The Arvada enterprise., 1920-03-25
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Fellow the Great
World War;
HOPE FOR PERMANENT PEACE
These VINE Fought, and Thoss Who
suffered At hsms. Alilts Favor
Some Form Of q League
Of Natiena.
Article X.
sy FRANK comERFoRo.

Europe was succumbing to exhaus-
tion when the war came to an end.
The terrible waste was telling. En-
durance had reached the breaking
point. With peace one thought run
around the world: There must be no
more war. The men who did the fight
Ing said 1t loudest.
"Im glad ! had chance to do my
part-I wouldn't have missed the
show for million dollars, and l
wouldn't take million dollars to 60
through It again." is the way they
put 1t. Everywhere in Europe ! heard,
1T Is over. 1t 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 terrible mean
ing, new agencies had been intro
duced to kill and main men. liquid
fire, mustard gas. high explosives.
bombs from the clouds, torpedOes from
the SEQ depths. The world was hor-
rifed. 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
be put to war II civilization was to
live.
So the people. particularly the work.
ing people. took heart when League
Of Nations was suggested as a means
Of enforcing peace. They placed their
hopes In It. They had suffered most
from the war. The dead were large.
ly their dead. The returning cripples
were blood Of their blood. As they
put It, they were from their class.
OF course the sons Of the other class
fought, shared the hardships. paid the
price. but they were few. The group
from which they came IL small, while
the toll Of casualties from labor's
ranks was large.
All men know that controversies
between nations are inevitable. In
the absence Of some scheme Of arbi.
tration there is but one way that these
controversies can be settled. It IL
fOrce-War.
1t Is not uncommon for individuals
to have serious differences Of opinion.
Every lawsuit. and there are Thousands
Of them In every city Of every country.
represents q difference Of opinion. II
we did not have courts providing 4
peaceful determination Of these dis
putes. the iitigants would be com.
PEELED to settle their differences BY
force. Assault and battery would
succeed orderly procedure. Nations
have been without q peaceful means
Of adjusting their difficulties, and a.
. consequence they have been COM
PEELED to resort to force. Until some
scheme Of arbitration IL created. to
talk peace IL to waste words, to hope
for It Is idle dreaming.
Psaes Conference Fell shsrt.
The peace conference met 10 Paris.
Labor watched II. At an early stage
In its proceedings intrigue was dis
covered at work. WranEling. bicker-
ing. bargaining and trading for com.
mercial advantage occupied the time
and thought that the world expected
would be devoted to the building up Of
league that would at least decrease
the chances Of future wars. States
men In their blind devotion to ex.
pediency lost sight Of the great rea.
son for the conference. They talked
Of boundary lines. discussed frontiers,
and always from the point Of view Of
financial and military advantage to
their respective countries. II was no.
ticed that the territories over which
they Quarreieti were rich In minerals
or some other thing Of great CONNER.
cial advantage. They sQuabbled over
spoils. Then. too. these men who
were supposed to be concerned In the
future peace Of the world. In arguing
ever frontiers urged their respective
claims on the grounds that their re.
opectlve countries needed these from.
tiers to make them secure In future
warn. What future wars and why the
discussIOn Of future wars At confer.
ence. the object Of which was future
peace7
Working men watched. listened md
thought. They construed these bick-
ering~ and wranglings as evidence Of
the fact that there In mn Interest In
the world which does not believe In
giving up force. I am only reporting
the truth when ! add they suspect this
interest II Capital.
n the League Of Nations fails this
suspicion will be confirmed. Tie
movement toward an interim ionallsm
Of the workers will be given great