Speaker Urged Stronger Armament

Professor A. S. Johnson, of Cornell University, speaking in the Union last evening on the economic aspects of the war, declared that the most tragic thing of the European struggle is the fact that it was nearly avoided. Now we will see a purification and readjustment, slow to be sure by reason of an inevitable consequence of ill faith and suspicion, but tending ultimately to completer harmony than has existed in Europe for many years. The effects of the war, he said, are unlike those of any previous struggle in that it has affected not special classes of humanity but has oppressed every family of the world. He gave special advice to this country, the richest in the world, to strengthen its armament moderately and more strenuously to provide relief for the children working in our factories and for the better care of our sexagenarians.