Show 1 Reason Reason By JOHN BLAKE There Is a remarkable cooperation among a a. pack of ot wolves as long as the huntis going forward But when a a. deer or a sheep has been pulled down by the pack th the cooperation ceases and war begins Animal intelligence stops Just short of ot reason That Is why a state of ot war Is generally in existence existence exist exist- ence once among the creatures of ot the fields and the forests The supposedly s gentle deer is Irritable and often dangerous when disturbed at his meal b by one of ot his kind even kind even If there happens to be abundance for two at the feast Man fancies tha that t he is a reasoning creature He ha has had the intelligence to use and develop his hands until he could harness powers far far- greater than his own and make male them do his work for him I I He has the gift girt of speech through which he can communicate his ideas to other men and thereby there effect a avery very great cooperation I Yet ever every few years Ears he forgets forge s to reason andover and andover andover over some quarrel that is invariably in trivial trivIa at its beginning starts a war that sets back human progress progress progress I I ress many years jears and costs hundreds or thousands or even en millions of ot lives the lives the lives of ot the bravest and best usually being the first to be sacrificed It takes two to make a quarrel but It also takes tales two to to stop a a. quarrel before it grows Into a war If It one of the parties refuses to reason will listen to no suggestions as to a a. peaceable settlement and insists upon upon aggression the other must naturally defend himself or be snuffed out But there Is no justification for tor most of the small squabbles that become great and bloody contests The Tile exer exercise lse of a little moderation and tolerance in the beginning would prevent most of them them the the abatement of the chip on the the shoulder idea would do awa away with the tho rest rest provIded provided they the had not gone too far Time was when every little village and hamlet was continually at war with the tho neighboring villages mageS and hamlets and It It was necessary to wall around every community in order to protect the lives of ot its people leople f That time timo has passed City communicates with city in peace In most times nation exchanges goods and money t with natiOn nation na na- na- na tion statesmen meet together and exchange compliments ments over the banquet et table rind and nd everything is calm and tranquil and placid I But the wild unreasoning savagery is still close under the surface too close f for r comfort Men still living have hale taken part In several bloody wars and even eyen after the war v to end war there is no no assurance that they may not see another before they die And all because this gift of reason whose u use e would make malc war impossible it still so new to humanity humanity hu hu- hu- hu manity that it Is forgotten at brief intervals or deliberately put aside in order to allow the old wild Instincts instinct to t take ke control Copyright 1925 by the Bell Syn Syndicate lc te Inc |