The Penn's Grove record., 1916-06-02
DEBATE MILITARY
TRAINING PLAN
High School Principals Prefer
Baseball to Soldering
BATS IN PLACE OF GUNS
The Only Speaker UnquaIifiediy Fa-
Voring Training Was DR.. Robert
G~rimshaw, of N. Y. University
and National Security League.


Especial Trenton Correspondence.)
Trenton.-The first meeting of the
Legislative Committee on Military
training in the High Schools, held at
the State House, showed that not ev-
cry person in the State is in favor
of the proposition. The sentiment as
expressed before the committee seem
ed about evenly divided, and Chairman
Oliphant announced that the commit
tee would not confine itself to consid-
Grafton of the question for high schools
alone, but for all schools. First, he
said, the committee would decide the
feasibility of the training and then
lowed.
DR.. William A. Wetzel, principal of
the Trenton High School, said that he
did not want to be placed in the mol
lycoddle, ultra-paciist or peace-at-any-
price class, but he was against the pro-
position to teach military training in
the schools. He would have the base
ball diamond substituted for the drill
yard, and would keep out of the curri-
culum any mention of the word mill
tary." All around physical training
would be his solution of the prepared
ness plan, and the Boy Scout move
ment appealed to him as the best that
offered itself.
The most determined opposition
came from the Society of Friends, rep
resented by M. Albert Linton, of
Moorestown, and William G.. Cowper.
thwaite, of Haddonfield. Both spoke
of the conscientious scruples of Qua
kers against taking human life.
Mr.. Cowperthwaite said he had a
15-year-old-son, and he would rather
see him in his coffin thar have him
raise a gun against another man.
Mr.. Cowperthwaite, answering a
question from Major Winfield S.
Price, of Camden, of the committee,
admitted that in the event of an in
vasion he would suffer death rather
than defend himself.
Mr.. Linton declared that behind the
scheme for military training turks an
attempt to make the individual con-
science su%bservient to the will of a
superior officer. Such a practice, he
said, is at variance with the funda-
mental principles of this country. 1t
would mean, he added, the training Of
children to do as they are ordered
rather than as they believe. He con-
demned military training as destruc-
tive of individual conscience and mi
tiatiye. DR.. Robert G%rimshaw, a mem
Der of the faculty of the New York
University and chairman of the speak
ers' committee of the National Securi-
ty League, made plea in favor of the
adoption of the scheme. The commit
tee will Heet in Newark on June IL.
Would Terrorize Jersey.
A letter from Mrs. Rose Pastor
Stokes, the sociologist, to Pat Quinlan,
the l. w. W. agitator, now serving
a term in the State Prison, but inter
cepted by the prison authorities, shows
plans for "terrorizing' New Jersey in
general and Paterson in particular.
The letter from Quinlan-to President
Wilson, published widely a few days
ago, was no doubt part of this scheme.
according to the authorities. The
Stokes letter is virulent. The writer
says 1t is time to give the State "the
time Of it's life, politically and indus
trially." Now the time is coming to
fight the devil with his own fire."
writes Mrs. Stokes. The authorities
of Paterson and Passaic county were
notified as to the threats. The letter,
dated last April, read in part:
Dear Pat: I'm distressed beyond
measure at the news of the Pardons
Boards action. 1t is now up to Klein
ert to recall and re%sentence you. If
he does not act favorably in the mat
ter and accord you such measure of
justice as remains to the State of Jer-
sey to do in your behalf, there will
be nothing left to do but give Jersey
and Paterson in particular-the time
of their lives. Politically and indus
trially. When Mrs. Sloan comes again
to see you she will tell you the plan
WI mean to carry into effect.
If they do not at present repent
their sin of committing you to prison.
they shall repent before long and be
sorry they waited.
have been wanting for a long time
past to go in and expose the rotten
ness, political and otherwise, of those
so-called public" officials, but we
have hoped, of course, that they would
realize the wrong they've done you.
Now the time is coming to fight the
devil with his own fire.
Aid Each Other for Fires.
Plans for a quick mobilization of
nearby fire departments when needed
IN case OF a serious conlagration
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