El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-03

M personal It seems very remote as yet. Despite
'" the flag display the clacking tongues, and the
sweled chests every side Of there really little
deep down understanding of the situation, disposition to
rue the of the ordinary days self satisfaction
As Kpng pictuIequely put it, Little of little minds
rise I'D to buy and sell again" That the fit description
of days beginning. And routine enthras Us all Lit
tie things engross of time Waste continues
as aIways-waste wanton and unguarded UNDECIDED and
sometimes deberate-waSe of time Of energy of material
OF capital OF human bodies and souls Wnen we waste
little faster or more reckeSsy than usual some OF US call
II pleasure. So the seems very remote We have not
begun awake Sorrow still eudes always just around the
The gulf hidden by the rank growth of weeds its
verge Sacrifice something expect Of others, something to
offer in behalf of Others something TO write letters about
and poems about something TO shout about from the plat
something mention casually the crab cocktail
pledge mpesonaly between bites of custard pie Few
mighty few among Americans today have the least
ton of what fathers through in the eos, of
Europe Canada, and Australasia sustaining
nor is even the memory of those who actually participated
in or former vivid enough TO enable them to picture
clearly the possibilities of this which
gazing Like the others we can only learn and must learn
through actual experience by and for ourselves Each
and trying test will be strange to hard to accept
terrifying maybe word of history had ever been
written if there newspapers, no telegraphs-
It all impeTsonaI But how shall We be
facing realities? We Americans in the large, help
less and bhndy trustfu as children senator OF the
United States during the brief discussion of the EARNED
ship" bill just before the congress adjourned said his
speech, in effect, "God and the British navy will pull US
through as they have done heretofore expect
resources to rise and tight expect navy to do great
sixth the size OF the New York city police force in
ton TO population begudged many clements OF necessary
supply PatnotlSm OF Americans IS expressed N the
words OF prominent E Pasoan "Send the soldiers in TO
fight, damn 'em, that's what pay EN- for"
The people of the United States must try to realize the
that methods have all changed with this War
Is longer contest Of limited armed bodies acting under
set Of and combining their object to overcoming like
forces Of the enemy. War IN this age contest Of
whole peoples; men, women and children engage In It.
involved in it. and escape its direct effects Whole
nations and and continents modified nowadays for
War today intensely personal thing with each
INIT Of the population It is longer possible TO remain
detached and the time retain responsibility. The
law of the pack supsedes completely the law Of the wolf
The Stacker is goci for nothing except throw the
enemy pack in the effort retard its rush II matters not
any more, from what motive individual holds back
whether personal cowardce greed conscientious Ob
tion"the law Of the pack says with totally now,
take the punishment Of the nameless spiritess cur
There every hold present the oOnvc-
ton that Americans in for long and terrible stug
gle Our joining at this stage works two ways in Europe
1t heartens The entente allies keep the fight, and it
drives the central powers degree Of desperation that
exceeds anything the world to this hour Goethe
said of the Prussians: They born cruel and cza
ton has made them ferocious 1t weird paradox of
human nature that have "rsen' In the scale Of
civilization" they become expert torture and
killing and, II the mass less sensitive to individual SUI
feg The present war; TO involve deeply, has be-
awful cosmic force itself the nations mob
Tor the purpose of annihatng other nations
considerable OF ultimate effects than Mans
greatest single achievement in attempting ride
the Titanic; its ordered full soeed through fog
do You recall how puny the ship looked in the imaginative