New Britain herald., 1919-06-19
CRUSH MIL|TARISM
 TO SECURE PEACE
Lodge Tells Harvard Men Past
 Must Guide Future

Cambridge Mass, June 19.--I4es- sons for America in Germany's mili- tary aggression following years of effort toward world peace, and in Russia's BolsheVist rule, were empha sized in an address here today by U. $. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, chairman of the senate foreign rela- tions committee, at the commence ment exercises of Harvard university. Destruction of Germany's war power, Senator Lodge declared, now is the best guarantee of world peace. Misery wrought by Bolshevism in Russia, he asserted, proves that re- forms must come slowly, by evolution, and that present conditions may be endangered '"by Vainly striving for a glittering impossibility." MT. Lodge made no direct reference to the peace treaty or the League of Nations, but in discussing peace eff forts and Germany's course, he said: "At the close of the last century there was quite a general belief that serious wars would not come again Some doubted, and for their skepti- cism were called 'jingoes,' war lovers and hpessimists'
 But almost everyone felt sure that | if war should again break upon us it's l horrors would be reduced to the low | est point and that by the conventions | of Geneva and The Hague, the suffer- ! ings and cruelties of past wars would be largely eliminated.
 German War Atrocities. | Suddenly the great war came. 1 Germany, esteemed by all as a highly l civilized nation, entered deliberately upon course of savage cruelty worse l than any ever imagined, because it was carefully organized. The world had known barbarsm before, but l never had anything fallen upon men 1 comparable to the scientific, wholesale l atrocities carried on by Germany by which not merely individuals but en- tire communities were subjected to the l most hideous sufferings and the most 1 utter ruin which highly trained minds entirely destitute of humanity could devise.
 JAS for treaties and laws, they went in the fierce flame of war as quickly as the dry leaves of autumn when a spark falls among them.
 'The beautiful scheme of ma king mankind suddenly virtuous by a statute or written convention was once more exhibited in all it's weak ness
 "It is a melancholy reflection that l the best assurance of the future peace f of the world lies in the destruction of the German war power, which is worth all it cost.
 5 "Once again comes that harsh les. son that all the advances of man ir = morals and in altruism, in charity anC gentler manners and purer laws al = that really remain with us, come slowly, never in moment" Past a Guide to Future. I 1 Lodge declared, must be a guide tt 1 future action.
 = "I fervently hope" he said to thu t Harvard graduates, that you vii s have visions and dream dreams, bu = do not forget that having visions i e one thing, while being a visionary. es pecially a visionary whose visions ant Il 7 ideals are stage properties, is quit Il another.
 l. What troubles me most about tn a ' bonds and articles and speeches b.
 our most advanced thinkers settini
 
 all the evils is that they are generall so very old, a fact apparently disre
 garded by their authors, who yer properly despise past which onl.
 rises up to be troublesome"
 Russian Bolshevism, MT. Lodge said
 in conclusion, presents a warming t.
 America in it's awful results of
 scheme which it's authors pretende
 and their dupes believed would mak
 all men happy in moment"
 Tn letters of fire,' said MT. Lodge
 "this Russian scene says to us: "Thi
 way lies ruin
 Docs the United States tell II
 trump -tongued that the country fo
 which this younger generation ha
 died is still the best hope for man ' kind and that il must be preserve,
 as their fathers preserved and save,
 it in the days that are gone? B
 Americans first, Americans last an,
 Am mericans always From that firn
 foundation you can march on. Aban
 don it and chaos will come, as whel I the civilization of Rome crashed dow, : in irremediable ruin.