The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-25
LESLIE FLAYS !
Student WAR
ON R. 0. &c.
Governor Terms Attack by
|. U. Campus Paper
'PacifiSm.'
ASSAULT IS Renewed
Editorial Brands Military
Training Little Less
Than Draft

While editors of the Indiana Daily
Student. Indiana campus publica-
ton. again attacked compulsory
military training at the state school,
their attitude was aSsailed today by
Governor Harry G.. Leslie.
Leslie went through similar fight
against the r. 0. T. G. at Purdue
university as alumni secretary.
AS Governor he is chairman of the
board of visitors at Indiana univer-
sity.
Military training was defended
Monday by Chairman James w.
Fesler of the I. U. trustees and to-
day, Leslie launched an attack ON
what he terms "pacif1st propa-
ganda."
Didn't Get BY"
II am somewhat familiar with this
program to wreck the R. o. r. c."
Governor Leslie asserted. II went
all through that at Purdue. But
when 1 ran the alumni publications
there, the pacifists didn't get by
with their propaganda.
Most of these ideas come from
the professional pac1sts from the
east. The first principal of their
program is to win the campus pub
lication.
This movement is headed by
Frederick Libby and others.
But how absurd it is to charge
American colleges with being
militaristic when they have train
ing but a few hours a week. There
is no danger of PrussiniSm or max
ing robots here.
Many lives might have been
saved in the World war if we had
been prepared for the conflict. Sure
ly we should have learned lesson
and do not again want to send men
into aattle who do not even know
the manual OF arms"
Schools Owe Duty
The Governor also pointed out
that state schools owe especial ale
glance to their government, and
should be willing to take a little
time to study for its defense.
The radicals make the real mill
itarists when they get control of
country, he pointed out, citing the
case of Russia.
1--WE never have Waged aggressive
warfare and I trust we never WILL"
the Governor concluded. But we
certainty can not refuse to learn
some rudimentary principles of de-
Tense in a world that is armed to
the teeth"
Having previously charged ed
itorially that the military system at
I. U. is making robots the Indiana
Daily Student launched another at
tack on the system today.
The editorial follows:
when the World war drew the
United States into the conflict in
1917, President Wilson called for
volunteers for the army and navy,
and many loyal men responded to
the call. Months passed and as
stringent war measure the draft law
was passed, inSpite of much opposi-
ton.
In his message to congress rec
ommcnding the measure, President
Wilson made it clear that he did
not regard the draft law as es-
sential to the wellbeing of the coun-
try or the prosecution of the war,
but that he was recommending the.
draft law because it would leave
men with the responsibility of a
family the last to be called to the
ranks.
This was while the United States
was at war with several of the most
powerful nations Of the earth, and
yet the government did not regard
the draft as necessary, but merely
more fair to her citizenry
Compulsory drill today is, by its
own terms, CONSUMPTION in peace
times If CONSUMPTION was not
deemed necessary to the government
when we were at war, what possible
justification can there be for COM
pulsory military education in college
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