The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-09

Friends colleges to establish military
training, knowing the situation. The
advice given by these men was that
Friends colleges should go straight
ahead with their college programs as
formerly, endeavo>:ng to give the pest
education possible and emphasizing
essentials of good citizenship. giving
the most efficient physical training
and where possible, introducing spe-
cial lines OF trainisS which would
meet the needs OF the present time.
Proposed Program.
The document prepared sets forth
not only the position Friends colleges
were taking and the reasons for sucn
and the request which we had to make
of the War Department, but also q
statement of what we proposed to 40
to render the largest service we could
at this time. Under the auspices OF
the Society of Friends, all the COL
leges named above in this article Will
follow the following program:
First. there shall be instituted In
all our colleges a high type of physl-
| cal education, which will be required
of male students. This physical eau
cation will be of the sort that woulo
| be approved by the best athletic al
rectors in the land, and, SO far as us
| influence upon the physical develop
ment and health of students is con-
cerned, will be the equivalent OF mill
| tary training In fact the only diner
ence between what we propose to DO
| in these lines and that which Will De
done in those institutions where 5. A.
T. C. is established will be the technl-
cal military drill The regular inter
collegiate sports will go forward as
usual. This is the desire OF the war
I Department, as it has been determined
that college athletics are a large rae
tor in the training of men for service
of the Government.
Second, we propose to put in GER
| tain emergency courses In order 10
/ train men for special lines of service
Such courses have been proposed as
| First Aid, Shop Work, Wireless Tel
egraphy, Navigation, Automobile Me
chanics, Conversational French, etc.
Third, we propose to make sucn
notifications of certain regular cour-
ses as will make them most contrlbu,
tory to special training of men for ser
vice for the Government.
Fourth, course in systems OF Ac'
counting will be offered. Also we are
now in correspondence with the civil
Service Commission relative to estab
fishing courses for women preparing
for secretarial and statistical work.
1t will thus be seen that in every
phase of this whole question, Friends
colleges will be prepared to render
the type of service desired by the
Government except in the one item
of actual technical military training
Those who understand the situation
agree that the Arrangements OF the
Friends colleges have arrived at the
only conclusion possible.
Action at SWarthmore.
One of the leading men of the So
ciety of Friends is Gilbert Bowles, Of
Tokyo, Japan A few years ago the
Review of Reviews sent representa-
tive on tour of the missionary sta
tons of the world so that he might
make an estimate of the value of mis-
sionary work Upon his return ne
was asked who was the most infuen
| tial men he met, and without hesita
ton he replied, Gilbert Bowles, O.
Tokyo, Japan. In the August number
of the Review of Reviews, for the veal
1912, there appeared an article il
WHICH ILLS COileSpOIUShC VI eAC ieS
view of Reviews made a statemen
concerning Gilbert Bowles, which
shows the calibre of the man ant
gives an estimate Of the work he il
doing In that article it was stated
that Gilbert Bowles was the larges
single factor for the maintenance o
amicable relationships between thi
United States and Japan that was il
| existence Gilbert Bowles has recent
: ~ been on furlough in the United
States but has returned to his worl
in Tokyo On the eve Of his depart
ure learning that the Friends colleges
had taken the position which is Sc
: forth in this statement. he wrote t.
the president of one of colleges a
follows:
This note is written to give my un
J qualified support to those who believ'
J that the only course Of Friends col