Military Service 
 Compulsory or Volunteer? 
 
 A discussion of methods for adequate 
 organization of the common defense. 
 
 Twenty- minute addresses by men of 
 national prominence. 
 
 Obligation of Citizenship to the Common 
 Defense 
 
 Military Training in Public Schools and in 
 Land-Grant Colleges 
 
 Organized Labor and Compulsory Military 
 Training 
 
 Elements of Military Systems of Great Britain, 
 France and Germany 
 
 The Organization of the German Army 
 
 Political and Economic Problems Involved, and 
 Legal Aspects of the German Military 
 System 
 
 The Swiss and Australian Systems of Military 
 T raining 
 
 Two Meetings Devoted to these Subjects 
 
 2.30 p. m. Compulsory or Volunteer Military 
 Training: Fundamental Principles and 
 Methods 
 
 8. 1 5 p. m. The Obligation of Citizenship to 
 the Common Defense 
 
 THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1916 
 
 EARL HALL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
 
 117th Street and Broadway 
 
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 A mong the speakers who have accepted are: 
 
 Hon. William E. Borah, United States Senator 
 from Idaho. 
 
 Professor Moritz J. Bonn will discuss the 
 political and economic problems involved 
 in the German Military system. 
 
 Hon. Henry Breckinridge, former Assistant 
 Secretary of War, will speak on Universal 
 Military Service. 
 
 Dr. Theodore N. Christen, former officer Swiss 
 Army, leading expert on military systems. 
 
 Captain Hecker, of the German Red Cross, 
 will discuss the compulsory system in vogue 
 in the German Empire. 
 
 Mr. Frederick A. Kuenzli, President The 
 National Defense Institute, and formerly a 
 Lieutenant in the Swiss Army, will speak 
 on the Swiss Military system. 
 
 President Alexander Meiklejohn, of Amherst 
 
 College. 
 
 Mr. Louis W. Stotesbury, Adjutant-General of 
 the State of New York, will speak on 
 compulsory training under State auspices, 
 and the place of the State militia in National 
 defense. 
 
 Mr. John P. White, President United Mine 
 Workers of America, will present the views 
 of Trade Unionists. 
 
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 Col. C. DeWitt Willcox, U. S. Military Academy, 
 author of the French-English Military Tech- 
 nical Dictionary, will speak on the French, 
 English, and other Continental systems of 
 military training. 
 
 Mr. Matthew Woll, President of International 
 Allied Printing Trades Association, will 
 speak on the attitude of organized labor. 
 
 General Leonard Wood, U. S. Army. 
 
 Mr. Eric Fisher Wood, author of The Note- 
 Book of an Attache and The Writing on the 
 W all , will present first-hand observations of 
 Continental military systems at work under 
 war conditions. 
 
 Papers will be submitted for publication in the 
 
 Proceedings, as follows: 
 
 Major E. N. Johnston, Corp of Engineers, 
 U. S. Army, on The Australian System of 
 Universal Training for Military Defense. 
 
 Dr. Edmund J. James, President of the Uni- 
 versity of Illinois, on Military Training in 
 the Land-Grant Colleges. 
 
 Detailed program will be mailed on request. 
 
 The Academy of Political Science 
 
 Kent Hall, Columbia University 
 
 Telephone, Momingslde 1400 
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
 
 WILLIAM L. RANSOM, Chairman 
 FRANK L. BABBOTT 
 CHARLES A. BEARD 
 ROBERT L. BACON 
 PETER J. BRADY 
 IRVING T. BUSH 
 VICTOR J. DOWLING 
 HENRY D. ESTABROOK 
 PAUL U. KELLOGG 
 SAMUEL McCUNE LINDSAY 
 HOWARD L. McBAIN 
 GEORGE A. PLIMPTON 
 THOMAS REED POWELL 
 THEODORE L. ROUSSEAU 
 
 EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN