WAR AS THE WARRIOR KNOWS IT

This evening Captain Ian Hay Beith will speak in the Union. It is not often that we can hear a man of action speak in words that give vitality to his acts. The present war is one of the great things which the world has suffered in its history. A man who has lived so intensely as has Captain Beith speaks with a deeper knowledge, coming from unsurpassed experience, of the motives which impel nations when they go to war.

At this time, as at few others, when many of his auditors may experience the struggle which the captain tells of, his lecture must take on a peculiar significance. The conditions he has undergone will not be duplicated for us. But the terrible proficiency of modern national internecine warfare makes many truths that are applicable to Belgium applicable also to New England or California.

We may trust that our acquaintance with the horrors which so many brave young men are experiencing in Europe will be no closer than in the descriptions of men who have lived through them. We may know that should the necessities of existence impel us to a course we abhor but do not shun, neither the fearfulness nor the tragedy of war will keep one true man back.