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Show cannon balls, gassed our children, ruined our crops and laid waste our lovely land ? That would be quite another side of the picture for the veterans to consider, would it not, and no such lovely picnic for us, as a good many people seem to consider the last conflict. To talk of war bringing back prosperity pros-perity is like discussing the wisdom of destroying a fine Income-producing property to get the insurance money. Washington (D. C.) Daily News. DYING TO HEAR THE FUNERAL ORATION. "Millions of veterans," writes Correspondent Cor-respondent Herbert Corey, "would find relief in another war. The wife would get the monthly pay, there would be a pension to look forward to as well as insurance adjustments, and there would be one more good time with the old gang." Well, perhaps Mr. Corey is right. But if millions of our veterans feel that way about it, they have exactly the same sort of intelligence that would actuate a small boy to set fire to the school house and burn up teacher and pupils so that he might gain respite from his lessons. Mr. Corey assumes, in this article at least, that the next war will be exactly like the last, and belligerent Americans would merely embark, shouting, for foreign shores while our business men stayed home and raked in the money. He forgets, presumably, that democracy demo-cracy has already been saved once. He speaks of our prosperity during those days, but evidently fails entirely to consider the state of the Belgian refugee re-fugee and the French peasant who, at the same time, were placed in a somewhat less enticing situation. Wouldn't it be fine and quite worthy wor-thy of reckless materialism to have a nice bloody war? But to have it, of course, on the other side of the world so that .we might reap the benefits of prosperity while other nations na-tions had homes swept away, civilization civiliza-tion slaughtered and starved and fields made barren. But suppose that this time the enemies ene-mies came over here and dropped bombs on our great skyscrapers, riddled our beautiful churches with |
