The Glenwood post., 1916-01-29
signed the declaration of war. Such
tines are bound to come.

rAAoCb d1o UOuuu IO cOme.
! SIN 1877 down at Pitkin, Colorado,
l joined the National Guard. Some cf
the most prominent men of the state
were members of the guard at that
time. We were all lovers of peace.
We had no thought of war. And yet,
in 1879, after that awful massacre down
at Meeker, we We're called out agains..
the Indians and We stayed in the field
/ for twenty-eight days. Not only was
the guard ready at that time, but every
man within the borders of Colorado
and 1 believe every woman was ready
to go against the Indians to avenge
the people killed in that massacre.
''As the result of the installation Of
/ this battery here 1 feel sure that you
will eventually come to subscribe 80
the principle that we believe in 'peace
with honor, but peace if we have t,
fight for it.'''
President Chas. A. Lory of the Agrl-
cultural college closed the exercises
said in part:
"In your bodies each of you carries
certain defensive element created to
give battle to the vast armies of dis
ease germs which assail you. If that
defensive element falls below the re-
quirement of your body you become
sick and you may die. The same prin-
ciple is true Of a nation. If the de-
fensive elements are inadequate it is
liable to become sick and it may die.
- want to ask: Is this nation which
invented all the efficient machinery of
modern warfare, going to let other ma
tions OF the world use the products of
the brains of its great men against It Z?
Are we going to allow some other nation
to turn the machine guns invented by
US against us? Are we going to allow
some other country to make use of our
big seventeen-inch guns to lay waste
our coasts and citios? Are we going
to allow foreign countries to take the
Submarines invented and perfected hv
Us and keep our commef.. =, from the
seas?
| During the last few years we have
| all of US ben forced to remaks our
PHILOSOPHY. We have become convinc ID
4 that there y as yet only one way of
settling national difficu1ties and that is
by force. And battles today are fought
with the brains and not with muscular
strength as a whole. The nation whic!,
takes the science of engineering, chem.
istry and sanitation into its warfarcs
is the one which wins. Never befo re
have We seen the spectacle of two na.
tions fighting the whole world as we
do today. In spite of whatever feel.
ings we may have for the allies, We
cannot but admire the Germans f,r
their remarkable resistance, and it has
been made possible through their ,x-
tensive use of engineering knowledg &c
and the use of trained men. i say T..
you, young men, that unless you pre-
pare yourselves to use these same ad
vantages your chances are nil.
And you should look upon this op
portunity as of great assistance to yor
in working for peace. The very best
training an engineer can get is the
knowledge of organization, and of main
tanning discipline among men which
military training gives. This was 70
markably Illustrated in the case of tht
Panama canal. Where ordinary engi
neering organization was not sufficier,
to cope with the slides and with the
sanitary problems ON the zone, these
difficulties yielded when the military
engineer took hold. Even here in oul
college we are organized on modifiea
military basis, placing responsibility
for given section of our activities CT
one man. For years we as natio.
have been training young people a
public expense on the theory that We
were protecting our citizenship. w,
have been efficient in education but
one side, military tactics, has been en-
tirely overlooked.
"And 1 would impress upon you thai
war with another nation is not the onl,
defense which may devolve upon us
Floods will come, there will be fires
earthquakes and pestilence, and il
those times your efficient organization
can render wonderful service.'
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