Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 82, 16 February 1917 — Page 7

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Nicholson Submits Article on Peace; Gives Views Against Preparedness

Timothy Nicholson, prominently identified with the peace movement in tbe United States, has submitted the fol!o'vin3 article by Robert C. Root. inrcs?ntative of the American Peace f"'f !y on' the Atlantic coast, for public ir:i hi The Palladium. The article prcstnts the views of citizens who opI ose the preparedness movement. 1. Because military training is far inferior to gond physical training and cutdoor games and athletics for developing the physique and for improving the health of our youth. Such is the testimony of physical experts, C. Ward Crampton, Director of Physical Training:. Department of Education, City of New York; Dr. C. E. Ehmeer, Phvsical Director State Normal School, West Chester, Pa., George W. RhJer, Director Physical Education, Uriversity of Wisconsin: George J. Flrher, M. D., Secretary Physical Department International Committee; Y. M. C A. and New York State Military Training Commissioner; Dr. Dudley B. Fargent head of Physical Training Harvard University, and Cambridge, Maas., Normal School; Wm. A. Stecher, Director Physical Education Philadelphia Public Schools and Randal D. Warden. Director Physical Training, Newark. New Jersey. The Special Commission on Military Education and Reserve, State of Massachusetts, 1D15, says that "The overwhelming weight of opinion from school teachers, military experts, officers of both the regular army and the militia and the general public is against military drill . . . for it has little or no advanlage to the rchool boy from the point cf vi?w of practical soldiering." Military Drill Not Needed. 2. Military drill in the schools is tot needed in any rational r!?a for national defense or preparedness. In his testimony before the Senate and House Committee on Military Affairs last March, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, former Commander in Chief of the United Stales Army, said he "W3S utterly opposed to compulsory servicn for the cation." He would, therefore, be opposed to it in the public schools. Gen. Miles stated that compulsory service or conscription failed in the critical period of the Civil War, for it added only about 51,000 to the 2,000,000 or move volunteers. Furthermore, conscription caused serious riots in New York cud elsewhere, and took many soldiers away from Gettysburg at the n?5t ciitical hour in that deciding Tattle of the Civil War, according to G?n. Miles. We were shown last spring In the repcrt. of Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War. rnndc to consjrf ss that according to the lowest estimate the United Stntcs has 473,000 men with sufficient military training to be available for war. Gen. Miles estimated the number at 1,000,000. The expert estimates of the size cf e.ay possible invading r.rmy 13 400,000 (Report of Special Commission of Military Education r.d Rsserva of Massachusetts, Dec. IDIS). According to Secretary Baker cr.d Gen. linos wo now have enough n?n to rccot the invaders for the frr.:y of defense always has the advantage ever tho Invaders, if the defense i at all to be compared with the invaders as to cumbers. The recent failure cf tie Allies at the Darde-

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Lclles is only one of many cases that prove the point. Need Feel No Alarm. The unfilled ranks of the National Guard, the small number of enlistments during the past year need cause us no alarm. These things simply show how loyal Americans act when there is no cause for war and no real danger of our being attacked. In the present war England secured 3,041,000 volunteers before conscription was put into force (and she has secured precious few soldiers by conscription). So would it be in America. " If there was a real danger, the volunteers would come as Gen. Miles stated last March. According to Admiral Fletcher, Commander in Chief of our Atlantic Fleet, end also of his predecessor Admiral Eadger, our navy is the equal of any navy in the world except only the navy of England. They so stated before the Congressional Committees felnce the present war began; Admiral George Dewey said since January, 1916. that the navy of the United States was never more efficient than now. Tell Us Coast Defense Equaf. Gen. Crozier and Gen. Weaver, experts in charge, tell us our coast defenses are the equal of any in the world. With all of the above facts in mind and remembering that the leading nations are greatly exhausted by the great war, the cry for compulsory military training, or conseription, in our public schools as a part of national preparedness is a severe reflection on the wisdom and the intelligence of those who propose it. 3. Military training in public schools is an old discredited, discarded system. Years ago England tried it in some of her schools, and finding it harmful in stead of beneficial, gavo it up. France tried universal military training in her schools after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. After a trial of over twenty years France discarded the system and sold the school equipment at auction. Australia recently tried compulsory military training for her boys and afte,r several years trial discarded it by a majority of 80.000 in a referendum vote October 2S, 1916. With ali of her devotion to military efficiency, Germany has never thought it -worth 'while to put military training into her public ichools or universities, except in a few that are strictly military schools, similar to our West Point. The experience of Europe shows that for boys under 18 or 19 military training is positively harmful, hence not one cf the leading European nations" lias favored it in recent years The much lauded Swiss system does not bcin its real military training until the

boys are 18 years of age. ' Just before

his death Lord Kitchener of England told his military commanders to cut out much of the drill because it had so little value in modern warfare. Although Boston has had military drill in her schools for years. Col. F. T. Edmonds says he has never found one truly efficient company of school cadets. Shall California and shall the United States be foolish enough to burden her schools with a discarded, discredited system that has been tried and found unsatisfactory and inefficient in Australia and in leading nations of Europe? Not if California or the nation retains her sanity. What both the state and the nation, really need is a' carefully prepared and scientific, method. of physical training for all the boys and all the girls as welL Real -Need Clearly Shown. 4. This real need is clearly shown by tho following facts: Capt. Philip Andrews of the U. S. Navy, Com

mandant of the U. S. Naval Training Station, San Francisco, told the Commercial Club cf that city on June 1, 1916, that 83 per cent, of the young

men who apply for admission to the

U. S. Navy are rejected because unfit

physically. Capt. Steever of the War

College at Washington, D. C, stated in Scribner's Magazine some twelve nconth3 ago that 50 per cent, of the young men who apply for admission to tho U. S. army and navy are rejected as physically unfit. Then take the uport of the Surgeon-General of the U. S. army, the Walsh Report recently printsd by Congress, take also the best medical authorities and the Child Labor Bureau Reports and find therein these facts: Between E0 . and 66,

per cent, of our wage earners do not have an income sufficient to feed and clotfie themselves and families decently. These poorly fed men cannot make good soldiers; nor can the multitude of sick men become goor soldiers, la the U. S. each , year we let 147,000 persons die of "the great white plague," tuberculosis; 135,000 die of pneumonia; tens of thousands die of typhoid and other fevers, and we complacently allow over 200.000 babies to die annually. Military drill cannot remedy these shameful conditions. The remedy must be far more fundamental and scientific than military drill. We need a Col. Gorgas to do for California, and the nation what that worthy officer did at Panama, and thus made it possible to dig the canal. It cost $4.23 per head annually to make the Panama Canal zone the healthiest place on the continent. And it costs $15,000 to $22,000 each to kill men in war, so a French Army officer tells us (See. files of Scientific American). Should Combat Disease. Unless the U. S. institutes thoroughgoing campaigns to fight disease, , to promote health, to reduce the cost of living, to Solve the-non-employment problem, to decrease the list of inefficients. to drain swamps, to prevent fires and floods, to irrigate arid lands, to reforest hills and mountains, to build good reads (tho good roads of France saved Paris and Verdun in the present war), she will in time become a weak and decaying nation. All the military drill in the world will not, cannot save the United States if she neglects these the truly fundamental

5. Furthermore, compulsory mili

tary training or conscription, so far from being democratic as claimed, is the very antithesis of democracy. It is ever and always democracy's persistent foe. Once established, it is the rule of the few, not of the majority. There can be no such thing as freedom of conscience under it, compulsory military service is not only un-democratic, but also un-American and contrary to the very spirit of our American institutions. Thousands, aye millions, of our good citizens came to our shores to escape the evil system. When asked recently to modify the harsh and undemocratic rules, of the Swiss army the chief of staff replied, "Impossible! No military sys

tem worthy of the name can be democratic. By its very nature it mnst be autocratic." England has found to her sorrow that this is true since she adopted conscription, for freedom of conscience and real democracy do not exist today under her conscription laws. Tho English papers that come to America prove that conscientious objectors are frequently treated with harshness and mediaeval intolerance. Moral Confusion Results. 6. The moral confusion resulting

from military drill is appalling to thinking men. We send our boys to Sunday school and teach them the "Golden Rule" and the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." They go to church and learn that the supreme thing in , lif e is to love God and to love their neighbors as themselves. In their, daily lives they learn that the laws of the community and of the state forbid them and others to carry deadly weapons and that whoever attacks his fellowman with a dsadly weapon is put in jeopardy of his freedom or his life. Then in the face of all these facts, we put the deadly weapon into the hands of these boys of tender years (14 years and upward) and by compulsion deliberately train them in the art of killing their fellowmen. No choice, no freedom of conscience, only force and might 7. Since the compulsory military training, as a part of national "Preparedness" is based on fear, suspicion and distrust which almost invariably lead to hate and from hate to war,- it frs o. necessity fundamentally wTong. ForiBuch a system cannot be in harmony with the religion which teaches that first and above all else comes love to God and love to fellowmen. In military training the emphasis is on might, not on right. Might is put first, not last. If right and justice ftnd good-will were placed first and emphasized first, might would seldom be needed. Which, then, shall we teach, right or misht? In whom shall we trust, dod or gunpowder? And whom shall we follow, Christ or Mars? ,

REV. ANSCOMBE RESIGNS CHARGE AFTER 4 YEARS

When Rev. Francis Anscombe became a Richmond pastor four. years ago !ast January there were only two Protestant clergymen in the city who are here now. - ' , They were Rev. H. S. James of the United Brethren church, and Rev. c. Raymond Isley of Second Lutheran church. Pastors of others churches here then, all have left the city. Last night Mr. Anscombe announced to the South Eighth Street Friends congregation his intention of leaving Richmond next falL He expects to depart about yearly meeting time. Mr.' Anscombe will matriculate in Hartford. Conn.. Theological Seminary and will pursue studies looking toward teaching of Eible in a college. While in Richmond he has been connected with Earlham college as student and teacher during that time. Last year he taught in the Bible department and this year he is an English instructor. Mr. Anscombe came to Richmond from England, where he was a Journalist for 15 years. He has filed first naturalization papers here. During his pastorate at South Eighth Street church the congregation has been increased materially and tho spiritual life quickened. He has maintained a high place among the city's ministers.

HOLD ANNUAL FROLIC

The annual Freshmen's Frolic which will be in the nature of a Valentine Farty will be held in the high school gym, Wednesday evening, Feb. 21. The event for high school beginners is but one of the series of events welcoming the yearlings to the high school. -

FUTURE WOMEN GENERALS TO DEFEND COUNTRY

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DONALD JOHNSTON FURNISHES PLANS TO ALTER CAMPUS

Plans for beautifying the Earlham campus have been furnished by Donald B. Johnston, landscape gardener of New York. The specifications have been approved by the board of trustees. Roadways will be widened by four feet, and a screen of shrubs will sep

arate the , farm grounds from the campus. Meadows on both sides of the front

drive will be extended. High-growing shrubbery will enclose the athletic field and tennis courts. The proposed gymnasium will be erected on the site of the present structure. Adjoining Reid field on the west will be the women's athletic courts. Removal of the barns will permit extension of the west drive to the skating pond. Donald Johnston is the son of Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Johnston, North Tenth street, and is an alumnus of Earlham and Harvard.

RICHMOND SCOUTS' RECEIVE WAR ORDER

Officers of Richmond's two troops of Boy Scouts have received copies of a general order issued at the national hoadquarters of the organization, in New York, to prepare for, active service in the event of war. The announcement states -that among the services the Scouts will be expected to perform are: Rendering first aid to sick or injured, handling messages . by wire, wjreless and semaphore, distributing notices and gathering statistics for the use of the civil and military authorities, co-operating in the protection of property by accepting definite assignments for the purpose of giving alarm in case of danger, collecting information concerning supplies, acting as messengers and orderlies, and cooperating with agencies organized for relief work-

DALL PLAYERS Dillll

(By AmocIU4 Pr) NEW ' YORK. . Feb. 16. Axperican League baseball parks daring the playing aeasbp are to be turned into military training camps and the playert are to devote one hour a day to inatructiont , . i , . ; At the suggestion of Capt T. L. Huston, of tbe New York club, the league baa adopted1 a resolution which provides that tbe players shall shoulder rifles as well as' baseball bats. President Johnson is empowered to consult with Major General Leonard Wood concerning tbe detailed working out of the project ' ; REVIVALS CLOSING WEEK OF SERVICES

West side churches holding revivals will close their first week'a service with the one tonight ' ' Rr.. Cnarle: ,M- Woodman will preach in West Richmond Friends, church on "Peter Sifted or a Man' Faith Under Fire.- Rer. J- P. Chamnees will preach in Fairview Methodist church. ' "Men today want a Christianity without a cross in it" said Mr. Woodman last night in his sermon on "Peter on the Mountain and in tbe Gar den."

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DAVIS TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY DAY

Young people who haye been received into Second Presbyterian church from communicants' classes during the three years pastorate of Rev. Elmer E. Davis will attend the Sunday evening service in a body. About 60 children have been graduated from these classes. This will be one of the features of the third anniversary service. Another communicants' class will be received Sunday morning with a class of - adults. The pastor will preach morning and evening.

PLANS "Y" BANQUET

Y. M. C. A. annual membership banquet will be held in the gymnasium at the association building the evening of March 7. This date was set at a meeting of the membership committee last night. All six hundred senior members of the association wrill be invited to attend this annual event. A program with several original features will be siven. Some man of national reputation will probably give the address.

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OFFERS SECURITY TO ALL CUBANS

(By Associated Press) HAVANA, Feb. 16. President Manocal, in a proclamation issued late tonight denies any intention to persecute his political opponents as charged in rebel proclamations. He guaran

tees full security and protection to all j

persons remaining loyal to the laws and constitution, whatever their ante

cedents or affiliations.

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The three leaders of the Women's. Military Reserve, standing, from left to right, are Josephine Bergstrom, Laura Hitchkiss and Captain Alisande Shar.d. - ... ; These are the women who are responsible for the organization of the latest unit of the United States volunteer forces and will "do their bit" in case

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Isaac Iseman, of Sparks Hill. N. Y., sawed and chopped a cord of wood

and then went fishing through the ice

for pickerel. Isaac is ninety-two. He was an engineer for forty years and retired thirty years ago.

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