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Show - . A PICTURE FROM LIFE'S BETTER SIDE We have seen a picture of a little laughing, golden-haired child playing on top of one of the big six-barreled mortars left on the field by the Germans. "There's nothing on earth half so holy as the innocent heart of a child." There it stands, not old enough to realize what the awful gun was meant for, and entirely unmindful of the horrors of wars, with a heart full of peace and joy, representing one of those of whom Jesus said, "Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." If that gun remains where it is grass and flowers will grow up about it and singing, nesting birds will fill the hideous mouths of those six barrels. Curious men and women will come to look upon it and, in time, when the world becomes civilized and Christianized, Christian-ized, wonder that man ever was insane enough to use such a monster against his neighbor. The dew of morn will besprinkle be-sprinkle it and the sun rises and sunsets will kiss it every day while humanity hopes and prays that it and all its kind may speedily be melted in the furnace fires' and cast into implements of peace and, husbandry. Physically and mechanically mechanic-ally men have brought the world into a new Valhalla, but spiritually and socially poor, homely human nature is still in , its infancy. . |