we will be in a better state of pre-
paredness as a result of this policy
than we were under the older sgheme.
But in the nature of things, this mag-
nificent body of citizen officers will
not last always. They will grow too
old for field service, they will take on
new burdens, domestic or business,
which will make service impossible;
they will be lost through sickness, ac-
cident and death as the years go by.
For the necessary replacements, Con-
gress has established in' each of the
larger colleges and universities a
training corps for the peace time,
training of reserve officers as replace-
ments for the inevitable losses in the
ranks of the Organized Reserve Corps.
Unless the replacements are trained
men, the whole scheme fails. Unless
the raw material subjected to training
is of the kind which officers are made
-college men-the labor will have
been in vain, for the training will take
too much time and tIe product will
never have those basic qualities found
only in the educated man, which we
now know must be at the bottom of
efficiency in commissioned officers.
. Students at such an institution as
the University of Michigan are largely
of military age. They will be drafted
as. privates in case of war if they are
not enrolled as cadets or as reserve
officers. This would be a scandalous
economic waste of material, which
Congress does not expect will happen,
and which the student as a citizen
should not let happen. It would indi-
cate also that the importance of the
civic duty was not grasped by the stu-
dent body. It would mean that in
time of war and the country's need
we should have to scramble and'
search about for the educated men
needed for officers and to train them
when found. In the process the coun-
If I am correctly informed, the Re-
serve Officers Training Corps at the
University of Michigan numbers 465
cadets. The number is pitifully small
when compared with the number of
able-bodied male citizens of military
age who are student5 and who should
be enrolled in the corps.
Congress nas made the policy out-
lined in the foregoing; trusting in the
willingness of citizens to do their part
loyally and completely in peace and
war. The part of the college man in
peace happens to require that he shall
sacrifice a small part of his, time and
energy preparing himself for his war
duties as a leader of men, responsible
to God and his country, that they are
skillfully led and cared for. The suc-
cess or failure of the scheme will de-
pend in large measure upon the spirit
in which the men of Michigan meet
this demand. The reputation of the
University of Michigan, your Alma
Mater, in the next war will not be
measured by the number of drafted
privates furnished butby the number
and quality of the commissioned offi-
cers who are gradatues of Michigan's
R. O. T. C.
A REVIEW BY G. D. E. OF ,"THE
PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE"
(Continued from Page 4)
only too glad to import anything for
factory fodder.
Personally, I should like to have Mr.
Grant explain the silly Puritanism
brought here by the English Nordics
and the big battle which the old stock
of Americans has fought to keep it
with us, their ruthless trampling of
art and genius into the mud of me-
diocrity and morals. And why, in the
name of ten thousand devils, did the
superior Nordics adopt Christianity
with its "slave morals" and element-'
ary socialism which has since' been
working for the undoing of its adopt-
day cing to religious. lies in the face for a few million days after my proto-
n of biological truths? plasm disintegrates.
I do not know, nor does it worry But I diverge, the hour grows late
me. In fact, I think that man, like and the lantern from the rafters of
all other highly specialized animals, my garret grows dim and flickers. I
will pass from the face of the earth, haul out of my wallow of melancholy
like the cephalopods, armored fishes, to advise the reading Madison Grant's
and the dinosaurs-and the quicker the book from stem to stern. "The Pass-
extinction the better I shall be pleased. ing of the Great Race" is comprehen-
But I am far from optimistic about sible to any layman of intelligence.
tll]Y e si r e eilllllllli11111111illl1111111111111111111g111111111111I111111l11111 i
They are just as good as they were before
Christmas and that is saying a whole lot.
But one can afford to say a whole lot
about
Besimers' Grilled Steaks
They are so juicy-and so good. Get
one tonight. We are at the old stand up-
stairs across from the D. U. R. station
w _srassasiarsu assassssss....................
i
. . - sssussu u iwen i in ~n n rrrr.rrr rr Irsr r uu juut11liIjIII1br
1
® a.
Look Your llcst!
y OU have only one way of
judging people whom you are
not intimately acquainted with-
that is by their appearances. Oth-
er people judge you in the same
manner.
Let us be responsible for your ap-
pearances being everything they
should be.
INC.
Randolph & Wabgtsh
310 S. State 2nd Floor Ann Arbor
d