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Show MILITARY TRAINING. Armed with the inevitable petition of 10,000 names, a delegation is converging con-verging on Washington to urge Congress Con-gress and the President to outlaw military training from American colleges col-leges and universities. The delegation is said to be made up of Red radicals us well as pacifists. In most schools the training is in no way compulsory. Those who take such courses, whether by election or school rules, spend but a few hours a week in studies that embrace drill, rifle practice and military history and science. They are physically and morally benefited. Superabundant energy en-ergy which might readily be engaged in more harmful occupations is directed direct-ed into useful channels. The officers of the United States army who conduct this training are selected for their good records and high appreciation of their responsibilities responsi-bilities in assisting the heads of other college departments to inculcate in the young men under them a higher appreciation ap-preciation of their future duties as citizens. In every college where military training has been installed there is also a little crowd of active opponents. They comprise the budding bolsheviks of the school, youths with distorted minds and unhealthy propensities, who only too often are misled by half-baked half-baked professors. It can safely be left to the good sense of the American people as to which group most merits attention and suppression, if any action ac-tion is needed. Washington Post. |