Show WHO VHO WILL VILL WE VE GO TOWAR TOV TO TOWAR V WAR AR WITH NEXT We Ve have been reading with a q good deal of disturbance of mind min d about the warlike gestures b between between be be- t e-t tween nations which are being made in many parts of the world We V e c deplore war var as every responsible responsible re re- responsible human being must yet we feel impelled to admit t that humanity has not yet reached reach reach- ed such a stage that it can ca'n ru run n its affairs without going to war Something is wrong with our so-called so civilization when nations nations nations na na- must still resort to bloodshed bloodshed blood blood- bloodshed shed to settle 8 economic differ differ- For all our reading of history history history his his- l tory le leads ds us to believe that wars except on religious grounds have always had an economic basis Some nation thinks it is bein being g cornered by other nations or i inot is s not getting its fair share o ot t trade or it wants to trade where e the other nation things its rights are paramount or to pos pos- dess ess some territory belonging t to 0 another nation So the l politicians politicians if ti stir up the people and make mak e them believe relieve their homes and families are in danger and the th e national honor has been smirched smirched ched until everybody is read ready y to go to war and kill the people ye e of the other nation I We Ve shouldn't be s so much concerned concerned concerned con con- if the skirts of our ow own ri nation were entirely clear i in inthis inthis n this matter of war We Ve figured figure nd d out the other day that no person person person per per- son ever reached the age of 40 4 0 in the United States without goIng going going go- go go go- ing through at least one war and nobody ever lived to be sixty without going through two wars That brings it right home to us or so it would seem It was only 36 years after the Revolution that we were again at war with Great Britain 34 years after i that we were marching on Mex Mex-l ico Fifteen years later North North and South were in battle array against each other It was 37 years after that before we went to war Spain but only sixteen years since our country has been at war We Te would hesItate hesi hesI- hesitate tate to predict that anyone now sixteen will live to be forty without without without with with- out seeing us in another ware war We Ve commend these thoughts to anybody who thinks it does not make difference how we deal with foreigners International International goodwill is surely as important important im im- im- im as domestic |