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THE CHIN

SUBDUING THE EARTHI

HERE is only

.ATHEDR

of war tons.

never

can ne barren procedure to attempt the fare that humanity dispense with so long as evil claims direct supplanting of war by peace, to usurp the place of good: so long There is something to be done. And as we behold the depredations of how

ignorance greed, exploitation. In fact, it is love itself which is least at peace (in an apathetic sense) under these conditions; love which calls to action. There are wrongs to be corrected, new types of good to be disclosed and fortified. We can not cry "Peace, peace; when there is no peace.” Social injustice can- not be permitted to have its will.

do it?

War in the military sense is the worst of all possible methods for the solution of collective problems. 'It is a clumsy, an outdated and set defeating method disastrously af-

und interest.

bar

ar Brous!" but, How deluded For ideas are not killed and they are not promoted. in this way, as history teaches.

other cases it is a feeling developed and inflated to promo

There are ways by means of barous procedure. But back of every war there is a thought which

hich the purposes prompting men changed and crudely justifies it at least in the

be modified an may eyes of the aggressor. This thought even destroyed; by which new demands consideration. If we ar ideas may be brought to realization. ever to make good on the Christian But this, quite obviously, is not ac- complished by military warfare. mandate to "love our enemies,"

And because this change of thought must make a start, by trying to is the very essence of what must understand them.

By Mary Burt Messer

fecting the economy of our modern

be accomplished to arrive at peace, and since it is a change which can- not by any stretch of the imagina- tion be brought about by physical force, war is an illusion. It is, for all its fabulous expense of life and money, a method which cannot do what it pretends to swerable indictment

But we may well ask-are any of

That is, we must pay heed to the these desired results to be effected by the process of sheer violence? world and solving nothing: these issues which war attempts to settle For example: What to do with • Which are familiar facts. At the same time population which outgrows its ter- This truth, as we have seen, does By killing one another? leads to the consideration of war it is not rational to view it simply ritory; how to secure essential raw not dispose of war in the spiritual as method And it is from this as the outgrowth of hate. Hate does materials; how to borrow money sense. There remains the legitimate angle that we will be most likely to attend it. For many peoples this for national uses, to collect debts, warfare which must continue to to widen markets, how to recap train its guns on aggressive and progress in the direction of solu- fecting has piled up through centure lost prestige in leadership; hidden evil in its every form. Bat-

THE

WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

how to diffuse through a benighted tles must be fought through, an- world a saving culture or indus- der the leadership of enlightened trial system (as it appears in the vision: But they will assail, at need, only the false conceptions, not the eyes of its possessor).

lives, of men. When this is recog- It must be granted that here are nised, it will be discovered that vital matters, in an international there is no loss of heroic taska, even the latter, in which the no lapse of youth into complaisancy onary spirit may be dis- and mediocrity. All of the capaci- of confused with visions of ties, natural sciences and world empire. For it is certainly men will be drawn upon except the

believe in art of mutual destruction. NEWSPAPER reports the some money the gentleman had lent not altogether wrong. death of a man at the age of him ten years before when he was what we have and to seek (in a 106. That is commonplace. Science down and out. Accustomed as I am right way) to share it. This is the cannot reach everybody, and there to generous impulses, that sort of very basis of spiritual and cultural are still crowds of centenarians thing frequently happens to me. A exchanges; as important, in all pro about. But what makes this one so, year ago a man stopped me in the bability, as trade in coal, oil and remarkable is that before he died street, and begged the price of awheat. he attributed his longevity to have cup of tea. ing "eaten what he fancied and smoked a lot.”

"Why tea?" I asked. “It is very

These issues are urgent: they in volve high rates of energy, pertain

It is reassuring to remember th education, both spiritual and secular, has long pursued its ends

formation. And this is the plane on. in this great area of thought trans- which all types of co-operation are making headway against competi tion that false- ssumption that

indigestible. Get a whisky and ng as they do to entire peoples the interests of men line them in

I have long awaited an acknow-soda. ledgment of this, the only reliable cure and prevention for all known diseases except whooping cough. I trust he will get his reward.

I think he will, for my great- uncle did in similar circumstances.

And I gave him a dollar.

Last night I felt a tap on shoulder. "You was qui ri, boy," said a husky voice. “Tea too indigigestibibble.”

the

old was

battle array against one another. The question, then, is not mere disarmament; but armament of an enlightened, ever an inspired - sort the armament vision, know-

They cannot be dealt with by mere silencing or quelling. That is, the direct alternative to war is not the mere laying down of arms. We must arm ourselves in the right way. But the war in question must ledge, understanding, love that is active and not supine, the recogni- be conceived as a spiritual, a tion that there is an inherent vic- righteous, a bloodless warfare tory in right. This victory points And while we are on the subject which injures no one and benefits to the operation of spiritual lav Passing serenely over at the age of of unexpected rewards, I have just even its opponents; a war against in the affairs of men. 140, he announced on departure that read the story of the fireman who all barriers, which would obstruct

rescued a mouse from a cat. Five the march of civilization. mess his prolonged health and ha

years had been due mainly to his two ounces of plug and cigars. Consequently, on ar was presented by

dozen

I know. He felt a tap on the

Jace

the ab

Paul was less the religionist in a narrow doctrinal sense than is This type of war is only imagin- commonly supp

of combat in terms

which

Not at all. He was captured by that life

mental, that

rather

OUT

this intrepid

hty

Science

angels with a golden pipe, as a token of esteem by the working staff on account of the little trouble he had Sneezis at an Outpost of Empire world is an animate pattern

tied to a tree and left to die of ideas. Seen in this light, we should a given.

sunstroke

Sadly he awaited his say of the killing of human beings Me fate." am so young to die,” he "Well," they said to him

somel said. "You ain't, squeak, going ter time later, how's the pipe going die, squeak, squeak, said a squeak.

replied my great-uncle. He looked down. Too hot "Can't I have a wooden one? And

gnawing through the thongs that what about cigars?”?

bound him. But how did the mouse get among the Sneezis? He So they brought it up at the sent out accidentally in case of next Board Meeting and, despite hymnbooks. It is only fair, how- the opposition of the Gold Standard ever, to add that the cat ate the faction, got him a wooden one. young man's dinner. You cannot

mouse was

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"The incident,” said my

uncle at our next

ates the view I held

mortality that some

cannot be improved

While lo read)

round, he

rave -both

at a later

In fact, when,

the mice

does one thing lead while we rise on stepping.

our dead mice to