Show i ENEMIES t IN EUROPE FRIENDS IN AMERICA I America that m melting ting pot of nations today but one emotion Akin to all the nations of Europe it feels that family sentiment of sorrow for each and all of those peoples who now s see e their sons the battlefields fields mere targets for each others other's bullets I It stops not to analyze causes nor to trace the beginnings beginnings of g gory ry conflict to their monarchial births It looks over the ocean and sees with tear dimmed eyes the mother who Tho will weep veep as her sons march to their deaths It hears her sob and sobs with her at the pity of it all Close to the scenes of conflict nations are maddened by the sight of blood The excitement of war the call to colors may brush away the centuries of civilization and turn men to replicas of those denizens of jungle days when wild beasts foug fought t for food or orf favor or or the love of fighting Distance gives a san saner r view vie and warmer heart In this city are men from each of those great nations friends friends' for years I Their sons and daughters have stood together at altars They have sat in the same schoolroom om The They have knelt at the same altars and played in the thc same parks And in that melting pot they have lost that hatred of race which now influences influences' a a o oco co continent and replaced and r re P laced it with wito a kindlier glow of friendship and of pity for the people eople who have chosen war vax instead of peace This is the triumph of America its final justification For Forit Forit it is inconceivable that even a war which rocks a c continent will change cha ge friendships born on this side of the waters Civilization is not a failure Men are not living in jungles America sad of heart wet eyed with p pity itY stands aloof from conflict conflict conflict con con- I and from strife and as never before gives reason for its birth |