Henderson Daily Dispatch

Daniels Asks
Physical, Not
Army, Service

Chapel Hill, Aug. 31. Emphasizing
the opportunity they had for build-
ing a better world, Josephus Daniels.
Raleigh editor and former secretary
of the navy and ambassador to Mex-
ico, advised graduates at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina last night to
"marry yourselves to an unpopular
righteous cause and give it complete
devotion and consecration.
But make sure," he warned, that
the cause to which you are wedded is
righteous. Many unrighteous causes
are camouflaged under that holy
name and demagogues always mas-
querade as patriots."

Mr. Daniels delivered the baccalau-
reate address at the fourth conse-
cration held at the University in
Chapel Hill this year. The exercises
were held in the Forest Theatre,
where approximately 125 degrees
were conferred on seniors and gradu-
ate students.

Invocation was given by Dr. Lee
McBride White, pastor of the Spring-
dale Baptist Church, Birmingham,
Ala., and Mr. Daniels awarded the
diplomas. Prof. Guy B. Phillips, di-
rector of the summer session, pre-
sided, and Harvey White, son of Dr.
White and president of the class,
spoke briefly for his classmates.

Marshalls were: Laurie Hooper,
Ruxton, Md., chief; Francis Parker,
Charlotte; Gid Gilliam, Franklinton;
Wynette White, St. Petersburg, Fla.:
Jean LeFevre, Atlanta, Ga., and Ann
Greer, Baton Rouge, La.

Mr. Daniels, in his address, advo-
cated universal athletic training
rather than military training for the
youths of tomorrow.

"Already, while fighting is in pro-
gress, there is propaganda to put all
the youth in uniform," he reminded
the graduates. "There are not want-
ing those who approve the Mussolini
and Hitler plan of introducing mili-
tary training in the elementary
schools. Others would confine it to
those in the high schools.

"The argument is that it makes
for physical strength and disciplines
youth. True, but it was the athletic
fields of Rugby—not compulsory
drilling—that won the Battle of Wa-
terloo. When all youths receive ath-
letic training, as they should, they
will be fit and ready for duties of
peace and war," he declared.

Mr. Daniels divided the advocates
of compulsory training into four
classes: "Those who think the schools
cannot insure physical fitness; those
who lack faith that post-war wisdom
can organize and undergird lasting
peace; those who are congenital mili-
tarists, and those who wish standing
armies ready for colonial exploitation
or imperialism."