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Show High Cost of Living I II , Trafced to Wars of ; - l the Past i fl San Francisco, July 14. Miss Kath N t ! erlne D. Blake of New York city, new- L! s -JM ly elected treasurer of the National j H Education association, arraigned -war H as directly responsible for the' high, jH cost of living, in an address delivered' jH today at a departmental meeting ot H the association. She advocated the H teaching of the dignity and heroism . ' of peace, proposed an organization of jH "school boy friends and school ghl XH friends'" to replace the "boy scout" , ; movement and suggested "making ' v'l peace picturesque." .This, she plan- i vH ned, could tie done' " "by " decorating I members of the new organization with the national trl-color, brilliant with vH gold. jH "We are far enough along on the H road to civilization to realize that H robbery and murder are not respecU H able, even when wholesale, and to ,H dare to dare to teach this to our chll- I H , dren," said Miss Blake. H "They must learn the bitter results ' j of military dominance, so that our H country may not slip so fast, towards 1 this condition as it has in the past ten years. ....' , ( fl "How many people know that ' in lH this period our expenditures for mil- ' t j itary purposes have increased 360 per' 1 cent Congress can cheerfully vote ll two twenty-million dollar battleships H a year and scornfully refuse- $75,000 H to the commissione'r of education for H vitally needed research work. We can ' H spend thousands on a sham battle at . H Newport, yet have no funds to teach j jH the children of our mountain regions. We stand' seventh In percentage of II- f literacy, and it is the native horn pH Americans, to a great extent, who - ! drag us down in the scale of educa- tlH tion. Already militarism Is so power- I ful that 70 per cent of all money an- '" nually spent by the national govern- s M ment is for war, past, or to come. M "The Massachusetts commission of i v inquiry has shown the cost of the ne- -'( cessities of life rises with each war JH and falls with each peace period. To- 1 IH day we are suffering from the effects rt JH of the Spanish-American war, com- 4 11 M blned with the Boer war and the Rus- librB so-Japanese war." ''lH Miss- Blake praised President Taft's 1 H arbitration plans which rshe said - j H would ""g6 far .toward bjri,nging abouT IH world peace." x H |