Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-10
MILLENNIUM WON'T COME
WITH PEACE BELLS SOUND
War Apt to Leave Long Trail OF
SHa Economic and Other Ills
So for Years.
LONG WAY BACK TC NORMAL.
Social Changes, Too, May Come When
Lads Back From War. Accustomed
= to Life in Open, Will Declare Gods
Outdoors Their Heritage.
ny NAY pEMnERToN.

international News BureauD
direesly the e jo pS0P bells ~ rne for peace
the miiilennium will be hers hers They sec
themselves doing all the things they
did SO ealously in the year 1913.
Motor cars are to come on, of the
garages, country houses to be reoc-
cppied. the old service OF trains re-
stored prices lowered and all rcstric-
Everything viii then b$ as il was.
servants for the asking, coal in plenty,
straitened household will begin to
breathe freely again, as though IT had
been awakened from nightmare.
Particularly are these the hopes OF
worthy people who live upon their in
comes. For four years they have beer
buoyed up 10y the belief that peace
must bring them Immediate relief from
the hardships they haze suffered stole
But as n palliative. for our purely
that even peace may come upon ruhicd
wing: Not in a day, not perc,hance, i IN
EVENT -, years; YIN the w9TId recover
,HConsider what has happened.
For four Years the normal indnS str les.
at a siandstii Millions of men have
deserted the farms and the fields 70
shoulder rifles and Kill other men,
Only those activities which are neces-
sarS TO war or 10 the actual existence
of bellgeren, peoples have been main-
tained at their strength.
IL
- or EVERYTHING WE NEED
There is vastly .css OF everything
I'm the world that people must have
and upon which they prosper No peace
can temobiliGc the industrial forces so
quickly, no organization can tackle
this problem so thoroughly that one
TO the normal
We shall continue TO 80 short ana
we shall continue TO pay: ao;,,.
> we shall not find servants feaailE
after the war because the young NO
men who are now driving, motor cars
filling the fields. or punching tickets
the washtub. and possibly will decline
70 renew acquaintance with the kitch-
en- ut all.
:. Similarly the hulk of the. young men
who have learned what it Is To look
up: to the stars may come TO regard
the office as Or. Johnson regarded
ship and to discover IL prison IN
which the intellect may be drowned
Many of them already are saying thaI
the land must be their heritage They
small holdings, OF an England which
Shall become a merry England again
termined TO be the masters OF their
own deStinicS.
If labor maintains Its present scale
all commodities must remain high. We
may get cheap houses for the poor
but we shall never get them Tor the
middle classes.
: The education oc children may be u
lighter matter for those, VIII" viii!
avail themselves Of the national
schools; but 1t Will be 10 mean burden
for the man who still hopes something
from the paying fields Of lGton. And
elsewhere it is certain t4at our luNn-
SieS vii, vii, COS, us more.
DISORDER sure TO COME.
How long. for instance. will 1t take
for the Vineyards of Franco to re-
cover? How many years will it he
before the great oilfcids Of tho world
are again iillinG the tanks OF the mil
lions OF motor cars which used TO go
upon the worlds highway? When viii
the hunter go forth to cnsnarc the
sable or the crmine? When shall we
ring a bell and be sure that it will be
answered?
Concerning all these questions the
economists. no doubt, will have some
thing to say L;ut when they tell us
t that !eace VIII enamse all these
slider. Is II SO certain that peace viii
change anything at all save this peril
In which our sons live and move and
nave their being?
I've, upon the side track see nothing
but Il mighty confusion, Il jostNng OF
millions and a little o: economic dis
Ths ali,i't.na Sr tons Of shipping
placed before ..ic ha!cyon days can
come again. The factories OF inc
world must be rebuilt: the vast en-
gfnes OF destruction must become. those
OF construction. II is idle Ia suppose
that grave and reverend soiEneurs
can meet round q table ana Wi;h
hey-p!eSto call bacl. the Yesterday
which never snail be known again.
For long years see a daily round
unchanged --,hc Legacy oil war. Vet
precious because men win know =;
last that COD is a Heaven.