Evening star., 1915-11-24
THE CALL FROM THIS
WILD WAR,
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright, 1915)

Mankind's upward climb is from law
to law
| Progress in civilization Is simply a
| continuous discovery of laws
| ADVANCE in the arts, in science. in
commerce, in politics. is gauged by the
increase in our knowledge of the laws
that govern these things
| Law is the way. Everything has its
ways. plants and planets, mind and
matter, water and wind, God and the
clod.
Humanity is at school. It is slowly
finding out how to do things. At in
finite. costly expense, with vast waste
and pain. through failure, backsltdinps
and struggle, the race is laboriously
entering into skill.
| Our efforts are as bungline as a
cnllds piano exercises, as the FUN
bling of the prentice mechanic, or of
the beginner in sculpture
! Once a mans shattered arm was
thrust into boiling pitch to stop the
now of blood and attendants held the
writhins sufferer while the surgeon
amputated; now by anesthetics the pa
tient is. put to sleep and is insensible
as stone during the opera ton. We
have found out how; we have discovo
cred the law
| undreamed-of wonders have come tn
pass. The living voice carries from
town to town. the written message
nashes under the sea from continent to
continent, cities blaze by night, horse
less trans hurry along the streets, all
because we hit upon eIectricity's WAYS,
All the miracles of modern invention
are the result OF learning the hidden
| laws of things.
! These laws have alwayS eyistad u.
didn't know them.
The mind and spirit have their eter-
nal laws, as well as matter
| There lie in mankind great laws that +
govern human relations. j.
| There is a way to distribute wealth
SO that the latest and weakest worker
! shall have his just share, SO that the
strong and lucky shall not gobble up
accurate as chemistry. Spiritual and
| social reactions have their formula.
Dimly we grope toward them.
| The golden age, the millennium, is
merely the time to come when men
shall know the human equations.
We are still experimenting in gov
| ernment.
This monstrous war is but the blum
dering world learning how to govern
itself.
The Wall Street Journal states the
| process:
Formerly mans war defenses and
prepa. eunesS were in his own mousse
| hold or castle. Thence they were trans
| ferred to the walls surrounding the
community, village or city. Later they
were transferred to the state, and when
| larger units of civilization came in
they were transferred to the still larger
unit of national defense.
| IF the world is to get any great
| lesson from this war, and is to make
therefrom any progress in civilization
ami the savings of civilization, there is
only one forward march. and that is
neither in preparedness nor unprepar-
defenses to still larger units in world
defense.
There is no more reason why one
lnation should be allowed to go to war
Ito settle difference with another ma
| tion than that one state or city should
| be allowed to go to war with another
I to settle a matter of civic or state pride
| or honor.
The call from this wild war is for a
larger nationality and a world-protect-
| ed peace, not by international agree
ment alone, but by international agree
ment supported by the united armies
and armaments Of the world.
Then less than one-tenth the forces
now at war could keep the peace Of
the world.
In this way, and this way only, can
the nations of the world save them
selves from the burdens of war and the
| burden of preparedness. which Is
greater than the burden of war.
Reduce the armies and navies of the
world by 80 per cent and this war will
have been worth all its cost"