Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-03
AN IMAGINARY WAR.


 in many countries today individuals, by the million sacrificing everything for the general welfare They give life without hesitation question They give their comfort their property their habits of life, their class distinctions and prejudiceshngs which ordinarily are yielded more reluctantly than life itself.
 Women as we'll as men surrendering all that or dinary they jeaously personal possessions or rights Having given husbands fathers brothers and for the fighting, they doing the mems work in addition to their own Everything which people labor strive is cast into the melting pot of war
 If people could only be brought make, in time of peace the heroic and unsefsh sacrifices that they make time of how the face of the world would change, and what different destiny mankind might hope for!
 Suppose that in the United States, every man. woman child of should devote to national upbuildng by peaceful methods for period of three years the same loyalty generosity that should pect to yield in the present plight of France or England Germany. Imagine its war-then work instead of fight
 The lives of 1OOOOOOO ablebodied would be of fered as matter of course But instead of fighting in the they would be engaged in constructive eff fort entaing no peril The daily activity of 1O0OOOOO more who in case of would be making munitions or 
 ceeneous military supplies would be aboring for pur- poses wealthproducng and permanently worth while: Other millions doing the clerical work required by organization. Millions of would be do ing their bit The children would help with their hands and their loyal sympathy Artists thinkers writ CTS, scientists, all would work for the common veal
 nation of 1OOOOoOOo people would become hive of industry selfish individual purposes but for un selfish national purposes We should be doing. all at once things that long talked about but expected to done,
 Cities would be rebuilt, planned and arranged we know they ought be. Noble public buildings would everywhere Our rivers would be spanned by strong and beautiful bridges and damned for the water power need and dredged for the shipping they ought to bear the ships would be supplied New railroads would be constructed Arid lands would be watered and swamps would be drained Canals would be dug cutting the tinent with arteries of transportation Forests would be planted watersheds Parks would be laid out Highways like those the old Romans made would cover the land Streets would be paved. Sewers would be excavated. The soil would be improved.
 Unheathful tenements would be razed and adequate be thousands of schoolhOuses and millions of new dwellings There would be better machinery installed everywhere, and better methods introduced We should provide ourselves with such national equipment for work and recreation only few mlennia dreamers have imagined
 We might do all this in the time that France Eng land Germany is devoting its It would cost more money energy than the costs them and. millions slain Consider what they will have afterwards show for their arms and consider what should have to show for of peaceful progress
 But we'll do it. No nation will. It's too sen sble