Show WARS AND NATIONAL LIFE Prof David Starr Jordan of the Stanford uni- uni uni- uni lectured before the Peace society in in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York the other day and took the ground that war kills the nations nation's best befit and ana excessive c wars bring on oni ona I want to bring i a national degeneration What out he said U is is that i if we have e our heroes killed in ili war we cannot breed a race of heroes War Val is is alwa always s 's everywhere the the reversal of the principle of st and this reversal cv is in direct proportion to the high character o of themen c 11 n who arc are killed by 1 V it L I. I jl I his b. b J referring to the exploits j of Luther Bl f anK 5 in iii i breeding from the I cactus fruit raif ranging from to the grape and declared this was brought about II by bJ the recognition recognition recognition rec rec- of the powers of yari variation t ion heredity t selection se se- c lection and suggestion He referred to the thc French nation which he asserts lost two or thre thi inches in III stature b by the Napoleonic rs and said further that Rome had its decline and fall fill because I her heroes were v rc kill killed cd off in wars and there was no stock to raise men from There is a little in what Professor Jordan sa says s 's but not so Yer very much N Nd one will discount the evils that come with wars and they ther are arc only justifiable just justi liable in order to avoid worse evils We Ve do not belice be be- lic e the people of the south ai are quite up to what hat they w uld ha have li ic n in h intellectual h l strength nt h and andin andin in character c had I the tho of r her her bravest n and arl a i l t h have c hec 1 killed in J Jile the ile war var B But Bt t war did n not uok t destroy Rome Roin n nth nor 17 tHe effects of sai ar ROp Ronie to for fot 70 f a conquered r d Its Its' its wa way r in inthe inthe In Inthe the wor world wod d u until some men glOW Y Cl ri rich Ji and the I masses became yer very pr and pd then U en the sud sudden falling off on of c tho the gold and silver mines Which had supplied Rome with mone money brou brought s such t h that as in hl casc ease w where where depression le depression comes tho the m money ncy gravitated to the few and the poor pOOl accumulated in numbers so sudden with v Rome that a great many fa families that that had been high cl class clasa and nd resen reserved cd found foundS i it necessary to reduce expenses and forfeit their positions as leaders lead lead- ers ers among men and nd women WO-ri WO 1 A gc i- i of these became tainted A great many man men m n became willing willing will will- ing servants servant of other men for money and stooped to do things they would woul ha have c scorned b before fore A great man many women to keep up their positions sacrificed themselves themselves- so that in years ears that old Rome which had claimed clairnel l for years ealS there ther had hadnot hadnot hadnot not bc been D one unfaithful if Wife in jn the great gleat city be came so 50 d depraved praed that the thc men w were r no longer fit to be soldiers the w women men were no no longer l' l fit to become the mothers of soldiers Professor Jordan's Jordans argument applies er very much more to Greece than to Rome Roni because while Rome nome was conquering the world he hc lost but el very ery few cw comparatively speaking o of he her soldiers while th the strength of Gr Greece ce went out in h heroic efforts to kc keep pt the integrity t of ot the countr country secure and then the thc race was only maintained through the tho slaves Still as we vve said above war is not the wo worst t evil War Val brings out all the patri patriotism t sm in men and while it is true that the bravest and find the best arc are the ones who go to the front for tho the whole mass it breaks s down aown the thc sordid passion for IOL money getting getting getting get get- ting and opens their hearts to hi higher hr influences Japan was cl clOsed against the thc w world wrid Tor years but in those years ears Japan got to be simply sim sin ply among men what the wood rats are among the thc lower order of animals They were kept keit patriotic because that is a n apart part of the training of or the Jap Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese their emperor is supposed d to be divine But their acquisitiveness became developed to such sucha a state that when the country was opened to the world and the they began to mingle among men the they were simply what birds and beasts of f prey arc are among animals and birds They lost that high I sense of honor which governs business men n everything everything every every- thing was subjected to the thc mere acquisition of property l Perhaps the thc necessity of their lives made this natural but hut they the had nothing to awaken their higher chivalric sense of right and of dut duty no incentives to loft lofty courage and all that saved sa them was the thc Asiatic disregard qt fear because they arc all fatalists and their reverence rc for emperor Anc Ancl Anc the thc conclusion is that wars ought to to be he avoided to the Yer very last so long as peace can ean be maintained with honor At the am ame amO time all all' tin the male niale members of a a race that are arc ph physically able ought to be trained trained-in in the thc art of war ar that the ideals may be kept right and th that t th they r may mar alwa always s 's bo he prepared to defend their country The worst wars the terrible wars that dc degenerate degener degener- ener ate ste men arc are civil chon wars when a race fights against its own people Our revolutionary re fathers fo fought for liberty against their own elder brothers and andI I cousins but the motive behind their Av was elevated race when so high that they wore were a more the war closed than when it began begun Our second war with Avith Great Br Britain tain did dil much to elevate tire the nation standard of our third War Mexico taught this nation the lesson that schools where officers can eal b bp bi trained to guide the people a war conies comes are arc essential It t had hud grown to be the habit to sneer at West Test Point graduates as ng worthless ns as an unnecessary al' al expense to the ilic country countr as raising a class of dudes but that war Avar stopped all that kind of talk tall Ne Never Ner r were s- s n m J officers in proportion to men killed in war var before r never did officers acquit then so splendidly before for with u u. few thousand Huld hul- hul d cIS cI'S many of them raw volunteers the they stormed th the lofty mountains of Mexico took the ear capital ful of the c enemy and brought Mexico under foot ag against odds O Our tr civil chiI war Avar was an awful calamity to t the c cr r At the s snipe tim time it it exalted the race because i lt if taught men how much this tills country is iS to the world and aud it extirpated slavery Our war Avar with Avith Spain W as S more a pastime than anything else but it it gave ga our country immense prestige the world around by hy the exploits of f the he navy navr and the army whenever cr it had a chance Never did a nation gain gainso so much prestige at so slight a loss los as gained in the Spanish war Avar And so the rule should be no war Avar should be fought except the thc lof loftiest kind of a 1 purpose is behind behind behind be be- hind it and then not until every cAery other measure has lias been tried to make the war Avar unnecessary |