The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-13
PLACES pen
FAR ABOVE
THE SWORD
Jam e 8 SchermerhOrn
Addresses Y. M. c. A.
In Atlantic City
WAR HYSTERIA
is DENOUNCED
Says Alarm Is Sounded
When There's Least
Reason

publisher OF The Detroit Times. De
livered an address before the Y. NJ
G. A. last evening on "The pen Is
mightier than the sword A con
siderable portion of his address was
Z devoted 70 replying to the prepared
ness hysteria. re said in part:
Ingersoii at the tomb OF Napoleon
denouncing the prisoner of ST. Helena
{ A. that imperial personation OF fore
ssss 70 VIII the s Tsra aes spn Military
genius.
Lincoln was sincere when he said
70 the soldiers on the blood red Held
Of Gettysburg: The. world VIII little
y heed or long remember what We say
y here. but il will never forget what
n you did here" Go into any school :
4 room. however. and satisfy yourself
y fhat the reverse Of Lincolnis prophecy
K has been realised.
y Nixhtier than the cossacks for
HussIa's greatness and glory gas the
4 6onuuciation OF war which IoIstoy.
) the sage OF Yasnaya-Poly wrote
IS m hio S&vastopoI sketches. Ptcturtnx
+ tho scenes I'm the hospital when the
) ntYotchcrs came IN from the bastions.
h ~ Gays: Nov. IL your nerves are
/. ptfonG pass through the door on the
! ~ bandages and performing opera
1tohs- There you will see doctors
4 WITH their arms bioodstained above
~ elbow and with pale. stern faces.
6u01od about cot. upon which. with
20 asiirium incoherent sometimes
1qSsdsd man under the influence OF
4 o61o9ofofm- The doctors are busy
4 WITH the repuisive but benencent
a vQo9k Of amputation- You see the
tx>A - nh
VE1fo body, you see the wounded mel
e 0o00OW1y regain consciousness with
& DI0rcing cry and curses, you see the
6o0tstant surgeon Ringing amputated
4 Wounded man lying In a litter In the
81 UnGeo Apar tment. shrink corvuisively
80 ssoan A. he gases upon the opsr,,
n from the physical pain as from the
4 GDGen1 torture OF anticipation--you he
& !. H4A krighfful sonl-stirrina scenes.
&Gne1oDa1 6ri1lianf side. with music
& ~ drum beat. with huttering Tags
# ~ pe1ncing generals. but you be-
sa Ess z a. "a death ssst h.s'set-'n blood
1nA one Of the latest memorials
" 106fcotsd ~ France TO immutable
RI l{nr04ufe, does not celebrate the
0Wotd. a. all. hut transmits In mona
UQmtal eloQuence the lessons against
X w which Victor Hugos pen has
Ven the world in hts wonderful
q ckepter on Waterloo In Les Miser-
ss pen q AlDhenss K S.ss, hs :,
AMtary. glory for the common sol
49er IN these terribly true sentences:
"A shot He fails wounded The
ss@r,sH.s ; hn!;h him up BY ,rs,%RIins
& = , hurry, and n then left 10 enjoy
- Immortality an the others march
& ~. Hts comrades. his kith and kin
t..1
- rave up his happiness, his suffer
Nc and hfs life never knew him
And after so many years somebody
2n6s his bleached bones and from
uoln1 or English backing. To polish
10 shoes Of his general with"
fns day OF our country's life bs'
\ Heat Wilson to the Blue and tn.
0Sey ~ Gettysburg. do not pu
y Qnjforms by, Put the harness OF tn
1resent on. Lift up your eyes TO IN
"a n the interest OF righteous peace
M - that prosperity. which lies in
VI DoOpJes hearts and outlasts all er
\ lalss and soldiers yet TO serve on
Jks Slare Of trumpets /. neithe
n Nssrd nor heeded and where IN
IA he nations of the world in peace an
III rlghteousness and love"
Ths pen OF the peace-loving presi
VI /omt who wrote these words In IN
SiShtisr than the sword OF impo;
# 49, preparedness which he no'
81 feels called upon to unsheathe afte
4eGoustrating so signaIly the SUPER
y j;isfnstionsl Intercourse.
~ Everybody IL for preparedness jui
- everybody In for eternal life. Bu
1hese are as many. different ideas {
9 rsnssSdnsss:, as there so, are 80 doetrin.
E HE. JUST now the engulhng Roc
~ - Roosevelt elocution about pre-
pofQooese gives on an idea that Re-
n TAKE al the administration trench,
~ next fall. more than anything else.
There are other signs and porteni
thot prepArednees means provisio
Tor continuing markets for arms
n u1ent and munitions after Euror
este on the demand by coming 20 hs
oeDsos This involves. as one item
y the RsT,s'Sp q sse th ss's
0ka11 sound something like this:
BRING. forth the royal dividend
And crown II king OF all!
uscn ON the part OF its most voci
Ht oAvooateo: II doesn't imply that the
0yo prepArtng TO go into the bullet
sssSIi ke1 s'i pssid H ss%se's aaieted
too fervsnt brother In the revive
Weoting. He thrust a contribute
61oee IN front Of him. Thrust en- er
y)otment blank In front OF many {
~ 1heoe yociferous preparers or te
b thom that all the preparing we
ohall be done In government plant
4 90 serve notice on them that war,
- oomea. shalt be financed entirely
4 = ouDor-tax on Incomes and a war ia
~ running ~ high az so per cent G
a 0GODortlsa Of 100000 and over, ar
<Wo agitation will be reduced to II
a LITE but namboyant fubdub of u
noyles. I'm afraid many OF our mil
a oertDelc shQuters are like . comic Of
~ Snterpvts& Of martial kind
when there was any lighting,
<f He led his troops from behind;
He found q loss exciting,
The futiiity OF anything Ike re-
04pooredaess VIII give its quistv
D&6n the ahootjug and the turnult ~
- poop1c Get % thinking about
~ ~ ready Tor the most dIreful thin
n. 1kot might happen. through possibi
* Uo1n tinnfions Of foreign foes "
<40n1d have tn put syory citizen 9
0oIlnH aGc an war Footing: ~
1921 have "a pTussianixe the Unitc
1H(6A tArouRh our educators an
mI6 x~& Ana ehaf f0Uk "a x<Qfa II