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Show WAR IS DEADLY I ENEMY OF CHILD f TPKIO, Oct. I. Child life, is not north conserving from disease if onio more it la to be conscripted In the great game (Jf war," declared Arthur Black, secretary of the Shaftsburg so clety of London, England, in an ad-drees ad-drees today at Kobuahi heforc tb- blegates to the world's Sund.ij sclund congress. He said militarism, ignorance ignor-ance and moral evil decimated invant life beyond th powei of tb- human mind to imagine. "Militarism with Its costly armaments, arma-ments, recurrent wan and moral reactions. re-actions. ' he said, is one of the dead' best enemies of the child, w hen has the world eer pnv.'ntci ppie terrible ter-rible example than in cast-in Kurope and the Near Kast toda 7 It Li no . i operation to say that million have perished in this, the Kreatest Blaugh-tej- of the innocents in hlstor : It la latr, that ther are 11.000,000 Children Chil-dren In th famine areas whos fata this winter lies In the balance." The speaker said that In Great Url-tain Url-tain alone there Is '.'widespread orphanhood or-phanhood and the burden of a bI-Kantic bI-Kantic debt equal to $750 for ever man. woman and child In the nation.'' The interest on the debt, he aald, la equal to a weekly family charge of $'.To "and the col of what Is culled armed Insurance ajtainst the nexl war Will in rease that figure to full J". L- " eeK M CI.,, -u , ,,, 11,,,, ,1 "And the workers nnd their chll- dren pay in bad housing. In over- -rowding. in disease and disablement, i In poverty and penury. International politics concern very little life A had .peace means loss and enfcebleqpcnt of Infant lles In every land affected. H means the continuance of the atheism of force and fear thai relies upon massed men and armament - aA genuine world peace would s I i all Us children dancing with delight. The triumph of the league of nation would be the most gtoHOU culimn t-t t-t ton of t lie life-saving campaign II-re is i Vast field for the mosi ehUghU i d I and enthusiastic efforts of the te.i h tr. I The home and the school are the real decisive battle grounds of material nnd j I spiritual forces In the world's life." |