Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-01
Americas Place IN World,
Changed By W0r, Outlined
By Mississippi Senator

ly having either proposed or &C
Secondly, that if any civilized ma
ton. shall make war upon another
without either having proposed or
accepted arbitration that nation
shall be regarded as being beyond
the pale of civilization" with re-
gard to traffic and travel and raw
materials cut off, and shall become
the common enemy of mankind until
it RECEIVERS its sanitary.
Shall we take that position in the
peace conference? Shall we on the
otherhand block it by cutting off
discussion with a non-possumus? Is
taking the position, and keeping the
position and making it effective.
worth while?
Scars Of War
Something like six millions of hui
man beings have lost their lives
during this war; some of them for
the right, some for the wrong; near
ly all Of them thinking they were
right whether they were or not. A
good many more have been blinded,
crippled, nervously shocked beyond
the hope of recovery. The number
of women-either wives, sWeetheartS
or Sisters-Who had to suffer be-
cause of them no statistics can give
US. LlUI al les, uIllNSl o1l1SS-cl1l llIS
accumulation that comes down from
one generation to another, which
spells civilization-in Serbia, in
Syria, in Armenia, in northern
France, in Belgiun-have gne by the
board-all work Of progress. educa-
ton and enlightenment even in the
balance of the work has been halt
ed. All the peoples of the world
nearly are to be weighed down for
generations to come by debt I'M
til national and international bank
ruptcy are threatened.
Is it worth while to prevent the
recurrence of all this? Are we
idiotically to stand aside, hands fold
ed and heads empty m, saying. ~" we e
question answer itself? Shall lit
tie senator, or a petty member of
congress, or little member of the
house of commons. or a little mem
Der of the French legislative assem-
bly,, here and there, speaking the
or hypocrisy. or simply partisan hate,
prevent it all by saying that it is
'impracticable" or impossible"
when he has never studied the ques-
ton far enough to know whether it
is or is not impracticable or impos-
sible? Is there anything impossible
to man provided he has behind him
the will to freedom and casts out
Of his heart the will to power? 1
think not. I think moreover that
ment-encircled, or partly encom-
passed, which today is attempt
ing to weaken the influence of the
president of the United States while
he is in Europe, trying the best he
can to make out of this aspiration
"devoutly to be wished a "consum-
nation will live to regret his acts
and his utterances, and when his
memory brings up to him a few years
from now his present course. he will
pray to God to be delivered from
this body or DEATH" or what is
death. The prophets and the seers
and the poets of the world have not
been fools. The so-called practical
men, who are fools as a rule have
their own souls were not broad
enough to comprehend.
Time for Sacrifice
Tennyson refers to the fact that
frequently knowledge comes and
wisdom fingers" knowledge comes
to the so-called practical man in
his opinion. and sometimes in reali-
ty; wisdom not only fingers with
him, but it never comes at all. 1t
is only to seers (and seers are mere
Iy seeers with one e ellded) and
poets and prophets and idealists that
VISION comes. L Irfnly D6lleN0 Iual
wisdom has finally come in it's inter
national guise to those Of us who
insist that this treaty of peace shall
not be confined to questions of boun-
daries, indemnities, compensatfons
and penalties, as important as all
these are and as important as it is
that they should be taken care of;
but shall go further and include as
far as human wisdom and human
ingenuity and human love can in
clude them, provisions to keep the
peace which we have conquered
and to prevent the recurrence OF
struggles such as that through
which we have just passed-strug-
giles not only savage and barbarous-
1y insane, but, worse yet, scientific
If the science" of the world, which
is a word in its original meaning
signifying merely knowledge" is
to have as its chief aim among men
the destruction of one another, then
indeed it is true that knowledge
comes but wisdom fingers"
There are people who think that
armistice means peace. There are
people who think that peace. no mat
ter how determined, is sufficient
They are both mistaken. There are
three or four million men in Germany
yet that can be remobilized in forty
eight hours-not as well armed and