Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
TEAM WORK WILL
WIN FOR AMERICA,
SAYSLEHIGH HEAD
President Drinker Stirs City's
Alumni With Patriotic
Address

If Englands battles were won on
her football fields then America can
do the same with team work, the
sort that wins a postseason series.
This, in brief, was the line pursued
last evening by DR.. Henry S. Drink
er, the aggressive president of Le-
high University who addressed the
local alumni at the University Club.
Though a veteran educator and man
or years, DR.. Drinker gave the inn
preston to the younger generation
OF listeners that he was still in his
twenties, for he was teeming with
energetic eloquence. Identified with
the forestry conservation movement
in this state and country, chairman
OF the Summer Military Training
Camps Association and O foremost
coadJutor in helping the govern
ment in its present task, DR.. Drinlker
spoke to an attentive audience. He
was followed by William Jennings,
class of 80. who pointed out the nee
essity of every man joining actively
in war work even though he was not
fitted for going to the front. He m
dlcated in particular such activities
as the Red Cross, Liberty Bonds, the
Y. M. c. A. and the Y. w. c. A. Mer-
Ger b. Tate, head of the local alumni
association, also called on Walter Il.
Okeson, secretary of the alumni as
sociation of Lehigh, for a talk.
Lehigh's Part
DR.. Drlnker first gf We a brief out
line of Lehfgh's enterprise in prepar-
ing for the war.
''Lehigh," said he, has right to
feel she did not slumber in the re-
cent years preceding the entry of
our country into the great war. We
were among the very first of the uni
versities and colleges of our land to
respond actively and heartily in 1913
to the call of the War Department,
voiced through Major General Leon
ard Wood, then chief of staff, to join
in the preparedness movement by
establishing military training camps
in the summer vacations for the
training of our college men in mill
tary. science and tactics, and we sent
from Lehigh a delegation to the first
camp held at Gettysburg in the sum-
mer of 1918, and delegations to the
later camps held in the summers Of
1914, 1915 and 1916.
"In these camps over 10000 men
were trained and made ready for
national service as officers, and Of
these a large portion enrolled this
year in the officers reserve and are
now in active service. Among them
we note with pride many of our
alumni"
DIR. Drinker made an earnest plea
for more young men to take up tech
nical education at this especial crisis,
quoting President Wilson and Secre-
tary of War Baker who have the
same opinion.
WAR" said DIR. Drinker, "is not
fought only at the front. Products
of our factories, farms and mines,
raw materials and finished products,
will be needed in enormous quanti-
ties. Our own railroads and indus
trial equipments will need rebuilding
after the terrible strain of wartime.
Yet the supply of technically trained
men does not meet the demand now.
When the war is over the demand
will be still greater. Our young men,
full of patriotic enthusiasm, desirous
of serving the nation in this. it's time
of need, should consider where their
service can best be given to render
the best effect"