Evening star., 1921-12-18
Subjects Of Peace and War
Burden of Human Soul Today

England is absolved from the ne
through force In order to prevent
dissolution of the empire, peace
in that quarter of the world will
be restored.
These and other contending and
contributing views which have
come to me indicate clearly that
the world just now is struggling
in thought toward the light of uni
versal peace.
Mediocrity will do things that
greatness scorns. A man who
does not feel himself endowed by
Providence with the qualities Of a
great leader, who believes that he
belongs simply to the common run
of men, who is impressed that the
instincts Of his fellow men are
quite as likely to work for the
good of the world as the greatest
intellects that have been created,
will maintain an open mind and
will yield here and there ,as far
as the interests of his own coun-
: try may justify to the end that
a common purpose may be ac-
ference brought together the great
men of the world. men familiar
with thu horrors of war in all
their enSrnity. cognizant of the
back breaking load which toilers
everywhere are bearing to pay for
wars, past and future, and i'm
pressed with the inevitable neces-
ne An{npr ann Of hing 10 Lessen
the worlds burdens by limiting
it's armament.
The question was whether we had
reached the time when under the
providence of God and in good serv-
ice Of His children we were ready
to advance to the third and highest
state of civilization. The age of
brute force long ago disappeared
from the history Of mankind. For
centuries now the world has been
governed in peace and in war by
pure reason. The third state OF
human history. when cold logic is to
give way to the warm impulses of
the heart, is before US. Entrance
to it means that the logic OF ma
tional conditions must yield to the
larger needs of suffering humanity,
and that the instincts of brother
hood must supplant intellectual
processes of statecraft. Our faces
are to the east watching for the
first faint flashes of the millennial
dawn.
That the peace of the world de-
pends upon the will to have peace
seems to be the view of Mr.. Secre-
tary Hughes. and this Is inerrantly
true. The educational processes of
the past have not been completely
scientific. 1t will not do to be-
lieve in the Golden Rule when you
are in good humor and forget it when
you are angry. 1t will not do to say
that you win be the judge of what
is right and what is wrong and
that you are perfectly willing to
maintain peaceful relations with
the other fellow 50 long as he and
you are in accord. There must he
concession and adjustment. Safety
for the world lies in the middle of
of the road, and veering to one
side or the other should come only
when there is danger of collision.
Boys and girls now coming on in
the world must be taught hrst
honor and then peace with honor.
They must be imbued with the idea
that the peace of the world is the
end toward which all civilization
is moving and they must be taught
that simply defining the condi-
tions upon which peace may be
had is not sufficient They must
have the will to obtain and main
tain peace. Heretofore the fight
ing man has been the envied man.
even in the church, perhaps. Only
this morning / saw the picture OF
an evangelist who called himself
Fighting Bob" Yet from the
dawn of Christianity the Founder
OF it proclaimed that He was
greatest who was servant OF all.
A French cardinal crystallized
the idea in the words. Beneath the
rule of men supremely just the
pen is mightier than the sword.
1t is to be hoped that the will for
peace will produce peace. II it
does not the world may just as
we'll begin to consider whether it
wants to keep on with armaments
for the defense Of national honor
and resentment Of national griev-
ances or whether it will establish
a super-government to which the
nations of the world will delegate
the power of settling disputes and
enforcing its judgments. I take
no stand at present on such a
method Of procedure. How far the
old order of life would be. changed
by such a super-government, how
much of the sovereignty We pos
sess would necessarily be yielded
to it. 1 do not undertake to say.
Let us hope it will not be neces-
sary to proceed to these limits.
Let us rather believe that there is
now such a genuine will for peace
possessed by the manhood and
womanhood Of the world that by q
league or an association Of nations
this dream Of all the ages past and
this hope of all the years to come
may blossom. bud and bear fruit in
the political life of the world with
out the Intervention of any super
government.
(Cnnyrirht. 1921, by Thomas r. Marshalll