Show Q I It Cant Can't Be Done 1 By DR FRANK CRANE Every once in a while somebody throws throw a a. tl lit it because the is not riot prepared for warWe war We Ye ought to have a a. better army a a. better navy or more flying machines It It seems to be the easiest thing in the world to prove that we are unprepared Some day we will realize that preparation forwar for forwar war is a bugaboo which no nation can ron attain unto I j A nation cannot be prepared against war an any anymore I more than an Individual can be prepared against i violence by any other way th than n removing the matter matter mat mat- ter of administering Justice out of its own hands No mart man man Is prote protected ted against assault on account of the number of ot weapons he carries He may wear knives all up and down his clothes and ind have havea a belt full of revolvers rs But the more such weapons weapons weep weep- I. I ons he ho has the more danger he is in of being shot The safest man in the world tOda today is the man who has no weapons upon him th the man who lives ll I in a community where there Is la an efficient police pollee The analogy is perfect The safest nation will willbe willbe be the nation that lives in a world that is well poll policed ed and not a nation that Is able ablo to protect Itself In Inthe the nature of ot the case no nation can be prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared against an outbreak of ot hatred and folly on onI the part pert of a neighbor I Just now the chemists of all lands are vying with I each other to make new gases The bolshevik ovI government government gov ov is engineering a nationwide movement to I foster public Interest In gas gag warfare I The atmospheric fixation industry in Germany has hag forced Imports of Chile saltpeter down to an anI extremely low level Jevel I The Italian government is encouraging the production production production pro pro- of nitrogen English soap makers are said to be mol mIng making Investments investments invest- invest ments I ments in Scandinavia and competing In the markets of Finland Russia and anil the new Baltic republics Ever Every natron seems to be casting asting about to b be M ready to whip every other nation in the oncoming war The re suit will w simply be terrific destruction of or of life and ond property This pr promotes motes the safety of no people and the security of ot no government The best safety and security are to- to tobe be found Inthe in inthe inthe the creation of or good will and In the relegation of force torce to some other hands than ones one's own This was told us a long while ago go by the Nazarene Nazarene Nazarene Naza- Naza rene and the world after two thousand years has not yet et found out the truth of it It will take another catastrophe as great as the late war to make us realize it it Copyright 1925 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |