Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-25
M|L|TAR|SM IN SCHOOLS
ORGANIZED INSANITY"
Race Of Amazons More Fierce Than
Militant SuffragetteS.
DIR. SCHAErFER DEpLoREs IDEA
Pennsylvania State superintendent
Says Fate OF European Nations
Should BE Warming to American
People.


CINCINNATI. O. February 2i.-Thc
Introduction OF militarism into the pub :
lie schools would be "orEanized insan-
ity." according To y G. Schaemcr State
superintendent OF public schools OF
| Pennsylvania before the department OF
superintendent Of the National Edu
cniional Association here tonight. To-
nights program was devoted To discus
sions on the topic: Should our cduca
tional system includ" activities whose
special purpose is preparation for war
DIR. Schacifcr added:
When the demand is made that mill
tarism form an integral part OF voca-
tional training. the teachers distraction
reaches a climax. If She should sue
cccd in fuiiilling this latest reform, the
public schools would dcv"iop a race OF
AmaZons more fierce than the militant
sunraRets.
"Militarism does not develop the sense
OF duty such as the sunday school in
culcat"s. but justiiics spyinE. lying.
forging letters. kilograms and sigma Is
10 m!slcad the enemy. Having been
taught that ii is right TO suspend the
Decaloguc for his coun,ry's sake the
pupil afierward repeats the Ten Com
rnandncnts for his own sake, whenever
any advantage can thereby be gained in
Ni' I'iIN1'dl pI IitIlfifl "b'IN
The great powers Of Europe have
come TO Judgment and are grinding one
another TO dust and ashes. Their fate
should be warning TO the American
people not 10 Introduce and foster mill
tarism in the public schools"
WANTS 40 SPECIAL
PREPA RATION FOR WAR
John II. Finley, president of the Uni
vcrsity Of the State Of New York, and
State Com Of EInCntipn said
IF by educational system YOU mean
our elementary and secondary schools,
and II by war you mean the hcllish
thing which is now going on in Europe.
the greatest savage game played under
international rules, then say no, our
educational system. in its basic nation
wide principles. III it's carthwide racial
hcritarcs and its vocational courses.
should not include those whose special
purpose is preparation for war
''Bu, If you will let me define war
am ready to answer yes | am 4 mill :
tarist in the primitive, ancient Arian
sense, and build my martial system on
the same foundation as that which all
European languages rcmcmbcr--the as
semnlinS, the organizing OF individual
men.
ut is the War Department that has
dug the Panama Canal, that has made
some regions accessible. that has made
others hahitablc: that has STAYED pes
4 til"nce ana Winistcr"d most effectively
I" cities overwhelmed by disaster
would have the conservation of health
ana the direction of education conceived
OF as functions OF tho War Department
scientifically. austcrcly administered for
the common good
am not so unpracticable as not TO
know that we shall have to prepare
Tor protection; that for n time. we shall
nave TO train some men to shoot al
. other men tani I npDlatJ tho ,e,pncr
ate and sensible program SO far as
understand 1t. OF such practicable anti
'ni!itarists as General Wood and Prcsi
dent Schurman). but what do contend
ior beyond this, is that we must no,
TURN our great public school system into
recruiting stations for the idea that
war, as illustrated in Belgium Poland
and Serbia. is the supreme expression
I OF the necessary school OF a nation's
Nalors or Virile world civilization