The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-11-03
A PEACE PICNIC.
(By Elbert Hubbard.)

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| Just suppose that three months ago
there had gone abroad over the world
an urgent request for big business
all factories and stores, everywhere
to grant its helpers one day off with
full pay for a peace picnic.
| What would have. been the reply of
Coloney Moneybags?
I'll tell you-it would have been
this: "One whole day off for q picnic,
and full pay? We can't afford i'll" j
The war has been going on In, Eu-
! rope for ten weeks or more, with at
least twelve million men taken from
the ranks Of useful labor
The cost, not counting loss of labor,
Is thirty million dollars day..
| And / hope we dot have to prove
that every soldier has to be supported
by laborer.
Going into battle isn't exactly going
to picnic.
Picnics carry decided benefit. es-
peciaily where man takes his wife
and children, or his sweetheart.
But even the sophistic apologists
are at thei,. Wits end to explain the
good Of this war.
And no one yet has come forward
and claimed the credit of beginning 1t.
Conceive that this is 1914. of the
Christian Kalends.
Pinch your ear, whistle out loud.
Are you dreaming?
No. It is 1914. 1t Is the age Of Edi-
son, Kelvin. Steinmetz, Lister, Roent-
gen, Charles w. Elliot, David Starr.
Jordan, Robert Collier, Ibsen, TOletoy,
Rodin, George Westinghouse, the
Wright brothers, Madame Curie, s..
| Weir Mitchell, William James, Nathan
Straus, Alexander Graham Bell, Mae
terlinck. Thomas Hardy!
| The human race seemed sure of it,
self. -.
I Its mind was opening, like gigan-
tic, Ineligible eye. ~
The phantoms and goblins were In
panic in their sinister heavens.
With microscope and alembic, with
pen and press, man-heir. to the Pro-
methean spark-was invading the
realm of death. disease and fear
He had put wings on the stage
coach; he was whispering messages
across continents. 81;
He had segregated the germ: and
brave men had gone to both the North
and South Poles, Man Twas :cfvilizing
/ DOCTORS. preachers, lawyers; ofvilizfng
his rulers those In heaven and those
on earth. "a 5s ~ Z : X z s o. 9 z
/ His telescope foraged among the
ruined consultations OF the Infinite.
His microscope brought his eye to
pasture on the nceiyable. & q y e
| No matter how much pain he had
suffered, he found 1t glory to have
lived In the last century and tine OPEN
Ing years OF the present. & 81 3 So
He reigned over life like an eagle,
His achfeyements pnt the touch of
godhead on his brow. g.ts IS $. 81
Conceive that this Is 1914. And
that art, science. invention had glori-
fied man-IiIted MIN to the Matierhorn
OF highest hope. , s..s.s ,i's.s5ts ..iesl.E b
Then, conceive the inconceiyable.
Think the unthinkable. Realize the un.
belieyable. I, r rs. h
One may paint the horrors ;of tnis
struggle OF the ages la Tofstoy or
lola. Sickening task! - 4 s. s.
! One may look at IT from tho brain
OF a Hugo and write magnificent
;strophes In prose and verge. !; chose
beauty would quench the rainbow. - q;
But there 10 no romance j0r herOism
IN this war today to inspire3a Victor
Hugo. 4, y ~. s. ,iSfr
q The safest. heaIthiest manner 4 Of
travelling with the Great Blond Beast
from day toa day Is In the manner of
the; philosopher. It4swiii stifle those
bitter burning tea,.s that are In our
hearts and purge otirS souls Of those
sobs that choke us. s., Z.
And lyeep pour eye on the great Srel
action, when the human race Will take
POSSESSION OF the old planet by right
OF eminent domain
And at the close sof the war let the
entirs world OF workers and Atoilera
nave q picn!e-witli full pay I? AND, let
me pane play and the oratpry loS,,
s.ng llii 1883. scs cSss, be legal tender
Cen we afford 3 IT.? why. i surai !! ,wa
/ certainly can And 81 ey6ilI Or 1i, MAJ,
Moneybags will Join usj 81 $