Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-05 | Page 7 | Timely Topics

c 0 j I TIMELY TOPICS 1 THOSE PEACE SCHEMES S f The distinguished judges for the great Bok peace prize say they have been overwhelmed by suggestions sug and that answers answers have come from every civilized country in m the world except Russia Except that this contest will cause people to to think of ot peace and thus make peace more desired It Is IsaU all aU a great waste of time If the principal n nations cannot even agree to meet together In a lague of ot common interest and welfare It is useless to expect thin to agree on any drastic plan that will make war Impossible Peace Is a matter of evolution The trouble with us today is that our mental equipment Is away ahead of ot our spiritual equip equip- men Our brain power has gIven us weapons and scientific knowledge that we will not use properly because we are too selfish greedy prejudiced and Intolerant S SWe We Ve are like Ince year old babies playing with sharp I razors razor Family life is a replica of ot civic life civic life a replica of ot national life and national life lite a replica of ot International life sS s S When husbands and wives stop fighting civic factions will probably stop fighting When civic stop fighting national factions will stop atop fighting And when peace reigns within nations peace may also reign between nations But the will to p peace ace must first begin with the Individual Mr Jones must cease to quarrel with Mr 11 Smith over the lawn mower and Mrs 1 Smith Smith must stop sq squabbling with Mrs 1 Jones over the back fence before nations can begIn to get along along- with one oIle an- an other Taie whole is no better than Its weakest part All those peace schemes will come to nothing the secret of ot unless somebody has stumbled on suddenly making malting men as good a as they are clever Vancouver Sun S