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Tsaac F. Marcosson, War Observer, Praises the
Hearst Newspapers’ Policy, Saying First
Need of the Nation Is Efficient Preparedness.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—N0 Amerl
can is quite so well equipped to speak
with authority on the value of uni
versal service and military prepared
ness as Isanc . Marcosgon, the well
known writer and lecturer, who re
cently returned from his fifth trip to
the war, and who Inaugurated a
three-month lecture tour at Carnegie
Hall on Friday evening.
Mr. Marcosson has been with the
British, French, Italian, Belgian,
American and Russian armies in the
'.lz& He has met every outstanding
allied general, including Halg, Joffre,
Cadorna, Petain and Parnhlnfi, and
has had contdet with practically all
the eminent allled statesmen from Ke
rensky to Lloyd George.
Mr. Marcosson is an uncompromis
ing disciple of universal training.
‘1 bellove that the Hearst newspa
pers are entitled to the highest credit
for agitating at this time a movement
for universal service and prepared
ness; it isa a national necessity,” he
#ald at Ms apartment at the Hotel
Arlington, which is filled with souve
nirs of the great war. These Include
antographed portrafts of all the great
allled soldlers and statesmen, steel
helmets picked ur on battleflelds from
Ypres to the Itallan Carso, passes to
every front, scores of reminders of
stirring and hazardous days.
“Indeed, no American obligation to
day 18 greater than the effort to bring
the need of a proper preparedness
home to our people,” he continued.
“What the average American does not
realize is that the great war being
foufht in Kurope is as.much his war
as it 18 the war 8f our allies. If the
great conflict is not won on the bat
tleflelds of FBurope, it must be contin
ned on our own shores.
© “Whether this contingeney does or
does not anno. the big fact 1s that the
nation must be ready for any .emer
fonry. This war has proved that read
ness is more than half the battle, Al
nation trained and prepared offers no
au'ry mark,
“1 firmly believe that if Great Brit.
ain had followed the oft-preached in
-g‘\mntlnn of the late Karl Roberts, and
ad adopted universal training, this
war never would have happened. Rob
erts ranged up and down the King
dom preaching the gospel of prepared
ness. Jverywhere he was met with
opposition, even abuse. Old "Bobs’
knew wherof he spoke. He had been
through flve wars from the Nile to
South Africa, -
“In our own country we have had
his parallel In Major General Wood.
For vears he urged the nation to pre
pare. But America, like A monstrous
pstrich, hid her head In the sands of
fancied security, content with her
aloofness. *
“Tha day is gone when isolation
means immunity from attack. The
Zeppelin, the aeroplane and the sub
marine have oured England of this il
-the exploits of the U-53 off
the “coast of Nantucket showed the
United States that the broad reaches
of the Atlantic are no longer a nation
al bulwark against the Invader.
“The whole European war offers
the most striking illustration of the
nsed of adequate preparedness. Tet
us g.\ back for a moment to the Fran
co-Prussian~War of 1870-71. The
Frerch army was small; some of It
was in Italy maintaining the French
authority there. What was the re
sult? Prussia annihilated France,
surrounded the French army at Be-‘
::u and captured the French Emper
on the forty-seventh day 3\,“\9‘
war. Never was a nation so humbled
and humilinted and in record time. |
“What huplpened in that historic
w-t of 1814 when the world saw
For years there had been uni
wvorsal service in France. When the
gray horde swept down through Bel
g\‘lln bent on capturing Paris it was
those legions of gallant Frenchmen,
trained and preparéd through thelr
';glodl of compulsory servica with
colors, that stemmed the Teutonic
advance on the banks of the Marne
on the thirty-fifth day of the war.
The Marne not only saved France,
but long before Verdun's eplc of valor
hal been recorded wrote the first
draft of that immortal phrase: “They
Shall not Pass!’ It is the epitaph of
German military ambition in this
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. "Why Is universal training so es
sential?" asked The American’'s re
porter, |
“There are many reasons,” re
plied Mr, Marcosson.
- “Thero are innumerablo things that
&un not buy. Foremost among
b is time. It takes time to or
ize and prepare. War has demon
ted that time will only be found
{n periods of peace. Modern war with
all its sclentific alds to destruction
gives no time fer preparation. Tts
approach, to use the phrase made by
~a distinguished apostle of prepared
ness, ‘is that of the avalanche and
not of the glacier.'
*This is no time for ?oat-monam-.
but one thing is certain: If Major
General Wood's advocacy of prepar
_edness in America had been heeded
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ingbird, now of Carroiltan. Ga.,
will del‘ver his famous lecture,
“Sunshine and Shadows,” Mon.
day night, anuary 28, at the East
Side Baptist Tabernacle Church,
corner of Flatshoals avenue and
Gibson street.
+ Come and enjoy a hearty
laugh. .
Take Soldiers' Home or South
Decatur cars, get off at Gibson
street-—one block to the left.
and we had trained three or four mil
l Hon young men for military service,
the decisive blow In the war might
have been struck last Summer or late
’Autumn and the world might have
‘been enjoying the fruits of peace at
‘ this moment,
- “All allied Europe concedes that
it I 8 up to America to dellver the
knockout blo;{. I greatly fear that
we will not Be ready to deliver that
‘blow this year. For one thing, 1
belleve that our war plans, and more
‘nwflnlly our aviation expansion,
‘hav® been press-agented too much.
Publicity, save only when it reveals
actual conditions and brings losses
home to the nation so that it may
gird itself up with fresher faith, has
no place in the war programme. The
‘best plece of publicity that America
could have AMashed to the world in
August, 14, would have been the
announcgMent that she had mlllions‘
of men” ready and trained for the
‘business of war, |
i “No man who has seen anyth!ng;
of the European struggle has Hny.
other feel'ng but that preparedness
is the {reaten of all Insurance
}uain-t uture wars. 1 do not mean
‘the contest in armaments such as
‘develuped between England and Ger
many during the elght years prior to
‘the outbreak of the European war.
\What I do mean is that the moral
effect of a loyal citizenry trained to
arms I 8 in itself the best preventive
against usurpation and militariem.
“There {8 a vast difference be
twaen adequate military prepared
ness and the pernicious and destruc
tive institution of militarism. One
means the profession of arms as an
ald to national safety, the other Is
4 deadly weapon almed at the bosom
61 liberty and democracy.”
“What is the best programme for
universal training?’ Mr. Marcosson
was asked: \
"It should be made part of the
education of every boy. Like pex
‘hygiene, it should be taught in the
‘lrhools. War today Is the great
st business in the world. As a
matter of faot, it is the world's busi
news, Therefore the problem of a
watisfactory and permanent peace
is the great problem of the future.
That peace can he best achieved h,v‘
universal service which will not
only make the universe free for‘
democracy, but insure immunity from
further war, ‘
“The case of little Switzerland
will fllustrate. Here you have one
of the smallest countries in the;
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Do you know why the sparrows are hovering around this team?
‘ They are waiting for a nice meal at your expense.
The horses are eating whole
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third of the grain whole without
chewing it.
The fibrous hulls cannot be
broken \? in the stomach of the
horse. Your expensive grain goes
through the intestines undigested
and is eaten by the birds. Prove this
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HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN __ A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1918.
world, yet on the day the European
war began she was able to mobilize
£30,000 men and put them into the
fleld in two days, Before a week
elapsed she had as many more ef
fectives on the job, Switzerland was
able to do this because every physic
ally fit man is tralned to be a sol
dier, During the years of his young
manhood, when his social and eco
nomical responsibilities are at their
maximum, he gives a few months of
eyery year to universal training. The
demand for this service is not clamp
ed down on his shoulder like a mall
ed flst, Military training s made a
pleagant and agreeable thing, It
becomes an outdoor sport. The re
sult is that practically every Swiss
I 8 an expert marksman. While
Bwitzerland in normal times does not
llye under arms the whole country
I 8 a trained dsmocracy. The army
comprises the people and the people
are the army. It 1s the ideal condi
tion. We may well heed this lesson.
“What we must realize is that mili
tary training is not a training for
war alone; it is really a training for
life, a school for citizenship In time
of peace. Inculcate into any man the
big principles of a sound body, rigid
discipline, a keen eye and a strong
arm and, you equip him for the big
ger struggle to live, When this war
Is over the trained and disciplined
armies now fighting on a dozen fronts
will be the real rulers. Out of the
cruelble of the war will emerge an
organized eitizenship that will make
peace more orderly, more economical
and more ppoductive. ;
“There is gtill another reason why
the American people should begin
to learn the real definition of the
word ‘preparedness.’ It lis this:
When the war is over the bloody
battles now being fought out on
bitterly contested flelds will have
their successors in the bloodless but
oqually bitter trade conflicts of peace,
Competition in business, which was
cnee merely part of a nation’s nat
ural development, will become a
struggle for existence. Along with
military preparedness there must be
commercial preparedness. We have
built up the biggest foreign trade
balance in our history, but it is due
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entirely to an inflated war business
built eut of the urgent needs of the |
Kuropean nations at war. Our facto
rles have been expanded. Th‘flvl
must be kept going when the war is
over. Otherwise we will feel a costly
commercial reaetion.
“Now is the time to prepare for
the ‘War After the War.’ The best
way to do it {8 to train our men and,
more especially, our women to wurk‘
with their hands. No benefit of the
war is greater than the evolution of
the weaker sex into the stronger.
With economic independence the
women of the world are finding thée
way to sex independence. It is mol-'
ish to belleve that with peace they
will be content to step aside from
the enormous part they have played |
in the drama of war. Thelr prepar- \
edness to assume the masculine bur
den is part of the permanent reha- |
bilitation of the world. |
“In this training lies our future
ecomonic safety. It is full brother
to the preparedness that is the in
surance against actual physical war.”
Busiest Man in World
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-—The buslest
man in the world has been found—in
Washington, of course. He's neither
the President, a Cabinet member nor,
the stenographer who takeg the re
marks printed in that breezy periodi
cal, The Congressional Record. He's
the sentry at the northwest corner of
the White House grounds. 1
This sentry goes on duty each after
noon juset after 4. He carries a rifle.
'Tht.'.r:fle must be brought to “prepent!
arm every time a commissioned offi- |
cer passes his post. There are some
thing like 2000 officers on duty in the |
War Department across the way, and
almost as many in the Navy D:Pnrt-}
ment. They all leave work and walk bsy |
the White House between 4:30 and 6.
You can figure to Koursell how many
flm:,n that sentry has come to “pre
sent.’” |
He has stopped trying to figure it.
\But he has come to a conclusion about
it all. He says: <
| “Gee, when I get Into the trenches,
chucking hand grenades at the Fritzes,
it'll be flke a day off.” 1
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