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5P -vy; mn - ,sWjjMrip,- j-f- jspi-- TV- -Sgr r- .j JAKE LOEB'S "HEP-HEP-HEP" PLAN FOR HIGH SCHOOLS DISCUSSED BY DR. ROMAN Frederick William Roman, head of the department of economics in Sy racuse university in a speech before the Political Equality league at the Congress hotel this afternoon, dis cussed military training in public schools. It came as a surpriseand almost a shock to some of the ladies to hear Dr. Roman say that the military spirit destroys individual initiative and in order to make a first-class sol dier it is necessary to spoil a good workman. Dr. Roman comes from the university headed by Chancellor Day, the recipient of $6,000,000 from JohnTJ. Archbold and an' exponent of strictly modern business Yet Dr Roman made the flat statement that Chicago is starting Off in a wrong direction by introducing military drill in the public schools. "The newspapers and other pow ers of control have not been able to stampede the American people into militarism,-" said Dr. Roman to a Day Book reporter today "In New York city a preparedness parade with more than 100,000 marchers in line result ed in only 66 enlistments in the na tional guardr Your Chicago parade of more than 100,000, 1 am informed, resulted in less than 200 enlistments in the guard. The American people are opposed to the spirit of militar ism. . "The schools, however, are still under the control of capitalists who wish to see the spirit of militarism inculcated It is their purpose to ex alt the state and suppress the indi vidual. "America's record as an inventor of machinery surpasses all the rest of the world. No other nation com pares with ours as an originator of the tools of industry. We have ex alted the individual' and kerit the hands of the state off the individual "I say frankly the business men .of Chicago who endorse a plan to nave military training in public schools dre taking a course that will deaden initiative among their workers." o o TWO DEAD, $2,000,000 LOSS, IN DU PONT POWDER BLAST New York, Jan. 13. Two million dollars' property damage, but at a cost of only two lives, seemed likely at noon today to be Jthe record of the Haskell, N. J., explosion of the DuPont Powder Co.'s plant last night, which shook four states. The company itself merely stated the two men are "missing." Only two of the thousands in the danger zone were so seriously injured as to require hospital treatment, the company de clared in a statement from Wilming ton today. The DuPont company regarded it as established that the explosion re sulted not from incendiaries or a plot, but by simple accident. The first flare was in the glazing barrel, where smokeless powder is finished. Twenty-five explosions have oc curred in this plant since the com pany began making munitions for the allies, but in each instance offi cials in charge have insisted that they were accidental. Explosions in New Jersey muni tion plants within the last few months have caused $33,250,-000 damage. N o o Fire which for time threatened the Northwestern railway terminal de stroyed plant of Chas. H. Besly & Co., 118-24 N". Clinton, machinists' jobbers. Isadore Rothschild,, last; man tak en in -Stated Atfy 'Hoyne'-s graft raid srranted writ of habeas corpus by Judge Crowe. Hearing for "Wil ly" Weinstein and "Sam" Orenstein, held in sam einvestigation set for -Jan. 22. Chief Schuettter's first bulletin landed police for brave acts. ffl t U&H