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Show PEACE SYSTEMS . All thoughtful people are asking what can be done after the present war is over to keep new wars from breaking out. Will the human race ever awake to the folly and the stupidity of settling its disputes in any such savage manner? Will they ever learn that all countries lose by a war? In the minds of many, the only solution for such a problem is some kind of world organization to suppress sup-press wars, in somewhat the same way that police forces put down crime. The League of Nations was formed for that purpose. Many people say it would have produced results if the United States had joined it, and they want some improved League which the United States will join, and which will have better success. Systems for preserving peace will not probably get very far unless men get over the desire to fight. According Ac-cording to the prevailing American view, the main problem is to persuade the German people that it does not pay to start wars. The German nation has fought a number of wars in the past by which it enlarged its territory. It lost the World war, but it still believes v its armies were never beaten. It conceived the idea this time that by better preparation and new ideas in war, it could avoid any such defeat, and make gains by war. The nations now fighting Germany are not faultless. fault-less. They might perhaps have averted the present war, if they had given Germany a fair chance to live and prosper. The prevailing view in this country would say that the main cause of these wars has been the conviction of the German people that a nation can advance its prosperity by fighting a war from time to time. Until that idea is driven out of the heads of all warlike peoples, wars are likely to occur, in spite of all peace systems that may be devised. |