U. S. WAR POLICIES DISCUSSED

In a lecture to the members of Military Science 1 and 2 last evening, Professor R. M. Johnston pointed out the weaknesses of the United States military policy since the time of the Mexican war, and described the unfortunate results which have been caused by it. Professor Johnston attacked first the theory of recruiting and hastily equipping a mob of recruits with no previous military experience. Statements made by General Meade, Kirby Smith and McClellan at the close of the Mexican campaign agreed in the assertation that the volunteers were not only inefficient and unmanageable, but that they murdered and pillaged wherever they went.

He then went on to show of what inestimable value to this country a respectable force of regulars would have been at the beginning of the Civil War. and in the first two years of the present European struggle. "If the United States had had three brigades of regulars in 1861 they could have occupied Richmond, New Orleans and Charleston, and stopped the war there. If, in 1915, the United States had had a regular force of half a million, and fairly efficient reserve of twice that number, it is my belief," said Professor Johnston, "That the Lusitania would never have been sunk."

In conclusion, he reminded the R. O. T. C. cadets of Clausewitz's words: "War is only a continuation of State policy by other means. The most decisive act of judgment of the statesman and general is to understand correctly the war in which he engages, not to take it for something which by the nature of the case it cannot possibly be."

Third Battalion Drill.

Drill for the Third Battalion will be held this afternoon and for the Second tomorrow. Both will leave for the Commonwealth Armory from behind Persis Smith Hall at 3.45 o'clock.

The special final examination for members of Military Science 1 and 2 who are leaving for Yaphank will be held in Harvard 2 at 7 o'clock thus evening. These men will be excused from all drill after tomorrow.