Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...probability and as such should not be overlooked in our dreams of Millenium. The aim of the campaign of the socalled militarists is to give to the body of our people some idea of what the problem really is. The voter, not the intellectual man, is to decide this question in the end, and he (and the college man as well) need enlightenment on this subject...
...many believe that the Mexican question can be satisfactorily settled on any idealistic basis, without the use of force? The number may be large, but the ranks would be noticeably depleted if it was common knowledge that the united Mexican people if invaded could easily wipe out all of the regular army we could send there, and ask, for more. There are about 185,000 men under arms there now, and while our troops are much better, the difference in quality would not make our maximum of 35,000 anywhere near their equal...
...from the War Department. The object of the writer, Captain Crawford, is to induce a wider intelligent discussion of the subject. A more modest aim, fit to be suggested here, is that before anyone discuss Militarism, in or out of print, he learn something of both sides of the question, and not permit hones for the future cause him to neglect to even consider present day problems. AN AMATBUR SOLDIER...
...Summer Military Camps for college students have been endorsed by some of the sincerest and most prominent men in the country. In adopting a policy of active opposition to the camps, the CRIMSON does so with the conviction that, in the broadest view of the question, such opposition will prove in the future to have the soundest foundations. The CRIMSON in this and succeeding editorials will attempt to justify fully this position by setting forth the reasoning on which it is based...
...such grounds that the danger of the Military Camps lies. General Wood has called attention with admirable frankness to the emphasis which the camps will place on the spreading of sound information as to the "present military needs of the country." The CRIMSON hesitates to question the judgment of our military authorities as to the real value of six weeks training for the creation of an officer in time of emergency; but there is no disagreement as to the great efficiency of even this short period for the infusion of what is, from the army point of view, "correct" military...