Good Armies Do Not Mean Peace.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

At the risk of incurring the displeasure of some of your readers, I beg to voice my protest against the participation by students in the summer military camps.

General Wood bases his plea for these camps on the ground that "military training is as important as training in civic life." This principle was undoubtedly true in the Dark Ages, but it is as unquestionably untrue now, and in fact nowhere more untrue than in the United States of America.

The present craze for "defences," both of men and of Dreadnaughts, can end only by the gradual realization that in this twentieth century they are unnecessary, dangerous, and wholly out of keeping with our boasted civilization. This realization will be brought by processes of enlightenment and education, and it is in just such processes that our colleges, if they are to live up to the ideals of their founders, should take a leading part. They should make every effort to lift the nations of the world out of the ever deeper rut of militarism, onto the broad highway of international law and reason.

General Wood believes that "the best chance to have a good peace is to have a good army." There are many citizens fully as patriotic who believe that still better chances for peace will ensue when there is a nation-wide sentiment against all armies, good or bad.

Let Harvard lead the colleges of the country in creating that sentiment. W. B. HARRIS '13.