The Washington times., 1917-04-07

they reconcile 1t with their consci-
ence at the front to heap death on
destruction in the amazing manner 1
have tried to describe in the two pre-
vious articles. and whether 1 write as
human being or a fiend when 1
shamelessly avow that I enjoyed my
week at the front much more than I
enjoyed my last week at the seaside.
To take the latter and lesser point
first, war does not blot out the glory
of the sun or the spacious beauty of
the broad fields of France in their
dazzling robe OF snow; and hungry
and social man does not enjoy a meal
and good company at quarters or
headquarters any the less because the
table Is mess-table, even when the
windows are shaken by occasional
shells going or coming.
Talking about the war among SOL
diers is not depressing and sometimes
revolving, like talking about 1t among
civilians. To the civilian the war is
often not war at all: 1t is a squab-
BILE, to be conducted by writing
anonymous postcards and throwing a
dead cat back and forward over the
garden wall. To him. when a British
soldier kills a German soldier. 1t Is a
heroic deed: when a German soldier
kills a British one. IL is a dastardly
assassination.
War Induces Thought.
No soldier on service goes on like
that. All the thoughtful soldiers
n
thoughtfuD clearly understand that
there is a morality of war quite dis
tinct from the morality of peace, just
as the morality OF an interview with
a tiger in the jungle is distinct from
the morality OF an Interview with a
missionary; but they do not ridicu-
lousla condemn the actions of their
enemy in terms of the peace morality
whilst they Justify their own In
terms of the war morality.
Pacifism does not trouble the high
er command in the lead The Quak-
ers cannot teach an army commander,
much less commander-in-chief.
anything about the horrors of war.
He can shake hands whole-heartedly
with President Wilson both on that
point and on the abstract desirability |
of avoiding a victory. A victory for
anybody is a victory for war: and !
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did not ask Sir Douglas Halg or
Sir Henry RawIinson whether they
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Aoohouse OF Win ire
Fisher. not because 1t would nave
been indiscreet-for they put me ex-
tremely at my ease by their frank
ness and hospitality-but because 1T
did not matter. For good or evil,
when once the cause Is staked on the
SWORD. Crom"eh Nans s. IN anu
-naoI,,tai,, 1So, the Terrible Alex-
ander. or Napoleon. The more they
desire the end of the war, the harder
they must fight TO reach IL.
When clever literary amateurs
like Won Bernharoi or the la'e zen
eral Butter pontiIlcate aoout war pc
ing oiologlcal hecessity, II Is wen
that Dr. Chaimers Mitchei; as pro
Iessional BIOLOGIST shouIu Demon
5trate that II they Understood plolosy
hey would know oetter' put when
ne enemy oarrase rams On you OF
his bayonet makes Tor your stomach
he olology ooes not matter anu tne
necessity does al you heeu consiu-
n then Is that the pest parry Is /
hrust' ana the pest way OUT OF ,
oarrage the way toward the gun.
)ne does not trouble ABOUT the Danger
II damp sheets when the mouse Is on (
Ire; and' granted as hiuch as you ,
Ike that ooth we ana the Hermahs ,
'ught 10 nave 49, S a
o go to war, now that we nave done
I we must put our oacks INTO IT, not
pairing our souls at nome any more
han the soldiers spare lnelr DodleS