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Show 254 25. common impulse. goingr out to do the things which ought to he done. and linally we have at last learned to do them together. So it seems to me we are. as women's organizations. bringin‘e'r into the civiliziner forces~or shall I say social forces Pgor those things. which make for progress, a new combination which while it does r :e for progress will make for peace as perhaps no oreani7ations have erer done before. I hope that is not fantastic, and I hope we will show that it is true (Applause) poison in these plausible phrases which have caused rivers of blood to be shed and the treasure of the nation to be thrown into a bottomless pit. The average college man seems quite as likely to be deluded about national defense as is the cowboy. 1. His first delusion is thus expressed: "As long as police are necessary in cities to protect citizens, so long; navies will be needed to protect nations. These are merely national police." There are two types of organized {UI‘CCillltt police. which use the minimum of force to secure a judicial dccisEon, and armies and navies which use the maximum of force and avoid a judicial decision. Police are forbidden to use more than the minimum of force to get a culprit to court, Their usual task requires no exercise of force at all. They rescue the helpless from burningr buildings and the motor car; they perform a thousand kindly. protective deeds as their daily task, never beingr allowed to avenge a wrong: or punish a misereant, but only to get him before a jury of his peers. The police represent the noblest type of force and an always necessary one. As i'l'esideut Eliot has well said, it "is a force eminently superior to that of the soldier." The militia belongs to the same category as the police. They exist not to tight the militia of another state but to keep order within their own. They are authorized only to use he minimum of force and never to pursue a mob that disperses. Police and militia exist solely for protective purposes and to promote judicial settlement of every wrong. Navies do not. \l'liat attempt to secure judicial decision do our fabulously costly Dreadnoughts make? Possibly battleships were once useful in protecting: us from pirates: but pirates ar‘ as dead as the Spanish lnrpiisition, and the men who captured them sailed in little wooden ships, These diabolical steel eomtrnetions, each one ewstine; the price of ten colleges and each of service 1e. ‘ than ten years, these are not police they are merely weapons of nations preparing for a duel. The old time duel of two men, {might with equal w *thons. with no aniluiseade or treacherous mine or mean advans tagc, had some slight claim upon our admiration. It did not ignore all sense of honor like its titantie counterpart, the duel between nations. in \\hich with cold bloodml, mathematical pre- Mrs. lit-,Niio‘iix: 3' her life to the fur- \lrs. T‘liad. \\ho has {given and is g2 :lll‘ movement. will now speak on some (‘0le 11h n i; linens, I'.‘\pplau'~c.l Some Common Fallacies LUCIA Azurs )lliAl). ‘ l muuvv toil->4 \\'c htzir ouch oi the "practical" American. lint it to be "l rai‘tical" means to see the relation of cause and etl‘ect. to be '.'t med by mason. in it prejudice. to l-znvv'c. a fallacy when we see {or thlr I‘lltl'li. it paopt up a serious question l .i»-i o1 lg will the 1m 51l\\l practical instead of politiral problem of the Ii'hl peaz‘etul "'tll‘t‘W‘l'lll of international iphy from the hangs in thw trap. sees. as he to ending ' .211 th- hug:- armor wt. tjii'ttl‘lll‘iit‘ltl :n {w .‘x'.' was uztr itself in tail» mist or in the winds of those who. h- urwr piartiml uhen dealing with hriv'l's and steel and coal. ‘ .1 "in. it \iitly prmbl: nvs it litin‘aii nrture and ~ ' .ititz , - ‘ h: '. . ., but the tier- about national ::n on thi- street i'rr :u‘ln r-, «. ' ~men repeat clog the million» uh». loo: to them llai a fram- 'll"‘ lii'i‘l d for the cision. Christians. who have no quarrel uith the men they slay, by a touch of the button blow hundreds of hrlpless fellow mortals |