Show AT ODDS MEMBERS ME of oC the annual Lake Lako Mohonk peace conference are arc no better able to agree upon tho the best method of or averting war than are the disputants of ot the street or the corn corner r grocery grocer LII Like e the curbstone and soap-box soap debaters the they are aro a unit only upon th the tho undesirability of ot war and again like their less famous prototypes their individual conceptions o of the best means of avoiding avoiding- embroilment In conflict range rang from passivity and nonresistance nonresistance non- non resistance to something like armed lothe to lo the teeth I President Hibben president of oC Princeton university n a post from rom which an illustrious predecessor sprang to the presidency of ot the republic enunciates views Ie most likely kely to accord with p public opinion The They are In contradistinction contradistinction contradistinction con con- to tho those e his famous precursor long held and acted upon but hilt wo We fanc fancy the they square quare rather neatI neatly neat neat- I ly iy with those the latter has hns acquired since the Lusitania was destroyed oyed and Its passengers murdered Mr Ir favors preparedness for Cor or war because S It is essentially preparedness against war Teaching school children to sing I 1 didn't raise m my boy to be bo a soldier soldie impresses him as the tho weakest weakest weak weak- est kind of oC sentimentalism gone ma mad Marked ed change has come over the I far-famed far Lake Mohonk l conference It Is scarcely recognizable as the same bod body that for twenty one years ears has annually an an- fl expressed its confidence In the I growing Browing popularity of oC arbitration as a a means of oC settling disputes between nations nations nations na na- na- na and that has thought it saw possibility pos pos- I of ot war grow more and more remote Conditions have o replaced the the- ories ones Even Een these idealists who for two decades have stubbornly closed I their eyes to a truth plain plait I to the more practical now realize the 5 futility of ot longer asserting there Is no nc noI I fire Ire and can be no fire fh-e. when th the I world sees the flames names smells th the I 10 t I 1 nn v u 10 vJ J b Hie un v Although some of the delegates to tc the the present conference cling desperately desper desper- atel to their pacific Ideals there la Is I little of oC the customary nonsense about beating swords into plowshares and I pruning hooks They Thep appear to perceive perceive perceive per per- that the beautiful allegory of the thc lion and the lamb hard hardly applies when the lion and tho the bear are arc at death grips with the double eagle and have abandoned hope that law wi will be enforced enforced enforced en en- en- en forced b by the common conscience of or mankind during the life of or the present pres pres- ent it generation or oven of ot Its sor or Mental science will do much but even yen Its powers are arc overstrained when seeking seeking- to perpetuate trust in Ideals that hat lie He shattered red and crushed under the he Iron heel of oC a war lord President Hibben is performing a greater service for peace in urging preparedness against war than all the beautiful ideals a legion of ot his educational ional brethren can evolve His course courso courseS is S in encouraging variance to that of ot Dr r. r David Starr Jordan president emeritus of or Stanford whose mischievous ous C US doctrine of ot resistance non ha has played a star role rolo In lulling his countrymen countrymen coun couri- Into the sleep of oC false raIse security The United States Is nearer war to today today tolay to- to day lay that at an any other time In half halt a century with t one exception and only because it Jt is unprepared for Cor It Did Proe Professor sor Hibbens Hibben's logic need more mora confirmation than titan is found In the European European Eu Eu- I debacle it is ts supplied b by tho the propitiating attitude of ot the Teutonic empires towards prepared Italy a as contrasted with their arrogance to towards towards to- to wards unready America |