Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-08

J tho kingdom Of hell on earth or regard
u as tho nursery OF all the virtues
II IS not that YOU must defend your
SER or perish: many a man would be
700 proud u hight on those terms. You
must defend .rur hcighbor or brtruy
him; that is what gets you. Sou may
swear never again ~ vote for amy per-
son or party who had "a hand in bring
ing about the war or you may look
forward with cNultatiun to century
of triumphant khaki elections; but il
YOU have an atom OF common sense
and sympathy with the man in the field
YOU VIII help your soldiers 10 victory
for all YOU arg worth. even If YOU are
longing for the peace that will restore
them /" their homes and make tho war
, seem an incredible nightmare from,
which Europ" has awakened.
This is why there are no politics or
racifst aeitations a, the front. though
there arc more cara. politicians and
picifi 'ts there than anywhere else ON
earth.
ORGANISATIONS or WAR
NOT no BE DEpiORED
Tie derasiations Of war are not all
10 be dcplorcd, | shall not attempt to
console those mourners for the Lou
vain library who have always voted
against penny rate for a library in
their own parish. ana will not pre-
tend that Yprcs and Arras arc az pleas
ant TO see AS they were when saw
them in peace. But | have been a
member of a sanitary authority con-
cerned with the clearance of slum
areas and the administration of build
ing acts. and the tragedy Of the SomnIc
district began for me in some Of the
lsI IA,
ished not in those which have :, COM
parison Of what The Germans have
done 10 Albert with what | should like
TO do 10 London or Manchester would
max" the Kaiser seem q veritabic
angel Of the Passover beside me
AS TO your medieval Cloth Halls and
the like, what right had we to sponge
on the Middle Ages for the beauty we
would not produce ourselves ! say
: would not adv'sedly: those VINO say
that We could not may be referred to
the art school OF Birming ham Cof all
placesD, where Mr.. Catterson Smith
has taken the common English boy
with no more than common taste for
drawing and elected from him draw
ings tina, have all the medieval quail
tiles As soon We really want an
fpres Of medieval charm we can la We
II. If We do not want IL, nobody but
handful OF members NJ the Art
Workers Guild will suffer the small
est priva,ion by the smashing Of the
Cloth Hall and the cathedral
have loved these things and taken
trouble TO sec them as much any
man. but ! know tina, as good fish are
in the sea as ever came out of II, and
better. When the affected taste for
sci, Inn inn. t,,,,,
petite. as it was from the twelfth CEN
fury TO the fifteenth, those Ash will be
caught, SO blaze away. brave gunners
ON both sides IL YOU only slay enough
rhilistincs and reduce commcrcialis4n
TO ruins, YOU may prove the best
builders OF al. Either the bcs, is
yet TO be or the sooner We all blow
ono another of the earth the better.
They tell Us. too. tina; the Somme
'front.' is blasted and ruined forever
Childe Harold, in the Peninsula, said Of
our army and their foes that they had
served but
TO feed the crow on Tslavera's plain
md I.rtiii2e the :icld that each pre-
tends 10 gain
And now it is said, matters are
worse. VIC sterilizc the field that each
prctcnds 10 gain. Eut is this So The
artillery major who obliginsly blew
half field 20 hits for me. so that !
might SEQ how il was done. assured me
that lie was doubling The value OF the
farmers land by = supcrrlcwinG which
10 farmer could afford
"But." said l. 'hov arc these pits
20 bc :lcd up and smoothcd over for
the tillaSc?'
Il could shove them together with Il