Evening star., 1913-11-26
EVIL RESULTS0F WAR
CITED BY KIRKPATRICK
Attacks MiIitarism in Every
Form, Including Boy Scout
Movement.
Predicts Upheava1 of Working
Glasses and Control of Indus
trial Enterprises.

War was the theme Of Prof George
r. kirkpatrick on the lecture platform
at the Ingram Memorial Church last
night. In dramatic terms the lecturer
traced war from its origin to the pres
ent day. described the awful waste result
ing from wars and attacked miltarism
! in every form. including the Boy Scout
movement. which he characterized as
militarism in the incipient stage.
The prevailing opinion of parents, he
declared, is that the Boy Scout movement
provides healthful sports for the boy.
but. continued the speaker, everything
that the Boy Scout gets as exercise
through the scout movements should be
provided by society in the public
schools"
Wage-Earners Uprising.
Ee traced the hardship of the wage
earners in the factories, and pictured
scenes of small, weak children asking
great big capitalists for just a little ad-
dition to the wage, and then getting the
reply that the labor was not worth any
more than they were getting. But, he
declared, the day is coming when the
wage-earners will rise, refuse to fight for
the capitalists. and will buy the factories
and mines of the wealthy. When that
time comes. he went on, it will be time
for the wage-earner to say to the capt.
talist: I'VE will pay YOU all that it is
worth, and you taught us that a thing
is worth just what YOU can get for it. =
Explaining in dollars the vast waste
of war, he gave illustrations of what it
cost. The average salary of a school
teacher in this country, he said, is $500
a year. but the civil war in this country
cost enough to pay $500 a year to 25.OCo
school teachers from the time of Jesus
Christ until now, and then with enough
left over to provide 800 normal schools,
costing 100000 each.
Draws a Parallel.
He drew a parallel when he referred to
the laws prohibiting the carrying of con-
cealed weapons and to the accepted state
ments that to prevent wars nations must
be prepared. He said the laws on con-
cealed weapons were made because of the
opinion that if one carried such things
around he would be ready to pick a fight
while with a nation it was just the op-
posite
Russia. he said. spends twelve times
more for military preparations than 1t
does for education. In other words, he
said 1T spends twelve times more to
shoot brains out of you than to shoot
brains in YOU
A modern battleship. he declared costs
approximately S16,5OO 600, while it has
been estimated that all the books in all
of the 4G4 college and university libra
ries of the country which had been in
course of collection for 30 years were
worth only S16, ,5C0, ,000-the amount spent
for one batteship.
Cites Fearful Slaughter.
The awful slaughter wrought by the
gatling gun was pictured by the lee
turer, and, he continued, when you
think of this there is an awful suspi-
cion of why some people do not want
to go to war" He declared that the
Russo-Japanese war was stopped because
Russia could get no more money, and
If the bankers can make peace during
the war, why couldn't they do it be-
fore?'
Speaking of the efforts to Christian
ize warfare he said that lead bull
let made a jagged hole when 1t went
through you and that was not consider
ed Christian hole but with steel
bullet, that goes. zip. right through
you, that's alright That is Christian
hole. They are trying to humaniZe war
so that 1t will be humane, and now they
are trying to Christianize war SO that
Jesus Christ will stand for it,
Summarizing, he said: THE masters
want wars. politicians declare wars and
the working class fight wars