Arizona republican., 1921-02-15
CThe Christian, Science Monitorl


 People have heard so much of the new world which was to come into oe- ing with the end of the war, and yet have seen so little of it, that they are becoming rather cynical in their illu- sions to it. Notwithstanding this, II humanity does not take warning by the late war, and seriously set to work to put it's house in order, it will be over whelmed with some terrible disaster It is perfectly true. as General Persh- ing said, not long ago, that unless some such move is made we may ask ourselves whether civilization does not really reach a point when 1t begins to destroy itself, and whether we are thus doomed to go headlong rom a destructive war to darkness and bar barism.'
 General Pershing is not a pacifist. That is to say, he cannot be classed with those who preach peace at any cost. He is not even in sympathy with those who would agree to unpre- paredness. But he is one of the men who saw war at it's fiercest in the fiercest war which has ever been fought. and he knows that if there IS to be another war it will be even more hideous than the one which has so re- cently been terminated. In the course of that war Germany destroyed the most prosperous department of north ern France. Today Germany herself is unable to pay for the rehabillta- tion of that district. A new war would unauestionably bring into use engines more terrible than have ever been seen, and the devastation wrought by these engines would fall not on armies only but on the densely popu- lated towns and cities of the world . For these reasons the ending of war is not only a moral necessity. but a necessity of continued civilization.
 If there is one thing which has been demonstrated more clearly than another by the great war. it is the fact of the interdependence Of countries Victors and vanquished in Europe are only in different stages of exhaustion, and no reparation which the defeated can make is able in any way to heal the hurt of the victors, much less the wounds of the vanquished. Every man today engaged in commerce, whether in q vast way or in a petty way, IS learning that a country need not even be engulfed in a war in order to be reduced to desperate straits through the war. With the purchasing power of half Europe almost extinct, or at best hideously reduced, the very neu- trals are finding that there is no limit to the evils of war. It is of little use winning war; in order to discover that your markets have been destroyed and that your own iworkmen are out of work. because those whom you have defeated are no longer able to trade with you. Therefore, nations which today throw their influence on the side of war and armaments are not merely playing the devils game, so far as wal itself is concerned, but are seeking their own destruction in the destrue- tion of their enemies.
 Nor is it in the matter of trade alone that the effect of war is felt. History has shown every great war, for quite obvious has hpar1 followed hN an aftermath of crime and violence
 The aftermath of the great war il Europe has, however manifested itseI
 not merely in this usual wave of crim- inality, but in a great loss of popular liberty The whole world is alarmed with the result that countries who's, citizens are on the brink of starvation are nevertheless keeping together srea
 crowds of armed men, many of whon
 have found their way into the rank
 as the easiest and surest method 0 obtaining food. Now everybody know
 that the greatest sign any nation cal give of advancing civilization is tn absence of violence in an ordered man Hesitation of the supremacy of lay and liberty. When, therefore, men fin liberty thrust aside, and a readines amongst those who dominate tn forces of the moment, to use these fo their own ends. it should set then deeply thinking to find a way out 0 conditions which, distasteful for limited period, would become intoler
 able if prolonged.
 It is for this reason that some asso citation of nations. as an insuranc against war, has become a positiv 1 necessity to the future existence 0 civilization. It is truly, as Lord Gre i said not long ago, like an ultimatur i to Christian civilization that me
 should prevent war In future. If the 1 cannot prevent war their civilizatio ! will perish This is just as true c | the richest and most powerful natio as of the weakest. Once the force of moral disintegration begin to worl
 the great power will find itself fight l ing for its life equally with the wea nation. There is no question at a ! but that the moral force of Christian 1 fty in the uncivilized world has bee | noticeably sapped by the failure of tn