The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-16
Call From This wild War.
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915, by Frank Crane)

Mankind's upward climb is from lay
TO law
Progress in civilization is simply a COZ
tinuous discovery of laws.
Advance in the arts, in science,
commerce, in politics. is guaged by IN
increase in our knowledge of the law
that govern these things.
Law is the way. Everything has ir
ways, plants and planets, mind AMI
matter, water and wind, God and tn
clod.
Humanity is at school. 1t is slowly find
ing out how to do things. At infinite
costly expense, with vast waste and pain
through failure, backslidingS and strug|
gle, the race is laboriously entering init
skill.
Our efforts are as bunRling as a child'|
piano exercises, as the fumbling of TIL
prentice mechanic. or of the beginne|
in sculpture.
Once mans shattered arm was thrus|
into boiling pitch 10 stop the flow Il
blood and attendants held the writing
sufferer while the surgeon amputated|
now by anesthetics the patient is pu|
TO sleep and is insensibe rs stone durin(
the operation We have found out howl
we have discovered the law.
Undreamed of wonders have come Il
pass. The living voice carries fror|
TO town, the written message hashe|
under the sea from continent to con|
tinent, cities blaze by night, horseIes|
trans hurry along the streets, all I'D
cause we hit upon electricity's ways
All the miracles of modern invented
are the result of learning the hiddej
laws of things.
These laws have always existed. w
didn't know them.
The mind and spirit have their ete1
nal laws, as we'll as matter.
There lie in mankind great laws thai
govern human relations.
There is a way TO distribute wealth
so that the latest and weakest WORKED
shall have his Just share. so that thu
most. Economics is precisely rs accu|
rate as chemistry. Spiritual and social
relations have their formulate. Dimlj
we grope toward them.
The golden age, the millennium, il
merely the time TO come when men shall
KNOW the human equations.
We are still experimenting in govern
ment.
This monstrous war is but the bunder|
ing world learning how to govern itself
The Wall Street Journal states thu
process:
Formerly mans war defenses and
preparedness were in his own household
or castle. Thence they were transferred
to the walls surrounding the community
village or city. Later they were trans
ferred TO the state and when larger unitI
of civilization came in they were trans
ferred to the still larger unit of national
defense.
"If the world is to get any great les
son from this war, and is TO make thereI
from any progress in civilization and thu
savings of civilization, there is only one
forward march, and that is neither in
preparedness nor unpreparedness. II j,
in the transfer of national defenses I'd
still larger units in world defense.
There is no more reason why one ma
ton should be allowed TO go TO war ID
settle difference with another nation
than that one state or city should be al
lowed 10 go TO war with another to settle
a matter Of civic or state pride or honor
"The call from this wild war is for {
larger nationality and a world-protectec
peace, not by international agreemen,
alone. but by international agreement
supported by the united armies and arm.
aments of the world
"Then less than one-tenth the forces
now at war could keep the peace of tho
world.
Tn this way and this way only, car
the nations Of the world save themselves
from the burdens of war and the burden
of preparedness, which is greater thar
the burden Of war.
Reduce the armies and navies of the
world by 90 per cent and this war will
have been worth all its cost"
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