Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-15

we have war is that there are certain
arrangements OF cells In the brains
OF most men which cause them to be-
come excited and TO want 10 fight
wren bands play and bugles call and
patriotic speeches are made.
Peace will be possible only when, by
education, the mind OF the race has
been changed 80 that war. and all it's
attendant sights and sounds cause
different reaction in men and women
This Ia the opinion OF George w.
Grille. a celebrated American surgeon,
who took advantage OF his service In /
France during the war. to make !
special study OF the effect Of war
lupon human beings. and who publish
| I'd hi, conclusions In book called
l"A Mechanistic View OF War and
Peace"
CRIES views are Of special inter-
est just now. because the armament
conference II II is doing nothing else.
lis proving once more that whether VIC
lare to have a war or peace is dues-
Ition which depends upon the average
man and not upon the governments
Governments are war-maklbs
bodies in the nature Of the case The
disarmament conference was called,
not because the governments wanted
lpeace or believed It was possible. but
because public opinion demanded II.
Now that Il is gathered. the diplomats
lare busIly jockeying around for ad-
vantages in the way Of armament.
Meanwhile the common man Is fed
his daily dose OF platitudes about uni
versal brotherhood and the IKE.
Man Must Fight
AZ Grille points out. universal broth
erhood is largely a dream. man is
fighting animal.
: Grille IL celebrated for his discovery
that emotions in man produce absolute
changes in his blood. and that the
blodo does not return 10 normal until
those emotions have been discharged
lin action. When you become angry
you feel a pressing need for action.
lIf you cannot fight you will stamp
your foot, wave your arms. Kick the
cat. or do something else ito relieve
your feelings" as you say. This
! laction which you crave is really a
= physical necessity. II you were re-
+ peatedly made angry and kept from
: all action and expression Of your
= mood you would die of acid in the
blood. for anger produces a definite
. discharge Of acid substances from your
o liver. and other internal organs. Al
J of this Grille and others have proved
beyond question.
What remains somewhat mysterious
Is why given stimulus produces one
= emotion in one man and another emo
ton in another man. Why does dan
4 ger make one man want, To fight an'
s another want 20 run away? Why doe
2 a band playing patriotic air max
2 most men want TO fghty
t Grille assumes that there are certain
r. arrangements of brain cells in eacl
individual which determine his re
n action 10 a given stimulus, and tha
n these arrangements are dependen
z upon both heredity and education. II
3. a word. your reaction 10 given stirn
: ulus is partly determined when yo'
: are born, but can be changed TO SOM
d extent in the course OF your life.
a All men tend to react to man,
Is stimuli with a desire TO fight and de
it stroy. This is inevitable because man
throughout his history has bee
d fighting for his very life. He ha
I. fought the jungle beasts the elements
- all the forces Of nature. Tribes c
D men have fought with each other 70
IN survival. and so have individual mel
IN Those who would not or could nc
Je fight have perished and have left n
offspring. The best fighters have wo
lie 1.-THE most mates and left the mo.
L. descendants. Hence man is pre-
et eminently a fighting animal, and |
I'd proceed on any other assumption
I'd futile.
s. But men can fight in many differer
ed ways For example. individuals use
st to fight with each other physically ar
n !destructiyely. Now there is compar;
n lively little of that in civilized coui
m tries. individuals fight each other
of business and trade and in the arts. \
r of the games Lhey play, from dom
g roes to football are mock battle
These things satisfy the fighting II
I'd .puise without destroying the race.
y. As men have progressed, larger al
as larger units of organization have gi
C., en- up destructive fighting for COZ
he petition. First families banded toget
he r, then tribes, then small nations. a
ed then large ones. II Is only among I
n nations themselves that dsstructi
an physical combat still persists. And
becomes more destructive all I
&C. time AS Grille points out, the wOI
A. result of international war is that
OF s destroying the race. The World w;
he with its ten millions OF the best YOU
ed men slain, was the worst blow IN
he ever befell the human race. And y
p we are now busily getting ready
mt mother world war, which will be I
of more destructive than the last, a
nd which win not spare America as I
,es last one did. because America will
lar The very center of II.
Why does this madness go on? w
en save not nations learned TO sublims
w. their lighting power, as individu
,at have done.
mr. Crile's answer is that, while educ
as ton has carefully curbed the indiv
So ual fighting impulse, il has careful
or cultivated the national fighting j
pulse. The common man has be
we taught that he must not slit his neig
W bor's throat and take his money,
NJ ne is taught that his nation m
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