THEOSOPHIST GIVES LECIO I II Allies' Cause Just and Non-resistance Non-resistance Fallacy, L W. Rogers Says. War was the theme last niRht of L. W. Rogers, thcosophJst and psychologist, at Unitarian hall. As Mr. Rogers sees It, war has a Jekyll and Hyde nature, with compensation for all Its horrors. Revolutionary Revo-lutionary war, ho said, was a concomitant concomi-tant of human evolution and was the only road that led from the tyranny of kings to the freedom of the people. Tii is particular war. he declared, was hut the culmination of the Magna Charta struggle begun in England in 1215 to place the power of government in the hands of the people. "That idea had slowly come to world-wide acceptance," he said, "and we found such very different differ-ent countries as Portugal, Rtipsia and China swiftly changing to republics." The The lecturer argued that with the prac tical democracy of England, and the republics re-publics of France, Russia and the United , States as chief combatants on one side, and the empires of Germany, Austria and Turkey on the other, there could be no doubt that the real issue was "democracy "democ-racy versus autocracy." During the lecture Mr. Rogers made a direct appeal to the humanitarian ism of the "conscientious objectors." After ana- , Iyzing the sophistry of non-resistance, he ! said: "Do not prolong the bloody conflict j by cooling the ardor of the heroic de- ! fenders of liberty with the half-truth of a false philosophy. Don't mock at patrl- j otism. Don't encourage cowardice. Don't ; even stand Idle yourself while the new democracy Is being baptized in the blood . of the brave. "Lend a hand! The war is for you, j for your future freedom, for your right i to a voice in human affairs, for the pro- ! tection of your home, for the marred rights of the helpless. Renounce the fal-lacy fal-lacy of non-resistance and In the name of American democracy, hy the memory of all who have died that liberty might live, fling every atom of your Influence into the struggle that the war for self-government self-government may bo won."