The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-12-06


cur Intellectual, moral and spiritual
life from the shock Of war to a life
.of peace, former President Herbert
Hoover declared at the Wilson Col
lc%e, Chambcrsburg, Pa, diamond an
niversary celebration.
Speaking before an asscmblage of
Students, aIumnae. representatives of
colleges and learned societies through
out the nation. and residents of this
Cumberland Valley community, Mr..
Hoover called upon the colleges to
lead in the restoration of our moral
and spiritual losses from the war.
colleges Have Obligation
81 say that the colleges have a
great obligation courageously to re-
store our moral and spiritual losses
from the war, to renew our ideals of
freedom, regain our sensitiveness to
wrong, and to provide the nation with
renewed supply Of trained leadership, y
the former United States Chief EX-
ecutive said
"Unless we rebuild this new era on
these foundations, it means the war
has been lost.
at means more. 1t means that civil
ization is lost. | am convinced that our
educational institutions are equal to
this, the greatest Of tasks"
Moral Losses Noted
Mr.. Hoover spoke in the open air
court before Main Hall-the oldest
building on the campus of Wilson Col
lege-the nations third oldest girls
college.
He asserted that during the recent
war we lost truth, justice, our sem
sitivcness to brutality, our ideas of
freedom. and some of our intelligent
leadership.
Truth can be rcgimented once more
by getting rid of propaganda which
has become so strong and has con-
fused SO many peoples, he said. He
added that we must get rid Of emo
ton, RECOMMENDATION Of the press and
confusion, for they are not. operations
in pure intellectual honesty.
Must BE Just Peace"
"There is no such thing as a hard
peace or soft peace. The former
president said, 1T must be a Just
peace if we are to restore justice in
the world, and without justice there
is no peace"
"Justice demands that the men re-
sponsible for this must be punished
1t requires that the military castles
and their weapons be destroyed and
kept destroyed.
"But justice also requires that We
do not visit on the children of millions
Of Germans and Japanese the sins OF
their fathers. Nor can we justly indict
and punish 200,000000 people. Ven
geance and revenge are not justice
pleasures which reduce the eco.
nomic life Of coming generations tc
( the low levels of am agricultural state
arc neither justice nor good policy
That will create gigantic cesspools OF
hate poverty and conspiracy against
the world.
by continuing the draft of boys
between die ages Of s and 81, we arc
destroying another crop Of leaders
trained in the professions and the
arts Mr.. Hoover said.
He explained that the draft and d.
version to war have cost us the equiv
alent Of six annual crops of young
men trained in these fields and that
latter the Interruptions of war, toe
small a part Of them are returning tC
colleges for training. There will some
times be a shortage in scientists
teachers, doctors, engineers, lawyers
and our leaders in the humanities"
Not All Bad
He continued that the consequences
of the war are not all bad, for We
made important scientific discoveries
especially in the manipulation OF
the atom-"the heroic deeds of Amer.
icas sons and daughters have addeC
to the glory of the nation, the wal
resulted in the eXtirpation of three OF
the fostering sores of military aggres
sion in the world, and we have a start
at world cooperation to at least main
tain military peace"
Forming colorful background
were the 435 students of Wilson Col
lcge, dressed in skirts and sweater.
Of many bright hucs, seated arounC
the edge of the crowd
Edward Martin, Governor cf Penn
sylvana. introduced Mr. Hoover
whose talk was broadcast over ma
tionwide network.
Group Grccts Hoover
When She former President, accom-
panied by + " wanna State Polio,
escort, arrived ON the campus, h,
was greeted by Paul Swain Ravens
president Of Wilson College. Governor
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