South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-29
PEACE
WILL BE LASTING
Bourke Cochran Delivers Lee
ture to Students of No
ire Dame.

Hon. Bourke Cochran Of New
York city delivered a lecture in
Washington hall yesterday morning
on Peace" The speaker was in
troduced by Father Cavanaugh, life
long friend Of the orator. In his
Introductory remarks. Father Cav
anaugh thanked Mr.. Cochran for his
many visits to the university eX-
pressing his qualification that the
distinguished visitor was once the
recipient of the Laetare medal.
World Prospects Menaced.
Mr.. Cochran said in part:
Il am to speak to you this morn
ing on the subject that is upper
most in the minds of all men,-the
war that is being waged in Europe
and which threatens the destruction
Of the whole human family,-be-
cause L am sure you realize that the
effects of this war cannot be con-
fined to the countries that are wag-
ing 1.-THE effects will be world
vide. You have but to realize the
tendency of population in the last
seriously the prosperity of the world
is menaced. Most of us read in the
papers every day of the numbers Of
dead and wounded as if this would
arouse our sympathies for them, and
satisfaction that we are not engaged
IN this great struggle.
During the past hundred years
the population of the world has been
tending toward the cities. The in
vention of labor saving devices in
agricultural pursuits has made un-
necessary the great number of
hands that were formerly needed
and consequently a great tide of .hu-
mainly came to the cities The re-
suit was that the cities grew to an
enormous extent, and the wealth and
II osperity of a country were meas
ured by the size of its cities This
country above all others has been
most prosperous in the growth of
it's cities Let us look down on
great city. The smoke for its fac
tories is rising to heaven. the in
cense that industry offers to the
Creator.
Sees 10000, 900 Men Lost.
I'm this war; according to reliable
statistics given the other day in the
house of lords, the number of men
killed amounts to 10000 while
the number Of wounded totals To-
600. 600. a loss of 10000. 900 men to
the productive force of the world.
This is only the beginning. If the
war continues for another two years
the number of killed and incapaci-
tated will reach 60,000,000. From
the worlds producing power, co.
100000 men will have been taken at |
the end of two more years if the |
war lasts that long and according |
to experts who know most about |
such matters. that will be it's proba-
bic duration. If this country should
go to war "a war such as is now be-
ing waged in Eu. ope and of its dura-
ton, we should have at it's close a
population in New York city of
probably 1000, geo instead OF $780,
600 now dwelling on the banks Of
the Hudson. And in that great me-
troDolis of the west, Chicago, not l.
600, 600 would be left of its $780,
600. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Cleve-
land. San Francisco and all the other
cities would suffer in like manner.
But this is only the immediate con-
sequence of war. Who will take the
places of these dead and injured
men in our industrial ranks?
Mr. Cochran said that after the
war competition among labor Will |
be keen. Men who heretofore had
been earning $500 a day will be
underbid by some one thrown out of ]