Show Harmless an and Hopeless Efforts to have President Wilson call a conference of neutral nations for tor the purpose of urging cessation are useless President Wilson Vilson could get up that sort of meeting at any anytime anytime I I time if he wanted to but everybody bod y knows that theres there's no I II hope of peace until one side or the other is thoroughly vanquished I And President V Wilson has other worries worries It is generally recognized that at least Austria and Turkey i are fighting for their very yer existence The Germans claim that the they are arc in the same boat Parties fighting for their lives do not hear the prayers of neutrals Then it is clear that Russia is fighting for personal aggrandizement It i is ridiculous to ask aski r i her to quit when she sees that Turkey can cnn be driven from the Dardanelles the Sea of Marmora l an and the With her teeth in the jugular of a fresh kill the bear does not hear the whisperings of or the neutral breezes in iu the tree tops Of course a conference of ne neutral nations might do no harm The neutrals could get together and express the opinion that war waris waris waris is a bad thing and that peace is much more desirable But they J 1 would merely show themselves as neuters a as well as neutrals i I without the power to back their opinions Fighting bulldogs l be coaxed apart Psychologically war has gripped all allf f I Ir Europe As an example of unemployment the blessed peacemaker r I is is conspicuous and hopeless at this time above all others 1 r |