PRINCETON HEAD ON MILITARISM

President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University strongly upholds the idea of college military training in an article in the Nassau Literary Magazine entitled "A Phase of Military Preparedness." He commends the idea of a strong military force for United States, and says that it in no way interferes with the universal peace movement which the present war has so rudely interrupted.

He concludes as follows: "There is nothing in my mind which would so directly make for peace as to be assured that the defensive strength of our nation resides in those citizens for whom war is not a profession, who belong to no military caste, to no military party, who are free from the suggestions and the control of a mob impulse, and who not only have been trained in the knowledge of war-fare, but also have been grounded in the fundamental principles of just and fair dealing between man and man, and between nation and nation as well."

The article was written as a commentary on the plan for military training at Princeton.