South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-19
PREPARE TO PROVE YOUR APEHOOD.

preparedness parade in South Bend--we cannot
help. if was proposed by the Rotary club. is
Endorsed by the mayor, and is be further promoted
by Chamber of Commerce-can be nothing more
less than practical demonstration in proportion
TO its success. of monkeyhood
II Charles Darwin were living today or if the spirits
Of the dead have any intelligence Of the conduct of
living. might right here in America the
missing link" that puzzled him so completely in his
evolutionary philosophy. there 5 anything the
law heredity the disposition toward mimicry,
especially the line OF display, points through
ancestry back to the ape just as truly certain
present cites to fight claim inheritance
from who sodiered the rebellion or the revolu-
ton
The great powers of Europe are engaged in a great
war They have trotted their monster armies.
their mighty guns their cunning submarines. air
craft cussedness. Forthwith we get excited. and
while pretending a great love of peace. take it into
that because better prepared for
than are need more preparedness in order
be style Our women have borrowed their styles
from Paris, from London and all OF our
drugs from Berlin. until with these countries at war
think Of fashion with peacefulness,
and. even if we don't fight least be
prepared to-
And New York puts preparedness parade
and Chicago begins talk about it. South Bend
takes into its head that perhaps we can put one
over on them both. We don't propose to these
great metroposes Guido in demonstrating the fac
atty imitation say that what want is pre-
paredaess for peace but the fact Of the
don't know what want except TO that we
want to be doing something that smells of gore and
from which we can imagine ourselves buckled up to
the fashions Europe. It is the psychological effect
that the European has had faculties OF
imitation and nothing
In science facts talk not theories. Science is fact
Theories are guesswork Philosophy is where science
theory lock horns The European is fact
lndisputabe For years even decades the triple and
allies had been amassng armies and en-
larging their vies-'precautionary to en-
peace The assurances therefore theoretically
evolved. that great army and navy surety
against proven scientifically false. The fac
that they did in the Of the European benig
erents proves that they may not, and destroys any
assurance that they certainly will.
army and navy little great. chips the
shoulder the nation that maintains them To max,
peace secure possible. with honor and dignity.
nation needs to SO act-not merely talk-as 20 mini
nize risks Of Moral herosn military hero
ism becomes the issue choice between brute force
and moral Iav-whether right makes might or nigh
right
The worlds disrespect for United states to
day if there be such disrespect is one OF jealous,
ard envy rather OF contempt Europeans on botl
sides OF the bloody divide may think they despse III
for what they fancy TO be spneessness but dovr
deep in their OF hearts they are complimentni
as FOR refraining from becoming their dupes Thel
are finding fault with us. not for mindng our owl
business bat minding theirs-in the way the
would have us
you are welcome We are the richest of the allies