Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-03-27
HOPE FOR PERMANENT PEACE
Those Who Fought, and Those Who
Suffered at Home, Alike Favor
Some Form of League
of Nations.
Article K.
BY FRANK coMERFoRp.


The terrible waste was telling. En-
durance had reached the breaking
point. With peace one thought ran
around the world: There must he no
more war The men who did the fight
ing said it loudest
I'm glad | had a chance to do my
part wouldn't have missed the
show for million dollars, and /
wouldn't take q million dollars to go
through ii again." is the way they
put It. Everywhere in Europe ! heard
1T is over II is finished. thank God"
The first thought OF reconstruction
was plan to make peace permanent
The laboratory and the machine
shop gave TO this war q terrible mean
ing, new agencies had been intro
duced to kin and MAIN men. liquid
fire, mustard gas. high explosives
bombs from the clouds, toTpedOes from
the sea depths. The world was hor-
ritled The length of the war. the
number of dead and crippled, the raid
ing and bombing Of defenseless cities
taught the world that an end must
b. put to war If civilization was To
live
So the people. particularly the work
Ing people took heart when a League
Of Nations was suggested as a means
Of enforcing peace. They placed their
hopes In II They hal suffered most
from the war. The dead were large
Is their dead. The returning cripples
were blood of their blood As they
put e. they were from their class.
Of course the sons Of the other class
fought shared the harlshlps paid the
price. but they we're few The group
from which they came is small. while
the toll Of casualties from labor s
Tanks was large.
An men know that controversies
between nations are inevitable. In
the absence OF some scheme Of arhi-
trltion there is but one way that these
Controversies can be settled. 1t is
f0vce-W War.
II Is not uncommon for individuals
70 have serious differences Of opinion.
Every lawsuit. and there are thousands
Of them liz every city of every country.
represents difference of opinion If
We did not have courts providing
peaceful determination of these dis
putes, The lItigants would be com
PEELED to settle their differences Inv
force. Assault and battery would
succeed orderly procedure Nations
have been without peaceful means
of adjusting their difficulties. and as
consequence they have been com
PEELED to resort to force. Untl some
scheme Of arbitration is created. to
talk peace Is 10 waste words. TO hope
Tor II is idle dreaming.
Peace Conference Fell Short.
The peace conference met in Paris.
Labor watched it. At an early stage
IN It's proceedings intrigue was dis.
covered at work Wan1ling. hieker-
ing, bargaining and trading for com
mercial advantage occupied the time
and thought TINT the world expected
would be devoted 10 the building up Of
league thar would at least decrease
the chances OF Lure wars. States
men in their bind devotion 10 ex-
ped"epcy lost siGht of the great rea-
son for The conference, They talked
Of boundary lines. discussed frontiers.
END always from the point Of view Of
financial and military advantage 30
their respective countries. II was no
ticed that the territories over which
they QuarreIed were rt.h 10 minerals
ar some other thing Of great rommer-
cGl advantage. 1le} squ&thlcd over
EpoilS Thor too. these mon who
were supposed 20 bee concerned Fin 1he
'n'Ire rtaac of uc wnr.d. ia arguing
over trcutcr~ urged their respective
clal0.s en- she grounds tnai lheir re-
spr"tNt countries rtt}ed these from
ttse- ta make tbrm secure In ruuwa
ways. Whst failure va9s ard Why the