Show STUDENT LIFE 18$ great nations An emergency requiring the imjK)sition among the mediate dispatch of 100000 troops across the sea would disclose to a scornful world the ludicrous disproportion of our national strength to our national pretentions Our real greatness as a world power is sentimental and largely on paper This neglect of national preparation to meet obligations which we have assumed with our larger place among the powers is especially momentous in the light of present conditions In Europe in South America and in Asia there are complications which present a growing menace of war We are immediately concerned in those complications and cannot escape them It does not follow that war in any of these quarters would involve the United States Yet the very fact that we are unprepared to defend our interests and the world knows it is our chief score of danger What we need is an Army and Xavy of trained men that can cope with any great power and hold the place we have assumed war True the has shown the utter savagery and horror of war so let us hope that the year 1905 will record in history the date of the last great war between the people of the earth And yet the new year dawns upon a world in arms though a world at peace so far as national conflict is Rut let us remember concerned that a preparedness for war is a d to peace for “when the strong man armed keepeth his house his goods are in peace” Capt Jenson The exercises held some time ago to awaken an interest among students in the international arbitration movement were a decided success — on the surface at least IIow much of the real spirit of the occasion penetrated into the inner consciousness of the average student must be a matter of conjecture Our position in the military department on this question and its natural sequence Universal Peace has been -- Russo-Japane- safe-guar- se clearly defined in the pages of this periodical Inasmuch as Student Life is not as widely read and as generally appreciated as it deserves to be we may be pardoned for quoting the following from the December 1904 number (Military Department notes) : “Every sensible right-minde- d civilian or soldier deplores the fact |