Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-23

for Military Education, by President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale, the popu- lar lecture series, started some five or six weeks ago. was brought to a suc- cessfuI close in Slater hall on Monday evening, before a large sized audience.
 The subject of military education is one of national and even worldwide interest and importance at the pres ent time, having sprung into the IoTe- ground in the past year and nan through the European war Wnicn mas converted the peaceful plains, valleys and mountains of Europe into g1- gantic battlefield, stained with the life blood of hundreds of thousands or sol- diers. The Hague conference, regard ed short while ago as a likely means of almost entirely preventing war be- tween the great nations, proved worth less in the crisis and thiss with other developments, has caused the true American to realize the danger which his country is facing in her unpre- pared military state. s
 According to President Hadley's opinion it is doubtful whether an in crease in our army and navy, even three fold, will solve the problem and so in the light of the history of the last fifty years President Hadley ad-
 vocates intelligent preparation for cer- tain demands of we'll ordered peace as the means of intelligent preparation against the possible dangers of war.
 President Hadiey's Address.
 As President Hadley appeared on
 the platform, he was greeted with
 hearty outburst of applause. Prof. H.
 A. Tirrell, principal of the N. F. A., introduced President Hadley, who
 spoke in part as follows:
 One of the most disturbing effects
 of the European war to the intelligent
 American citizen is that 1t has upset
 N-t- u IT l<~w w-.@kw
 that we have changed our theory Of
 international morals. But we have come to the conclusion that the data from which we have been reasoning in the past are quite inadequate and
 that there are many other things which we need to take into account; very much as the boy who has been instructed iE peace principles in his home finds when he first goes to
 boarding school that there are new
 facts to face which, without ehanging
 his moral sentiments, practically mod
 ify the application of the doctrine of resistance.
 Two years ago most of us believed
 that our American policy could be
 based on the expectation of per
 manent peace between us and our
 civilized neighbors. Some of us re-
 garded the Hague conference as like
 ly to develop into a means of almost
 entirely preventing war. Nearly all
 of us believed that international law
 had made such progress that the treaty rights of neutrals would be re- spected, and that war itself would be
 conducted with a humane regard for the interests of non n-combatants; and, wholly apart from the safeguards pro-
 vided by international law, that in any
 event America was so far remote from
 Europe on the one side or from Asia on the other that our navy could keep
 us secure from attack until we had had time to prepare defenses against any emergency that might unexpected ly arise. But in the course of the last year and a half we have seen that the machinery provided by the Hague conference was worthless in a crisis of national feeling that treaties were not held sacred when they conf1icted | with belligerent interests; that war in the twentieth century was conduct ed with almost savage disregard of the welfare of ron-combatants; and that in the face of modern scientific
 progress the ocean furnished no such safeguard to ourselves as we had fond 1 ly assumed.
 Seaboard Recognizes Need. In view of these facts nearly every one within reach of the Atlantic sea-
 board is recognizing the need of in-
 creased means of national defense. Many of those who two years ago op- posed an increase. of our standing dIlu navy now TGCORnlZG LnlS as a, necessary means of self-protection. But it is doubtful whether an increase of our standing army and navy, how ever desirable in itself. will solve the problem. It would make us safe against sudden onslaught for the mo- ment, when the nations that are occu- pied in war are so evenly matched that a slight additional force on one side or the other might turn the scale against them. It would not save us after the war is over. History gives no warrant for the belief that at the close of the present war the beIlig- erent nations will be so tired of fight ing or so exhausted with fighting that | they will be unwilling to wage an- other war for many years to come After this war is over we are in dan-
 ger of being attacked by any nation 1 an attack an increased army and navy would be of little use unless it was intelligently directed.
 The Silver Lining.
 The history of France in 1870 shows how a we'll trained standing army of
 moderate size can have ali it's opera . l tions paralyzed if it's movements are governed by politicians or by a people who know little of military conditions We need more than an army. We need public understanding of the use and management of an army and if we gam tnlS DeI1eVe we snail also gain public understanding of the use and
 management of a government which
 will make the lesson worth much more
 than it's cost. This, as I look at it. is the silver lining to the war cloud which expresses us.
 hundred years ago our nation was
 organized by families. Many things
 in tho way. of production. education
 and government which are now done
 by the public were then done al homo. It has become conventional to say that the state has taken the place of the family. In one sense it has done so. It gives us great many things which formerly we expected tc
 get from our own homes. But in an- other sense it has not done so. Fol
 we have not learned. as part of ouI
 public morals, to give it the same kind of service that we rendered our fam flies. The essence of the family re- lation was it's reciprocity. Your right to claim everything which the. home could offer was founded upon the ex- pectation that you would give the home everything you could
 As long as socialism represents an effort on the part of different groups and classes to get everything they could out of the state and give us little as possible, the socialistic stat has no resemblance to the order