Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-12

h ODening Of the citizens. military
training camps throughput the c0unr
tr.y-with more applicants everywhere
than the Army could accommodate
proenpted this observer to sound OUT
two men who do not believe In teach
Ing the youthful idea how to shoot IN
national defense. The men are Rev.
DIR. s.. Parkes Cadman, president OF
the Federal Council Of Churches. and
Rev. DR.. Sidney L. Gulick, one OF its
international secretaries Botn LIE.
Federal Council has becn "misrepFO'
sented. !, Il Il not opposed, they say,
Is military training as such, but 20
MAILING such training compulsory IN
COLLEGES and universities. The COUNCIL
also frowns upon military training 1or
s.adolescent youths" in high schools
arid academies;
\ n
IT regard the implanting OF MILL
taristic IDEAS. spirit and assumptions
III adolescent youth Is . calamity IN
every land" asserts DR.. Cadnlan.
.What the youth Of the world now
a,inreYneiy need is correct history, g
frlIe insight into international Queg-
fions and relations and the highest
stype Of moral development These
can hardly be given by the ordinary
military officer, whose education has
fitked him for military service, ana net
Tor the teaching Of unbiased history.
ethics or international relations. :
am not q pacifist. do not pehevo
Is practicable for any single nation 70
disaFnn alone. The United states must
saainfaiIl 10 Army and Navy on an
efIiedent basis. But this should DO
done on & basis free from efforts to
fniiitarfze the youth Of the land. Com
pulsopy military training in CIVILIAN
institilfions. whether in the United
states. Japaai or elsewhere, inev1taDiy
conflicts with sound ideals and pedar
rogic principles Of education. M
Il y ~
@ Dr.. Quick sings almost the same
tune. sTIow best to beget q genera
ton Of youth" says he, well trained
morally, and thus Of high and q.
tective moral ideals. is one Of the
most perpiexing problems Of the day.
Not he Is morally trained who In =
lguuad or company implicitly and MI.
.tny11afically obeys d superior 06icer.
hut he who In the inner character oG
hts own soul and in his habdtua4 lie
n clean in thought and act, who -
true. sincere, honest and trustworthy.
sGoosestep activities should not Be
confused with moral character. No
ono has vet shown how military
dralis secures moral results. NO
doubt, many military men have these
noble qualities, but are these quali-
ties due to military training2 II 20
why are 20 many who have had null
tary training so obviously den cient
III the most elementary matters %
moral life? The idea that military
training can produce moral chax acter
eviflces complete inisapp ension III
the fundamental principles Of pedas
gOgy and Psychology Moral char
acter cannot be produced by any
mechanical procedure.
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That first Coolidge fish, now the
hest advertised pike or pickerel IN
piscatoriai history, what it,
weight, recalls the famous yarn spun
whenever All newc0mea, crosses the
threshold Or the Sports Club ia ST.
James Square, London. Over the
grand stairway hangs q massive
nuskellunge, mag niflcently mounted
In glass case. al tipsy clubfnan.
making his uncertain way up the
stairs one night after the theaker.
observed, The fellow who caught
that ilsh was damned liar,
Prince Antoine Bibesco. former hi.
Tnanian Minister to the United states:
writes from Paris that reports cur.
rent Ia Washington last Winter xela.
,TituleHcii. heaa Of the Rlna2ninii debt
funding commission, were not founded
on fact. 1t was stated at the time,
and eventually read into the Congress.
EniOnAI Record As IN actual occurrence,
TINT ths breach between The two dipI