| Show AFTERMATH P pORTENTOUS PORTENTOUS events confront the mass of humanity with the old age problems which the world war not only failed t to remove but intensified and anti complicated The Thc war war warto to end war opened up UI old olt wounds and the treatY O of or Versailles put salt in them Both the league of nations and the disarmament conference have been dismal failures and the economic conference conference confer confer- ence has only aggravated economic ceo economic rivalries Blamed to old forms of government go Europe has bas been plunged into political chaos in in its lis effort to in invent ent new forms Intended to wipe out international animosities they have become be be- come p more nore ore pronounced intended to build up national solidarity the they have produced instead internal discord and ana strife With countless millions of people impoverished their tax burdens burdens burdens bur bur- dens arc are being grievously added adde 1 upon for buying buying buying buy buy- in ill order ing armament Nations go hungry that that rare m re cannon may be made that science may discover new wa ways s 's of making death more terrible with poisons and infections infeCtiOns- This is the aftermath of ofa a war out o of which winch intelligence should have gained knowledge and experience These arc ale tools fools but unemployed they arc are useless as unproductive as idle tools in the kit of a sId skilled lied craftsman Twenty years ago pacifists were at a high highpoint highpoint point in ill world wide activities Their propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda de deluged a world that saw no threat of war ivar until events raced to a climax after the tile murder of the Austrian archduke at Today they are arc at another high 1 point the highest reached since thc they were silenced during during during dur dur- ing the war in a flood of patriotic fervor that sought to make the world believe them ignoble But their methods an and J procedures give evidence evidence evi evi- dence that they make no use uc of the wars war's les les- les- les sons This is pretty well shown by O one Q of their recent projects V World orld Unity the magazine has summarized summarized summarized summa summa- summa summa- the results of f a questionnaire sent out to toa a carefully selected list of representative of-representative educators edu edit clergy known n peace workers and delegates delegates dele dele- gates to the International Chamber of Commerce Com Coin merce merco held at Washington The rhe object was to test no not public opinion but the tIle views of those who might be expected to lead public opinion toward a solution of the war problem This is the same group that has lIas been looked to toby toby toby by pacifists always to lead public opinion But the they dont don't lead it The international bankers hankers bank bank- ers erg and armament rings lead public opinion They and the politicians who masquerade as statesmen arc are the ones who manufacture the war spirit spir t when the business of the thc ironmongers ironmongers gers and money lenders drops oil off The Thc replies to the questionnaire of course revealed abhorrence for war and recommended recommend recommend- ed economic pressure as asa a substitute They still look to a bigger and better League o of or Nations r reinforced by the Kellogg Briand pact They reaffirm faith in constitutional government govern govern- ment put jut wonder vonder if some form of economic control is not needed to supplement the thc political cal structure They see ahead a potent world state the first step toward which is the joinIng joining joining join join- ing of the world court by the thel United States Not one new id idea a 1 I IOn On the other side all the old ideas that have always worked before for the statesman- statesman banker combination are working over- over Jime time No need for them to hunt for new de de- de- de vices ees All the pl principal powers ourselves included included in in- eluded with our program are arc in the seine same old armament race There is no public opinion anywhere to stop it Hasn't the world sense enough to keep out outS of another war Y If you think the news of war preparation today differs s fr from m that in 1914 and the years which preceded the outbreak of c conflict in iii that bloody loo ly year read the dail daily articles b by Morris 1 Gilbert now appearing 0 in inThe inThe The Telegram retelling the history of the events eventa which wInch finally dragged this tills country into war The map is is different today and there are re new statesmen statesmen g guiding iding the worlds world's destInieS des des- but tho the rivalries rand and hatreds haven't changed much in two decades decade |
