Show I II I The Coming War WarBy I By DR FRANK CRANE When Lloyd Llord George speaks s it Jt Is b worth north while to to listen to him He lie was at the helm of England during during dur dur- ing the war and did much to help win the war waI I When he therefore says that there thero Is a new war in prospect we had better listen He ne made the statement nt a short time ago ag that war that var was inevitable if U Europe continued to keep up Its great armaments How ilow the human race or tho men controlling the destinies destinies' s' s of nations nations' can envisage this horrible fact I and do nothing to obviate it U Is jg beyond the imagination tion o of ot tho the common man man War is universally acc accepted to be ono one of ot the I greatest disasters known to history Our own General General Gen Gen- eral Grant said that there thero never was a question settled settled set set- tied by war that could not have been settled some other way Of Ot course courser wo we O honor our heroes and no one should speak lightly of ot those who have hae havet given their lives for or their thelt country At tho the same t time we ve realize that as far as the general mass of humanity Is concerned concerned con con- a little wisdom might have averted every war Almost all of the great blessings to the human race its great steps in advance have been made by cooperation and nd not by conflict Was Vas a fight n necessary to produce the telephone the typewriter and the sewing machine Was Vas the radio the result of ot an armed conflict between peoples Most of ot the great strides In business have been formed by combinations by the getting together of ot diverse divers Interests interest's and not by slaughtering one an an- other Looking back ov ovel cc our last war we see that It not only cost the lives of many men and thus gave an example of ot the uneconomic principle of the destruction lon tion of ot the fittest Instead of ot the survival of ot the tho fittest fittest fit fit- test but also was almost as fatal to property The riches that had llad been heaped up for years were ruthlessly destroyed Almost all experts agree that the tho next war waI will willo ho be o more terrible than the tho last Why humanity should face tace ace such a prospect with equanimity is jg too much for tho the ordinary brain to understand It would seem as if best and wisest of men should devote their supreme efforts toward tho the substitution of oJ some other means of ot settling disputes than that of ot war war- fare Cop right 1927 McClure Newspaper Sr Syndicate Inc I |