Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-22
LABOR PAINS OF TIME"

LID gains for the arts of peace have
tways been made in the midst of war
&Go It the crisis of Hollands long strug-
W throw off the yoke of Spain that the
1Vorsity of Leyden was founded. The
1k wars Of the fifties and sixties of the
\ 6entury did not hinder Bessemer from
v6>1tionizing the manufacture of steel
5theven wrote his "Eroica' to the tune
)apoleons cannon. which for time he
MD were blasting freedom through the
- Of Europe. Later he denounced the
But in the meantime the tyrant
oducing the Code Napoleon, putting
re tangled legal system on a sound
for the first time in fifteen hundred
Ether was first used to kill pain
y Ne were In the thick of our war with
0kerwoven with. world politics and world
>war being an intense form of politics
8 ~ praise war; it is to praise the police.
n1ther gigantic riot broke out in 1914.
= have had to mobilize about 100000
Hcomen In England. France. Italy and
norica- Edison could not have worked in
~ we called peace times If armed men
49, not walked our streets. There will he
Eouccessors of Edison if armed men do
3 walk the streets of the trenches.
= q not a fiippant nor an avaricious
<Dor that prompts a satisfaction in the
81 Dnins Of wartime. Invention rushes
there have been enough discoveries
scientists decade of work: for
81 learned in one science affects every
science; a wireless device put into
0ny may reappear as new appliance
4tistry dozen years from now Art,
~ of courage and pain, climbs a new
4lA Invertebrates to us from the trench
We at home, not privileged to die
4uuly, are not to profit from these
II Of wartime any more than the sol
tor the full harvest will not be
44pd until We are in our dotage or dead.
are making a new world out of these
1Fies. but we will not profit at the sol.
~ expense. No one will really gain but
~ who are young children now.
y Everybody cared as much for children
|ter himself this war would go through
Ally to its end as on the wings of a
<lt peace or war to find new ways to
Wounds, feed Armenian urchins, bring
- 70 toll? 1t is neither peace nor
n = II life. which is cbove peace and
Children have been born every day
~ last three years and 14S days, a
nsnon that was neither Of peace nor
-. Peace and war are inextricably
How many army corps were killed
4pptrial accidents and rotting slums
aise a finger! Stupidity and greed
a war on us and captured Verdun
verdun. We did not wake up till a
Aktiia, scourge of God. hammered on
xeFy gates.
- We to look forward to generations
Tors7 Says the Secretary of War in
to universal military training:
~ formation of a permanent military
~ will inevitably be affected by the ar
nent consequent upon the termina-
~ the present war. Civilized men
hope that the future has in sto-o a
However vain that hope
Dear 1t persists-perhaps
We are encouraged by the anaio-
1ntitution of courts for force in the
~ OF private Controversies: per-
oAuss all the perfections of nature
nat they are the product Of proc
>1cb have eliminated waste and sub.
constructive for destructive prin.
>c(iys principles! Have VIC not
1nty-nve years OF Industrial war
>ehs? We can win this war quite
opd stiil be sowing the seeds of
~ and Industrial wars to come
sating the enmities OF the past.
nensnt peace we talk OF so much
Hads here and now, from day to
pe, and even now with enemy
~ friends Of tomorrow whom we
hrrder because we mean to be
evsr their frienGs in the days