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Show oo WHERE MEN PROCEED TO MURDER. When one stops to contemplate the horrors of the conflict in Europe, he wonders how men of intelligence, at the head of those great nations, could have sanctioned the final act which Involved the people in the most dreadful dread-ful struggle of the ages. Collier's, in its laBt issue, dwells on this thoughL and says: "The Italian earthquake was an appalling ap-palling disaster, but Germany has had such an earthquake practically every ev-ery three week6 since the beginning of last August, and worse, for only her picked and Bkllled men are slain. What can nature do to men aa bad as the things they inflict on each other0 The waste of property is not so important, for what we have had we can make again, but which Europe Eu-rope s leadership has devoted her strength. The masses of men now busied in slaughter have no personal interest In It. When this war is over they will go back to work, and their lives will be narrow and hard, or not, according to what they can do in their several place. But even now the power that could achieve for all of them a broader and better life is being poured out in murder, like heart's blood Into sand. These armies could construct a Panama canal ev ery month, they could rebuild all the slums on earth. Irrigate the Sahara, clear the jungles of Africa and South America, and set mankind to living In a world worth while. Why Is there not sense enough to do this'" Why do we waste the ages in these canceling policies of hate and death md fear? It is the inmost creed "t the United Ktatea that construe :ice, helpful work is better than lies ind war. that "a city of brothers In Drotherliness abiding" 1r a dream that :an be made to come true for all men. Europe's time for seeing this Is po6t toned only; It Is not lost" oo |