The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15

$50 right ahead along the lines
they had planned" IS the suggestion
of John Wanamaker, nationally
known retail merchant. He adds that
college men should take any military
training provided at their schools
and pursue their studies In
the usual way that they may
be prepared for any call their
country may make upon them,
and at the same time any foundation
for their life work when the war is
over"
Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the
governments aircraft production
board said.
MY personal feeling is that it is
a mistake to permit the war to inter
Tupt the education of our young men
more than Is absolutely necessary,
and / believe that every young man,
who IS not of draft age and who Is
able to do so, should go to college and
carry out his education as far as pos
sible-"
Julius Rosenwald, nationally
known merchant and chairman OF the
governments various committees on
supplies said
marked preference for men of,
college training is given IN the selec-
ton of officers for the United States
tary and naval service. Thoroughly
trained minds are necessary in execu-
tive positions IN war and peace For
the limited States to maintain its
place among the nations, thorough
training of its men and women Is es-
sential- A college provides maximum
training of intellect and body in min
imum time"
Until young men are required by
the government for military purposes
under the system of Selective cons
cription which has been adopted,
think they should take advantage of
the intervening time to acquire all
possible knowledge to equip them
selves for ife's battles Of course,
while pursuing their studies they
should take such military training as
NAV be available"
The provost marshal general, E.
II. CroWder, whose Office heads the
draft selection work, said:
81 have the honor to acknowledge
your letter, asking for the opinions
as to the line of action prospective or
actual students of military age but
not called into immediate service.
You state that many believe the wis
est course for such men is to attend
college and to take such military
training as can be provided and pur-
sue such studies as may best prepare
them for citizenship. In reply, beg
to say that / concur with this view.
but I would suggest that they would
not make engagements or undertake
any line of work which would inter
fere with the full and generous per
Torrance of the duties to which they
may be called during this crisis
through which the country is passing
to maintain the liberty secured by the
father and which must not be dimin-
ished or suffer in the hands of the
children - q.
Among other well known men who
strongly urged the young men not
to neglect his education at this time
are the Secretary of the War, the
Secretary of the Navy; E. ?. Ripley,
president of the Santa Fe Railroad
Brig. Gen Henry 7. Allen, Rear Ad-
miral T. F. Fletcher, Admiral ". S.
Benson, chief of naval operations,
Maj. Gen. Thomas II. Barry and
many others The letters are being
printed in a small folder that viii be
sent any resident of Kansas on ap-
plicatiOn to the department OF jour
nalism at the University
Business In War Time
It will be to the everlasting credit
and honor of business that It rushed
to the support and cooperation of the
nation the minute it entered the Eu-
ropean war and that business threw
itself, Unresevedly, its whole man
power and material power, into the
breech of national need
Regardless of present petty and
pernicious efforts to discredit bust
ness, to fOment class feeling, or keep
down the surging tide Of patriotic
passion process still going on IN
certain quarters part that bust
ness is playing will not escape the
people Time will serve only to make
clearer the perspective. Time always
does that. Those who imagine that
they can dim or deny In the future
the fact of the present are dead TO
the force of human experience
We would suggest a warning to any
who may be conjuring the idea IN
their minds that they can keep the
masses from understanding the wis
dom, the righteousness and the patri-
otic value Of what business, as Z
whole, IS doing for the nation IN this,
|. the nations hour of supreme need
Let such beware, for just so surely
as the future bestows its benediction
upon business, just as surely will II
pour out its malediction upon dissen-
tiers, detractors, the defamers.
America VIII never need to excuse
or apologize for her entrance into
this war For more than two years and
half she did all that self-respect and
! honor could do to avoid the war. She
endured the most wanton, willful and
intolerable outrages from the mos;
! ruthless despot Of all history. She ex.
; hausted the powers OF diplomacy, OF
; international comfy, Of reasonable
appeal, OF every recourse to the abit-
} rament Of peace m a vain and futile
: effort to keep out OF the war. She saw
her citizens, helpless women and
: children, murdered IN cold blood
without provocation, on the high seas
! her ships denied the right of passage