The Springdale news., 1918-05-24

shoulder our lOdu anu IldTCH Wieii ClC workers, or shirk the responsibility and be relegated to the rear with the other slackers.
 And what world of shame and dis grace can be compressed into that word "slacker." With what contempt we have always regarded the balky horse, rearing and plunging and fretting himself into fever just to escape the task of drawing load, the burden of which would have been far less tiresome than his silly, ob- stinate objections.
 Thus with some people who call them selves good Americans The load they are asked to assume would not prove at all oppressive if taken up cheerfully and carried patiently and bravely
 It isn't only the German spy, the Ger man sympathizer or even the pro-German American who is doing most to clog the wheels of the great war machine The heaviest drag to that machine is the man who whines for George to do the work that even his own craven conscience tells him he, himself, should do. He is not on- ly not help, but is a dead weight because he is leaving undone that which his gov ernment had every reason to expect he would do.
 Reader, if you are expecting George to do it, take another think. George" is busy-desperately busy, and has neither the time nor the inclination to take up the burden you have so shamefully cast down and abandoned.
 The entrance of the Red Cross and Y. M C. A. with their alleviating ministries is in sharp contrast with the employment of agencies 10 kill and destroJ that are fie11lsh in their ingenuity aud ruthless Tn execution The irony of the employment of these agencies, is in the fact they Were first used by the power that toasts ri dl- vine help and divine authority.
 For some reason lying in he domain of human presumption, men lave a1trlb- uted to supernatural power the passion of war, probably because human sense IS so outraged by the war passion that 1t cen excuse it in no other way It is the he3ght of presumption to say that supernatural power called God shapes the destiny of nations by war; that the weakness of a nation is crime to be eXpiated by eXtinc- tion by the sword of the conqueror, the fate of several nations in the war now raging and may be the fate of others fol- lowing victorious conclusion of the war. It is strange honor we pay to beneficent God by Worshipping Him as God of war, as if war is one of His attributes and He sanctions the war passion as divine. That idea or doctrine is in accord with Homers Illiad but not with the spirit of the ser mon on the mount
 The fact is, the war now raging, like all wars, is conflict between physical forcaS evil forcaC that OffonSivaly loOSad are of the fang and claw of the cave man inherent in our nature which the long sweeps of human history have been un- able to eliminate The writer is not a pacifist believing that salvation is based on the doctrine of non-resistance. Nor do believe in the turn the other cheek doctrine as popularly interpreted be- leve in red blood not dove blood With Andrew Jackson believe, Peace, above all things is to be desired but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms, and with General Grant, T do not advocate war ex- cept as a means of peace" 1 believe in turning the other cheek if thereby you can conquer the aggressor, but if not believe in landing on his cheek good and hard.
 Scientists have not yet found way to overcome physical force with moral pow er yet the pacifist would haze Us believe in the miracle of moral force operating successfully in the domain of the ph yscal and meet ihe cannon's red argument with hands down. What is true of the pocifist in practice, is true of the eccIes astic in theory, though his theory does not pre- vent him from striking good strong blows