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VOL. XV 
January 26, 1917. No. 4 
Prexy’s plan for peace on earth 
Has set the world agog. 
Better take the thing to Mexico 
And try it on a dog. 
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Ir Was To BE ExpEcTED that that President Wilson’s 
declaration of a new international policy to the United 
State Senate would not meet with universal approval. 
President Wilson has been thinking, and has spoken, in 
terms of peace. The war-warped minds of the leaders 
of the belligerent powers simply failed to comprehend the 
trend of his thought. To the Allies, who believe them- 
selves on the verge of a momentous victory and who 
apparently are honest in their belief that theirs is a right- 
‘ous cause, the intimation that the war should end with- 
out triumph to their arms could only be a source of irrt- 
tation. To the millions of Americans whose hearts and 
sympathies are with the Allied powers that suggestion 
could mean only that the cause of Germany was being 
furthered. Yet all profess to believe that the President 
is sincere in his program for lasting international concord ! 
Perhaps the expressed desire for peace by the millions 
on both sides of the Atlantic has not been as real as it 
has sounded. Else why the dread of the first practical, 
just and impartial proposition to bring about peace? 
Either the world must reconstruct its ideas of the con- 
ditions of lasting peace or be content to see the war drag 
on until exhaustion compels its cessation. And then but 
for a time till a fresh grievance shall reopen the old war- 
sore. President Wilson’s peace plan had little in it to 
recommend it to the consideration of a war-mad world: 
It is a program which might safely be presented to a sane 
i ternational council—say, one hundred years hence. 
Boston Is PLANNING the greatest clean-up week in 
its historv for the coming month of May, and instead of 
employing a new force of inexperienced men the com- 
mittee has determined to use the personal pride of the 
citizens to bring about the reforms desired. An appeai 
is to be made. There is every reason to believe that ap- 
peal will be effective. The plan contemplates the estab- 
lishment of a citizens’ force to aid in health, fire and po- 
lice work. Such a program must succeed because it is 
fundamental. The real need in every movement is the 
sympathetic and hearty cooperation of every citizen. 
THe ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE has established in con- 
‘nection with the new teachers’ college at Columbia univer- 
sity a new type of normal school that will be the last word 
in modernism in education. The experiment will be 
watched with a great deal of interest. 
‘ConcreEss Is BEGINNING to get nervous over the slow 
progress of legislation and the prospects of an extra ses- 
sion. They do not wish it any more than do the people 
and the President, High gear!! 
NO Rot Ho SEG Re Roe 
grade universities. 
Jan, 26, 1917. 
THe EstaBLisHMEN’T of a National University seems 
to be the aim and ambition of a group of workers, who 
appear every so often to advocate their cause at Wash- 
ington. Viewed carelessly one would at once say that a 
university to which any worthy young man might go for 
an education would be desirable. America believes in 
education and it enjoys a popularity that is commendable 
and dangerous. Commendable because education is so 
much needed; and that the public has been aroused to its 
needs is of great value. It is dangerous, in so far as it 
becomes a fetish, to be blindly followed and worshipped. 
Education is both an end and a means. The cultural side 
of education may indeed have been overestimated in the 
past, but there is an equal danger in a modern movement 
for industrial education that the real cultural element may 
be overlooked. Education to be complete and worthy 
must contain both of these desirable elements, and if it 
lack either it is failing of its high purpose. Both sides 
of the educational problem are being advanced by able 
men and the desirablity of a national university recog- 
nized by both would not be surprising. There is, there- 
fore, no gainsaying the desirability of a great national 
institution for education of our youth if no such agency 
or agencies exist. There is the “hilt” of the problem. 
he real argument against the national university is the 
came argument that exists against the establishment of a 
state university in Massachusetts. The efforts to estab- 
lish a state university have been exerted constantly for 
over ten years. Massachusetts would not hesitate to 
establish a state university if there were no universities in 
the state, but as a matter of fact there are many high 
The field is already preempted and 
the State would only be spending millions of dollars to 
duplicate work already being done efficiently. The same 
argument is true of the national movement for a univer- 
sity. If the young needed the new institution America 
would not hesitate to spend many millions of dollars, but 
it would be folly to expend public money in an enterprise 
which only duplicates, when in operation, the work already 
being done by a host of institutions. 
For Orrimtsm One Must Go to the landscape gar- 
deners and to the horticulturists. With winter’s snowy 
pinions about and the thermometer slipping down rather 
than crawling up and summer visitors, dreaming by fire- 
sides in the cities of warmer summer climes in Florida, 
these indomitable men are cheerfully conning their seed 
catalogs, drawing plans for summer flower beds, making 
plans for summer plantings and sowings for early out- 
door planting. This is optimism of the highest type. 
‘ 
TacorE SAys WE ARE as a people “impotent.” Peter 
MacQueen suggests “inchoate”. as well as “crude,” but 
agrees that President Cleveland was right when ‘“‘we” 
the American people are called “turbulent.” One may 
take one’s choice of words, but we remain what we are 
because we are what we are despite the word or words! 
THE UNFoRTUNATE CONGRESSMAN who has_ been 
responsible for the investigation of the “leak” finds him- 
self in a very unpromising position. The reprimand which 
his fellows have administered was deserved. Why should 
our government be “smirched” by such careless state- 
ments. 
Ar Buncombe, Nortu CARoLina, the road engineer 
has placed a death head, illuminated, at a dangerous cor- 
ner with the caption “just around the corner.” That 
ought to serve as a deterent to careless driving. 
