Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1917 — Transforming Power of Just War Demonstrated on College Campus [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Transforming Power of Just War Demonstrated on College Campus

By JOHN GRIER HIBBEN,

, President of Princeton University

No one who has lived on a college campus since the declaration of war with Germany can doubt the transforming power of a commanding cause. As if byft magic touch, all the fine promise of young manhood has been suddenly matured in the splendid beginnings of its power. ~I believe that the cause to which our nation has committed itself is a just-criiise. It' is a war against war, to bring to, an end the misery of the struggle abroad and inaugurate the hew era of permanent peace. We feel our position justified, because the issues

at stake are not merely those of democracy and liberty, but the very fundamental principles upon which democracy must rest and liberty find its justification —the elemental distinctions between right and wrong, good and evil, justice and injustice.