Show The of E Europe Jo e eBy By HERBERT KAUFMAN J WHAT HAT will the the reflex be How wi will ll this prodigious an and protracted t d dar war ar re react upon civil civilization Tools and time tame will restore the devastated area Modern Modern mafi man makes make ia ma machines on a scale commensurate with his necessities Big engines after all are grownup little ones All this is isa isa isa a problem in in mechanics mechanics mechanics-a s-a s a matter of engineering h But the characteristics of folk are bound to alter under the stra strain ll of a holocaust which spills spill blind men and unspeakable cripples into every community from from Da g hestan to Hartle Hartlepool P obi crowds graveyards beyond precedent t creates five flue million widows blights the honor of a myr myriad ad girls iris reduces the gently bred to horrid poverty hurls the prides of peace into the pit gives the lie direct to civilizations civilizations civilization's tion's noblest vaunts turns famine fever fear and force upon a world convinced of its security security and and therefore bare are of any philosophy hy with which to accept the tits sudden soul wound It is inevitable that these years must dull humanity fineness and idealism Peoples will wilt hate each other with feudal will the ferocity Memos Memory y spit upon enemy enemy name The men ca their forget forget t their privations and wounds wound are The women will not forgive Europe will wilt boil boll with passions upon which t only the the centuries can la lay full restraint Nations cannot be thrust back into barbarism and restored to to self control over night flight Copyright 1916 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved |