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~~ being calied Americans? 8 3 \ WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1924 Sounds Defense Day Message for American Boys and Girls Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale ol Sixth Corps Area Explains Meaning of Test Editor's note: The accompanying ar- ticle contains a message expressly for the boys and girls of the Sixth Army Corps Area. It is published herewith at the request of the Winnetka Defense Day committee, Merritt Starr, general chairman. By MAJ. GEN. HARRY C. HALE Commanding Sixth Corps Area On this great day I send a message to our youth--a message of love and af- fection, a message of faith and hope. As I stand on the threshold of depar- ture from active duty in the service of my country, I turn to beckon you boys and girls to enter into the realm of ma- ture life--the realm wherein you will be called upon to justify your value as citi- zens of your great Country, as well as our value as men and women. And as pause and turn to you, my heart is filled and thrilled with the hope and promise that your fine youth holds forth. And it is well that it is so. It is well that the youth of our land hold out hope and promise to our country today, for it is you who must insure its welfare and success. I say this, my young friends, because you are compelled to accept the obli- gation if you are to enter the ranks of the real men and women of the great American people. If you are to be worthy of the name that you bear--the proud name of American--you must take part in the affairs of your country. If you do not do so, not only are you unworthy of that great name, but you are really not entitled to the protection that that great name extends to you, you are not entitled to the peace, success and happiness that is made possible by the country that protects you. There is an obligation that rests upon you, as well as a privilege that is accorded to you. You are permitted to live in the freest country of the earth and to share the benefits that that freedom confers upon you, and this great, inestimable privilege must be recognized and must be recip- rocated by your participation in all of the Governmental and other duties that devolve upon a citizen of the United States of America. AR What are these duties®i\¥imt shall you do to make yourselves worthy of First and foremos 'ee good men and good women. WEAR your church, sect or creed, shape youf"haracters and fashion your lives to that one infallible rule and guide--to act towards others as you would wish them to act toward you. Follow this guide and you will never go wrong. Resolve that through- out life you will be clean in body and clean in mind. Speak the truth and scorn a lie as a coward's trick to escape responsibility. Respect proper authority and do not wait for compulsion to rend obedience where obedience is due. Know Your Constitution Second, study your form of Govern- ment and take upon your own shoulders the duties of citizenship. Inform your- self of the principles upon which your country is governed. Know the Consti- tution of your country. Learn the na- tional laws of your land, and observe them. Know the laws of your State and keep them. Learn the ordinances of our city and follow them. And then, nowing the laws and obeying the laws, strive ever for their improvement, look- ing always to the protection of the peo- ple from persecution and the country from attack. These are some of the things, boys and girls, that I would say to you as we stand at our thresholds--yours, marked "In," mine marked "Out." But today you are joining in a great patriotic demonstration. Why? And on a day that is called Defense Test Day. Why? 1 am going to try to tell you. This great country of ours is a very young country, but in its short period of life, it has passed through a varied and tumultuous existence. Its birth was brought about by fighting and on an average of every twenty years since, it has had to call upon its people to rally about the flag and protect its shores from invasion. It has been a very for- tunate country for it has never been defeated in war, but for this beneficent fact we may consider ourselves as in- debted to circumstances, rather than to our own wisdom. The truth is, boys and girls, that in each and every one of the battles that we have fought since the birth of our nation, we have found ourselves at the beginning totally un- prepared for the tremendous struggle to ensue. And, oh, how we have paid for that unpreparedness! What a bitter toll has been taken of us in blood and money! What of Tomorrow? But we have won and our integrity has never been impaired, and in the Jeers that have passed we have grown larger, wealthier, more powerful, and today we lead the nations. can answer for tomorrow? But who Our coun- try has now become the wealthiest in the world, and while respecetd by for- eign ntaions, it is nevertheless frequent- ly misunderstood and is always a tempt- ing bait for an enemy of strength. And so, young Amercian citizens, I come to the very heart and soul of my message to you, and it is this: © Of all your obligations to the Govern- ment, of all the duties that you must assume as you enter into your full citi- zenship, of all the patriotic requirements imposed upon you by your citizenship, and of all the sacred demands resting upon your shoulders as Americans, the greatest of all is this, to maintain your country in honorable peace. And the first step to this end is National Pre-. paredness. The last attempt of our country to formulate a policy of National Pre- paredness was brought to a successful issue in the passage of a law by Con- gress, known as the National Defense Act. This Act became a law in 1920 and created an Army of the United States consisting of the Regular Army, the National Guard and the Organized Reserves. The scheme contemplates that the Regular Army and the National Guard, both of which are comparatively limited in numbers, shall be kept in training at all times, ready at a moment's notice to answer the call for aid by the Federal Government, and, hand in hand, hold back the enemy until the appearance upon the scene of the Organized Re- serves. "Reserves" Explained This last named contingent of the Army of the United States is different from the Regular Army and National Guard in that it contains no soldiers in the ranks during peace--only officers and non-commissioned officers. This is wise and necessary. In the first place, it would be impracticable in our rich coun- try to secure by voluntary enlistment the number of soldiers that would be required to fill up the ranks of this contingent to active strength, for it must be remembered that in time of peace all enlistments must be entirely voluntary. In the second place, it is not necessary to fill up the ranks of the Organized Reserves® to active strength during time of peace, for the training required of the soldier in ranks is much simpler than that required of the officer and non-commissioned officer. Hence, the scheme contemplates the training of the officers in peace time and of the soldiers in the ranks after emer- gency shall have arisen. This results in our Organized Re- serve resolving itself in time of peace into a mere skeleton or framework, principally composed of commissioned officers. These officers have volunteered their service to the United States and most of them are veterans of the World war. They are trained in time of peace by a correspondence course with Regu- lar Army Officers and by practical train- ing in the field. But they will soon pass away and then how shall we fill their places? You will fill them, my lads, you. For they are to be recruited in the future by the graduates from the R. O..T.Cirand C.-M: TC: The R. O. T. C. means Reserve Officers Training Corps--our college and school boys who have taken up the elemental military course offered them by their Govern- ment. The other source of recruitment is the Citizens Military Training Camp. This consists of a corps of boys from all grades, steps and places in life, many of whom do not and cannot attend schools. These lads are taken for a month each year, transported from their homes to great Government camps of three to four thousand boys each and given a course of training and recrea- tion for thirty days at the expense of the Government. Training for Citizenship Oh, my lads, if you could accompany me to one of these camps and see these thousands of American Boys training to be American citizens. If, I say, you could see these thousands of lads, healthy and happy, straight as arrows, clear- eyed, eager and efficient--if you could see them as they receive into their keep- ing the beautiful silk Flag of their country, if you could note their rever- ence for that Flag and their care for its silken folds during the time it is in their charge--if you could witness and hear them as they raise their hands in unison and take the Oath of Allegi- ance of their country--if you could note their pride upon graduation, and then finally, if you could read the letters that their parents write telling of the wonders that have been accomplished with their boys--then, my boys and girls (for I believe we will soon have camps for girls) if you coufd do all this, I say, you would agree with me that one of the greatest institutions of our land today, one of the most beneficient for our people, one of the greatest safe- guards of our country, is the C. M. T. C. And the Boy Scouts, the American Sentinels, the Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and like organizations, are similar agencies for the good of our country. I have told you that this Reserve Corps--the third part of this Army of the United States--is a skeleton or framework composed practically of com- missioned officers alone, and I have told you how these commissioned officers are trained during the time of peace. Now, if the great tragedy of war should ever again be forced upon us, the ranks of this skeleton force would immediately be filled up with soldiers who would be selected from you, my lads, all over the country. These selected soldiers would be sent to certain places of assembly and there they would find one or more of these officers of the Organized Re- serves to care for them. "The place where eating is a pleasure" Cameo Restaurant and Lunch Room 551 Lincoln Avenue - is prepared in a sanitary When You Have the feeling that your food kitchen and is decidedly clean, your appetite is much improved. You will find such conditions at the Joe Stoner & Co. COMMUNITY HOUSE WINNETKA MOTION PICTURES Tuesday, September 16 UNSEEING EYES with Lionel Barrymore "You'll grip the edge of your chair in suspense" Telegram Friday, September 19 The GREEN GODDESS with Alice Joyce and George Arliss Beauty--Drama Tense Appeal EACH 7:15 P.M. TWO PERFORMANCES Admision 25¢ WEEK 9:00 P.M. The Reserve Officer must receive these lads and organize them into a company, see that they are properly fitted with shoes, that their uniforms are issued too, and fit them, that they receive their three meals a day, properly cooked and properly served, that if they are ill they are at once placed under proper medical attention, that they shall have a place for recreation and a place for drill. Now all this the Organized Reserve Officer should have trained himself to look out for in anticipation of the emergency which we hope will never come. To do all this there must have been prepared plans. These plans this officer, as I have said, has already worked out if he has done his work properly and these plans we call the Unit Plans, and of the 80,000 Reserve Officers now in the Organized Reserves every one must have his plan to carry out in case of emergency. Test for Reserves Now, my young American friends, to- day, September 12, has been set aside simply as a day when your Govenrment is going to attempt to ascertain if these Reserve Officers have profited by their training. It proposes today that these officers having commands, whether they be company, batallion, regiment or bri- gades, shall simulate the action that would be taken in case we were attacked, and make the reports that they would make in such emergency. In this way the Government will learn if, and how far, its training has been effective. The same test is applied at the same time to the Regular Army and National Guard. Another purpose is subserved by this test and assembly of units of the serv- ice. We have attempted to fill up the ranks from volunteers {from amongst many of you lads, simply pretending for the moment that you are in the service and for the purpose of showing just what would be required of your locality in case of an emergency. The officer explains to you and to the assembled people where his assembly place would be and how he would carry out each of the duties 1 have detailed. He ex- plains all this so that the people about can see for themselves just what it would mean--the. call to arms of our nation--what it would mean to that par- ticular locality in which they live. This, I say, is a second purpose to be served by the Defense Test. Expression of Loyalty But still a third purpose of this great day is to be accomplished through the national patriotic demonstration that you are takink part in at this moment, and that patriotic demonstration is for the purpose of expressing the national ap- proval of our Preparedness Policy and of showing our loyalty and allegiance to our country. So now my young friends, boys and girls, I have tried to tell you what De- fense Test Day means, and from this message you should clearly see your own importance in connection with the celebration of this day. Think, and think deeply on this question of your country's safety and welfare, and see to it that your lives, my boys and girls, shall never contain a thought, a word or a deed that shall reflect upon your character as an American, nor as a loyal patriot of the country which gives you the freedom you enjoy. Foxglove, Larkspur, etc., at very good results next year. Jos. 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