Show Kathleen Norris Says Lift Up Your Hearts teen Bell Syndicate Service r r r 0 k s kt p o J Je y e o o e o Imagine the he odds odd against the he ragged unarmed unfed un untrained armies o of Washington Wash Wash- Washington ington men enlisted only only or for a II term erm of weeks all know how strangely that war ended with uila tic tic-lory or for the he side ide against which the he odds seemed incredibly heavy By KATHLEEN NORRIS T IS a great consolation in I IT these trying times to realize realize realize real real- ize that according to all historical historical historical his his- precedents two and two do not make four For no matter what mathematicians mathematicians mathematicians mathe mathe- can do with chalk I and a blackboard the events that touch our human lives and are controlled by our our faulty and irrational human actions almost always seem to come out in an unexpected way The student of every great crisis in world affairs is completely puzzled by the apparent independence ence of results from their causes Take our beginnings in 1775 Imagine Imagine Imagine Im Im- agine the odds against the ragged unarmed unfed wiled untrained armies of Washington whose men enlisted only for a term of weeks and when that term was up walked quietly off to their farms again I Washington's congress was against him the personnel personnel personnel per per- of the army was constantly changing and with Canada as a abase abase abase base the great armies of England supplemented by Prussian mercenaries mercenaries merce meree- French settlers setters and thousands thou thou- thousands sands of Indians were prepared for fora a long attack Victorious Against Great Odds We all know how strangely that war ended with victory for the side against which the odds seemed incredibly incredibly incredibly in in- credibly heavy ourt Waterloo Sedan the British conquest of India are all aU similar In the last mentioned war less than a hundred years ago the case was that the troops rebelled rebelled rebelled re re- belled in numbers something better than a thousand to one There were few British troops in hi India most of that army was composed of East Indians officered by British So the simple job of the rebels was merely to shoot the officers wipe out the few missionaries and women and children and possess their own land once more We all know how that came out too The passionate courage of a Roberts a Campbell a Havelock overcame infinite superiority in numbers and the rebellion was sup sup- pressed Lincoln's Predicament Then take Lincoln's situation In 1864 actually within the memory of living men for a child whose wondering wondering wondering won won- dering eyes looked on at the Civil war would only be something more than 80 now The South was fighting the North and with gallant success at the mo mo- ment In Mexico Austria and France had set up an emperor whose plan was to befriend the South take all aU Central America under under under un un- der his protection for Austria and maintain a strong European hold upon the Americas And just at this moment when our President was cruelly pressed for formen formen formen men and munitions an unfortunate episode occurred which angered England and threatened for awhile to involve the North in a war with the British British troops were even dispatched to Canada before the affair affair af af- fair was settled How many women worrying themselves insane half this hot summer summer summer sum sum- mer morning over unexpressed and undefined terrors remember that that was our situation 75 years ago Suppose that were the case now suppose hostile foreign troops were actually on American sop soil bombing our cities then clUes then we MIGHT have something over which to lose sleep I We Prefer Peace As it is remember that no nation nation nation na na- na- na tion has a grievance against us and that we are not going out of our way to injure any nation ration or to Impose unfair terms upon any eny nation orto or orto orto to make an enemy of any nation We are by national temper peaceable peaceable peace peace- able absorbed in our own problems and incapable of really understand understand- HAVE IlAVE HOPE Dont Don let ler the h foreign situation worry you ou Kathleen Kahleen Norris Norr l adviser Sh She pe peers peen through the he black clouds cloud of oJ war which hang over the he world and finds find that ha things lIing are not no as en bad as en they mey seem rem II Wars of conquest conques have been fought fough and nations na conquered many I times in the he past The world has hen always recovered before and there is it no reason to ro believe bline that ha it i wont won do doso doto to so now ing lag the nature of matters abroad We dont don't maintain blockades against neighboring countries nor oppress them nor hold to mandatory powers that cruelly handicap them All the nations of Europe HAVE been doing doing do do- doing ing these things snatching the spoils of war profiting by the sufferings of sister nations for more than 2 20 long years or rather for more than 10 long centuries I To live in continual war with your neighbors is possible to any govern govern- ment To live in continual peace is I also possible The Americas by some fortunate combination of circumstances cir cir- cir cir- prefer the latter course It is nonsense to say that you have to fight if other persons fight for they have some reason for fighting and it is your job in peace times to discover that reason and to find other ways of curing the situation than the wholesale slaughter of innocent innocent innocent in in- boys When a nation meets war with war it is tacitly admitting admitting admitting admit admit- ting that might is right a theory that we should have left behind us 2000 years ago A theory in short that we said we DID leave behind us when a certain Voice spoke on ona ona ona a certain mountain 2000 years ago War Breeds on War Twenty years ago Germany was crushed to the complete satisfaction of all the war makers She was split in two her wealth her colonies colo cob nies ales were shorn away s she e never could rise again or fight again But somehow two and two didn't make four War instead of breeding breeding breeding breed breed- ing peace bred more war The victorious nations supposedly strong in policing and blockading and mandating mandating mandating man man- dating and defense couldn't some- some bow watch that one central European European Euro Euro- European state cl closely sey enough to see what she was doing g or police her sternly enough to stop her from what she actually did That was Germanys Germany's hour of dark dark- ness She emerged still Germany and more nationalistic than ever This hour is dark for France But she has been conquered before despite despite de do- spite all that any enemy can do in her heart she will still stUl be untouched and within another turn of the tide she will be France again England Still England The Danes the Saxons the Romans Romans Romans Ro Ro- Ro- Ro mans the Normans all conquered old England in turn The ans and the Dutch came over to rule with willi the Georges and Willlam William William Wil Wil- liam llam of Orange But England isn't Danish nor Saxon nor Roman nor Norman nor Dutch she's herself England overpowered the Transvaal only 40 years ago but anyone wh who wha visits it visits a strong Boer nation nation nation na na- na- na tion still itself AU All the blackboards of the world and all the chalk and all aU the statisticians statisticians statisticians statis statis- couldn't work out for us today today to to- today day what the world is going to be 20 years from today Dictators fall peoples rebel against despotism the great flood of human reason the human human human hu hu- hu- hu man need of love and home and children children children chil chil- dren and gardens will go on That need exists in hi the hearts of gallant gallant gallant gal gal- lant bewildered German boys fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing like tigers because they are told to fight bewildered French lads who knew neither why they fought nor why they stopped English boys who only ask for home and a job and an occasional movie They're all exactly exactly ex ex- alike and when the war war war-mak mak ers era are sated and the dictators' dictators hands lL 16 6 their power things will begin to slip back into their old places |