The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-02-27
r0u1Ieal Philosophers Claim "a
Have Sawed Problems q
Psace Il Old World
POGzI1CS NOW PLAYS
no PROMINENT A PART
Inaeeass In Militarisn Means
Decline in llihtaney,
Declare Experts

nasty gios ct the foesign olAcss. The
foseiGn efhcss just now are shslsing
hands with themselves over the
supernal wisdom with which they
kooD The .peaco: they ere saying:
What HSoat men W. are; how astutes
mo1ezate. rssourcsful. practical. how
m0onlncently, despite nery soldiers
Aa4 Aerceg nowspaper mea. We com
p0l Deoco. Dld We not stop the Bal
koD confirmation opgoad1ney
rcrolen Ninlstee oeaono6 has been
saying this (ab0ut himsslf); Foreign
Minister 01fS Edward Grey says the
|sArao thing (a1out hiInsolO. and For
eiGn Minister Count Hgroatod 10
|about TO NY the same thing % the
|dologa&ionS. And now along comes
the political philosophers, ana vow
that thle = nj hu0bux. The Euro-
|pea1 war was avoided because the
arnnios don't want 70 fight"
The armies win never Aght willing.
.Iy AGAIN bocause they are far TOO BIG.
conpuontod, bureAucr1kjcally ofgAnix-
lea, oomfortable, brightly uniformed.
niee1y pensloned. War; hencsforth,
WIN b fought By small powers: BY
bAfhArouu powers, an4 ~ powers
with no armies worth mentiOning.
XWhGro there are genuine. BIG. splen-
dtll4 organised. nrst class armies
thero' win b no var. The armies
aro not ouch fools.
The 1set elSw to the discovery that
arm1os don't want to night was given
k,y GukhomlinO6, Russia's minister Of
Waf. Who made the novel declaration
tnst militancy (that n, the lighting
|spirif) 70 the voy opposite OF militars
ssm THAT u, thu army spirit). 0uk-
homllnoR. Of course, does not say
that RussIa's army won't Aght--that
wuuld cost him hiD Job He sid that
sfoak dangers for the lighting spirit
u n orunnisation. red tape ana
Bureaucratic methods, al indispensr.
hblo IN the management Of a army.
naenino IKE Ruseia's which controls
b s. million men.
No old Russian military spirft vas
ne 1ghting spirit that led TO the con-
nuoots Of the Eighteenth Century.
rh1o etago 10 now passing. TIN army
Nn1Eh hOught IN Nanchuria 40 Cd
nifHhoy, oreant1Nd, hut it, 4UAo0ho
splxk Wns weak. II was Ill 0ReoAlsar
ju0 The danger Of . modern army
= 1T it may tall . victim 70 IL own
k g12ction." 9s Nv
G6khomlinoGf's theory that MILL
Af11m u killing militAncy has been
uu0h OF late IN the Austrian and
jee1nan army press. Militarism, Il
Il admitted, II spreading. The typi-
~ sentimental great state II becom-
n9. IN al it, relations, merely .
branch Of the army. But such states
ina 1uch armieSA have no desire to
III, Germany the army, or military
1iril II undoubtedly higher than
EVER. The military caste n absolute
ySt0Q ton. But there II no signs Of
infancy. Commanding generals are
.rpeoated because they are good 3D.
ninistrstors who see that their men
hre properly fed, and who save for
he 6foto q much q possible out q
Inc tnnual uniform allowance.
m me Austrian delegations two
Heat1N ago the complaint was made
hat samong oil thu higher commands
herr 10 only one lighting man." That
No f6e present chief or utGtI. Conrad
hon Hoetsendorff. Hoet1oadorR II
~ I7cusIy the bste noir of the
burS aucrat-soldiero who run The army
,neufU look smart and Ao00unfa oro
lon1etly kept. the army position %
natl6(nctory. The delegations mem
Dor sid that Austria 10 returning to
lhe ulghtsenth Century. The army
thea existed for peace. The bad ~
eujto cf- this system were shown -
the Seven Years War. and half :
centnfy later when Austria's well Or
a.
The fll-organiaed militant enthusiasts
of ne French Revolution.
The causes Of the decline Of the
nrn1y nghting spirit are believed 70
ID not individual, but "mAes peycho.
log1pal." Pruoe1as, Austrian ana Rus
s1a1 o0cers ero, yeon0unced y - -
beaxo % ever. But the coIlectivo
spi51t u great aSmlpo - not nihteAt'
WI ofacee ~ under ~ 0oMlhAr
tioa - political an4 SOCIAL eear. THY
dro61 that = oroot w1g woell pre4eoe
pollklcol and ooci9l eoolitae4s wnieo
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