The Washington times., 1915-01-24
DR.. Hibben Supports Plan to
Give Undergraduates Ex.
perience in Field.
TO OFFSET MILITARIsM
Explains National Prepared
ness as Opposed to Domi-
nant Military Policy.


question in q recent address to the
Princeton Alumni Association at Mont
clair, N. j., by telling Of the summer
camps for college men. For ten weeks
each year students live the life Of re- q
ular army men.
DR.. Hibben is one of the twelve col.
lego presidents invited to serve as q
committee to bring about prepared
ness without militarism. Furthermore
he has obtained the consent Of Major
Gen. Leonard Wood to send an army
officer to Princeton to drill the stu
dents who have been reused to the point
Of forming a voluntary military organi.
zation.
Tn the event Of war. it will not be
difficult to obtain volunteers. but. al.
though they may rally to the colors
with admirable spirit and enthusiasm.
they arc unframed, undisciplined, and
ben. 1T Is In this connection that tho
college man, with his camp experience,
can be Of great assistance In recruiting
and training officers. He can help at
z time when he 10 most needed.
a fair number Of their undergraduates
each summer to these camps we would
have. scattered throughout the nations
valuable centers Of military strengt<e.
men who could be called on in the hour
respond to the call not only with cour-
age and in the spirit Of patriotism, but
also with a measure Of knowledge that
would place them in a class above the
raw recruit. Therefore. their services
would prove Immediately valuable to
the Government.
Views of Kitchener.
"Of all the duties that Lord Kitchen
or there Is none to which he gives
greater importance than the work of
training the men Of the universities:
whatever plans Kitchener has made or
will make. at all times he must take
in the equation the youths who have
shed their gowns and caps for field
uniforms" continued DR.. Hibben.
kitchener promised he would put a
million men in the field for England
before the spring. He will do 1t. II the
war goes on and there Is need of an
other million; from England. Kitchener
orous methods to force recruiting; he
may be compelled to conscript them
but he will get them. Nobody who knows
Kitchener doubts that.
comparatively easy for Kitchener. His
most difficult task is to get enough
officers for the million. To command
a. thousand men at least fifty men are
$1,000 officers must be ready.
I'm response to Englands first call
every officer on the active list went to
war: the men of the retired list who
to the front. The territorials who have
gone out have taken their own Off
GERS: the reserves who are in France
and Belgium are commanded by Off
GERS of the reserve.
There Is not an officer in England
now who Is not held there because of
the necessity of tnstructing recruits.
Of looking out for the supplies or some
other necessary duties. Not an off,
Already the roll Of casualties has
shown that there has been an appall-
ing loss Of life among England's Off
GERS. Kitchener has 'stormed because
the men needed to command have ex-
ter than any living man that man Is
a better officer II he takes care of his
own skin. Heroics are barred among
officers in the British army, which
does not mean that there has been the
slightest diminution Of courage on their
part.
Now England realizes It was unpre-
pared in a most vital degree. in that 1t
failed to make provision for the train
Ing of enough officers to command us
troops in a world war.
Methods of Preparation.
There are two ways In which a great
people such AS ours may prepare for
the defense Of country.
"One way Is through q concentration
of military knowledge and experience
in q large standing army. and the other
is the diffusion of military knowledge
and experience throughout the nation
What I would emphasize is the need Of
military strength without military dis
playa reserve power without the
diminution OF economic efficiency end
the serious drain upon our resources
which a large standing army necessl-
tates.
IF we can obtain military knowledge
and skill in potential rather than actual
FORM We will avoid all the dangers of
self-sufficient and arrogant militarism
That which creates an aggressive war
spirit is the elaboration of war ma
chine. and the subordination of all other
interests in a nation to 1t.
Military strength, however, which Is
available but not visible and therefore
incapable OF ostentatious display Will
enable us to meet any critical emerS-
ency which may arise, ana at the same
time leave us free Of the domination OF
a military caste and a military policy.
1.-The main feature OF the summer
CAMPS is that intensive training will
fir men for useful service in time of
great emergency, but it does not aim TO
prepare them for the profession OF
arms; thus the professional idea is
minimized. ,;u
Instead Of being a step toward mill
tarism, this preparation is step away
from it.
Aim of the Camps.
The plan eliminates the idea Of drill.
Drill is tedious. Marching and the
manual of arms can be speedily ac-
uuired. should the occasion for tEeir
use arise. 1t Is not the aim Of the
summer training camps to make the
men like West Point cadets; they won't
get the parade value of the trained
Young men OF the Governments acad-
emy, but they will get a good practical
knowledge that will be useful to them.
THE knowledge thus acquired may
not be of use to the men for years
it may never be used by them. but II
they ever are needed-as the young men
of England now are needed, they will be
able to go into the war fitted to become
officers.
Were they called upon to serve as
| officers, they would find that they bad
scratched only the surface of knowledge
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