New Britain herald., 1918-01-14

frontiersmen to lay aside their six shooters was community force in which all united called the community police. This force represented the orderly people and stood between them and the disorderly. Because this force is now universally recognized and established, if your house or mine should be broken into, we would not come downtown the next morning and buy a, revolver, for we still have con- fdence in the city police force to pro- tect us in spite of the occasional law breaker. In the same way, nations must unite to police the world. There must be a force, backed by a community of nations, in which all
 men can trust and against which no
 selfish criminal Or insane nation ever dare strike.
 Force, then, to be effective must not be an individual affair, but community affair-a power delegated
 to small group by all, which Will
 cast fear from the hearts of the or derly and at the same time strike ter
 TOT to the disorderly.
 Resides a strong emphasis upon the physical and the development ot fear, there are other negative quail 1 ties which are created by force. No OIle Will Oeny tndL among the Wo1 of these stand hate and malice, re- sentiment and retaliation. We are familiar with the German songs of hate and with her philosophy and of- : fcia orders which call upon all her people to hate her enemies. Breeding of Hatred. But let us not think this is con- fined alone to Germany. Maurice Mae terIinck in his volue The Sheaf' says , in the preface Never before have I written words of bitterness and hate but the following pages are full of them. Future generations viii say we should not have thus written, but that
 will be because they have not seen what we have seen or felt what we have felt
 And we have French songs of hate Ill fact we had American songs and
 orations of hate in the days of the Civil war. 'Tis indeed a. hard thing to suppress hate and retaliation when deeds of atrocity and insult are hcaped upon you without measure. It can be done, but it takes strong man. hood. Bitterness is a plant which
 
 ; war. It grows thick and rank from
 the emulsion of human blood and produces a sckIy flower with the pal]or of death, and the Stench of the rot oe human flesh
 Many splendid virtues also devel- op, but these come through deeds of generosity, love and mercy, not l through ruthless force. These are i founded on deep purpose and convic-
 tion not on selfishness. greed and ar rogance born of conceit. The fruits of the spirit says the apostle. are l love, joy, peace, goodness, long suffer- ing, faith but the fruits of the flesh are hatred wrath. strife, adultery l drunkenness, murder
 We have then the dilemma of em- i ploying that agency for the destruc-
 ton of war which has created war 1 and kept it alive through the centur- 1 ies, but we are safe if we keep clear l ly in mind the distin ction between 1 means and motive. We employ war ] but war is not our aim and motive It is the present necessary method by 1 which struggle to defeat war and | all that goes to make war of any 1 kind possible. War may come again. ' It takes long time to clean weed 1 infested field of cookie burrs. War ] will follow this war-industrial-so- l cial-ra acial-religious. They may not l be fought with battleship and cannon, 1 but they harbOr the same deadly sins 1 of fear, hate and malice. Let us then with all earnestness l give heed to the teachings and ex- ample of Jesus on these great ques- i tiOns of human relations We are called, not to be lovers of peace only, 1 but to he peacemakers. Let every i man do not his bit but his best "A time like this demands strong men, Great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
 Men whom the lust of office does not i Men whom the spells of office can- not buy,
 Men who possess an opinion and a will,
 Men who have honor, men who will
 not lie,
 Men who can stand before a dema-
 gOgue,
 ! And condemn his treacherous hatter- ies without winking;
 Tall men, suncrowned, who live above the fog
 i In public duty and in private think
 ing"
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