SILENTIA VOBISCUM

Harvard's attitude towards pacifism and unpatriotic propaganda is unmistakable. The members of the Faculty, in a memorial to President Wilson bearing over two hundred signatures, have placed the University officially on record as favoring a firm foreign policy and the maintenance of our national principles and international rights. The activities of the R. O. T. C., the Naval Reserve, and the Flying Corps, and the large majority of votes in favor of some form of compulsory military training show clearly that the undergraduate body supports military preparation.

In all movements, of course, there must be opposition. Freedom of speech and thought, differences of opinion on all questions, are to be desired. But there is a limit to all things. A handful of misguided Senators blocked the passage of military measures at Washington, and brought upon themselves the opprobrium of the nation; a handful of misguided undergraduates of the University are screaming for neutrality even now. Some of them are sincere, but blind, in their beliefs; others are simply cowards.

Naturally enough, such organizations as the Harvard Union for American Neutrality have been treated with scant respect. Their puerile arguments have been heard and scoffed at; their views have been aired in the communication column of the CRIMSON; they have done all in their power to aid the pacifist lobby in Congress, and their efforts have justly resulted in pitiful and ignominious failure.

The time has now come when all such nonsense should stop. The President of the United States has asked that a state of war with Germany be declared and there must be no more talk of neutrality. The obvious and paramount duty of every loyal American is to bend every effort towards aiding the Government in preparing for war against a nation which has issued a challenge "to all mankind."

Hereafter, the CRIMSON will print no more communications of a pacifistic nature. If there are any members of the University so blind or cowardly in spirit as to clamor for neutrality when all hope of neutrality is dead, they should commune with themselves in private and find reflection in the definition of traitors as those. ". . . adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."