The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-25
No Sure Preventive
 of Future Wars

thought It would aDSoluCely prevent war. Even the creation of super state would not be a perfect guaran- tee that there would not be another war"
 For awhile, at any rate, there was general misconception in America of the benefits that could be derived from a league of nations, but now that there has been ample time for clear thinking and we have gotten out of the war atmosphere, it is realized that how ever deplorable another great conflict would be, it isn't humanly possible that a peace league or any other in- strument would end war for all time.
 Human nature is still the same and it is reflected in national policy, just as it always was, because there is no way to eliminate weakness and folly from mankind. The best that MT. Will son and other statesmen who favor a league of nations hope for is to put ain effective check on war, so that it can not be rushed into headlong in a day or a week, and drag world to unwill- ing slaughter. This will be accom- plished by the peace league with covenant designed to provide period of reflection, to delay the opening of hostilities to the last moment. In ninety nine times out of hundred such safeguards will be effective, par ticularly as long as the lessons we | have learned in the last war are not forgotten. Germany launched her drive through Belgium at the heart of France in the cocksure belief that she would never have America as one of her foes and even if England did decide to come in, there would be time enough to finish off France and Rus lsia before settling accounts with her greatest rival.
 If the far-sighted men who have la- bored so faithfully at Paris can achieve peace that lasts for one hun- dred years they will have done we'll. Perhaps we shall never again witness such slaughter as dyed the fields of France red, but it is foolish to as- sume that we shall be assured against any repetition of war in the future. The best we can hope for is to mini mize the danger as close to the van ishing point as human ingenuity and human faith can do it. | # # # An American soldier who is helping to against fraternizing were issued, but he didn't hear anything about "sisterizing." We fear the worst.
 l * * A league of nations in which America would have everything to gain and noth- ing to lose would suit the statesmen who have lined up with the founders of the republic.
 x ;. * | An American officer in Germany writes that a person soon tires of German scenery, from which we infer that he yearns for a glimpse of American bil- boards
 1 No matter what decisions are reached regarding the Strait of Gibraltar, the rock of Gibraltar will continue to hold a commanding position in the insurance world.
 A man accused of murdering his wife in the east says he has always led a ! blameless life. In fact, he talks as if ! he had never heard or love trlangie. 1 Unhappy Kipling is guilty of another piece of inferior verse making in his poem | to Theodore Roosevelt.
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 By offering to resign and run for re- election, those Missouri legislators op- posed to Senator Reed proved that they are in deadly earnest.
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 1 Russian bosheviki are reported to be treating their prisoners of war more kind- ly. No doubt, what they have in view is a little reciprocity
 Birmingham is having so many girl shows these days-or rather nights-that even the tired business man is beginning to discriminate
 ! Let us hope that the aVlators who are planning to fly across the Atlantic won't exhaust themselves by talking about it in advance.
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 Gothamites who go about singing 'Ja, da," have not lost their minds altogether. That's the refrain of d popular jazz song.
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 The peach trees are in bloom, but Jack