The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-24
F. Fl. DILLON R. co.

$2,000, 900 per annum, a thrilling and in- significant sum when added to our wearisome annual burden of $500, 600, 900 for war expenses. But every lit tie bit added to what we already have makes a little bit more.''
 And see the possibilities of seduction to the soldier life it offers when '.up- on their return to the communities from which they came, they will pass on to others part of the instruction they have received" Great scheme, isn't it? Catch 'em when they re ter and false glory appeal to their ar dent spirits; then finculcate militarism, so that they are blinded to honor, de- cency, justice, truth and humanity; and would unquestioningly shoot or hack b pieces their own fathers or brothers if ordered to do so. For 'they and their parents could feel that they were performing patriotic duty that might some day prove of value to the country See the point?
 Are these officers so stupid and un- seeing that the idea never seems to penetrate their adamantine skulls that the race is aweary of war and blood know that there is not as much reason for the continued existence of an ap- peal to armed force between nations, as there is for two neighbors to go out into a field and proceed to elim- mate one another from this terrestrial map? For "fn multitude of counsel there is safety"-or should be if the multitude were not inf1amed by lot of pettifogging politicians and trou- ble breeders who take excellent care to stow their precious carcasses safe 1y out of danger, when the poot de- luded idiots proceed to spill one an- others brains and blood over the ad- tacent scenery. Intelligent men and women believe in compulsory arbitra- tion; in the complete and total elim- ination of the anachorism known as WAR.
 Now I have an amendment to pro- pose to MT. Foote.
 Let the government invite, not alone the poor scholars, but ALL scholars; $15 PIER WEEK, and put them to work building railroads, merchant ships, freight canals, power plants, tel egraph and telephone plants; reclaim ing denuded forest lands, drains, swamps, digging irrigation ditches, cries, and whatever other service lies to hand.
 The enterprises thus promoted to be run in perpetuity in the interests of the government; and the profits applied, first to discharge all bonded indebted ness, ana second 10 return tO the peO- pie in decreased service charges.
 And extend the invitation to partici- pate in this work not alone to stu dents, but to every man who wishes to enroll in this huge, self-supporting, profit-yielding army Of industry. This is true CONSE1RV VATION-cons work on behalf of THE COMMON GOOD, and a man need feel no cha grin or compunction in after years for having served his country Loyalty in this capacity.
 Stick pin here, Mr. Foote, and some time when you feel that it may be possible for a new thought to simmer through the osseus structure of your bump of receptivity, read "The Great Illusion" or Herve's My Country, Right or Wrong" or Kirkpatrick s "War-What For?''
 You'll learn more about ''the game million years of vour ringNaround-theo m rosy idiocy Of manual, target prac- tice, tactics, and drills.
 Then you'll KNOW SOMETHING.
 DR. EDWIN F. BOWERS.