Evening star., 1915-12-05
H|BBEN NDENOUNCES
DIVIDED ALLEGIANCE
Calls Traitor Who Expresses
Esprit of Hyphenated
Loyalty"
PRINCETON'S PRESIDENT
URGES PREPAREDNESS
Would Create Invisible Army" in
Interest of Peace by Training
All Citizens in Arms.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Buffalo this evening, President John
Grier Hibben of Princeton University
delivered a strong plea for military
preparedness. He urged the fuller en-
listment of young men in the militia,
and condemned as traitor whoever
expresses the spirit of hyphenated
loyalty
Said President Hibben, in part:
whatever views / may hold concern
ing military preparedness cannot be
ascribed to any feeling of panic due
to brooding over the unspeakable hor-
rors of the present world tragedy,
whose daily progress we follow with
anxious and depressed spirits. The
war, however, has served to confirm
my opinion of the necessity of more
adequate military preparedness
Lesson Of history.
"Why should we prepare ourselves
against the indefinite and seemingly
remote possibility of war? Because our
history as a nation imperatively con-
strains us to heed those counsels of
wisdom which our past distinctly sug-
gests.
For lack of trained troops. thou
sands and thousands of our young clt1-
zens have been cruelty sacrificed and
warfare needlessly prolonged in every
conflict in which our country has been
engaged. The failure to devise some
national policy of adequate military
preparedness has resulted, throughout
our history. in making the maintenance
of peace incalculably difficult and the
termination of war. when 1t has come,
fnexcusably and disastrously delayed.
Military preparedness is form of in
surance; for when wisely conceived and
adequately realized. 1t will serve either
to prevent war and it's incalculabl losses
altogether or at least greatly to shorten
the duration of war. SO that the nation
suffers the minimum rather than the
maximum of its horrors.
Answer to Directors.
THE many objections to policy of
reasonable preparedness seem to find
concentrated expression in the question,
But who is our enemy? Against whom
are we to prepare?' This question Is
wide of the mark. 1t is not only illog-
ical; it is trivial and irrelevant
with the foe upon our borders there
is no time for preparedness. only for
the mobilizing of our available forces as
best we may. This question therefore
means that it is time enough to meet the
enemy when he is recognized as such.
And this would necessitate a complete
dependence upon voluntary army has
tily collected and wholly lacking in any
knowledge or experience Of arms. To
by hastily gathered forces of ignorant
and unprepared citizens is the height
of folly.
Preparedness, Not Belligerence.
81 feel strongly that preparedness is
not at all incompatible with the love
of peace and the hatred of war. If we
as a people are trained in the essential
principles of justice and our ideas of
right are grounded in the conviction
that there is one ethic for the indi-
vidual as well as for the nation the
ability to defend ourselves will not
lead to an aggressive and lnSolent
militarisrn.
THE spirit of militarism can never
be due to the mere state of prepared
ness in itself. but is created by warp
ed mind and heart of greed and un-
worthy ambition. Militarism is not de-
but by the definite policy of a state
seeking world power and world domi-
nation. The glory of power is reveal
ed through restraint.
IT have sufficient confidence in the
spirit of our nation. in our traditions
of justice, in our moral integrity, in
the sincerity of our public pledges, in
the freedom from the mania of imperial
power and territorial acquisition; so
that I have no fear that our nation will
ever be betrayed by the false ambition
of militarism to wage an unjust and
unrighteous war in an unworthy cause
Preparation Against War.
"As I have said in another place and
would here repeat with an emphasis
intensified by a growing conviction, a
true and wise preparedness is pre-
paredness against war and not for war
This is not an impracticable theory, in
capable of being realized in the actual
proves the possibility of a nation in
arms challenging the world as the de-
tenders of peace.
THE problem for us to solve is how
potential military power may be rem
dered capable of rapid transformation
into immediate available energy Bv
the extension of the military training
camps through our country. by an in
creased interest in the organization of
the state militia, by short-term enlist
ments in the regular army, so that
there will be minimum of men in
actual service and a maximum m the
reserve corps-by all these efforts and
others of similar nature which may
suggest themselves our line of prog
ress is definitely determined for us, to
create an invisible army which will
need only the country's peril to sum-
mon 1t into being.
America the Fatherland.