UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 30, 1915.
NEEDS SETTLED POLICY Norman Angell Says America Must Make Definite International Plans
"In the last resort arms are for the defense not properly speaking of a country but a policy—a simple truth which American history particularly illustrates. If our armaments are to be effective, the people of this country, the world at large and the prosperity menry must know what policy the armed forces should impose in that, this country will fight first and find out what it was fighting for afterwards. And that is not the way to defend our interests.
"I have not one word to say against the increase of American armaments," he said. "It may be for all I knew to the contrary, entirely wise and necessary greatly to increase our resources and military amenities is not enough. My point is that our preparedness is incomplete preparedness, it is preparedness by dangerous half measures. For, military preparation is only one half of the problem and the equally important aspect of our military power however great is ineffective dangerous, we are all but completely neglecting.
Arms Alone Won't Protect
"The preparedness which we are neglecting is the preparedness of policy. In our day a nation's interest is in can never be protected by armed alone."
The need of the United States for a settled and definite international policy was emphasized by Norman Angell, the world's foremost exponent of international conciliation, in his address in Fraser chapel this afternoon. He voiced no arguments against armament.
The preparedness which we are neglecting is a preparedness of policy. In our days a nation's interests can never be protected by arms alone.
What this country needs as well as armaments is a formulation of policy which the world cannot mistake as to what armaments are for.
The Need of Settled Policies
"The advocates of American preparedness seem to imply that American policy in no way touches the rest of the world and that American military force will be used to repel predatory raids upon American territory. These advocates seem to say: 'All we ask of the Foreigner is kindly to keep out. And as we do not to argue about that why need we worry about a foreign policy?'
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"What this country needs as well as armaments is a formulation of policy which the world cannot misleave, what the armaments are for with which they operate, sea, Sea Law, Japan and the Open Door in Asia and the support of some international code for the prevention of crude aggression by any nation. The argument against battleships; it is an argument for something else as well."
"Well, that attitude if persisted in will one day land this country, how ever great its military force, in disaster, in possibly long and exhausting warfare, a character of American civilization—"Prussianise it"—wars which real preparedness, on the side of policy as well as side or arms, would have avoided.
"I have said that military force is always in the last resort to defend policy and not a country. That could be illustrated abundantly of courses taken by Americans when it takes the case of America. Americas has had during the last hundred years several wars and on a number of occasions has been on the brink of wars. Not one of those wars or occasions has been so severe as the fense of American territory. Without going back to the Mexican war in which America was not defend territory but taking it, just reorganized foreign complications of America did not occur. There was the Venezuelan matter in Cleveland's administration when this country rattled its sabre very noisily indeed. It was not even pretended to desire to invade this country; the threat of a Venezuelan swamp thousands of miles from your shores. Take the war with Spain; Spain certainly did not intend to undertake the conquest of this country. Take the war which Venezuela has been fighting pines. The Filippinas can hardly have been said to threaten this country.
Predicts Japanese War
"Take the present Mexican problem,
take the issues raised by
the Mexican president, and deal with them."
case. It is a difference on policy.
And if this country is led into war with Japan, as I think it probably will be, it will be over questions of the rights of Japanese labourers in the United States and its incumulative treatment of her citizens in the United States or the Open Door in China; and if Japan is joined by some European power—and she won't fight this country unless she is that power—will not be thinking of the invasion of France by the US, but of use to which you intend to put your virtual domination of the Spanish American Republics; your European enemy will be actuated by the fear that you may use that power to immense territories or to exclude them in some way.
"All the preparedness of the European nations was ineffective in the stopping of war because no one really understood it," they say. They will perhaps discuss these things after the war. They might just as well have discussed them be- and fought afterwards, if it seemed that the fighting was necessary.
Why Did England Fight?
Do you know that the members of the British ministry and Great English newspapers are still discussing as to why England went into the war? Mr. Lloyd George tells a newspaper man that but for the invasion England would never have done into the war and is right flatly contradicted by the organ of the Foreign Office which tells him that he does not know what he is talking about, that England would have had to come to the defense of France and to oppose the occupation of channel ports and maintain the Balance of Power on the Continent Belgium or no Belgium; that the most elemental actions of self-protection on England's side against oppose the imposition of a German hegemony on Europe. Which is true? Nobody knows.
"Was Germany really 'encircled'?
Could Europe have arranged for German
occupation without yielding anything vital to
itself? All these are things which will have
to be discussed after the war, and I will be well
to have discussed them before."
"And through none of this period would greater preparation on any one's part have given a sensibly different result. It is said that if England had only taken Lord Robert's advice and adopted conscription years ago, Germany would not have made war or would quickly have been beaten. But you know, of course, when the Army served League begin operations, some seventeen or eighten years ago in England, the compulsory service which it advocated was not aimed at Germany at all, but at France.
Preparation Didn't Help
"France was then the enemy, and Mr. Chamberbain was well menacing towards her and publicly advocated an alliance with Germany against her. It was not until the end of World War II that countries came very close to war and if both had had greater military establishments and had been very confident of their efficiency, and if there had not been a strong anti-military alliance against them, all human probability, have had an Anglo-German combination against France. Where then today would be the German military menace? I know whereof I speak because I happened to be in the Fashoda crisis and in the earlier stages of the Boer war tried to stem the anti-French current in England, and found that it cost a journalist his own life as a true patriot to say a good word for France or a bad one of Germany.
"And as to the preparedness of the other nations, would greater preparedness on the part of Germany or Austria or Turkey or Bulgaria or even Italy or Japan have altered the course of war with the Servia or Belgium? If Belgium had put under arms every man she possessed, she could not have defended herself against Germany. And if you say that it might have held up the German forces until Belgium's release, did you are only admitting what I am living to show, that military force must be backed by an international policy.
"Indeed, does this war show that war itself has become internationalized, and that you cannot even fight wars without treaties and engagements of some kind between nations? Any European nation which has said, 'We can depend on our own force alone; we do not need to bother about it' would have been lost. Frances and England are both today defended in part by treaty and without those treaties would be overpowered.
War Is Internationalized
"Now this principle has to be pushed farther. It is not enough, when war threatens, over some dispute of policy, suddenly to improvise a treaty with other nations and patch up a common policy which is so hurriedly conceived that, as all history shows, it hardly outlasts the military need of
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RHODES SCHOLAR WRITES NOW COMES BASKETBALL
C. A. Castle in Letter to Chancellor, Tells of Experiences in War Zone
To obtain a Rhodes Scholarship and attend school in a war stracken country is not exactly just, unless you help the country solve some of its most important problems in your spare time, according to a letter received from C. A. Castle, holder of a Rhodes Scholarship which he obtained here. Castle graduated in '14 with an A. B. and entered Wadham College, Oxford in the fall of the same year.
In a letter to Chancellor Frank Strong which was written July 1, Castle outlines his first year's work and his future plans. In part he writes: "I have successfully passed the examinations, called Pass Modifications and the Diploma in Economics is under way, together with my thesis which I have started for my degree of Bachelor of Literature. There are at present only twenty-five in Wadham College, all the others have taken up relief work or have gone to the front. Dasseen's thesis in this department will not close. The buildings are all filled with recruits and officers."
"The military feeling that overveils the country makes us foreigners feel as if we were imposing on the country and most all of us have taken U. M. Y. C. A. work in the concentration camps. I intend to take up work here when we return, and all of us Rhodes Scholars looked well on by the English because of our trying to help them in their hour of need.
"I have been trying to place the University of Kansas on an accredited list of colleges. Other universi-
lities are still in the process of placing on the list and if I succeed in placing Kansas it will mean much to the school in the way of advanced stand-
ing and Greek. The advantages of being a university are mated. It places one in contact with the great war, the older civilization and the new way of study. Any one who is particularly fit and able should take the examinations without a doubt."
TO START SOUTH APPROACH
Cement Sidewalk Will Be Built, Says Superintendent John M.
Shea
A cement sidewalk which will mark the course of the proposed south approach to the campus will be built sometime during the year according to John M. Shea, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
Specifications for the approach were drawn up last spring by a committee composed of Professors W. C. M'Nown and Goldwin Goldsmith of the University of M. Shea and the plans accepted by the Board of Administration. At a recent meeting of the Board, money for the walk was appropriated but nothing further can be done toward constructing the main portion of the appartment; thus the nature meets, when an appropriation for that purpose will be asked for:
The proposed approach will join the campus at the southeast corner of the University property, at the location of sixteenth and Indiana streets. The campus hill on an easy grade back of Blake Hall and join on to the present road south of the Medic Building. The new roadway will continue its course around base of Snow Hall and meet the street east of the Chemistry Building, street east of the Chemistry Building.
The new approach is the result of a concerted protest from faculty members and students living south of the campus, and who have been University except by way of the car tracks and by climbing up a steep and often muddy embankment. The nee massaging upon property not belonging to university further agitating the movement.
Still No Directories
The state printer will make no promises as to the time the student directories will be ready for the course; they should not about the progress being made with these directories, he replied that though the proof reading had been done, it did not yet gone to press and the time of their completion was uncertain.
CHORUS
The members of the Y. M. and the Y. W. are organizing dances for the purpose of singing the Christmas carols the night before the students leave for the holidays. The chorus will go all over town and will make a special effort to visit places where persons are confined indoors.
To Sing Christmas Carols
End of Football Season Brings New Material for Hamilton's Squad
With the 1915 football season recorded in history, athletes are now beginning to look forward to a basketball knot in the Tiger's tail. And the basket tossers have a past record of keeping this year if they are to keep up the pace. Out of the last twelve games played, only one has been a Tiger victory and that three years ago when the men made bad connections to Colgate and the crowd waited in the gymnasium until the Jayhawkers arrived.
Practice Twice a Week
Practice has been held twice a week for six weeks but with only three weeks remaining before the Christmas vacation Hamilton's men will face the Varsity but women will face the week. The freshmen squad will face the Varsity on Monday and Wednesday while on the other nights the regulars will be divided into squads to go against each other. The tyros have been practising as much this fall as they did last season, matches are seen every time the freshmen get a chance at the Varsity. The close of the football season will bring out much more material for the Varsity basketball squad. A few of Olecott's men have shown a great ability in games this week will see Wood, Heath and Holt trying for places with the tossers. Many of the first year men who have been devoting their time to breaking up Olcott passes will try their hand at scrimmaging the regular basket-
At the present time the squad is without the services of the captain they elected last fall. Eay Folks, captain-elect, is cashier of a bank in Campbell and will not be in school. Anyway he received a degree from the University last spring which will make him inelegible for further com-menagement. Will he be filled until a few days before the first game according to the present plan; Appel, and Cole are showing up fine and, being the only letter men out for places, the race for leadership is placed in these two men.
The season does not start until a week or two after the big vacation. No schedule has been arranged yet but a trip to the Conference of the Missouri Valley Conference officials within two weeks. The first game is usually held with Ames and the chances are that the Kansans will take the team's session one week after school is resumed.
May Play Ames First
K. U. Has Good Material
The early fail practices have shown that Kansas has some good material for a basketball squad in spite of the fact that only one man is back who received a letter last year. The unusually good first year squad which appeared then is eligible for Valley competition this fall and Hamilton is no longer finding a fast squad. "Dutch" Appel is going better than he was last year and with Gibbons playing the other forward position the Hamilton scoring machine should "lay 'em in" regularly. Cole is outplaying all comers at center and no one around this school can get the tip on him. The two guard will probably be by movies in college athletics. Unlikely to "Fat" Nelson look the best for the regular squad but there are others making fine showings.
But all the twenty-five Varsity men are working hard and they will be ready for any schedule. the companies, The Kansas chances for another championship team are good but the new squad will have to do some hard work to fill the shoes of the veteran players who were the crimson and blue last year.
RHODES COMMITTEE TO
The Rhodes Scholarship Committee for Kansas will meet December 20, at the National Hotel, Topeka, to next Rhodes Scholar from Kansas.
The committee is composed of Chancellor Strong, Chairman; Chief Justice Johnston of the Kansas Supreme Court; State Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. D. Ross; President Campbell of Cooper College; President Moonson of South Western College.
Mrs. Hoffman Sails
Mrs. Conrad Hoffman, wife of the former Y. M. C. A. secretary, and her daughter Louise, took passage on the Holland-Amarcalanier, Ryndam, November 27, from New York on their way to Germany, where they met Mr. Hoffman, she first go to Rotterdam and then to Berlin where Mr. Hoffman is doing Y. M. C. A. work among war prisoners.
QUILL CLUB HAS ARRANGED
A SERIES OF LECTURE
Percy V. Shostac, instructor in the department of English and a close follower of the modern drama, has taught to speak before the Quill Club and wrote "The Future of the Drama". This talk introduces to an extended lecture on "Contemporary Western Drama", which he will give before the club some time in January.
The Quill Club has also secured Prof. Mark Skidmore, of the Spanish department to lecture on "Contemporary Spanish Literature". This lecture will be given at the second December meeting of the club.
The officers of the club are making an effort to secure as many good speakers as possible from the University before engaging outside talent. Arrangements, however, have been partially completed whereby the club will bring before its meet the students who were invited to Emporia Gazette and Patty Lewis, who writes the humorous feature stories for the Kansas City Star. The dates for these two lectures have not been definitely decided upon.
WILL SELECT THREE TEAMS
Hold Preliminary Try-Outs December 15 for Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma Debaters
Preliminary try-outs for the debating teams which are to oppose Missouri, Colorado, and Oklahoma this year will be held in Green Hall The next week, on April 15 at 3:20 o'clock, according to a statement made this morning by Prof. Howard T. Hill, of the department of public speaking. Any bona fide student who declares he is eligible for grades are eligible to compete for plates on the teams. Nine men will be selected, three for each team. A faculty committee of four, appointed by the University Debate committee will have charge of the try-outs.
All students wishing to try out are requested to give their names to Professor Hill sometime before December 14. If more students than can be heard in one afternoon signify their intention of trying out, an additional meeting will be held on Thursday afternoon, December 16.
The triangular debate will be upon the question: "Resolved, That the United States should permanently retain the Philippine Islands."
Speakers will be limited to five minutes, during which time they may discuss either side of either the Missouri or triangular debate questions. Former "KU" men are not required to speak, but will be expected to take part in the finals, which will occur ten days after the Christmas holidays.
The Missouri debate will be concerned with college athletics. "Resolved: That inter-collegiate athletics should be abandoned by American Universities" is the way in which the question is stated.
The dates of the debates have not yet been determined, but they will probably occur soon after the beginning of the second semester. Preparation for them will begin immediately after the first preliminary tryout.
ALL BIRDS OF CAMPUS
TO BE SEEN IN MUSEUM
The lover of naute and admirer of birds con see specimens of all the birds which live upon the campus by visiting the second floor of the Museum. It is time well spent, after the day's classes are over, to tarry long enough there to look around. The first case to the west of the one containing the screech owl; and his home is the one in which there is a species of every bird which makes home in the trees upon the Campus. There are seven different species—everything from the yellow warbler in the upper section of the case to the bronzeed grockle in the lower one.
The proceeds of the plays given by the Dramatic Club are being accumulated in a dramatic fund out of which money will probably be used to support the University theater, in the statement made by Prof. Arthur Murcairy.
MAY BUILD K. U. THEATRE
WITH PROCEDES FROM PLAYS
"Heredefore," said Professor Mac Murray, "any student could organize a dramatic club, put on a play, and then pocket the proceeds, but now it is a University organization. Much more interest is shown this year than ever before. The club holds a program that every member is required to take a part in the meeting or lose his membership."
Helen Hershberger, '15 College, is attending her classes again. She has been sick at her home in Kansas City. Send the Daily Kansan home.
TO SELL TAGS TOMORROW
Y. W. Will Get Money for Belgians and European Students—Scott to Speak
Students and faculty will be given an opportunity to contribute to the Belgian Christmas Fund and to the fund which John R. Mott, as general Secretary of World's Student Christian Federation, is collecting tomorrow. Members of the Y. W. C. A. will sell tags on Mount Oread. Charles F. Scott, of Iola, will lecture in Fraser chapel at 11:30. Classes will be held in Washougal was in charge of the Kansas shipyard of flour, and will narrate what he himself witnessed.
In a letter John R. Mott calls attention to the great demands the European struggle has made on students of the countries now at war;
Students In War
"As the second winter of the Great War draws near with its inevitable increase in the volume of suffering, there is a matter which should receive the urgent attention of the students and the societies and schools of America. We have not realized as fully as we should have done the great demands which this struggle has made upon the students of the countries now at nearly seventy report states that nearly seventy percent of men students of the colleges and universities of Great Britain have already entered the army, nearly 11,000 undergraduate and graduates of Cambridge University alone having not if quite, 50,000 Germany nearly, if not quite, 50,000 students are in the army and an even larger number of the older school boys. When I was in Paris within a year, where I had been in the habit of living in other years as many as 18,000, I visited Quarter, it was with difficulty that I assembled a small group of four. The proportions of university men of Austria, Hungary and Russia who are in fighting lines or in military formations were very few. From nearly every Canadian university fully one half of the men have gone to join the army.
All Enter Fighting Lines
"The effect of this remarkable depletion of the colleges and universities on the Christian Student Movements of the different countries concerned has been startling. In some cases the Christian Associations have been entirely; in other cases they have been largely; that the existence of the work is seriously impelled. In not a few universities three or four Executive Committees have successively gone to the war. The financial resources of the Christian Associations of students have suffered from the national leaders of some of the Movements have given up their work in order to enter the fighting lines. All this has added enormously to the responsibilities of the little bands of earnest Christians who remain in the colleges and universities. To them is合意 of reaching the new students and relating them to Christ and His work. They must also keep alive the various Christian societies and thus prepare for the great task of reconstruction which will come at the close of the century. Most of the most difficult work of preserving such as possible the Christian bonds which have been so terribly trained by recent events.
"My fear is for the students of America, lest in the dark hour of the world's needs we may be indifferent or callous to the claims of our fellow students in Europe and not enter into a full fellowship with their sufferings and to offer forts to enable them to meet their opportunities. If they are willing to give their lives and all they possess for their ideals should we not show a like ability to deny ourselves for the sake of rendering unself service?"
COUNTY CLUBS TO MEET
FOR VACATION PLANS
A general meeting of the County Clubs will be called the first part of next week, president to Willard Glascio, president of the County Clubs Union, to plan for the banquets held during the holidays by the different clubs and to select speakers for that time. Glascio urges that each club meet separately and begin planning for the acation banquets. The Greenwood County Club will its meeting tomorrow night at 1308. Vermont street, to choose speakers and to the advisability of inviting high school seniors to their banquet to be held at Eureka.
Fifteen To Take Exam
It is estimated that at least fifteen students will take the examination for advanced standing in German. Examinations will be held for German 1, 2, 3, 4 and for one other advanced course Saturday December 4 in room 309 Fraser.