Word: methods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last, as many of us hope, or whether there are certain inevitable causes of war existing in human society and inseparable from it, we do not know. What we, as college men, should give most concern to is, that war is a most irrational and barbarous method of settling disputes between states, and that we, as citizens in embryo of the greatest democracy of the world, should by striving for better government and better men to run that government, make possible the realization of the ultimate purpose for which this league was founded: the reign of law and the institution...
...which will largely depend, for enrolment, upon members of the S. A. T. C. The problem of officering our rapidly increasing military forces has long been a grave one; the extension of the draft ages has made it all the more serious. The new system offers a definite method of solving the problem, and as such deserves the strong support of the entire student body...
Nevertheless, the new plans of organization to be put through next week are absolutely essential if the high standard of military work at the University is to be maintained. As the Athenian method of a group of generals whose power rotated daily proved a failure, so has it been found impossible to conduct a training corps by means of a Tactical Staff with too much power and a central authority which was not strong enough. The abolition of the former and the strengthening of the latter by the appointments of such men as Major Lane to the position of Regimental...
Turning now to the issue of bonds as a method of war-finance, we see that it possesses none of those advantages. It penalizes the willing and leaves the pocketbooks of the less patriotic untouched. It places a financial difficulty on future generations; the amount of money it will realize is indefinite; its success may not always be assured. Yet despite all this, it possesses political and psychological advantages of undoubted merit. Where the public, already crushed by the tax-collector's demands, would not stand any increase in taxation, it gladly buys bonds. There is no better stimulus than...
...America, therefore, we still maintain our balance between taxation and bond issues. The former method will no doubt be increased, but it will never supplant the latter as the most important source of war income. The power of taxation is the power to destroy. The power of borrowing is the power to enlist the support of the entire nation in the prosecution...