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Show HIBBEN ADDRESSES B0fLE CLUB, President of Princeton University Uni-versity Declares for "Preparedness "Pre-paredness Against War." OUTLINES SITUATION Man Opposed to Protection of Country Characterized Character-ized as Gambler. "I am a pacifist, but a pacifist who believes in some kind of preparedness in our country not preparedness for war, but preparedness against war,'1 declared Dr. John Grier Hibben, president presi-dent of Princeton university, in a stirring stir-ring appeal for "Military Preparedness" Prepared-ness" to the members of the Bonneville Bonne-ville club at a dinner in the Hotel Utah last evening. Speaking with the authority that comes from thorough study and wide investigation, Dr. Hibben Hib-ben discussed the theme of the hour with a quiet vigor and sincerity that placed him in first rank among the distinguished dis-tinguished men of the country who have addressed the Bonneville club. His clear and telling logic made a profound pro-found impression upon those who heard him. The man who opposed preparedness Dr. Hibben characterized as a gambler one who was willing to stake his own interests, his wife's honor and virtue, the safety of his children, the future of his country, to stake everything on the belief that there is no possibility of war. On the contrary, Dr. Hibben said he believed war was a real danger. dan-ger. Not, he said, that he .believed there was an actual dangej of war, but that there was a possibility. Business Bus-iness men, he said, insured their plants because they' believed there was a real danger of fire, not because there was an actual danger of fire when they insured their property, but because destruction by fire was a possibility. Always Unprepared. The history of the United States proved, said the speaker, that never had there been a war when the United States was prepared. Because of that very fact, he contended, the lives of thousands of the best young manhood of the land had been needlessly, criminally, crimi-nally, sacrificed. The man who read the history of the present European war, he said, realized that it was too late to prepare when the country actually ac-tually knows who its enemy is. ' Dr. Hibben was introduced by one of his classmates at Princeton university, univer-sity, Edward B. Critchlow. Mr. Critchlow Critch-low 's introduction was delightfully clever, adding interest to the evening's programme. He said he felt ho had been selected to act as toastmaster because be-cause he was a local member of the "I Knew Him When" club and then proceeded to tell some secrets of college col-lege days, when President John Grier Hibben jf Princeton was "Jack the finest card of all the pack." In his response Dr. Hibben retaliated by telling some school days' secrets upon Mr. Critchlow, which again afforded af-forded much merriment for the other members of the club. Dr. Hibben's Address. Addressing himself to the subject announced, "Military Preparedness," Dr. Hibben said in part: I am here tonight as a pacifist, not of the school of Bryan, or Df Henry Ford, but a pacifist In the sense of one who Is entitled to be called one, a pacifist who believes In some kind of preparedness for our country. I am a pacifist because I hate war from the bottom of my heart, and because I dread war. My theme is preparation, prepara-tion, not for war, but against war. My Interest In the military preparedness pre-paredness of our country was not born of the present European war. My views on the subject first became definite defi-nite and clear In May, 1S93, when, through correspondence with General Leonard Wood, I agreed to co-operate with him and a group of university presidents in the planning of a series of summer camps for military training of university undc-rjrraduatcs. This Idea appealed to me with great force for two reasons: First, because In the event of grave national peril our university uni-versity students would be the first to volunteer, as they have In the rast. They would give the enthusiasm of faith and loyal devotion of patriots, but without the knowledge or skill of warfare. It Is like a hideous nightmare night-mare to think that under the possible possi-ble circumstances of a sudden surprise of an Invading enemy these young men would be led to slaughter like cattle to the shambles. In the second sec-ond place, the American youth of today to-day need above all things to be given an opportunity to forget themselves and their selfish interests and pursuits (Continued on Page Seven.) KIBBHN ADDRESSES BWBHL1F CLUB (Continued from Pag One.) in some form of disinterested service in' which the spirit of unselfishness and manly behavior, richly latent In their natures, may find concrete expression. ex-pression. Importance Emphasized. It has been said that we who urge preparedness are radical and violent, to seek preparation for such a far-off periL I hold one who advocates wise preparedness is the conservative. The man who does not is a gambler. He is willing to stake everything on tho belief that there can be no war. He is staking financial power, national honor and the lives of thousands of our best young men on that belief. I believe that war is for us a real danger. Not that 1 believe there is a probability of war; I do not say there is an actual danger of war. Reality belongs to the sphere of the possible as well as to the sphere of the actual. You business men know this; you know there Is a real danger of the destruction of your plants by fire. And what do you do? You put insurance in-surance on your property. In the history of our own. country there never has been a war in which we have been prepared. And because of the lack of preparedness there has been a criminal loss of human life-Thousands life-Thousands and thousands of our young American citizens have been cruelly sacrlticed and warfare needlessly need-lessly prolonged because we were un-j un-j prepared. The wise man is one who is able to protit not merely by ht own I mistakes, but also by the mistakes of others. Even the. fnol may avoid the exact repetition of his own folly. Let us learn wisdom from the folly of those who have gone before us. The failure to devise some national policy of adequate preparedness has resulted result-ed throughout history in making the maintenance of peace incalculably difficult and the termination of war when it had become inexcusably and disastrously delayed. Indulging in Fallacy. Men liave asked, then, "Who is our enemy?" Those who ask tins ques- tlon may be sincere, hut they are in- j dulirlng in a fallacy. We are not proposing pro-posing to prepare acainst any speci- flc enemy. Everyone who reads the ' history of our European war day by rtav at his nrea-kfust table knows that it i too late to prepare when you know who your enemy is. The allies were too late in Belgium he-cause he-cause they were unprepared. They were too late In Serbin, they were too late on OalllpoM. It' we wait until tho i enemy is on the Canadian frontier, or on the Pacific or the Atlantic i coasts, it is folly then to prepare. It will be too late. But the opponents of preparedness sav that if you get younr men into summer training camps, or into the navy, you are adopting a. policy of militarism. Militarism, does not como through preparedness, or through unprepared un-prepared ness. It comes through a national spirit, a spirit of greed and conquest. V, thank Ood, have another an-other creel -the creed of attending to our own affairs. We have no desire for f-Tclcn t eiTitory ; w e w IU js that we h" ?m strong when we speak, through our chief executive, I other nations will heed what we say. We must have something to back up what we say. Concrete Illustration. Switzerland gives us a concrete illustration il-lustration of this point. 1 was in Geneva on the first day of August. 1914. and there was not a sinsle soldier sol-dier In sight on the streets. On the fourth of August there were between 400,000 and 500.1)00 trained soldiers on the borders. Yet no country in Europe Eu-rope ha-s less of the militaristic spirit than Switzerland. But, had not Switzerland been prepared, It would have been today in the same fbt as Belgium, or Serbia. A major In the Swiss army told me that the soldiers along the German borders had distinct dis-tinct German sympathies, and those along the French border had just as stronp; French sympathies, but he said that all of them were one In the determination that foreign soldiers should not invade the soil of Switzerland. Switz-erland. First there must be a preparation of the spirit of the people. I am not so much afraid of militarism as I am the possibility of the material Interests In-terests of our country crowding out the spirit of patriotism. We. unfortunately, unfor-tunately, forget quickly. We are forgetting for-getting the suffering of Europe already. al-ready. Today we are not getting enough contributions to the Belgian relief fund, in which I happen to be Interested as a member of the corn-mil corn-mil lee, to carry on our work. The Red Cross Is so handicapped by lack of funds that It is calling back some of its doctors and nurses from Europe. Eu-rope. This while we are enjoying prosperity and peace! Should Renew Vows. It Is time for us now to renew our vows of loyalty to our country, particularly par-ticularly those who have come here from other countries. We native-born native-born citizens have a right to say to them. "If you aro to be one of us, then there Is to be no divided loyaltv. Let it be understood that America is your fatherland. You cannot serve two masters?" We cannot have a divided, hyphenated loyalty, if you Please. The time has come for the renewing of our vows, for the quickening of our sense of national responsibility and the reciprocity of obligations, not merely demanding our rights, but recognizing rec-ognizing our duties as citizens. The time lias come also for the graleful appreciation of the deht we owe to t'ne past, a debt which we can discharge dis-charge solely by s:i tVcuarding our lierltn?e and transmit llngr it 'unimpaired 'unim-paired to coming generations. The time has come for us to vow that with all our resources of mind, heart and spirit we wilt give ourselves, so that all our ideals may be realized in the very truth. Other Notables Coming. In introducing t he toast master. President Pres-ident George O. ltelf of the Bonneville club announced that the promises of several sev-eral prominent speakers to come here had been obtained. Frank A. Vanderlip of the National City bank of New York and President William Sproule of the Southern South-ern pacific are among those who are expected ex-pected here next month, or in the near future. President George E. Vincent of the University of Minnesota has definitely definite-ly accepted an invitation to address the club on March 20. On behalf of the club, Mr. Relf expressed ex-pressed regret that KJ. L. Carpenter, former for-mer president, was resigning as a member mem-ber because lie was leaving the city, and he thanked Mr. Carpenter for the work he had done for the organization in the past. Mr. Relf also announced that the annual an-nual meeting and election of officers of the Bonneville club would take place at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of "Wednesday, "Wednes-day, February 2, in the supper room of the Hotel Utah. Following the adjournment of the Bonneville Bon-neville club, Dr. Hibben was taken to the University club, whore an informal reception in his honor was held by the local alumni of Princeton university. Dr. Hibben will address the students of the University of Utah today, and later will leave for Seattle and Portland. He said 1 vesterday he was making tlie western ' trip to become better acquainted with : the west, and to make an effort to secure a larger enrollment of western students in Princeton. Guests at the Dinner. Among those present at the dinner last night were: W. "W. Armstrong, Ernest Bamberger, Charles A. Walker, A. E. Milner, Joseph I H. Walker, John F. Cowan. D. C. Green, 1 a, O. Howard, C. C. Parsons, Jr., Harold P. Fabian. M. H. Sowlcs, M. B. Sowlea, J. B. Whitehtll, Julian M. Bamberger, Will G. Farreil. O. P. Soule, Georgo T. Badger, W. T. Pyper, R. W. Salisbury, U Greene. J. F. Critchlow, U. B. McCor-nick, McCor-nick, S. A. Whitney. Moroni Heiner, A. N. McKav, David Keith, Nephi W. Clayton, Clay-ton, George A. Snow, J. P. Gardner. Willard T. Cannon, David Keith, Jr., George H. Smith, James E. Jennings, C. H. Doolft tie, P. U Williams, N. H. Loomls of Omaha, C. C. Campbell, Charles D. Smith and L. B. Swaner. William H. Child, W. F. Earls, W. H. Lovesv, W. S. McCornick, H. N. Mayo, A. C. Wherry. Max Ottenheimer, M. M. Well, J. W. Vogan, Portland, Ore.: Jesse Rood, Pueblo. Colo.; Nicholas Nelson, Denver: A. H. Newman, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; J. Walrath, Portland, Ore.; A. J. Bale. Portland, Ore.; Eeon Sweet, W. R. Putnam, S. R. Inch. J. F. MacUane, M. Cheever, W. .1. Barrette, D. F. McGee. Dr It. R. Hampton, Dr. F. A. GoelU, Dr. R. E. Wight, Dr. E. F. Root, Dr. E. W Whitnev. Daniel Alexander, James A. Hogle. Dr. C. E. Carter, Dr. R. H. Allison. F. S. Bascom. T. B. Beatty, G. B. Wilson, W&lLer H. Dayton, James L. Franken. Edward Rosenbaum. L. C. Van Voorhis, G. E. Forrester, X. M. Hamilton. M. H. Walker, G. B. Pfoutz, A. D. Plerson, A. H. Cowie. F. B. Critchlow. William H. Theobald, D. L. Werthelm-er, Werthelm-er, George S. Auerbach. E. O. Lee, Morris h. Ritchie, Hiram E. Booth, Sol. G. Kalm, J. G- McDonald. W N. Pugh, F. C. Richmond, Rows Beason, P. A. Maglnnls. S. II- Love, P. T. F;irnsworth, Jr., M. M. Kaighn. F. C. Ijoofbourow, E. M. Garnett. W. H. Fol-land. Fol-land. Frank Evans. H. O. Sanford. Dafavette Hanchett. Henry Byrne. Samuel Neel. A. H. DeNike. C. A, Fa us, F. W. Hornnng, L. H. Harding F. D. Wilev, Denver. Stephen D. Richards. Carl A. Badger, O. J. P. Wkltsoe, W. S. Romney, W. T. Edward, Richard P. Morris, George E. Hale, C. P. Overfield. Joseph Lippman, B. R. Howell, L. B. Wight, Robert Dalgleis)), I. E. Willey. H. A. La Fount, W. J. Browning, Dr. L". M. Stookey, Clifford E. Young. Dr. George ". Middle ton, Levi Edgar Young, 1 lerbert M. Schiller, Lewis Telle Cannon, Can-non, Bayard W. Mendenhall, Solon Spiro. J. R. Willis, Albeit Salzbrenner, Frank J. Cramer, A. H. Chris tensen, H. C. Goodrich, H. B. VVindsor, J. W. Rausch of Baltimore. B. II. Roberts, Dr. E. G. Gowans, Preston Richards. Edwin T. Jones. George Mueller, H. V. Duscher, Mathonihah Thomas. Francis D. Rutherford, Frank K. Nebeker, T. D. Lewis, Benjamin llman Siegel, Walter C. Lewis, William D. Dono-her, Dono-her, George M. Bacon, Ernest Gayford, K. D. Hardy, F. P. Gallagher, Wesley King, W. F. Jensen, E. B. Palmer, Frank Fisher. R. W. Jessup, T. A. Williams, R. N. Baskin, F. A. Druehl, Louis Cohn, Heber J. Grant, C. W. Nihley, John Grier Hibben, George O. Relf. E. B. Critchlow, E. E. Calvin. E. L. Carpenter, A. E. Kimball, James Ft. Carpenter, J. T. Kingsbury, Josiah McClain, AV. M Padnn, C. L. Rood, John Cain, Dr. A. J. Hosmer, W. F. Adams, Dr. W. R. Tyndale, G. E. Bowerman, J. C. Weeter, R. E. McConaughy. |