HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCA TION By Belle Case La Follette, The Christ of the Andes THE National Council for Prevention of War is sending out a large Christmas Poster and also post cards of "the Christ of the...
...for we have helped to fasten a militaristic-navalistic yoke on others...
...Every year, by preventable accident and preventable disease we are losing about 600,000 citizens, a large share of whom could be saved were there a wise expenditure of public funds...
...Very truly yours, (Signed) Lucia Ames Mead...
...in July from Hankow along the Yangtse River...
...that question was decided when we told Wilson, 7 million strong: NIX ON THAT...
...Who made such laws...
...The women of the two nations were largely instrumental in raising the sum that it cost, $100,000...
...The less our boys are prepared, the more cost in blood is the price...
...Since the government has been the owner and operator the efficiency has been greatly improved, the lines extended, and the road has been making money...
...Respectfully suggested, Believes in Salvation by Prepa redness Chicago, Illinois DEAR Editor La Follette's Magazine...
...Surely the men who have sons liable to conscription and no money, vastly outnumber those who have money and no sons...
...The answer to that question is: It has always been so, and because a thing has always been so it must be right...
...We hold that we have had three foreign wars that were unnecessary—the War of 1812, the Mexican War, which General Grant declared one of the most unjust wars ever fought by a strong people against a weak people...
...over-confidence is a vice...
...We have gross illiteracy and about one-fourth our population cannot read intelligently a newspaper in English...
...Bide Dudley, in New York Evening World...
...We, as patriotic women and taxpayers, who hold a different view of our country's dangers and the kind and degree of defense needed respectfully ask your consideration of some of the reasons why we believe you are unwarranted in asking for increased appropriations for the army and navy and increase in personnel : 1. OUR DANGERS FROM OUTSIDE ATTACK ARE THE LEAST THAT WE HAVE TO FACE...
...were everything we have taken from us, including our babies milk supply...
...we need resurrection—"The Referendum...
...HOME AND EDUCA TION By Belle Case La Follette, The Christ of the Andes THE National Council for Prevention of War is sending out a large Christmas Poster and also post cards of "the Christ of the Andes" with a brief history of this beautiful symbol of peace between two nations...
...If it was just to others, it will by the same token be just to us: Therefore now it's our turn to shiver, and shiver till the coin jingles once more and that soon...
...Ten years ago, before the Central Powers had been rendered impotent we were paying for army and navy only $244,177,000...
...Thus Japan seems to be setting an example to the rest of the world in carrying out the pledges she made in treaties of Versailles and the agreements of the Washington Disarmament Conference...
...But why borrow it and incur a debt for later generations to pay...
...Commenting on "Substitute for War" in your November issue, which in the last analysis is a stand against preparedness, I will say:**** "If we make up our minds" not to kill men, women and children, is NOT the question any more...
...3. "The need of government subsidy of those steel plans which were constructed for special war work and which are now serious burdens to their owners...
...The clergy and the women prevented it...
...our naval personnel is being reduced by 12,000 officers and men...
...Philippine Railways WHATEVER the success or failure of government-owned railways in other countries, in the Philippine Islands government ownership is a success...
...2. 'The nation must also concentrate on the industrial phases of preparedness, namely the development of munitions plants of air-craft...
...The inscription on its pedestal is famous: "Sooner shall these mountains crumble into dust than the people of Argentine and Chile break the peace which they have sworn at the feet of Christ the Redeemer...
...John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, War Department, Washington, D. C. Sir: Your statement made before the New York Post of the Army Ordnance Association in regard to further national preparedness has been widely quoted...
...Our present estimates for army and navy are $629,672,000...
...Referendum on war would naturally be followed by further referendum on other subjects, until a representative would be surprised to find himself representing the people who elected him...
...came his scornful reply...
...All could be conscripted in case of war...
...in October from the Siberian mainland...
...We have nearly lost our soul...
...and the war with Spain, which might have been avoided, and that no nation has declared war against us...
...It is the work of Mateo Alonso...
...Naw...
...Is my money dearer to me than are my sons...
...Of course if you mean to let America be re-anglicised, then your Oriental religious idea of "non-resistance" is timely propaganda, AND in that case, it is seductively put to the populace...
...and why are they not changed...
...So the two great nations let the King of England settle their disputed boundary while they sent their soldiers home to till the fields...
...A Europe, which is slowly collapsing under poverty, militarism and extreme nationalism, is anxiously watching our policy...
...If the government can take my sons and enslave them—for the soldier is a slave—he differs from a chattel slave only in the fact that he's paid wages, and in the further fact that his masters —the officers over him—are not his owners, and, therefore not interested in his welfare, if the government can take my sons and make soldiers of them it can take my money, and it should do so...
...Why is this...
...AND we loaded down with excessive enemy demands for generations to come...
...We thought we detected an air of wistfulness about the lad and our heart was touched...
...We now strenuously object to further increase...
...The question now is: NOT the question of our making up our minds not to kill...
...We have done so to the extent of capitulation...
...If it should be necessary to amend the constitution to accomplish the change, that could and would be done...
...Revolution by Referendum is preferable to anarchy...
...3. We are facing next year a national deficit of $672,000,000...
...Civilization is builded up by confidence...
...Another "Substitute For War" Yutan, Nebraska...
...MAY we KEEP America for Americans...
...Can't a feller look at a swell dame without drawin' no crowd...
...The Manila Railroad, 764 miles in length, has paid a nice profit over a five-year period...
...2. OUR CHIEF DANGGERS ARE FROM WITHIN and our chief defenders are mothers, farmers, miners, manufacturers, railroads, newspapers, legislatures, courts, doctors, health boards and teachers, etc., most of whom are necessary before any army is possible...
...In the five foreign wars which we have had, including the Revolution and the World War, we have lost in battle fewer men slain than the 85,000 which the American Bar Association assures us is the number of our homicides in the last ten years...
...and as I am now speaking, the last Japanese soldier is probably leaving the port of Kiao-Chau...
...AND no one be permitted to buy from us until the buyer from us, first paid to our enemy 26 per cent of the price: Some yoke on others and some joke on us...
...We hold that our chief defense lies in the education and upbuilding of these mainstays of our Republic...
...In front of a Broadway restaurant yesterday we saw a small ragged urchin watching a girt in the window baking batter-cakes...
...Oilier measures which testify to our loyalty to the spirit of the Washington conference have recently been taken...
...ail vessels to be scrapped have already been transferred to the reserve list and are in process of disarmament...
...The public is, therefore, easily misled and readily accepts the statement that the army and navy are our first line of defense...
...Besides the government does not have to take my money, it can borrow it, and pay it back at a later date...
...Lucia Ames Mead to the Secretary of War Hon...
...Editor, Dear Sir: IHAVE five sons, all unmarried and all of military age...
...These facts are not in school text books and few know them...
...Why then, do the vast majority allow the small minority to rule...
...Since this statement by Saburi, the Japanese have evacuated Shantung...
...We thought in 1918 we had fought a war to end war and that cost of war preparations, when we had no one left to endanger us except our Allies, could be rapidly reduced...
...It would be some substitute for "hell fire", whother the belief in "hell fire" vanished or not...
...The naval establishment of Port Arthur in Manchuria has been abolished...
...We are spending about $265,000,000 on' pensions...
...Chile and Argentina were preparing for war...
...and thus—there would never be any more wars...
...Japan Keeps Pledges SADAO Saburi, the charge' de Affairs of the Japanese Embassy at Washington stated in a recent address: "In May this year we withdrew our forces from the Shantung railway line...
...instead, we are spending two hundred and fifty percent more than before the war...
...IT is so simple that it may seem jlish— "The Referendum...
...But be that as it may: The last time our boys were conscripted to put a foreign yoke on strangers, the next time and soon they will be conscripted to keep a foreign yoke off our own neck...
...There are other reasons, not mercenary ones, why we cannot accept your policy, but these are some which we believe the general public Will consider cogent...
...To B. C. L., Care of La Follette's Magazine...
...our naval appropriation is being cut by about 10G,000,000 yen...
...Are bonds and mortgages more sacred than men...
...The statue of Christ, 25 feet high and made of bronze cannon, was set upon the new established boundary line...
...1. The United States must have an army of one hundred fifty thousand men and thirteen thousand officers "if we are going to carry out the provisions of the national defense act of 1920...
...Confidence is a virtue...
...Tl.e net profits for the first six months of 1922 amounted to $7?6,684...
...Chairman of Committee on Education, Conscription of Money or Men...
...Hungry, kid...
...In a "government by the people" it is expedient that we delegate our authority...
...How comes it that the government can take my sons, and can't take my money...
...yes, and we, for the self styled just people...
...If the people, the vast, and overwhelming majority who have sons and no money, could once be made to realize how unfair the present system is, they could and would change it...
...and although the reduction of land armament was not agreed to at Washington, we are reducing our army by five divisions...
...the number of employes in our naval arsenals is being- reduced by 6,000...
...Previous to that, under private ownership and operation, the road lost money each year and rendered miserable service...
...I am not unaware that some anxiety has been expressed in regard to Japan's single remaining foreign involvement—her position in northern Sakhalien...
...we asked...
...Can we afford to spend any more of the people's taxes in preparing to defend ourselves against at present non-existent and supposititious enemies...
...With the referendum we could salvage what civilization we have, while anarchy would revert to savagery...
...Bishop Benedcnte preached the folly and wickedness of war throughout Argentina while Bishop Java preached to Chile...
...The process of scrapping the vessels assigned to destruction under the Five-Power Treaty is under way...
...I have also 5 million dollars, and not a dollar of it could be conscripted in case of war...
...The Philippine government took over the Manila Railroad in 1916...
...Ought not all our efforts to be expended in working for further world organization, cooperation rather than competition, and in the substitution of law for war...
...Judging from the present trend of Japanese public opinion, I am confident that this matter also will be settled in a spirit of justice and fair play...
...for when all the people want the same thing they can get it...
...The money they had been spending on "preparedness' they put into much needed roads and other public improvements...
Vol. 14 • December 1922 • No. 12
