The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-06
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
no the nditor Of rhe Farmer:

To the Editor of The Farmer:
AS, the result of a suggestion b.
president Lowell of Harvard, abou
| 900 college students will be given
chance to go on the battleships mex
summer to get practical experience il
the lines they are studying. The Nav.
! Department at washington is now ar
ranging for the plan.
They will be organized into a CUR
| crew, and be given the usual gunnery
training.
t The curriculum fof Harvard Univer
sity will have received a powerful
| boost as the result of this unselfish
| effort on the part of President Lowell
| 1t has been our belief for number OF
/ years that the present very fnefff-
'cient and energy-wasting method OF
killing men by smashing in their ribs
and internally 1njuring them in foot
ball me1ees, was antiquated and OBJ
solete.
when there are so many better
ways, why be satisfied with anything
short of perfection? And If there is
any art in which humanity approx
mates the absolute Of perfection it is
the killing art
Our engines of destruction are the
admiration and envy of all the devils
in hell. Our dexterity in blowing our
brother-man into small, widely scat
tered particles is so infinitely superior
TO our trifling ability to piece him to-
gether in the accidents incidental to
the pursuit of peace, comfort. and
happiness. that to name them in one
breath were proclamation.
So now the gallant sap-heade and
idiots who regard murder as a fine
art, rapine as religion, at wholesale
conf1agration and other forms of py-|
rornania as praiseworthy, are elated
at the opportunity for demonstra ting
their abilities in these directions.
1t is well. For how chagrining and
nnortifying it must be to have your
throat cut, or innards let into the out
er world by a common mechanics
man who doesn't even know how to
parse a Greek verb, or solve a prob
lem in trigonomitry.
And this feeling is much more uni
versal than is usually supposed. Kirk
patricl1-the talented and genial au-
thor OF tsWar-What F'or?", book
which has done more to spread the
glad tidings of refinement in murder
than any other work ever written
shares my opinion-shareS my preJu-
dtces In fact, he stated emphatically
that the only reason he didn't go to
war, or enlist to avenge the murder
of millions of American women ana
children in Mexico, was that he would
be obliged to associate with lot OF
rse-fibered yahoos, who might not
even keep their nails properly mani
cured.
we cOQ1o Out SQCC6So LIZ AdASAA45 q
couple of regiments of legislators.
bishops, bank presidents, judges, ana
''Hnen of AFFAIRS Kirk would go-wi1-
lingIy and gladly-for the refining in
f1uence of the company. if for moth
ing else.
And along comes the millionaire
president of Harvard, and brings
about this contamination devoutly to
be wished, by arranging for his bright
and brainy lads to sail the bounding
seas-yeo ho-and at the same time
learn to aim big gun in such a way
that the resulting discharge will kill
and MAIN scores, and send their yes
sci Keeling, with it's poor besotted crew
of common working cattle, to bed
in the ocean ooze-the component ele-
ments of which they can't even emu
merate.
And their study of the structure OF.
the foraminefera and other forms OF
marine life Will do them little or no
good then Also, the deep sea fish AND
crabs will soon provide them with an
object lesson on changing human into
fish and crab protop1asm, while pro-
cesses known as digestion and meta |
bo1isnn.
Oh, it's a great scheme, all right, |
and the Skull and Bones and the PHI
Kappas will have perfectly elegant
tine-no doubt. And when they come
home, what q reception from the adj
dIe-pated, superficial female contin- |
gent awaits them!
kiss me-nothing makes me sick |
now!
DIR. EDWIN F. BOWERS.