THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE NSUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1922
ARMY COLONEL WRITES OF try's cause might be lost. ers? Why do the lordly Nordics to- it. It will not come in my day, nor
NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM If I am correctly informed, the Re- day cling to religious lies in the face for a few million days after my proto-
(Continued from Page 5) serve Officers Training Corps at the of biological truths? plasm disintegrates.
we will be in a better sate of pre- University of Michigan numbers 465 I do not know, nor does it worry But I diverge, the hour grows late
paredness as a result of this policy cadets. The number is pitifully small me. In fact, I think that man, like and the lantern from the rafters of
arnwes were ue thldershem. when compared with the number of all other highly specialized animals, my garret grows dim and flickers. I
But in the nature of things, this mug- able-bodied male citizens of military will pass from the face of the earth, haul out of my wallow of melancholy
nificent body of citizen officers will age who are students and who should like the cephalopods, armored fishes, to advise the reading Madison Grant's
not last always. They will grow too be enrolled in the corps. and the dinosaurs-and the quicker the book from stem to stern. "The Pass-
old for field service, they will take on Congress nas made the policy out- extinction the better I shall be pleased. ing of the Great Race" is comprehen-
new burdens, domestic or business, lined in the foregoing, trusting in the But I am far from optimistic about sible to any layman of intelligence.
which will make service impossible; willingness of citizens to do their part
they will be lost through sickness, ac- loyally and completely in peace and _ git ili ilt11(llltlttititgltllllgiltlltillttiltil:
cdent and death as the years go by. war. The part of the college man in C
For the necessary replacements, Con- peaze happens to require that he shall
gress has established in each of the sacrifice a small part of his time and
larger colleges and universities a energy preparing himself for his war
training corps for the peace time duties as a leader of men, responsible =
training of reserve officers as replace-+ to God and his country, that they are_
ments for the inevitable losses in the skillfully led and cared for. The suc-___
ranks of the Organized Reserve Corps. eess or failure of the scheme will de-
Unless the replacements are trained Pend in large measure upon the spirit -
men, the whole scheme fails. Unless zn which the men of Michigan meet;-
the raw material subjected to training this demand. The reputation of the
is of the kind which officers are made zUiversity of Michigan, your Alma
-college oen-the labor will have Mater, in the next sar will not be _
been in vain, fr-the training will ake nmeaszre by the nsuberwof drafted They are just as good as they were before
too much time and fthes rodzt will privates furnished but by the number -s. .
never have those basic qalities foud iand quality of the commissioned off- Christmas and that is sayng a whole lot.
only in the educated man, whls n cers who are gradatues of Michigan's
errs seizoe edretgrazin.tueshofe Micisi.a But one can afford to say a whole lot
now know must be at the bottom of .T. C.
efficiency in commissioned officers.-a
Students at such an institution s A s IETIEW lIT G. ). E. OF "THE - about
the University of Michigan are largely PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE"
of military age. They will be drafted (Continued from Page 4)
as privates in case of war if they are only too glad to import anything for
not enrolled as cadets or as reserve factory fosdder.
officers. This would be a scandalous! Personally, I should like to have Mr.
economic waste of material, which Grant explain the silly Puritanism
Congress does not expect will happen, brought here by the English Nordicssi sesi
and which the student as a citizens and the big hattle which the old stock
should not let happen. It would indi- of Americans has fought to keep it
rate also that tse importasee of Ihe with sis, liseir rzstbleos irampling of
civic duty was not grasped by the stu- art and genius into the mud of me- They are so juicy-and so good. Get
dent body. It would mean that in diocrity and morals. And why, in the
time of war and the country's need name of ten thousand devils, did the one&tonight. We are at the old stand up-
we should have to scramble and superior Nordies adopt Christianity
search about for the educated men with its "slave morals" and element- stairs across from the D. U. R. station
needed for officers and to train them aty socialism which has since been
when found. In the process the couon- sgking for the snszisg of its adopt-
Look Your Best!
VOU 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.
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