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•Montsomary Advertiser, being duly sworn,
rsnys:
. Tbs forsyolns statement of Tha Adver
; fleer's circulation for the Month of Decani;
-her, 1010, Is true and correct and compiled
. after returns and spelled copies have bean da
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.* • THE ADVERTISER CO.,
t J. L. BOESHANS,
■> ' - Circulation Manager. ,
■' Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
Fourth day et January, 1017, __
r (SEAlT) R. a PHELPS.
‘ Notary Public, Montsomerr County. Alabama,
I f ORDERING THE GUARD RACK
ffc;,vr home, v
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*. A (illinpUe mM»(6 want through Satur
day, from Washington, enquiring of General
| ,'Pershing, tho date on which ho could begin
the removal of hie troops from Mexico. An
i, ’ agreement haa been struck between' the
American government and the Carranea gov-,
eminent, by whleh the American troops are
f to be ordered back to the border. '
The various unite of .the National Guard.
j. Including the Alabama Brigade. now on the
} ’border, PHI ’ll* ' sent home; Wttrtr
troops of Pershing are bach en the Anier- .,
lean side, provided the villa forces make
> - no hostile demonstration, as Pershing takes
trh„ men1 out. v
| It is not Improbable that Villa will com
! mlt some overt act for the political advan
• tags whleh It mar give him la Mexico. He
|e has now an army of twelve thousand men;
• some of,his troops art within a day's march'
• of some of Pershing's men. Villa, of course '
1 ; has no Idea of a- stand-up. fight with the
j Americana, and It Is even Improbable that
' ; he will make a demonstration as the Amir
|| leans move back. But such a movement by
Villa would bo good poll ties-in Mexico. i">'
i • *; In the meanwhile the Guardsmen on the
’ | border can look forward with some certain
ty to the fulfillment of their ardent wish
r .'"to return home Late events Indicate’ that
the Guard will be ordered hoa^e at laast by'
l . the first of March and that perhaps by that
f data thay will he In the muster-out camp in
v>. their home Statea The Guard -will ha
f ordered back, becauao there la no need of
j?.- them, and If the truth be told, they dill be
!'>*; ordered back because the yrmy .officers will
be as glad to have them homo aa they will
| * he to get home
. They will he ordered home because their
|f,- term of duty la ovsr, and because, after thd
force of Porahlng Is established on the border
% there will be no need of the service of the
Guard. The original demand for the return
of the. Guard cams bacause. It was charged
that thay wars not well treated and that
&they were the vlctlmy of preventable epi
demics These charges, after-full and fair
’ investigation, have been proved unfounded.
The friends of the Guard, including Gov
ernor Henderson, asked that the Guard be
returned, because they were not la the eerv
x - ice to do police duty, and that If was not
ji! ■ necessary to- keep them Idle on the border.
• The Governor, under the PederallaUd Act,
<: has no command of the Guard, and his rs
. quest la that of an Influential cltlsen of Ala
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■; The Guard will be returned in due. time
:end. that In a few week*. This, we'believe,
ie the lut active service that the Federallsed
National Guard will render, unless there in
< unexpected complications in our foreign af
■" fairs in the near future. The next Congress.
If' we venture the prediction, will repeal the
Federallsed National Guard Act. The gtn
_ eral complaint, the appeals to the public
and to official sources by members of the
, Guard and their friends, to get the Guards-'
fp men out because they were tired, have proved
‘"that the system is a failure in its purpose
to provide first line of defense troops for
' the nation. The Guard has complained that
criticism of it by regular army officers has
fe been unjust, and they are doubtless right.
But the pleas to be taken home, the numer
ous and repeated complaints from'the mem
fcers, the repeated statement by the Guards
men of what sort of service they proposed
to rpnder and the terms on which they would
| 'Tender it, have done the Guard more harm
than all Its critics have said' about it.
| t , When Pershing gets back to the border;
| > the Guard will be ordered home—and it will
£i. be ordered out no more. >
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% “Nobody knows how dry wd are going to
be."—Chattanooga News. Is that a distress
tih signal? ,
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It Is time you were doing your winter poll
Sty, baring.
Montgomery will do its best to make you
say you were glad you came, so come to see
* our show tomorrow.
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It's the paved street that treate the pedes
t irlan most considerately in wet weather.
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00M1 TO THE mo SHOW.
“r til* Advertiser, this morning, Is the itisir
JW tM KtMiltD of s warm and Insistent
llTltalUh, ‘on behalf of Montgomery to tho
poople of Middle and South Alabama to coma.
*• this city to boo our "Made-in-Montgom-'
ory** show..'
!j This Shorn U made up exclusively at ar
ticles .manufactured In tho city of Montgon)-.
*17! wo' confidently aspect visiters to ho
surprised by what they see. It Is, for fa
sten c«, news to many of our oyrn people,'
that we, have %flfty-flve different manufac
turing plants, all Of which have examples
of their products at the show.'
We would again remind the peopli of
Montgomery’s trade territory that they pro
Interested In the show. .We are not coa4
corned about the patronage the show Is go
ing to receive from Montgomery. Our peo
ple are going—thfcy are going there many
times. 'This City Is Interested, almost to en
thusiasm, on the subject of the show, and
the promoters are not at all doubtful as to
the patronage of Montgomery people.
What the city Is Interested In. and what
the manufacturers are Interested In now. Is
the attendance from our trade territory.
Montgomery wholesale merchants and manu
facturers have always manifested a keen In
terest In the welfare of the (dike who live
In this city’s trade territory,' and they do/
business on a generous scale. They hope
that the 'farmers and the merchants of the
small town's will recognise the truth of the
claim that a development of the manufactur
ing Interests of Montgomery will widen the
demand for the- products of .the farms of,
Middle and South Alabama.
There Is In Montgomery manufacturing,
plants which use as raw material practically
everything grown/on the farm. Moreover,
every time a factory Is opened a new pay
roll is created. The workers In the fac
tories must eat food that other people raise:
they certainly can raise none themselves.
So, as the number of workers increase, the
demand for farm products is greater. Again,
our manufacturing Interests comprise a great
agency for the consumption of diversified
farm products. They make It easier for the
farmer to sell the various articles that be
grows upon the farm. * v . _
A Dove au this, tne city want* to play jpMl
to It* customers. By Monday' there should
be aome fair weather—certainly It cannot
rain all the time. A week of bad weather
muet Inevitably be followed by aome fair
weather. We are optimistic enough to be
lieve that the break la coming early enough
to give the "Made-ln-Montgomegf" ehow a
week of fair weather In which thouaanda of
vlaltore can come toMontgomery, see the
show, enloy the varloua “stunts” and pro
grama which, will be .pulled*off and Inci
dentally‘•attend 'to/any buslneaa they may’
have on'their mind. . ,
There la not much doing on the farm at
thla time of the year. Moreover the land haa
been drowned out for aereral daya. Let the
farmer Improve hie mind, widen hie atore of
Information agd give hie family .aome an-.
Joyment by coming to the Montgomery ahow.
V PUBIFYINO” GOVERNMENT.
The latest Jok* |o come out of Wash
ington la the drafting of a bill dealg
nated to wipe out corruption In election*.
Now laugh!—Columbiana Sun.
Direct participation In the election of all
ofllclala. from highest to lowest, direct par
ticipation of all the votera in initiating legis
lation, passing Judgment on legtalatton and
; recalling public ofllclala. were adverttaed a
few yeara ago aa the panacea which* would
reduce corruption la politico to a minimum, '
drive the corrupt boaa out of polities^ and /
make the whole political atmoephere of the
land more wholesome. That panacea didn't
work out. Now the aeveral State Legisla
tures scarcely ever meet without amending
the election laws to -keep voters from being
unduly influenced by money and other Im
proper considerations. _ Thll most far-reach
ing corrupt practices act ever proposed at
Washington la now befor| (Jongress; though
it la very doubtful If the meaaure. la more
far-reaching than the Alabama primary law.
Isn’t It a aerloua commentary upon our
people that after bo much has been done to
Insure their direct, uprestralned participa
tion In government. It la deemed necessary
even by the advocates of direct government,
to draft such a meaaure as is now pending
In Congress? The very character of the
measure la an Indictment that abOuld' make
"we, the people,” wince.
“ALAFL AMISS.”
"Alaflamlss” la a new term, whioh wa hopa
hat come to stay. The term la not pdrtlcu
larly phonetic, but aufllciently suggestive to
be altogether adequate to the purpoaea It la
uand for. Doea It puzzle you? Well, It la
made up almply of the first ayllable of theae
rather well known namea: Alabama, Florida
and Mlaalaaippl. It suggests a aectlon of
territory- comprlalng nineteen Gulf Coast
counties In three Statea which a development
company haa assigned to Itaelf the work of
exploiting by Intensive, sustained publicity
In the North and Eaat. The Gulf Coast Coun
try Development League, organised by aub
atantlal business tnen from three States- la
the company which has undertaken the ad
mirable plan of exploiting the territory In
these counties. It Is a sound and daring Idea
which controls these men. The promoters
are raising a fund Of $250,000 to be expended
during the next five years at the rato of
$50,000 a year with which to carry on their
extensive publicity propaganda .throughout
the North and East "telling of the oppor
tunities and advantages for settlement and
development to be found In these countlfcs”;
and tourists will be sought with special
energy. Seeing that the winter tourist goes
to Southern California and Southern Florida,
because the Gulf poast country is "unknown"
to him, a vigorous drive will be made npon
the tourlst^who hitherto has been bestowing
his patronage npon other sections. *
Representative and responsible citizens are
leading In this movement, which promises
rich returns to the section of the country
which their .vision Is favoring. The enter
prise Is In line with the beat development
philosophy In that It la highly organized and
has mapped out a definite program of action.
It Is In line with the Idea of "ntenslve culti
vation” In that it does not undertake to cover
too much territory.
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TH* “LEAK” aOAWDAL. y ,
The American , public would have the scan
dal about the so-called official, "leak” probed
to the bottom. They want the atmosphere
cleared. .
It there is any truth in the charge they
want that truth brought, out; if the charges
are sensational, spectacular and false, they
want the fakirs who brought them.'exposed
to public scorn. The way .to prevent such
a sensation in the future Is to punish any
official, guilty of speculating on official in
formation, or to punigh, scandal mongers who
trade op gossip and who disport themeelvos
in the midst of offensive notoriety.
It is well for the American public to keep
In mind the fact that so far not one scintilla
A evidence has been offered to prove the
charges. The makers of them have been
heard, but* they had no evidence that would
be accepted in any court In the country. The
Congressional Committee may latar reveal
evidence to substantiate all yy part of tho
charges, but so far 'the so-called evidence is
second and third hand!* of “what they say**
and "I heard it reported.” Hen’s character
should not be destroyed; an such testimony
'as this. If there is stronger testimony, let
It be brought out.
• Bays The Union Springs Breese: "BullJfek
county has no coal, iron or. gold mines, not
many factories and no skyscrapers.” But
Bullock has that which enhances the money
value of the others—In fact has that with
out which It Is doubtful if the others would
he worth, while to anybody: It .has agri
culture. Having only agriculture its prob
lems are reduced in numbers and simplified
in i character. If Bullock* makes the most of
Its agricultural opportunities—and that thing
it is beginning -to do—it will be prosperous
and happy without the others; especially
since it has a school system which is so fine
The Breese remarks upon it with grAt en
thusiasm, a system which has been, the sub
ject of admiring comment from others as
• welt '
The Marion Standard’s dissertation on. the
"Art of Doing Without,” contains advice
which'we American .Belgians ought to heed;
but Editor Oreer is barking up the wrong
tree. You can no more make an American
be content in self-denial than you can make
him quit "beefing.”
Editor Ed. Johnson hi) converted his
Headland Standard' Into1 the "Wlregrass
-Farmer,” to be published weekly and along
the lines suggested In the title. It will
be a farmer's. Journal devoted to news of
the remarkable Wlregrass agricultural sec
tion- The first Issue Indicates that It will
be sufficiently patronized to make the enter
prise profitable. Mr. Johnson has caught
the spirit of the age, so far Ss Alabama U
concerned, when he sees that farm “stuff*
Is real news, live news. He has a big Idea
and The Advertiser wishes him the greatest
possible success.
I .
They are still trying nightrlders In Ten.
nessee. The night rider has been tried and
found wanting. . . , ,
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If the collector of customs at Brld£*porf,
Conn., had not announced'that the Deutsch
land was due to arrive there within 48
hours, good sports would probably , have
thought Just as much of him. By shooting
off bis mouth too precipitately he may have
unwittingly given thea Allied patrol an ad
vantage which It didn’t have before he
spoke, > V
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, Qeorge Patullo. a' well known magazine
writer, who was recently in Mexico, a coun
try with which he Is peculiarly ^well ac
quainted, says that Villa, now called by the
Mexicans the "Enchanted Captain,” has com
mand of 20,000 men and Is In complete con
trol of Northern Mexico. Villa is preaching
death to foreigners and confiscation of their
property In Mexico. Villa has ordered
American soldiers to get out -of Mexico.
Carranza has demanded the withdrawal of
our troops. What leader In Mexico has not
laid down the law^to your Uncle Sgra? ,
the Tribune calls Tampa . the “freezelcss
city.” Bui It can melt, can't it?
Mr. •Hears* devotes a page editorial to ft
demand for peace. It will take six pages
at once to put it over, William.
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Fannie Hurst, writing about a New fork
chorus girl, quotes the- girl as saying sho
has a •‘Western” friend who "lives at
Newark.” Old stuff, Fannie, old stuff.
We observe a number.of editorials In whloh
the truism is gravely repeated to the effect
that Dewey, though a world character comes
at list to die Just' like common, every-day,
dirt-eating folks. We, too, have noticed that
dying proclivity which great men have—In'
fact. It has been so long a subject for re
mark by commentators that one almost hesi
tates to become great. Still, Dewey lived to
be SO years old and managed to lead a toler
ably fUll and Interesting life.
The Diversified
Farmer
Big Changes.
The other night in a magazine we were
reading an article by George Ade. world
famed Indiana farmer, on the Central West
of twenty twenty-five and thirty years ago
In those days a large part of the Central
West was a considerable mess, it consisted
of extensive tracts of untilled prairie grow
ing up in weeds of <$11 kinds, big ponds here
and there that spread arniles of mosquitoes
and plenty of malaria, small shacks and
no roads to speak of—generally a dreary
outlook for civilization. Today that Central
West country is the most productive part
of America,.1 and house for house and man
for man. It Is the most porsperous part of
America. It has homes and schools and
growing towns, railroads and automobiles,
and farms that produce the big part of
America’s supply of corn, cattle and hogs,
butter and eggs.
It is hard,to realize that the Central West
tha't we know today has come into being In
the last quarter of a century. It |s glorious
proof of what can be done to a country in
a short time by energetic citizenship. .
Now one thing in Mr. Ade's article that
struck us Was the drainage problem. The
Central West people dug dUches to drain off
the ponds and they laid thousands upon
thousands upon hundreds of thousands of
miles of tile drains to dr ala ihair e„ —
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Today their farms, under tile drainage, pro
duce big crops.
' Our problem right here In trie Central
South is exactly the same as that of the
Central West. Drainage is one of the big
gest of all our works—digging ditches to
carrv off; the bulk of the water and then
tl'r-draining the land to increase the pro
ductiveness of the farms.
Down here we have been digging ditches
,tpr some time but. we are Just really begin
ning to get onto the profits there are In tile
drainage. Will Howard Smith and his
brother Hazen Smith, In Autauga county,
were among the first to take up tlle-draln
Ing their farm In a big way. They will con
tinue ' this work, we understand, until, a
considerable acreage is drained. In Western
Alabama tile draining is going ahead pretty
well. One by one our progressive farmers
Are going to tile drain their damp land.
The drainage law passed by the last Legis
lature should in time bring large areas under
ditch drainage. When we have done enough
draining of the right sort, then there will
be no more malaria anywhere in the Cen-.
tral South. Good drainage does away with
malaria anywhere.
.The one difficulty in extensive drainage Is
lack of co-operation from another section of
territory. It Is all right to drain your sec
tion. but if you happen' to drain onto an
other section then you haven't accomplished
much In total. It Is presumed that those
who undertake to drain large sections of
country under the new law-will provide for
not running water into another section of
country, but carry it Into streams that will
eventually carry it to the Gulf.
Drainage and sanitation' are big problems
for every home and every community in
' Alabama and for the State 'itself. They are
problems requiring the thought and activity
of frien who really want to do something to
Improve living conditions and increase pro
duction.
It Is an era. of political flub-dub, we sug
gest these two vital problems as worthv of.
morn than passing notice.
Stump pullers have never gone much In
the cut-over timber sections of Alabama,
Mississippi and Georgia, where burning out
the stumps has been found to be the easiest
and cheapest way. Of course the most
beneficial way of getting out stumps is to'
dynamite them. For orchards It .is always
best to dynamite stumps.
But did you ever think of the enormous loss
entailed In the destroying of stump*? Just
think of the turpentine In' those millions of
Stumps that decorate the cut-over timber
lands of the South. There are from fifteen
to thirty gallons of good turpentine oil In
every one of those stumps and with this oil
around twenty cents a' gallon you can figure
just how mufch money Is lost every time a
stump Is destroyed.
" This Is Just one example of our costly
methods of doing things. The way the tim
beF-property in the South and other places
has been handled is nothing short of a
crime, according to the judgment of the
Forest Service. Slash and waste—these have
been the chief characteristics of the methods
of handling timber lands.
Some of the lumber companies have had
no uSe for the land once It has been cut
over. But there is enough turpentine in the
stumps to warrant thought and effort to get
that turpentine out and at the same time
make the land ready for culivation.
We understand that some shrewd fellows
in New York have now got a system of
burning out each stump separately and dis
tilling Into turpentine oil the vapors as they*
come from the stump. If this plan is a suc
cess It means adding millions of dollars to
the value of cut-ovar lands.
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SOUTHERNERS QUITE AT HOME IN SEATS
OF THE MIGHl'V.
Manufacturers Record.
The Targe number of Texas and Louisiana
banker%who have been drafted to important
positions with leading banks in New York
is the subject of extended comment in an
article recently published by Dally Financial
America, New York. The recent appoint
ment of John H. Fulton of New. Orleans
(a native of Canada, by the way), as a vice
president of the National City Bank wab
the occasion for the comment, and there
follows an enumeration of the dosen or so
acquisitions gained from the South by New
York banks In recent years. Included in
the list aie Sol Wexler, who went from the
presidency of the Whitney-Central, New
Orleans, to an executive post with J. S. Bache
and Company; Beverly D. Harris, from Hous
ton. Texas,.to vice-president of the National
City, and J. Howard Audrey, from Dallas, to
vlee-presldent National Bank of Commerce,'
New York—all of these within recent months.
Southern development of evergrowing Im
portance and magnitude Is primarily respon
sible for t'.ie action of the New York banks
In reaching out at this time for men who
are th--oughly acquainted with business
conditions in the sections*of the South from'
which they come. But the movement of
Southern men Into places of importance else
where is not new. It began with the his
tory of tjie nation, and today's Instances are
but In tine with the historic trendT In state
craft (the Presidents with few exceptions
having come from the South till 18^0); In
law (advocates and also the judiciary); in
commerce, finance, literature, all along the
line, take the names of Southerners off the
list and the debt of the nation and the world
to Southern leaders would be conspicuously,
shown. * - 1
Discussion of the proposal for the nation
to erect a belated memorial to Matthew Fon
taine Maury revealed the fact that the re
searches of this great Southerner, whose
charting of the bcean floor first made pos
sible the laying of ths Atlantic cable, have
been largely overlooked by the generation'
of today. How many are aware |hat Au
dubon. the pioneer and the greatest of Amer
ican naturalists, was born hear New Orleans,
and, to come closer to the matter that started
this discussion, how many New Yorkers
know, do you suppose, that James Stillman,
who made the National City great, was born
in Brownsville, Texas?
No mhtter Into what saddle th> South
erner may come to sit,' the countrY may rest
assured that he feels quite a,t home. He Is
no stranger to these seats lnjilgh placea
NEW COMMANDMENTS FOR BUBBYS
AND WIVJS.
Bridgeport, Conn., Special. •
To Insure perfect happiness says the Rev.
Frank E. Rideout, pastor of the Second Bap
tist Church here, married couples should
obey ten matrimonial commandments for
husbands and the same number for wlveau
These commandments are:
For Husbands.
1. Thou shalt not think that thyself are
••It.”
2. Thou shalt not praise thy neighbor's
wife; praise thine own.
S. Thy shalt not be stingy with thy wife.'
4. Thou shalt not share the love for thy
wife with the boose shop. She desarveth It
all.
5. Thou shalt not keep any secrets from
thine wife. Secrets breed suspicion and
wreck confidence. f
6. Thou shalt not refuse to talk with thy
wife after the day's work Is done.
7. Thou shalt not fall to provide life in
surance for thy family.
Thou shalt net scold thy wife whan
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the meat burns. Blow up a'powder mill in
stead. ^
9. Thou shalt not fall to kiss thy wife
good-bye every'morn In*.
10. Thou- shalt not for*et through all the
years of thy life that thy wife whom God
has given thee as thy companion; is thy
superior.
Fov Wives.
1. Thou shalt not be a spendthrift. Do
not squander thy husband's money.
S. Thou shalt not talk shop when thy hus
band returns at night.
3. Thou shalt not fall to have his meals on
tints. .
4. Thou shah not quis thy wedded hus
band. Be,adroit and he will tell thee alL
5. Thou shall mot nag thy. wedded hus- 4
band. Hit him with an axe. It Is mors
kind. ,
6. Thou shalt not fall to dress ffc for thy
husband as thou didst before marriage.
7. Thou shalt. not try to fight thy hus
band. Crying will fetch him sooner.
9. Thou shalt not expect thy husband to t
apologize—even when he Is wrong. Let it J
pass. '
9. Thou shalt not hesitate to assure thy
husband that he Is the greatest man al: •»,
and that thou dost admire him more than
Roosevelt or Hughea
10. Thou shalt not remind thy husband
what a great sacrifice thou didst make to
marry him. '
TEN REASONS FOR UNIVERSAL
MILITARY TRAINING.
(Bulletin of Universal Military Training
■ League.)
1. It would apply alike to poor boy and
rich boy, put both in'the name tent, ’lead
to a better underatandlng between them,
make for a better democracy and eliminate
caate an'd snobbery in America.
2. It would take the lad in his nineteenth
year when his earning power is small and
before he has undertaken the marriage rela
tionship and upbuild hie physique, teach
him respect for his tiag. and make of him
a trained defender of his country.
3. | It would not put the boy into a reg
ular, professional army, but would send him
back into the paths of industry a stronger
and broader character.
4. It would make the trained lad the
chief protector of the nation and thus re
lieve husband and father, the mainstay of %'
| the family, of industry and commercial enter- f
prise, of military service.
5. It would make the weak lad virile and
the strong ladVsympathetic and respectful.
6. It would be actually “universal" in
that wealth could not purchase immunity
and all mentally add physically fit would
have to train. . ?
7. It would create a new national morale
and insure for The future strong fathers,
healthy men and women in the centuries to
come
8. It would be the antithesis of mili
tarism, as #under universal military train
ing the defense of the country texcept fpr
the first 11..e) would rest upon trained citi
zens. This would render a large standing •
army unnecessary and get entirely away
from militarism.
9. It would revive patriotism In Amer
ica—not the brass-band and parade-the
street sort—but zeal patriotism which says
that Inasmuch as all of us share alike the
boon of freedom, likewise all of us shill
share the nation’s perils and responsibilities;
all of us. In short, must so love our country
as to train and be ever ready to defend her
honor. * •
IP. It would make America ready and
therefore safe.