft would begin. The statement of Mr. Roosevelt ‘was taken to mean that he would not 5 &ccept the major generalship in the New York National Guard offered to him by Governor Whitman- The statement follows: Oolonel Roosevelt's Statement. “To the Men Who Have Volunteered for Immediate Service in the Firing Line in the Divisions ‘Which Congress Authorized: “The president. has announced that he will decline to permit these di- vislons to be organized or to permit me to have a command in connection with such a force. After consulta- - Uon yesterday, personally or by wire, Wwith some of the men who had voltn- teered to raise units, regiments, and battalions for the divisions including . John C. Groome of Pennsyivania, Seth .Bullock of South Dakota, John Green- way of Arizona, John Parker of Loulsiana, Robért Carey of Wyoming, J. P. Donnelly of Nevada, Sloan Simp- son of Texas, D. C. Collier and F. R. Burnham of California, 1. L. Reeves and H. Nelson Jackson of Vermont, Hartry Stimpson, W J. Shieffelin, Ham- liton Fish and W. H. Donovan of New York, Rock Channing, David M. Good- > tich, W. E. Dame, and various others Wwho were immediately accessible, it WAs decided unanimously that in vlew of the decislon of the presidemt ‘the: only course open to us is fo 1 @isband and to abandon all further #ffort In connection with the divisions, {hereby leaving each man free to get into the military service in some other “ way, it that is possible, and if not, then to serve his country. in «civil lite 88 he best can. “We rejoice that a division com- posed of our fine regular soldiers and marines under so gallant and efficient & leader as General Pershing is to be sent abroad: We have a right to cer- tain satisfaction in connection there- with. The Brooklyn Eagle last even- * Ing stated authoritatively that the sending of this expedition was ‘a com- . promise between the original plans of the general staff, which favored no garly expedition, and the tfequest of Colonel Roosevelt, for authority for in immediate expedition. The Roose- velt agitation, backed by the ex- pressed desire of such distinguished military leaders as General Joffre and General ' Petain, unquestionably had its effect in bringing about the Persh- , lhg expedition. The compromise ix that France gets American soldiers in the trenches but that Roosevelt will not lead nor accompany them. It ir believed in Washington that any criti- dem for turning down Roosevelt will be fully answered by the fact tha. 4dmerican soldiers are going over.! - “If this gives the explanation of the matter, I gladly say that we are All unselfishly pleased to have served this use, althpugh we regret not to have been allowed ourselves to ren- Jer active service. It is due to the men who have come forward in this matter during the three and one-half months since’ Feb. 2, when I began the work of raising one or more di- risions, that the following facts should be known: ‘. "“If yesterday my offer immediately to raise four divisions for immediate HEUMATICS - WON'T BE FOOLED il You have tried a lot of things for Rheumatism but still have it, it sure is discouraging. ° Now try the new, sure, quick, easy, nb trouble way, the new ‘Prescription 9" way. Watch it get that uric acid out of your system, get rid of those sore, » wohing, inflamed joints and muscles and in a hurry too, “Neutrone Pre- scription 99" as sure as time. No more flery salves and liniments that hurt you more than the Rheuma- tism, but a good clean internal rem- edy that eliminates all impurities of the blood, makes you like new, makes u feel like doing things once again. nu can distinctly feel your Rheuma- leaving you and oh! what a re- use at the front had been accepted, | the various units of the first division would tomorrow have begun to as- semble at whatever points the war de- partment had indicated, and they would have assembled in full force and without an hour's delay as rapid- ly as the war department directed them where to go, and as soon as it provided them camping places, tents, and blankets, etc., and we were pre- pared by the use of private funds ! partly to make good any immediate: lack in such supplies as of the units. Fifteen days atterward the second division would have .been mobilized in similar fashion, and then at intervals of thirty\days the other two divisions. In accordance with what I had found to be the wish of the military authorities among our allies, the divisions would have been i ready to. sail to France for intensive training back of the theater of war at | intervals of thirty days if the war de- |‘partment were even able to furnish the supplies, and we would have asked permission to use the rifles and am- munition now in use ;in the French and British armies. All four divi- sions would have sailed and twe would have been on the firing line by Sept. 1, the time at which the secre- tary of war has announced that the assembly of the selective draft army is to begin. About one-half oY our men, at least of those in the first di- viston, were men who had ' already seen military service, ‘‘As good American citizens we loy- ally obey the decision of the com- mander in chief of the American army and navy. The men who have volun- teered will now oconsider themselves absolved from all further connection with this movement. The funds that have been promised will be treated as withdrawn and applied to other pur- poses. I, therefore, direct that this statement be sent to the leaders in the various states who have been rais- ing troops and that it be published. “Our sole aim is to help in every way in the successful prosecution of the war, and we most heartily feel that no individual’s personal interest should for one moment be considered save as it serves the general public interest. { Claims Wilson Has Erred, “I wish respectfully to point out certain errors into which the presi- dent has been led in his announce- ment: He states that the purpose ‘was to give me an ‘independent com- mand.” In my last letter to the sec- retary of war, I explicitly stated that if I were given permission to raise an army corps of two divisions to be put under the command of some generale like Wood, Pershing, Barry, or Kuhn, I -desired for myselt only' the posi- tion' of junior among the eight bri- gade commanders. I would not have been ‘independent’ I would have been In precisely the position of an the other brigade commanders except that I would have ranked after and been subordinate to the rest of them. ‘The president alludes to our pro- posed action as one that would have an effect ‘politically,’ but not contri- buting to the ‘success of the war’ and 80 representing a ‘policy of personsl! gratification of advantage’ I wigl h ] respeotfuliy: but emphatically to de? that any politieal considerations wha! ever ‘or any desire for personal grati- fication or advantage entered into our calculations. Our undivided pur- pose was to contribute effectively to the success of the war. I know noth- ing whatever of the politics of the immense majority of the men who came forward and those whose poli- tics I do know include as many demo- crats as republicans. My purpose was to enable the government to use as invaluable the men: who would not be reached under the selective draft, who wore fit for immediate service, and the great majority of whom would not otherwise be used at all. “As above pointed out, all four di- visions. if the war department would equip them, would have been sent to the aid of our hard-pressed allies be- fore the training of the selective draft army was even begun, and they would not have been put into the firing line until the French or British military authorities deemed them fit. “The president says in effect that to comply with our offer would be mischievous from the military stand- point, and he adds that the regular officers whom I have asked to have associated with me are ‘some of the effective officers of the regular army,’ who ‘cannot possibly be spared’ from ‘the ‘duty of training regular troops.’ One "of the chief qualifications for military command is to choose for one's associates and subordinates ‘the most effective officers,’ and this qual- ification the president thus states that T possess. As far as for my withdraw- ing them from the ‘much more press- ing and necessary duty of training' the troops I wish to point out that I had asked for about fifty regular officers from leutenant colonels to sedond lieutenants for the first division. This would be only about one-tenth of the number who will go with General Pershing’s division, which the presi- dent announced is to be composed ex- clusively of regulars. Therefore the recent plan will take from ‘pressing and necessary duty’ about ten times as many regular officers as would have | been taken under our proposal. It has been stated that the régular of- ficers are opposed to our plan. As a matter of fact, the ‘most effective’ fighting officers’ have been eager to be connected with or to have under them the troops we proposed to raise. *“The president condemns our pro- ! posal on the ground that ‘undramatic | action is needed; action that is prac- | tical and of scientific definiteness and | precision.’ There was nothing ‘dra- | matic’ in our proposal save as all pro- | posals indicating eagerness or willing- | ness to sacrifice life for an idea are ! dramatic. It is true that our division would have contained the sons and |’ | grandesons of men who in the Civil !'war wore the blue or the gray; for instance, the sons or grandsons of Phil Sheridan, Fitzhugh Lee, Stone- wall Jackson, James A. Garfleld, Si- mon B. Buckner, Adna R. Chaffee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, but these men would have served, precisely with command or in the ranks, precisely like the rest of us; and all alike would have been judged ‘scientific definite- ness’ with which they did their work | and served the flag in their loyal de- ‘ votion.” regards many |' . 2§ 3 cHANCE [l cHances [l caNcEs Jl CHANCES 08T~ NOW. there ére only 5 days left in which you can order a set of the new Encyclopaedia Britannica printed on' genuine India paper lf you wait until after next Saturday, May 26th, you will NEVER be able to buy it, because by then, and possibly a day before, every set of the Britannica, printed on genuine India paper, in the entire world will have been sold. $ NOW a first payment of After Saturday, May 26th, you will NEVER be able to buy a s any price. NOW-—you can have the entire 29 volumes to use and profit by while you pay for them. After next Saturday you can NEVER have this work to own and use no matter how much you want it or need the knowledge it contains. Consider the Britannica as an investment—for an investment it is—an investment that will pay dividends in the exact proportion that you use it. The more you use the Britannica the larger dividends it will pay you. Dividends of increased knowledge, increased earning capacity, increased enjoyment, appreciation and understanding vof everything you do, see, use, read or come in contact with. . Think what the Britannica in your home will mean in the future. Think what a help it will be to your children in their school work. Right in your own business or occupation KNOW{.EDGE is what brings success, and the Britannica is the largest, most complete, most comprehensive, most authoritative library of knowledge in existence. ~You must decide NOW | Unless you order on or before next Saturday, May 26th, you will be too late. Unless you order on or before May 26th you will never own the Britannica printed on India paper. Unless you order on or before May 26th you will be depriving yourself and your family of the many advantages of this great library of the world’s knowledge in its most beautiful, most popular and most usable form. The end of the sale may come before May 26th. Order NOW and be on the safe side. Decide today whether or not you want to own the Britannica. We want each one of these last sets to go to those who will use it and get all of the many benefits from it. You must make up your mind for yourself. Do it now. We have arranged with stores in all parts of the countrfl to exhibit sets of the Britannica and receive orders. This gives you the opportunity to examine sets, select the binding you prefer, and decide infelligently whether or not you want to own the Britannica. Goatonuhthmm:i‘mndinthisnofieei Everydiyyuug:ti!:ogmoua:lmmmchm e. Don’t wait. loors portunit; osing, i 5 miore to close m then your opportunity will b::ono forei:rl:e = ST Y > These final announcements of the close of this great sale are getting shorter every day—just as the last sets on hand are getting fewer every day. This sale must end because no more sets of the Britannica can be printed on genuine India paper—because no more flax from Belgium, Germany or Ireland or hemp from Russia, two necessar¥ raw materials for making genuine India paper, can be secured. You know the whole story. It has been told over and over again: It is not necessary to say more. It's a case of NOW or NEVER. If you cannot go to the store, fill in the “Reserve” Order Form and send it right away. Then you will be sure of getting one of these last sets that can be printed on India paper. Now is l;lge time tst') act. Tey:r out the cou- pon and get it in the mail as soon as possible. Only 5 days more. Order foday. P A 22 mEeen, i A NEW VOLUME 'HE publishers of The Enc; aedia Br announce that they have made - for the issue, as soon after the ondd.tl.'.n 188 ible, of a new volume, containinga 4 morl:'lflva history of the war. The new volume will be written by scholars and experts of the same high character as those who wrote for the Britannica itself, and b&gflv of its own contributors. It will be absolutely im- partial, exclus all partisan feeling and preju- dice. It will con 1. A judicial account of the real causes of the war, the pi of the struggle, and the results all over the world ; with maps, as neces- sary, to show changes in boundaries. 2. Thelivesof the newleaders,whethercivil, military or naval, in the belligerent countries. “a. T'I;: resul mlh of the w‘r' outside %lplul’. A rogress of surgery, vention gfi:unn&e ious disease, the no'-l&m ~ veries, etc. The new volume will bridge the between the days of peace before m:i"a.fhr thrpw Ttwill be printed and bound to match the Britannics and the publishers tee that difficult and cosf x the suppl be from the editorial point of vis ?: it to nll‘whn %Fh:tubah Bl i the nt sale n ; cmmpondingvolum of the Brif to be followed by conveniently small monthly payments of as little as $3.00, (for the cloth binding) for a limited period, will secure a set for you. * Sets can be.mandordmlofidtl N Dickinson's Baok Stors 169-171 Main St, Please reserve me a set of the “Han Volume” Encyclopasdia prin :r’n genuine India . I enclose $1.00 as ent. Send me an order form which I agree sign and return immediately. o~ g5 Name : Street and Number.