Show NEXT WEEKS WEEK'S GAME OF WAR Back in 1916 1910 I Didn't Raise My 1 Boy to be a Soldier was a popular son song Good Americans applauded the sentiment when the ditty was sung in vaud vaudeville ville A few months later latera a new tune was called and We Ye Come Back Till Its It's Over Over There evoked okd even greater reater enthusiasm enthusiast enthusiasm Something happened to the thc Ameri Ameri- American American American can people Events beyond the con con- control control con control of any my man in this hemisphere swept a peaceful nation into the thc most deadly of all human struggles Far Faraway Faraway awa away it seems now so distant as to tobe tobe tobe be but the memory of another world Recently the most powerful fleet ever assembled in the Paci Paci- Pacific Pacific Pacific fic Ocean sailed from San Fran Fran- Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco to pia play the great war game at Hawaii The army and navy joint jointly jointly jointly ly tested our Pacific coast defenses What does docs this spectacle signify forus for forus forus us The professional fighters in the war and navy departments arc are merely perl their duties They have staged a pageant of actual combat The adventurous young men who sail aircraft and who man the alder vessels of war wont won't intentionally b shot to death or b bombed or poisoned with gas The maneuvers will in purpose be as innocent as a made believe battle The soldiers and sailors are simply training bur tvr their jobs But what about us the great ma- ma majority ma majority Arc we doing our job We e want peace Most natural men end women prefer peace Nobody wants to be drowned in sinking steel ships or to be blown tn blo Cn to to- to bits by hig-hi hig explosive or 01 to be asphyxiated b by some deadly gas goas dropped from the sk sky The army and navy are trying to demonstrate what they might do doto doto doto to prevent such catastrophes Is Is that all If it is the sacrifice of often often ten million young youns men between 1914 and 1918 besides untold was futile Back in 1913 Wilhelm the thc doddering old man who lives as asa asa asa a prisoner at Doom Doorn did as much Wilhelm thought he could protect the German people by might alone His maneuvers were spectacular enough No o empire had ever boasted such an army Who could withstand the force orce of the German soldiery Wilhelm and his people know by now well enough h the truth of the words All they that take the shall rish with tho the sword s perish sword Do WG we w think the sword is sufficient Wilhelms Wilhelm's grand military games drove France to arms anus Frenchmen a- a across across cross a-cross cross the Rhine wondered what the Kaisers Kaiser's maneuvers presaged Were the Germans being trained to con con- conquer conquer con conquer quer France How do the Japanese regard our war game played in si sight ht of their then front front yard What sort of questions must Japanese lenders leaders be askin asking What would we think if they did the same thing Is their state of mind akin to that of the French in 1912 and 1913 We Re hope not We hope the Jap Jap- Jap Japanese Japanese anese anee and all other peoples under under- understand understand understand stand the essentially peaceful p character char char- character acter of the American people But although we know that America plans no war of aggression other governments o may not They suspect the sincerity of our protestations as other nations doubted the peaceful intent of the Germany of 1913 What then is to be done Abandon maneuvers ers weaken the army and navy Hardly Hal That has has been the policy of China and it Is a foolish as that of the former Kaiser Does not the lie rather in an organ organ- organization organization organization for world peace peace intelligent and alert as is the present organization organization ti tion n for wars war The Washington Arms Conference was a 3 move in this direction But it was not enough Other h treaties ties for the limitation of armaments are nee needed ed Arrangements for the peace peaceful teace ful solution of international diffelen- diffelen are essential The World Court is one step A Anew Anew Anew new arms I limitation arms imitation conference conference is another The army and and navy are showing that we still live in a w world of war It is not time for the State Department to make its its bid for an assured peace Colliers peace Colliers Collier's Colliers Collier's |