The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-05
The Price

TT WAS a wonderful machine that we were building.
cabled and the lands. Expert
ments had become international relay races. We
almost understood one another.
We dared to dream of an early day when boundary
lines would fade from mems brains and the long
Of Babel be broken Then Mars fell from the skies and
crashed upon the earth.
Now Thor the Terrible is loose again-his mighty
hammer sedging the proudest human works to heaps
of junk.
Twenty millions of the worlds stalwarts the
picked trained efficient, vigorous best OF Europe are
at this moment busily occupied in Destroying with the
greatest possible expedition and thoroughness many
of themselves and as much of their mutual resources
misguided courage powerful artillery
The combined armies of all the devastators from
Pull to Timur would not total, masse host greater
than the,myriads now engaged across the seas.
History must henceforth Rewritten iii new terms
of comparison We tumble through our verbal tool
kits for super-superlaves with which to express the
immensely of the tragedy search for spikes to nail
the Gargantuan truth only to find that Experience the
Word Maker can furnish but carpet tacks
But the price we pay is marked in minds, not1nen.
We can breed nimble fingers and lusty backs
enough but it will take entire generations to- furnish
ptchblende to replace the precious lost radiu which
the twentieth century had extracted from the
of Europe.
Out of billion loins came the handful of surpass-
ing geniuses who made our civilization so mighty.
Now their disciples, the heirs to their research
the thinkers who we're being trained to the
great works. are devotng themselves and being
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Progress will wear the CHASTITY wound forages.
We will never know how much we have lost
learn how many dreams which could have reached
realization, didnot,reach the notebooks.
There's young surgeon 6 some where in France
with half-hatched idea to save the eyes of babies
oozing through his reft temple. 4js sslla
ALI that remains of wonderful plan to mitigate
the Sahara is batch of burned bones in a Belgian
tulip field s#e iS5 53s fss
Acarron crow picking the burg edlsafe which
held the treasures of famous chemists imag
How can such conflicts profit humanityq
When the books are closed and the national ac-
countants strike their baanc even the conquerors
will be forced to record staggering deficits.
Human energy is the most precious form of power
and the prime source of all wealtfs. indemnity
grant Of territory offset cost wanton
dissipation
For incalculable years, impossible taxes will slit
the pockets of labor and trade Governme will take
their bite of earners slice bread sir
half his cup and glass The very children in whose
cause the polemists faaciousy claim they are bat
Ting will only because of this war; be withheld from
endowments createdb peace, deprived of educational
opportunities denied the exercise of will and wit re-
sentenced to treadmls of child labor from which
progress had begun to free them robbed Of the guild
ance Of parents and ardized by millions
AT half the cost in men and wealth and thought
every nation Europe could have created for itself
anew empire in the wilds.