Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-24 | Page 18 | Misdirected Energy

j i Misdirected Energy I I will wl arrest attention at times Ures I where logic as solid Gibraltar a Eold as and andreason reason reon as ag clear as paste past diamonds cannot I get get a look look-In or a look at for tor any sane proposition Under this classification classification- S sometimes cal called d taboo taboo should should be placed a I sensational rumor that a a British I t has assured the schoolmaster ex-schoolmaster Woodrow Woodro Wilson that he has ha plenary power to stop 1 the whole slaughter of Innocents and set the world at peace S I The Zhe The rumor filters through New York YorkI York York- 1 I always a suspicious circumstance tance In In the search serch with Ith a lantern lanter for tor truth truth But the tIme t name of or the British is given as none other than Bertrand Russell Russel and we weare are ready reay to admit that ho he means Jeans It 1 I But Dut this bunch of or words should have a aj j t diagram by somebody who can warp them Into a fabric of ot ordinary common sense V The United States has the power not only to compel the European governments to tomake make make peace but also to reassure the S lation at n b by making malting Itself the guarantor of or the peace This would have been deliciously tasteless and opaque had not this conflict I ing interpretation followed Such action acton even Ven i if I It were resented b by the governments would be hailed with joy by the populations ton That's Tal's Just the tho trouble Wo We know where I L we arc nrc at In this country countr but the great drawback to success in Europe of or such ef effective of- of J measures a as M Mr Ir Russell proposes is of getting the governments govern the impossibility govern m ments and the populations into the tho same place pIce If r Mr Russell really hopes to have o ha his barren harren Idea bear fruit he should tr try It on William of or Berlin Suro Sure enough if anybody wants to settle on these terms let em state their terms then well we'll know leo what nobody knows Imo s about anybody's terms