Into the mind of youth must penetrate the ideal of self-preparedness, not of external preparation for the outward life, but of inmost preparedness for the inner life. Whether or not the prefl paredness programme be, as some hold, more menacing to the soul of America than foreign foe can ever become be cause it marks an immediate invasion of the American soul rather than a possi ble aggression upon American soil, it is certain that life cannot wortt be lived save after preparedness in the fullest sense of the term.