Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-08-06
WE ADMIRE THOSE WHO DE. STROY LIFE AND THOSE WHO
 TRY TO SAVE IT

The word divides it's admiration be
 tween the persons who destroy Tiff, and those who spend their days il efforts to save it, says the Los Angeles
 Examiner.
 l The soldier has been the object O
 all mems regard. In any city in tn, world whose streets are crowded witt
 monuments to heroes, those erected
 to the memory of fighting men pre- dominate.
 1 In any country the soldiers uniform
 is the badge of honor. Century by cen
 tury our race has awarded the prize, of life and place and pomp and power
 to the man whose business is to xii men,
 But the world honors also those who
 live to save men-the philanthropists
 of all the ages. The wealth and learn ing and influence of great city pay
 homage to a citizen whose name is synonymous with practical philanthro
 py and beneficient public service. Prophets, apostles, martyrs, the poet
 laurel crowned, the man of science
 with calm gaze searching the depths ot
 infinite being and the missionary who
 himself repeats creations primal word Let there be light" are enshrined in our hearts as the makers and masters of men.
 It is curious. Why should we honor him who kills and him who makes alive? Can we not distinguish be- tween them? Are our minds built. in deed, in water-tight compartments and our souls, too? Are our instincts all chaotic? And our emotions, are they founded in unreason and do they lead but to folly?
 Human nature is, indeed, compound ed of complexities and contradictions. but for this apparent anomaly a ration al basis may be found. In the ultimate analysis there is one ideal for the fighter and for the philanthropist. for the man whose business it is to kill and for him who lives to make alive.
 The ideal is sacrifice for the con- mon good. In the case of the fighting man the ideal is often wretchedly ob scured; is at times totally lost sight of Nevertheless, the ideal of the war rior remains as an ideak
 The soldiers honor and the warriors ideal are not the highest and noblest conceivable. The ancient systems of India placed the priest above the war rlor. And for good reason. The ideal of the warrior is to die for men. The Ideal of the priest is to live for men. And it is nobler thing to live for men than to die for men.
 So those ancient systems thought and they thought truly. A death of self sacrifice seemed great; a life of self sacrifice was greater. This is why Ruskin, speaking to body of young men in training as officers in the British army, said to them:
 You wancy, perhaps, that there is 3 severe sense of duty mixed with these peacocky motives? And in the pest of you there is. But do you think 1 that it is principle. If you cared tol 10 your duty to your country in al )rosaic and unsentimental way, depend | lpon it, there is now truer duty to be lone in raising harvests than in burn ng them; more in building houses han in smelling them; more in winning money by your own work, wherewith o help men, than in other peoples york, taxing for money wherewith to Hay men-more duty, finally, in hon. st and unselfish living than in honest nd unselfish dying, though that seems o your boys eyes the bravest."
 Let us do honor to the worlds mo- Jest warriors-those who battle with luman stupidity Huxley was as gal ant fighter for life and liberty as yer tossed his hat into the righ and oilowed it with cry of joy. Yet, Ihen he contemplates the age-long of the race his pessimism so pessimistic that. like the Egyptian arkness, 1t can be felt. Here it is:
 T know no study which is so unutter- ply saddening as that of the evolution humanity, as it is set forth in the