Arizona republican., 1920-08-27
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Tn order to avoid chaos, games must be played by rules Thus in baseball we have regulations re garding strikes balls. fouls. etc" and other ruleS the conduct of the players Likewise ,sn,. closely restricted and so is prize fighting. If it were not for rules enforcement Of them all our games would be go-as-ou- please and do-as ,,oun1ease affairs rough and tumble contests In which nobody would know where he IS at ana me spectators would know what is going on-
 War is about the only game so conducted or SD corauctes rt is true that we have heard of rules of civilized warfare but there really no rues al all in the sense that they actually rule any or the contestants And that is why wars are so oisoroefs and times, S rough and unseenaly.
 But we have come to of better day thanks to our forward looking state department which proposes establish needful reguiation. Each nation under a rule, lately proposed to Poland and now elaborated, according the dispatches of yesterday fight only within its recognized ooun daries. The strict application of ths rule would oo away with the evils encroachment and invasion It would not. apply to internecne warfare revolutions. keep the people of any country from rough housing among themselves. But later we suppose rule would be devised that would put stop disorder attendant upon war within countries we'll between countries. It might be decreed for instance that revolutionary party should con fine it's war to it's own subdivision of the country by whatever it might be called. state, county department province, viayet canton or what not
 
 would, of course feel cramped MT. A, a man whom we knew. by rule that he had him self established His neighbor, MT B., was the owner of light wagon of which Mir. A. frequent borrower. MT A. once bought flaming mill whose further clean the wheat left after threshng. One day Mir. B. wanted to borrow it and was so he could have it that he sent his son and two-horse wagon after it. But MT. A. met him with the promulgation of rule. T have made rule" said that will not let the mill be taken out of the barn. Tell your father that he bring his wheat and the mill long as he wants to-
 Not long after that MT. A. sent his with a team borrow MT. B's wagon again. Mir. B also promulgated "Teil your father. said he, that I have made rule to the wagon leave the wagon shed. You hitch to it and use it there all day if you want to, and welcome.
 An army compelled to fight all the time on it's own territory. and other army being permitted to n- trude upon territory. between them would have a rather nnocuous time of But that's what we want-to render wars innocuous than they have been. They unladylke too unlike ping pong and tiddledewinks.
 If we had had such a rule the depart ment wants adopted back in 1914. and had strictly enforced it. history and map would be different When Germany crossed the Belgian frontier it would have been declared have lost foul some thing The Russians could not have crossed into East Prussia The Germans and the Austrians would have stopped long before they got to the Piave
 We further amend the state departmen rule by prohibiting shooting international boun daries and further reduce provocation to armed conflict we would allow belgerents to stand oi their side and make faces or hur rude remark across the border There has been altogether to- much license in warfare and glad to see step taken the right direction