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Show CAUSE AND CURE OF WAR SUBJECT OF P.-T. A. ADDRESS j Because lx.th lhe Women's j Civic club and ihe Parent-Teacher association of the CVntral school had meetings set fos, 8 p. m. last night, those in charge of the two programs decided to combine and hold the meeting in the Central school auditorium. Is it possible to free the world from war was the question asked ask-ed and answered by Dr. Joseph F. Merrill, former head of the European mission of the L.D.S. church and a member of the council of twelve apostles of the church, in his address, "The Cause and Cure of War". The course of international developments de-velopments since the World War Armistice 21 years ago was traced trac-ed by Dr. Merrill. He outlined the manner in which the Treaty of Versailles was drawn up and explained Germany's resentment. Injustice as a basis of peace never nev-er secures a permanent t peace, Dr. Merrill said. The German people deserved more than they were given by the peace treaty. From the moment Hitler came into power in January, 1933, Germany's Ger-many's trend was toward rearmament. rearm-ament. Hitler's doctrine is that a powerful nation can direct policies poli-cies as it pleases and can get what it wants because no nation is strong enough to deny it' Mr. Merrill said it was his opinion that Germany's discontent discon-tent with the World War treaty was justified but that their method meth-od aimed toward correction was not the best. No country wants war, the speaker said, but they find themselves them-selves facing war because their rulers are unable, for one reea-son reea-son or another, to sit at a conference con-ference table and settle differences. differ-ences. The reason is ambition, selfishness, the desire to use the weapon, uncivilized man has always al-ways used war. The world can be freed of wtf if the methods of the past are changed. If all humans can be regarded re-garded as brothers, as equals (Continued on page 8) O Cause And Cure of War Subject of P.-T. A. Atldr (Continued rrom page 1) entitled' to justice, fairness i equality. The cure of war is abolition of the idea of torn Remainder of the program eluded a clarinet solo by An Burnstein with aeeompanim by Miss Annie Fitzgerald; a vc solo by George Barton, aecc panied by Miss Barton; a vi selection by Roberta Carlqi with accompaniment by ft Fitzgerald. j The scheduled election of j ficers was postponed. A nomiii ing committee will be named present recommendations to ! P.-T. A. members next meetj it was decided. j |