"Races Perish in Peace"

U. S. citizens would be aghast if President Hoover, good Quaker, worker for world peace, should suddenly declare: "The human race develops by war and succeeds in war in proportion to its use of metal. . . . Races perish in peace. . . . Culture is increased by invention of new weapons . . . pacifists err in assuming that peace is desirable. . . . We Americans are living in unpaid luxury and must pay in full in blood. . . ."

Last week these words were sent forth as those not of President Herbert Hoover but of his brother Theodore Jesse Hoover. Dean of the Engineering School at Leland Stanford University. Dean Hoover, a recent White House visitor, had said such jingo things in a syllabus for students. Procuring a copy of the syllabus, the Leland Stanford Daily, student newspaper, published the Hoover quotations and an editorial flaying "militarism on a university campus."

In reply, the irate Dean flayed the publication's "flagrant violation of a longestablished academic privilege--the inviolability of the classroom." Said he: "The document quoted is a condensation of a 25-page lecture and necessarily lacks the clarity of the lecture. . . . The words are true. ... I believe in all efforts directed toward perpetual peace, [but] I fear the efforts will all prove ineffectual."

The same day, half of Leland Stanford'.? Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, resigned from, that body, protesting "reactionary (militaristic) policies of the national board in regard to peace, disarmament and the World Court" (TIME, April 28). Among those who resigned were the wives of Dr. David Starr Jordan and Dr. John Casper Branner. both presidents of oldtime Leland Stanford, "The Cornell of the West." Not among them was Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, who remains a D. A. R., believes she and others can correct conditions better by working within the organization.

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