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Show IMDW HATIQNAL1SM ! DOOMED, SAYS CLARK I University of Chicago Professor Pro-fessor Says War Will Attain At-tain World Solidarity. The "Business as Usual" slogan has produced a cataract over the eyes of the American people. The breakdown of accursed nationalism, na-tionalism, out of which this war sprang, is the greatest lesson of the war, the solidarity of the human hu-man race the greatest ?nd to be attained. at-tained. This is a holy war and in such a conflict no one has the right to make any profit, to count any cost in attaining the victor'. Wo are righting now, God help us to obtain the peace that the pacifists planned, a peace in which war shall be impossible. The Red Cross is the greatest army in the history of the world, the army of mercy and peace that carries no swords. S. H. CLARK. "I see, in the near future, a day when the sun shall dawn on Europe and say to the tired men in the trenches: 'Stand up, you weary Britons, be firm, ye remnant of massacred Belgium; Bel-gium; stand fast, ye battlescarred veterans vet-erans of Verdun America is coming, coming quickly, with her 100,000,000 man power, her treasure, her stores and her blood. ' ' . So said Professor S. H. Clark, government gov-ernment representative of the American Ameri-can Red Cross, speaking last night in Assembly hall- before an audience of several hundred citizens of Salt Lake. Mr. Clark was introduced by , Mayor Ferry, who briefly said that no corporation, corpora-tion, individual or government coiald undertake a great task successfully without first mastering the details. He referred to the speaker of the evening as one chosen by the government to help the American people in understanding under-standing what problem was in our hands, and then presented Mr. Clark. In beginniug his address, Mr. Clark said he agreed with Mayor Ferry that perhaps it was not entirely our fault that we did not understand, holding that we had lived too easily, too far away from the sword that has hung over Europe for generations to realize its menace. He referred to the slogans of early days,- beginning with "no taxation taxa-tion without representation" of revolutionary revo-lutionary days, which was followed by the deeper '"'liberty, equality and fraternity" fra-ternity" that originated on European soil. He eloquently pictured the sublime sub-lime heroism of Belgium, in defying for honor's sake the combined forces of a trained foe ten times . as large and armed to the teeth. Recounting the history -of Verdun, he told of the psychological development of the slogan, They shall not pass." and then declared that the greatest slogan slo-gan of all was that of the ' ' mystic : seer of the White House, ' ' who, seeing see-ing far beyond the view of the avenger, had declared that we fought to "make the world safe for democracy." Bearing upon the gravity of the situation, sit-uation, Professor Clark said" that France had now given up 1,500,000 lives and that 3,400,000- men had been permanently perma-nently disabled by wounds, who would never be able to fight again. The losses of England, he said, while not officially made known, were somewhere near equal to those of France. Professor Clark saw ultimate victory in America's programme of more raeii and more ships, declaring that in our ability to send 5000 men, armed and equipped, into the field of conflict every day, to send out from 60,000 to 75,000 tons of shipping every week, a stage now reached, anil in the shipping rapidly rapid-ly growing better, lay our hope of stemming the tide and finally turning back the invading hosts of the Prussians. |