In the event of such a war, my four sons will go, and, one and perhaps both my sons-in-law; I will go myself. The young kinsfolk sorts will go: no my words are spoken with my eyes open. It is of small consequence what happens to us of the older generation; but when I think of the young men my heart grown bitter that their fine and brilliant lives should be sacrificed, not to the nation's need, but to the nation's folly.

MAYS SICK THEM DIMM
than to remain in the hands of the men who have served in the army.
"I would rather see them dead than are them flinch from their duty when the honor of our people is concerned. But if we now go to war, these young men and all their fellows will die by thousands of fever, dysentery, and lung trouble in the camps, because we have not prepared in advance, because they and those who would lead and care for them not have trained in advance.

They will be butchered needlessly in battle because we have failed to prepare masses of artillery and machine guns and motor trucks, and shells and aeroplanes, and have failed to provide and train the men who phalanx all the formidable and deadly forces."  Twenty-one months have passed since the great war began, and during all this time we have not prepared. In even the smallest degree. 