New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-23

In a spiritual as we'll as literal sense OF the
word, women have sown the fields during the
war, and when the nations gather again around
the work of inner development, many OF the
problems which were worrying humanity be-
fore the world-war will have ripened to harvest
in the fields thus sown. On the other hand,
much Of the work done by women during the
war will very likely be Of no importance In
their own development, for they have been
working under the influence OF wrong thought
So. fer instance, we hear from all countries
how wonderfully we'll the nursing OF the
wounded is organized how science has tri-
urnphed by giving life and limb to those whom
the war has crippled, and how bravey and will
ingly women have helped in this work.
How few those women are who understand
that 1t is systematzed madness TO make dis
coveries In order to produce the most efficient
means of mutilatng and tearing into pieces
healthy men, and then to make new discoveries
and enormous sacrifices Of economic and per-
sonal power in order to win back the manned
ones 10 life, where they will anyhow be OF small
value! | wonder if even the German wife who
gets her husband back with both legs lost, both
stands the madness of it2 Only one woman
a Finn-has expressed the thought that women
should strike against the war by refusing their
help to the wounded.
This idea did not come from hard heart but
a broken one, and it springs from clear brain.
Those people surely have not such brains who
talk with emotional sympathy and admiration
..t,ab al O.,
victories OF science among the human rem
nants, without understanding at the same time
the madness Of war. No, they confess cheer
fully their belief that there must always be war
and that war is great and beneficial!
Yes there women in the neutral coun-
tries as we'll as in begerent who try to light
the war fire where it is not yet burning and TO
make it blaze still higher where it is already
high in the heavens 1t is not women OF such
mental attitude who are going to hunanize
mankind. The women believing in war belong
to the mass. Unfortunately, the leading men
often belong there, too. II is their mental
slowness and their lack Of inagination-their
wrong thinking-which, much more than bad
intentions prevent progress in all departments.
This wrong thinking has nowhere been sc
sluggish, so unimaginative as on the questions
of war and OF women. This is more or less
natural. because the question Of war is con-
nected with ones native land and the question
of women with the home, the two things which
are dearest to most people, and innumerable
sentiments bind the infinitely dear objects with
tenacious prejudices into an ndssoluble unity
Only when the feelings will embrace strongly
the new idea that the native country will be
protected and developed more effectively by an
organization Of the people for peace than by
every individual country preparing for war
may the world expect to look forward to new
system of political activity This is to be
brought about by the fact that the world has
become nternational-i G., that all nations that
are taking and giving materially and spiritually
are dependent on one another.
MANKIND BEFORE NATION.
The policy of national egotism is useless in
the struggle OF existence among nations, and
this fact alone must--independent OF all
humane reasons--brng about its fall. Nothing
is more certain than the truth that the time
will come when we will have to place mankind
before the nation. Only thus can we make the
progress which is now so necessary tor man