Show Daily Editorial Digest y i To Come memory of or the PUBLIC P. P horror is still so strong that meetings were held Friday to commemorate the fifth flUh I anniversary sary of r the tragedy Such meetings were purposelessly el sly however except as asa asa asa a means of perpetuating International hatred d unless ss an attempt Is made to proclaim the real lesson of f the crime If great war Is permitted the torp ing of a LuSitania will be one of f t the minor th-minor minor Incidents of no more real than th the bursting burtIn of a shell in n a trench or the suffocating of a battalion bat- bat allon tallon by poison g g gas s for In the matter of f frightfulness the next war will be begin begin begin be- be gin where this war war stopped When the armistice was signed on onI November 11 there was no no International international Inter inter- national l law left In the world either eithern inter inter-I in on n l land l d or sea e The allies were were m makIng mak- mak king k- k ing ng war var as r as as the Germans had lad mad made madet it t and they had no altenia lve tive All of pf them were applying Na- Na Napoleons Napoleon's theory of unlimited dwar var which justifies the use of ot every expedient to destroy th the enemy and aid compel vic vic- tory ory If another nother conflict comes comes it ft will wUl willot not ot only end that way way but it will begin I that wa way way N Nobody ody will wU dare take chances chances' nances of conducting what used toe to toI tobe be e regarded as s civilized warfare I Henceforth there can b be no civilized warfare e no warfare in the sense that war var is the business only of uniformed d bodt s of troops org organized into armies Every device that the brain of man manan can an conceive con for the destruction tI n of hu human m man life liCe will be empl employed and there therean can an be no distinction between soldier and nd civilian n Why should any group of op American citizens still shudder at th the Lusitania L murder wh when 1 the Uie United St States fe by byre re refusing reusing re- re using fusing to join the league of nations is Inviting another deluge of blood in which civilization Itself may may drown What of th the Lusita that Hiat ar areto arto to come ome omet because cause se the United States tes shirks s sIts Its s c duty t and repudiates its m moral obligations obligations ob ob- Jo to m New Ne New York Dem World |