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¿dp ** “ P S W áo^o nor ¡¡repare j
« boy (or service to btt commualty
t& timé of peace.
The mu» against foqplng boya
* M il j 5 x 3 aitf c o lh « to taka
te military training againat their
are showing & qéw
Leather
Hand Bag.
— Military tr»W n|
schools and colleges. especially
when comftulaory, 1? under heavy
‘ fire from leading educators in the
United Statee and frdfo otfr
churches.
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Boetop University has just
abolished the compulsory feature.
The University e»t Wisconsin, a
land grant college, did so two
yean ago, Nebraska proposes
to take a state refiereudnm on the
subject s the November elections
following the refusal at the State
Regents to heed a protest from
students In the State. University.
| Majorities of students in Cor-
' apll. in Ohio State University, and
In the College of the City of New
York have petitioned the authori
ties to remove the compulsion.
Among tho college presidents that
condemn military, training for
school boys are President Emeri
ti» Charles W, Eliot of Harvard
University, President Harry A.
Garfield of Williams College,
Präsident Wm. H. Faunce o f
Brown University, President Wm.,
T. Foster of Reed College, and
President Arthur B. Morgan of
Antioch College.
Tho Cleveland Board of Edu
cation heard pleas for retention
from nationalist
organisations
from Hon. Newton D. Baker and
ex-Senator Pomprene, and, voted
« to 1 to & > li£ it. The hldh
school principéis of Massachusetts
in April voted 100 to 9, according
to presa
PSICE
the
ita purpose, not directly the sav
ing of life, in war,—fpr the cqqre-
“ ,a7 ^ / eme?u n r V 0 ,th v ’
— but military propaganda look
ing towards the progressive mili
tari fct Ion of the thinking <jf the
nation through Ita ynutk. The
time t o Atop thia, procyfq, v>|cj»
could' only end in war and world
disaster, in now.
CHICAGO. (UP)— Three of the
moat prominent men of the ath
letic world have passed on during
the last frear.
Last Winter Waiter Camp, the
father- of Amerioan ool login te
football Sras found dead In his
hotel room in New York, where
he had gone to attend the annual
meeting of the football rules
committee.
Camp’s contributiona to the
athletic wor|d) were Invaluable.
Under hie direction— Camp at all
times was consulted on everything
regarding tho game — football'
The nett of.,the gre^t triumvir
ate to pass was Marfin A. De
w
m
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sand against compulsory military laney, one of the most capably
physical directors and. track
coaches In this country. He drop
ped dead Jieto wWTe rushing to
catch a street rer ft» carry him to
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It will he observed that the at
For over twenty-five,years De-
tacks focus on two phases of the laney was actively connected with
question, the compulsory feature the development of traek and
In colleges and all military train- field athletics while* be waa physi
lag Ih hlgh sehqols
cal director of thd Chicago Ath
Tho case against mlltiary traln- letic Association. As a developer
fAg in tflgfc iefionls can be aura, of athletes, he robahly never had
a peer.
Many of his athletes
med up aa follows:
It militarise« tfio thfhirjTg of shattered world’s records and won
Immature, toys, leading thorn to all-around championships. His
j5. A. A .. teams, 'many times,
brought home the championships
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opposed personally or nationally. or tho A. A. U.
Tom Eck, for eleven
years
It gives boys the impression that
wars are natural and Inevitable coach of the long distance runners
qt a tlm e.dbto thp world is seel ¡pi the University pi Chicago, Is
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ing a rational mthod Of settling the other one of the trio. ,
Tom Eck was a conspicuous
International disputes, it has eon-
fesimfQy no military value in a figure in the sports world for
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highly technical profession. It is over fifty years.
Eck was oh« of the greatest bi
no substitute tor physical train
ing such as one gets from gymnas cycle riders this country has ever
tics and group games. Ths.obed- seen. A native Canadian, he gave
ience it teaches not no' obedience to that country Its first thrills lii
In general frat obedience to a Sam the riding game.
Browne belt. Its discipline to not i Perhaps Eek’s greatest work
self-discipline but external re- was n ascertaining a man’s can-
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Oías. A. White
JtN DE ttó JÖLÖC^L.
dispatches, against
continuance of military training
In Massachusetts schools or its
development in any way, shape or
form.
« t o Northern
j_ 3 i the
.i General
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Xreembly of the
Presbyterian J^hureh In the Unlt-
ed States and „th^. great Federal
Qonpctl qf Churches through. Iti
Administrative Committee, have
afly rocotniaed na úñ-Ámerfein,
A Rqtopwta tract ick condemn e l ’
by our founders and Jnaily hat- 1
ed by the American people, ft t i
an infringement on fÜO_ inalien
able right of private conscience
nñ)n«ttfiéd by any present plea of
national neceeeity.
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The whole present em^HMaik nt ’
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Tom Sharkey of M » tn l U niversity la called “Ohio's fastest (nuhanJ* Ov
a period of fo u r week» he was credited w ith doing the lCQ-yayd
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world record tim e of *A seconds; w l. new m arks ta r the century enjJ ft
¡□ng g ven tain th e p ig Six Conference ang ra n second to the grant ifefcfc
tatcke a t the national colleglat«h. He wp.l compete in the A . A. V. m t
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Philadelphia next month.
ditlon. It has been said of Tbm
Eck that j io athlete »of his ever
went into .competition, over
trained. Bek’s athletes were al
ways trained to the minute, right
on the edge that borders over
training, and takas plenty of care
to keep from slipping over the
like.
The passing of the three leaves
open three places that unques
tionably will be hard to fill—-es
pecially In the ease of Camj>. bne
of Camp’s yearly duties was the
selection of an All-American foot
ball team that was recognised es
jofftcisl.
$5100 WdriH of Bùéschèr Instruments
Lpet ypar, practically
every writer In the country made'
a stab'at emulating Camp and no
official team came out of the lit.
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