Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1920 — INDIFFERENCE GREATEST PERIL [ARTICLE]

INDIFFERENCE GREATEST PERIL

SAYS GENERAL WOOD IN INDIANAPOLIS ADDRESS THURSDAY. Indianapolis, March 12.—-Ameri-cans were urged to “hold on to those things which have made us what we are, law and order, the rights of property and of government under the constitution” by Major General Leonard Wood, candidate for the republican nomination for president, in an address tonight before the Association of Actual Past Masters of the Scottish Rite, at the order’s cathedral here. The address was the last of three delivered today by General Wood, and the concluding feature of his program in Indianapolis. Impect Ft. Harrison. During the forenoon General Wood visited Fort Benjamin Harrison on an inspection trip and conferred with Indiana republican leaders. His address tonight was on “Americanism.” “There is no special danger m our country,” General Wood said, “from the so-called red element. It is very much exaggerated but still it is here. It is well organised in the large cities. It is sending literature of all kinds all over the country trying to unsettle our people. Down at Gary we found it literally by the ton, all of it inflammatory and dangerous. • Peril Of Indifference. “We want to meet that kind of propaganda by propaganda of our own. We can meet it easily; we can smother it. The danger is not so much from this element of discord, but from our indifference. We have got to wake up. We want to get together and put over the doctrine of sound Americanism.’ General Wood reiterated his advocacy of universal militray training in connection with a small standing army, a system “absolutely without any suggestion of German methods,” and said he favored adoption of the treaty and league of nations covenant with reservations “which completely and thoroughly Americanize it.” He also urged promotion of foreign trade and sale or lease of American shipping to American firms in the establishment of a permanent merchant marine.