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Show Will It Be the Last War? Thre never was a war so terrible as the one now in progress. Hundreds of thousands of men have been engaged and the slaughter has been, terrible. Men have been mowed down like grain in the deadliest dead-liest of conflicts. The fighting has been for the most part hand to hand. It has been slaughter and nothing else. The dead have lain for days unburied because the living were too busy fighting to stop to bury them. Wounded have received little or no attention. It has been the moat brutal, cruel, sickening war the world has ever known. It is a fitting climax to the work of bringing the l illing ,of men to a point approaching an exact science.2" For years the experts of all nations have ied with each other in Inventing death-dealing apparatus. ap-paratus. Cannon, machine guns and rifles have been perfected until warfare has become merely a question of which side can support the heavier losses. Thousands of lives are snuffed out in the twinkling of an eye and not a thought is given to it. One life or a hundred thousand lives are of no moment mo-ment in a twentieth century war. But What Will be the COSt? Can nntinna lnniri afford to go to war when it means such tremendous depopulation? It will take years for Russia and Japan to recover from the losses sustained in the gigantic struggle in which they are engaged. What nation today will gain enough by going to war to repay it for the outlay in money and lives? The present war should be the last. Its frightful results should. keep the peace of the world. |