The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-06
WHICH ROAD?

 and peace it continue its march in the direction of enormous arnamens greater than eyer known before and toward tremendous which will again the vitality of the nations, and perhaps break down of civilization
 Thoro psychologists who that the mind has slight power to remember pan that there is inherent op msm of the mind which preserves the memory pleasure and has little ability assemble the recollccons suffering
 Were it otherewise say these students of the mind sui eide would bo the common, instead of the uncommon thing Men would be ovcrboe by the anguish suffered and to be u fered They would refuse to live
 This inability of the mind to remember pain is made ceedngy manifest that the is While the in being there almost universal purpose to do something. to do anything, that would end war forever
 Mothers and fathers had vivid pictures of their hell bound in muddy trenches located with poison and with srapne high explosive shells.
 property the business captains try, merchants of the nation while the actual ing taxes increasing by leaps and bounds They national debt growing to proportions They looked the income tax it threatened to make end vue property With dstrus and dsfavor they witnessed continuing socazaton of railroads and control of factures and the commodities of mines and that ed almost to natonazation.
 And they that ought to end forever bv an agreement among the nations.
 The of the pain is partly forgotten The truth about is misty in the minds of mutude ed passivey actively quarrel great by which is to be ended
 The Committee Foreign Relations has forgotten the anguish of and what talking think ing in terms that have been dead half a century
 The President is obliged go country It is ncces- ary for him deal directly the people, to find the minds that still remember the that still recocct what war means, and that still appreciate the need that war be ended.
 In single paragraph of his speech made to great audience the President makes vivid the thing arise if the Treaty of Peace is not ratified
 This a commercial industrial war II was not political Very we'll thcn we must stand aurf and be the hostile rivals of Che the world then we must uo Soelng es we must be physically ready for anything to come Wem it that every is train ed to arms We must to it that there munitions and guns enough for army. That a mObzed nation"
 IT MEANS MOBIIIZED NATION.
 That is sure enough It anything future thing possibly be
 And what does a mobiIized nation mean?
 It means every with soldier upon his back
 H means inc maintenance vast armies: bows given or to military training; sword canIng in the oicf streets
 It means the removal of thousands highly trained tech nica from the pursuits of peace to inc nvesfpaios that bring improvements in killing.
 It means constant striving and inventors 10 find efficient ways men, ghasIv torn and bleed ing, out of this world into the next.
 The world is full of arms They the most efficient ana the most terrible weapons that existed; but they if war goes
 The mind easily recalls some weapons that were in en, bryo Poison gasses for instance infancy their deVeIoPmen our own country had deadly by ten times than of the that Others have in abeyance gases perhaps deadly own.
 The Tank undeveloped weapon which will become both larger and smaller faster and better equipped Tank service of the next armies will cost whole of an old fashioned army used to cost
 The aeropane has but begun to possibilities for dealing death and the dirgbe less undeveoped than the
 IT IS THE MISSION THESE WEAPONS TO TAKE THE WAR TO THE CIVIL POPULATIONS OF CONBATANT NATIONS.
 From the air. in the war will rain such death as will the fields like picture of war
 The death of the next will be less death of high explosive than of deadly gases will be mixed rain From the clouds death dews heavier fall a mantle of annihilatjon upon the seepng people He1 o plosves will be dropped and ncendary bombs make the confusion worse and the of the dying difficult b the who will survive
 These not fanciful pictures of what must be- if permitted to continue the worlds method settling it's disputes.
 Let and reflect upon this evident truth That when kings the affair and it's Tavages confined who fOuqht
 BUT WHEN DEAIOCRACIES HAVE RULE WAR IS THE FAULT OF EACH AND ALI, AND ITS BAVAGES WILL DES- CEND UPON THOSE WHO ARE AT FAULT