The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-13

sive speed, and | had a very narrow es-
cape from in front of Jitney the other
day, which was hitting II up" Ninth
street TO pass a street car which wished
to signal. The was ahead and aImos,
at the corner when the Jitney suddenly
appeared. the driver waving me back TO
the sidewalk. and | scarcely had time to
signal to the motorman. and nearly
missed nv car. Should the Jitneys have
the right to travel street car routes.
when traffic rules require that stops mus;
be made behind street cars by all Vehi-
cles when passengers desire to alight or
go aboard? While about it. will The
Herald not bring this point UP before
Mr.. Pullman and his associates
INTERESTED READER.
Opposed to War.
Editor OF The WASHINGTON HersId-I
wish to indorse the views of Ethel
Church in defense of War Brides and
to join her in condemning such senti-
ments as those expressed at a meeting
IN one of our leading Methodist Episco-
pal churches on the preceding Sunday.
mis- meeting must have been an inter-
csting admixture of Christianity. patriot
ism and militarism if we may judge from
the accounts of the same in the local
press. One good woman depiored the
apparent Discrimination of other women
10 breed soldiers and predicted that such
a policy If persisted in will rot Ameri-
can civilization" while the good pastor
could imagine nothing more awful
dreadful and unthinkable that could
happen to our nation than that dead,
dead calm should come upon our nation
alism.''
II he had in mind such a dead calm az
is likely to settle like a pail over ex-
hausted Europe as a consummation of
her military policy We can share his
dire forebodings but not his homeopa thic
views as TO the best means of prevent
ing it. But il he means as he evidently
does. that We must choose between mill
tarism and national decay We must
again dissent from the pessimistic pas-
tor. Our nation has never made such
progress in the arts and sciences and
wealth as in her days of peace and il is
hardly conceivable that we will drift like
the Ancient Mariner into a dead, dead
CAIN unless We set bout to killing and
being killed. tThe prOnoun we Is used
here by abundant courtesy, as it Is not
10 be presumed that any single lingo who
spoke on this occasion is planning to
get his or her integument punctured bv
placing II in any immediate proximity to
the muzzle of a machine gun. That high
eise's boy. Any suggestion that We do
IT ourselves would produce a dead. dead
calm" that would almost rot civiliza-
tom.
The doctor apparently recognizes his
duplex attitude when he saws II am a
preacher. but I am martial" He wor
shps both Jesus and Mars He saws II
cannot forget that We won material
freedom in the days of Gettysburg with
that the individual freedom won by
the sword at Gettysburg could have bern
won much more easily and humanely by
some other plan. as ii was in England
and IN benighted Russia: and II would
nave been so won IL had been rid of
some OF our martial preachers and other
poltlclans who would rather spend So COO
$4,000 in getting people killed than sl.ccc-
UooOo in peaceful settlement The cos,
of the civil war in money aIona would
nave bought every slave in America.
with several hundred million dollars 10
spare. to say nothing of the death. suf-
ferlns. desolaton and fraternal hatred
mat could have been avoided. And vet
this simple. peaceable. equitable plan OF
settlement was hardly discussed
IL Is not conceded that even Bunker
MN shouid ne cited as an argument for
war. and certainly not unless il 10 con-
ceded that the troubles with England
could not have been settled in any orbs-
way II may not no improper 10 mem
ton mere that almost the whole Of the
Methodist clergy were loyal to England
IN that day. and opposed the national
freedom won by the rebeIliorIs coIonis,s
al Bunker Hill and elsewhere Possibly
they were at least partly right II NAV
be questioned whether our boosted Hh-
critics thus achieved are not moro
psychological than rcaI Canada re-
manned with England and seems fairly
We'll satisfied. The difference in poIiti,.,I
potential between British oppression
ana American liberty is NOT causing
such an thrush over the Niagara bridge,
as to seriously tax their capacity. and ~
they afforded a short cut from Colorado
TO canada the rush probably would be in
the opposite direction
he doctor says You can trace hon
orable battles down through the historv
OF christianity" Doubted AT any rate
we will have to stop at Gethsemnna
where Peter was rebuked for drawing
mis- sword. and where he also denied b,s
Lord three times all in one night.
HISTORIAN