Show WARFARE WAGED BY YOUTH youngsters alwayn ln in the front ranks when the dogs of war are ara loosed our oar own civil war was fought by youngsters gaining tho the physique of maturity upon tho weary march coming into their manhood upon the field of battle the youth of russia and japan was drawn upon to settle the dispute between the robbers of a third nations lands scarce halt tho the sol diers of the balkan allies it Is said had down upon their cheeks checks and in 1 mexico the guerrilla warfare Is carried on by boys who in a more advanced country would be in school it Is probably true that since the days when entire nations made a profession of fighting lived by conquest and prospered by the loot they took war has been a duty assigned always to striplings strip lings if youth made war there would be less of gross immorality about it but youth Is only the pawns of the fighting only the creatures to be shot down to be exposed to privation and disease to bo be laid open to the sins and temptations that trail in the wake of armies it has not always been bee realized how hony tittle little a part the fighters of any war have with its contriving but that realization must come homo home to a nation which takes account of the loss of its ito virility through war tho the of its adventurous spirit which in other directions might havo have wrought quite wonderful things perhaps in this new way we have of looking at the rising generation as aa ibe best asset of a county country the world will think more inore of ohp wastes of war more of tho the damage it does to itself through that might come the universal wo we pray for |