Show pacifist and militaristic propaganda simply tend to cancel each other by GLENN FRANK president university of 0 wisconsin F V PEOPLE quit calling one another pacifists paci fists and militarists and ana approached the problems of n at tonal ism with the mind of a scientist they light flight get somewhere in the next ten y years cars in inice flie long run of history these competing as tend to cancel each other while war and pence peace are determined by a vast variety of forces that go on working here subtly and there openly in disdainful disdain ful disregard of the hot of the propagandists I 1 I 1 do not want to be misunderstood I 1 take my allee without evasion or reservation with the men who plead fervently against war as a moral apostasy and tile the shame of statesmanship but I 1 du do it with the conviction that the conquest of war will come if it comes only hs it a i ault of political won social and economic engineering that digs up tip the political social and eco cco roots of war and on the lie soil thus cl cleared earel lays the realistic foun lations 1 at ions of workable pence peace tile the problem goes deeper than the single question of military training in universities it brings you face to face with the problem of what your attitude as educated men and women is to be toward the all dominant fart fact of nationalism that today colors and controls so much of the politics and economics of the world most current discussion of nationalism is is dominated by the popular mind rather alan by tile the scientific mind As a result our discussions of nation nationalism alisa usually sink into sterility and do little more than to stir up had blood because ov y the end of the first hour flour we vc stop thinking and begin calling one group calls the other pacifist anil and the other shouts militarist and nr argument ament ends in as fault |