The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22

right of the people of every country
and nation to 60 on in their develop
ment as fast as they choose and as
different from all the rest as they
choose. Each nation having full
| right and liberty to speak its own
language and act on its own
religious wishes, to build any kind of
houses it wants to, to dress as its
people prefer, and In short for each
nation to act out its own individual
ity and be flowery kingdom hidden
in cherry blossoms or a celestial
kingdom celebrating it's immortal
dead or worshiping it's mountain
peaks or whatever it prefers.
Mr.. Wells asks us to picture what
| improvement may be made in all the
human races if the scourge and pes
thence of war were removed, and in
stead of going along ur streets and
seeing cripples and beggars and ill
fed, understood children bearing the
marks of british conditions, we
shall have the causes of most of
those conditions removed. Think
too, of the adults whose lives have
been dwarfed and ruined by the ad-
verse conditions that we witness
every day that we remark are
enough to make bolshevists and
thieves and idlers-with conditions
reversed that have ruined them.
He asks us to think Of what might
be accomplished in science if we
could but direct the energies of
scientists to strictly useful activities
instead of having so much of time
and talent devoted to useless and de-
structive things. The airplane with
it's possibilities turned into useful
service for travel and commerce and
quick transportation of mails and
goods; the undersea craft used for
bringing up the precious things of
the ocean bed instead of for sinking
ships and cargoes and causing fear
and misery and agony. Go into the
home and find what it is that
troubles people, and gnaws at their
hearts and keeps them from accomp-
fishing greater things, and we find
that things traceable to war and USE
less contention are the great life
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human race and crushing the best
aspirations and ambitions.
He would have us remember that
the richest parts of the world are
not yet supplied with railroads or
other means of transportation; that
only the United States and some
parts Of Europe are at all well sup
Piled with means of transport, and
the great continents with greatest
natural riches like South America
and Africa with their untold wealth
of nature are almost untouched be-
cause of the lack of means of trans
port, while the cost of the world war
for day or two would build a trans
continental railroad. He asks us to
remember, that all this talk about
the need of thinning out people when
they become too numerous is not
necessary or sensible so long as
great continents like Africa and
South America are lying open await
ing the coming of man to reap the
rich growth provided by nature and
capital is boarded that ought to be
used to build and equip roads and
steamships to connect with all these
sources of wealth and happiness.
At this the Christmas time we
seize the Wells idea as it comes by
the associated press dispatches, and
pass it on for the consideration of
our readers as suitable food for
thought when rejecting upon the
possibilities of peace on earth,
good will to men"