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Show THE NEW V E.Alt Will the New Year bring Peace? Peace In Europe will be the greatest great-est gift the new year can bring to the world . The armies of the Allies and the Teutons have been locked In battle so long that the world has become almost callous. Every day we have read in the news dispatches, accounts of horrible fighting. Today forty thousand men were wiped out. Yesterday whole battalions were decimated. deci-mated. The day before thousands of men were caught in a trap and killed. Reports state that Germany's Ger-many's list of killed totals over 2,-000,000. 2,-000,000. Beautiful cities and priceless price-less works of art have been razed. Helpless women and children have been driven by the enemy from their homes and starved or thrown on the mercy of the charitable. No longer are we affected by the horror of these dispatches, Our minds have refused re-fused to grasp the tremendousness of It and we read the war news with hardly more of a thrill than we get from a sensational murder. Recent dispatches from Europe have emphasized the pca..e note. German Ger-man socialists, apparently, are demanding de-manding that something be done to end the slaughter. Austria likewise is ready for peace in all probability has been for some time. It is not unlikely that France and England, despite their assertions to the contrary, con-trary, would be amenable if proper terms could be obtained. The neutral neu-tral world is crying for peace. Will the New Year bring it? Nineteen sixteen will hold imuch for the United States m the way of prosperity and progress. We hare reached a period of construction which will begin this year. Many serious problems are before the people peo-ple for solution, and the tendency is to ignore radicalism and to concentrate con-centrate our efforts on a safe and sane policy. But of all the gifts which the New Year may have in store for us, the greatest would be peace in Europe. (T (T |
