Arizona republican., 1917-05-29

and calmer and say. T can serve better with more complete training next year and best with completed training the year after
 This is the problem which is being put to the universities right now. In the selection of men the possibilities are, although ] could get no confirma- tion of this position, that in the coun- ciIs of the men selected, the voice of education will ring very loudly We know that our president, college man and q college administrator himself. has taken university men into his council, and we feel that the college men will be left to do the larger part of this work. There are messages from all parts of the country saying that the male college will be quite vacant by next year. But We must meet the larger work; we must be able to recon stluct. we must be able to serve in a technical way in the years to come.
 There must. of course, be a general recruiting of college men. If selection comes. it comes, if the bill passes as it came from the conference, for men be- tween the ages of 21 and 3L. High scnool graduation is approximately II years. in this western country from r to IS years. Now there are three years of college life before these young men before selection would take them to the amy l hold it is the patriotic duty of every young man Who has the stuff in him. who leaves h+gA sCl,0Oi this June to enter college. 1 hold it is our patriotic duty as institutions Cf learning to impress upon them @nC their parents the fact that they are to be needed for larger service in the years to come than would be possible lsr them now. It is not possible foJ them to serve in the way in which they will be called upon to serve unless they have this training.
 How shall We make the secondary school realize that il must build up the colleges this year? There is not q college or institution today that would not gladly close it's doors not to be opened again until after the war is over except that they see the larger need that they must continue their work; that they must turn out material for reconstruction and that every year they must send their quota sout into the engineering fields as the Years come and go.
 Every student here can do his bit in this way. It may be that it is a wise
 
 for the officers out of these officers training camps. l am inclined to think that when selection comes this item will be taken into consideration. and that those who have the appointment of the officers will say to the under graduates, Go back and finish your training and then come to the next camp after you have finished your technical training.
 There is a strong sentiment in favor of the men now in college finishing their work, and there will be opened in this world of ours opportunities for service such as the world has never seen before. The days of reconstruc- ton will be long, and the United States will have to put this reconstruction upon fine, solid and sound economic basis
 The department of education em- phasizes this point-that there are many fields of service into which the college man may go that seem to be di- rectly related to army organization We ought to think about this thing. There is q necessity of holding our so- oial organizations as cooly and as calmly as they can be held. In other words, social organizations are worth while: the world needs them; you can not keep an army in the field without mem, and you cannot keep any kind Of equilibrium in the home without them. We must take a larger view of things m the year to come and find out all the services that We can render III d larger way among men, as they are all indirectly related to the winning of the struggle in which the world finds itself at the present time. It is not in- tended here to offer opportunities for excuses. but it is simply realization of the fact that the world has learned many great lessons, and that these lessons must be conserved. and social organizations must be continued.
 Tt is worthy of notice that whenever conscription is being talked about it is said that men in charge of churches are exempt from conscription, for the days of the war and for the days after the war. Now we are calling for thousands and thousands of young men to go into Y. NJ. C. A. work The in ternational secretary of the Y. NJ. C. A. after an interview with PresidentANil- son, came out to say that young men who can go out into army Y. NJ. C. 4. work, the great work which they have undertaken to keep the camps as clean. as sweet and as decent as they can possibly be kept, are doing as large d work as anyone can possibly do, and when conscription comes. these men must be exempt.
 We are taking the larger view of these things, and while we must win these battles. we must keep our heads level, keep them cool and keep the best the purest and the noblest of organized society on the even tenor of it's ways :"