Show Is War Too T Too o Costly Costly I Iny By ny RUTH TAYLOR War is the most expensive form torm of education I read that sentence a week or so ago and frankly Ive I've puzzled over It ever since I Is war really a great educator Do we need war to reassess values value True we learn In war War teaches us cooperation War arouses Ingenuity War stimulates thought War breaks down mental barriers I grant you all aU of that i Of Ot course we learn from war war but but war is the most expensive form torm of edu edu- cation Are we so weak minded that we need a crisis to make us work constructively con- con j L or live Intelligently I Common suffering welds people to together together together to- to gether in time of war Cannot common alms aspirations ambitions weld people people people peo peo- together In time of peace If we weI I worked one tenth as hard and as selflessly selflessly self self- I lessly for peace as we work for war we bull make peace permanent and asi as assure as- as i sure LUre to all aU the peoples of all the earth eartha I a healthy adventurous life It is not impractical idealism to look I ahead The really practical souls are those who plan for peace who create f something toward which to work who admit Imperfections who striving always al always always al- al I ways toward perfection try tY to correct I mistakes mistake net nut by tearing down what has been built but by salvaging the good and building upon it There is from the speech by Philip Marshall Brown that I think pretty well expresses the situation Peace is indivisible It does not emanate emanate eman- eman ate fite from governments but from people This has been called a Peoples War There must likewise be a Peoples People's Peace j t Tranquility of ot order re results from the sum total of human relationship If men and slid women cannot agree to live lIvo justly and peaceably In their own homes i and ana in their Communities if employer I and employees employee wage an Increasing and undeclared war if racial hatreds are fostered fostered fos tos- fos- fos if religious denominations are antagonistic all that can only conduce to general unrest disunity and Peace can be made by governments It can only be kept by people people and and people Dle means you and me every one of ofIs ofUS US Is s no matter what we are or at what task we work War is too expensive education edu edu- cation It is up to us to prove that Peace can also teach 1 I |