The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-23
We Won't Go to the Dogs

know 1t Is going to be dlfferent
world when the session is over.
It may take a long time for the
settlement Of the questions under dis
cussion-on the other hand plans for
the conference were "cut and dried"
weeks ago. The sittings may end so
suddenly that the end of the war was
long drawn out affair in compari-
son.
However it ends there will be a lot
of folks dissatisfied.
If they had been sitting in Wilson's
place they could have done better.
You betcher!
Seeing they were not in Wilson's
place, seeing that many of the ends
gained fell short of what they ex-
pected, seeing that the congress end
ed with dissatisfaction existing among
certain peoples-as it is bound to ex-
ist-a certain percentage of folk are
going to promenade around with faces
beside which the hind wheel of a
hearse is : three-act vaudeville show.
They will be positive the war is lost
and the world is going to the dogs.
But reve' mind how the peace con-
ference ends, the world is not going
to the dogs.
We must prepare ourselves now to
look at the peace as settled in big,
broad, far-sighted way.
After every election there are GER
tain people who cannot believe that
Gods in His heaven and all's well
with the world.
Nothing doing!
The morals of the town or the
state or the nation have been cruel
fed.
After the installation of the new
crowd will come the deluge.
They ere sure of it.
But somehow the old world man
ages to amble along, amble along,
just the same.
The end Of the world won't come
if every person, party and people
doesn't emerge satisfied with the
peace settlement. Well still manage
to amble along somehow, multiply
ing, loving, marrying and giving in
marriage. The, sun will rise just the.
same. Newspapers will still be print
ed. The poor we will have with us
always The cost of living will still
maintain It's reputation. Men will
work and women will weep. We dare
say along toward April some one will
still remember to write a spring
poem.
A lot of us may get discouraged
and think the blood of our sons has
been bled in vain if every one of
President Wilson's fourteen points
aren't carried out in adamantine con-
crete. And then some. But we want
to stop and remember that President
Wilson's Fourteen oints make
whale of big program. We shall
have progressed half a century from
1914 if we are lucky enough to realize
half of them.
Let's begin now to look at the out
come sanely, sensibly, philosophically.
Let's prepare ourselves to admit that
even what has beenaaccomplished has
been bette" than nothing at all.
Let's at least be appreciative of the
TACT that the war was won bv us.
VIGOROUSLY.
That's somethingi
Let's admit that we have already
come closer to the Parliament of
Man than we have ever come before
even If the aliament of Man does.
mt prove quick cure-all for tbe
sum-total of the worlds ills at one
stupendous session.
Let's feel grateful that the war has
come out thus far as it has and trust
that If the Almighty has steered
chlngs for US to this point, there's no
especial reason to expect that all at
unce mes gong to go off now and
leave US to the Bolsheviki.
No, the world won't go to the
dogs' Never mind who wins or who
roses at the Peace Conference. we'll
get a better world for the furnace If
lsHISsrlng through which we have
gone. The Peace Conference will be
no worse nor better than the folks
the peace IS being made for on both
sides, anyhow.
so let's keep cool and be grateful
for small favors. The Germans
didn't get US at any rate. The tima
for real pcssimism was last March
when the German steam roller was
plowing toward Paris at the rate of
20 miles day. That's all gone now,
The nightmare is over.
Blessed are those who expect moth
ing for verify they shall not be dis
appointed