The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-03
is HUMAN FOLLY INCURABLE !?

is HUMAN FOLLY INCURABLE
Most eloquent of the war CORES
pondents was Philip Gibbs, an En-
glishman, who had rare power to make
readers see and feel the soul of the
war. He has just written something
that shows he understands peace as
well as war. Greeting the signing of
the peace treaty, he says:
81 think of the men on the Somme,
around Arras, on the way to Pas
chendaele, south of st. Quentin and
in other fields where / saw them ly-
ing, SO many of them. think also
of those young Belgians l saw upon
the User and in Dixmude and Pervyse
and other Flemish towns, and of the
through all the war amazingly heroic,
French whose sacrifices were vast,
and of the Americans, who came
fresh and splendid into the last phase
and offered their youth to the devour-
ing monster of war.
mind, and to most of us who saw that
war stripped of all illusions, in it's
naked and terrible reality, this peace
vii be hooking thing, Turing us on
to another epoch of damnable strife,
unless the ideas for which the first
men fought, for which all of them
fought, whether conscious or not of
their mission, are instilled into the
hearts of peoples and into the philos-
ophy of their leadership.
"a mar to end war.
"A war to kill militarism.
"a war for the liberties of the
worlds democracy.
eff those watchwords are not full
filled, then those million men of ours
who died, and all others, will be cheat
ed in their graves, and that army of
ghosts above the stricken fields will
demand vengence upon dishonored
and disgraceful humanity.
ssThe cult of hatred must give way
to something higher than that, or
Europe will be soaked again in blood.
"Out of the agony there must come
= new wisdom, or the folly of men is
incurable, and there is no hope for the
world"
And wherein is that new hope to be
found if not in the league which, i'm
perfect as it is, aims to substitute
reason for force, and sets up the ma
chinery for international cooperation
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A FINE ROAD PROGRAM
The suggestions made by Commits
sioner Hall and Engineer Olson, of
the state highway board, that Latah
county highway districts cooperate
with Moscow district and that Engi-
neer Monahan, in charge of the work
here act as consulting engineer for
HE other districts is splendid one.
It means uniformity Of work through
tut the county and splendid system
# highway. Engineer Monahan is a
nan of experience and his work here
hows that he is an expert in his line
lie was employed by the commission
rs of Moscow district at the sugges-
ion of Chief Engineer Olson who
.nows his ability and has confidence
a him. He knows that if the roads
+ Latahcounty are built under the
supervision of Engineer Monahan
hey will be built right.
Moscow is the largest town in La
al county, the county seat and the
lace of greatest Importance. But
[oscow people reolize that they are
ependent upon the remainder of the
,unty and Moscow wants to coope- :.
tie with every section Of the county. y
was through the efforts of Moscow s
en- that the state highway will run u
Troy, Deary, Helmer and Bovill as 81
ell as to Potlatch and Viola. Mos Il!
W wants to work with every sec n
IN of the county, and with state 81
'gineer of the ability of Col. Olson, Sff
ho won honor and fame in building Us
ghways in France during the war; 1r
ida district engineer of the ability III
Engineer Monahan in charge of n
e work here, both of them working 20
harmony and with complete I'M 81
of the work to be done, vs.
are assured the best system of 15
always in the state and at reason 1e
lie cost. u
Many persons, especially farmers, 81