Show PROBLEMS pron FACING stricken pi 1 WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow tho the great world war CHANGE OF SOME SORT SURE returning soldier feels he has ha at 9 east earned a better chance than ho he has ha hitherto been granted article article III by FRANK COMERFORD wears nn an anxious look one thought Is arousing tier her from the stupor of her misery she opens her eyes in wide amazement when site she notices and notes the striking chance that has como come over tier lier children it Is 1 puzzling tier her although she well knows what they have gone through how patiently and uncomplainingly they suffered it strange to her that they have changed when she ehe remembers the peace of the years before the war tile the quiet sane lives they lived and tho the four our years in which they thel lived in wet foul sewers called trenches slept in tombs on the edgo edge of a strip of liell bell called no mans land breathed tile the smell of burning flesh saw their pals go west burled buried their dead grinned nt at pain laughed at death nerves of steel could not stand what they have gone through without being changed by it they have put on huttl again it Is strange to them tho the quiet streets ire dull the de mobilized soldier feels vio lie letdown the tenseness over depression sets seta in during tile the war lie ha have time to think of anything except the job ahead of him every minute every move was life or death to him now lie he realizes for the first time what he tins has gone through wonders why lie Is alive two thoughts possess his mind one the memory of every minute of the days and flights of the war the other of what Is ahead of him what la Is lie he going to do with alth his life I 1 lie ile Is at a strange crops brors roads the word job menn mean much to him it that ho he Is in lazy ile he has to pinch himself to realize that it Is over and that lie Is 14 back from the war earned right to better place between the chizz ot of inne machine hine b buljeta ill and the shriek of shrapnel lie he spent ills his time thinking and hi his thoughts were not all about the war ire he never got cot used to tile lip war but he be learned to forget lt it lie he has brought more than souvenirs anil ani memories from his experience na lie tins lias brought home thoughts ideas and ambitions from the trenches mony many n night looking oyer no fans land listening to HIP banshee ban lice of the war he thought thou glit and resolved that if lie he ever came hack back he wanted and would have a better chance in this queer thing called life ile ho feels fecla that lie has hn paid aphid for a place and he tins hns paid rl lie e hits has earned the lie right to A decent place pince in the world for which lie he fought ile he helped sn save vellie the world and ho he looks ionic to that world to save him film from a meaningless ingless machine existence exl stOice it if it he tins has made up his mind to use force llo ile Is willing to work wants to work hut but he insists on being part of his work rather than ills his work being nil of him film ile he sees fools feels and men measures suros things from nn an intensely Intense lk human angle ile HP feels his humanness the war emalin emphasized prized tile value and me meaning finIng of the human being it was life or death ne ile Is alive lie ile wants a human interest st in his work hundreds of de mobilized soldiers nold lers in If lf ferent parts of europe in different cords in different langual rei have gald bald to me if the world going to give us a hotter better chance than linn it gave us OB before the then the world worth forth fIght litz tor for when we fought they told us un jt was to make 1 11 lie 0 world anfe for det democracy and to ninke life worth while we thought this meant us its and ours we have learl lonnild icil that life onar A question of a job and enough to eat wo we wont want to be treated rented like human beings being A ronn man wants to feel that ills his work menns means move more to 0 o film lhnn just wages ile he elwida most of ills his time at work tile mst kit of it t le 9 spent with his family and tn in sleeping so co he will be able to fo work the lie next day why hn he haac in interest in he business and why the b business anve an interest in it him in we dont want to run the s all we nek ask Is a say nay in it A rl endly any aay in it some people think hot but to be fed Is n to be free tt it being free means meana being treated like a bonann being 11 I 1 haive found ninny good honest men ard women who have lost interest in work they say we dont set get a cliare of oc what we biaka we fight among ourselves for joha jobs because we haap to or starve and ahoy noy pay us its as attle ns as they ann cnn I 1 nu riot hot reasoning or arguing this tah qu question eAlon I 1 nm am ry lating a 8 fact which indicates tile tho state of lindof millions of men anti and women in fit europe who did their bit for civi civilize liza tion during the pout post four years fair hearing mut must be granted calling these people bolshevists silence them nor solve the problem such tactics irritate and darpen the un relt their grievance mutt must be given a fair patient healing thel attitude of mut buu e reckoned with will if we hope to t back to normal living I 1 have hean bean ildie any uy that these Pa people ciple must be elten to un der stand that they must wort car starve no law or government in the borla Is powerful fugn to compel people to work this la Is particularly true of the people today to think of using force to Is foolish suicidal we have had enough of force during the last four bearis and the farther we get away front from the idea of benting beating one another into submission the lie better olt off we all shall be the present unrest Is positively dangerous it alte all B tiny any unrest we havn ever had before it Is tile restlessness of human beings who have been face to face with death we need a lot jot or of calmness and common sense by kindly conference we must try to understand each other and by lust just compromise help each other of one tiling thing I 1 am sure and that Is it if an effort Is made to use blind brute force on the lie working people of the world the present unrest will be set met in motion a whirlwind will break upon the world the plain open rond road back to happl ness la Is operation cooperation co ir if we stop for a moment and realize what we have been through anil and the changes that have come upon us ua while we wore were going through it wo 10 will find getting together easy unrest blocks the road it fetters tile ho will to work wo we must face the lie truth find tile the sooner we do the better the world Is broke the war lias has bankrupted europe one thing and one thing only will bring us back to sane normal living it Is work sympathy and understanding will do more to secure pence stimulate work than defiance challenge and threats A normal world Is one in which men live and work together in peace where all men have a chance to be happy this menns means nn interest in work a joy in working living to work rather than working to live men must have food clean wholesome food and enough of it to do their work without exhaustion men afen must have clothes not only the quantity and quality nee essary to protect their bodies from tile the weather but clothes that th satisfy the normal instinct for appearing cl clean eat and neat decent clothes sustain self respect men without thorn thein are less normal and moral |