The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-21
THE FEVER PASSES


fortune; it is sometimes sick and again
it is well; it flies into passions; it
subsidies into sanity and calm.
The world is like man who for a
long time disregards the law Of right
living. Poisons get into his blood,
and then he suffers from fever.
For a long time the world has been
living wrong. Its intestines became
clogged; it was in need Of eliminating
medicines. The result was that, four
years ago, it was taken with violent
fever from which it is only now slow
ly recovering.
This is by no means the first time
that the world has suffered an attack
of this nature. One has only to go
back into history to find that the mall
adv is an old one. AS man who is
subject to malaria that afflicts him
annually in the spring, it seems that
the world has been subject to this fe-
yer of unrest in its bones quite regu-
larly, at least once in every century,
since time immemorial.
This terrible war has been the
worst of all wars, yet there have been
wars that were comparatively as bad
for the times in which they occurred.
At other times--many, many other
times in history-peace fled the whole
face of the then known earth, even as
it fled from it during the past -four
years. And, in other times as now
the fever Of anarchy and unrest
burned in the bones and the vitals OF
civilization.
The only really happy generations
of men have been those that lived In
| the between-times of the fevers
These were the generations that made
songs and music, that wrought beau
ty out of brass and stone, that made
two blades of grass to grow where on
ly one grew before.
These were the ages of the worlt
that are called golden; when Sappht
sang, when Piricles dreamed, whcl
blind Milton souched the stars will
his cropping hands.
Then would come again the madnes!
of the fever on the world and all thu
beauty it created would be destroyed
and tumbled in the dust of the road.
But the fever always passed. Ant
this fever, which is upon the worl'
now, will also pass.
In the past travails of the worl
there were always devoted physician
who strove patiently and tirelessly t.
make it well. There were Away
others who sat unwearied watching
through the night; there were Away
saints on Bonded knees praying t
God for succor and for help.
, 1t has been that way in the pas
four years. Indeed, the physicians
the watchers and those who praye
bend now their efforts not only t
make the sick world well again, bu
{ make it we'll forever.
; Heretofore the effort has bee
, merely to allay the fever and to sooth
, it with drugs. Now the effort is t
3 remove the very cause of the diseas
e Before, when there were worl
0 wars, peace settlements were made @
= the theory that to the victor belonge
r the spoils. The side that won toe
0 over to itself the territory and Il
:. wealth of the side that lost.
There was no real remedy for Il
n worlds sickness in that method. Coz
: quest was only drug that allayed Il
s fever for only time. The disea!
was always certain to break o.
e again.
d Now, the physicians who are be-
d above the fevered bed, where a sit
world is lying, are probing deep
: reach the cause of the sickness and
3, remove it once for all. They are goC
IS men and true, they are wise al
faithful to their trust. Like all go,
physicians, their sole desire is to sa
n the patients life.
le There was never a more cheeril
h spectacle on earth than that viii
le the gathering of the peace plenipote
is tiaries in France furnishes.
he Surrounding the figure of the Pre-
&c ident of the United States are t
Or statesmen of Europe who are congi
lg gated not to see how great the spo
x they can command for their vario
nations out of the wreck and ruin
war, but to see what way justice m
o. best be done, and to seek the RENE
that will the surest cure the fever
the world.
Il That their patient is rebellious v
is only incite the physicians to grea
E. efforts to effect cure.
'ol In plain words, the effort bel
of made by the statesmen of the f
ce nations of the earth to bring order q
n law and peace and prosperity to tn
Is, countries of Europe which are toe
n writing in the agony of anarchy 9
IS lawlessness, murder and unbrid
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