The New York herald., 1921-05-23

been left to depleted nations to renew
their blood. But In the next war we shall
probably do away with that archaic check
on the purpose of the great god Mars
Women l have already shown. have
proved their value for indirect military pur-
poses and so put themselves within the cir
Gle of destruction. Already the general stats
OF Europe are saying that the recruiting
of women in the late war was irregular,
hit or miss, wasteful. IN a struggle be-
tween national resources well as national
armies IL would be far more efficient and
economical TO mobilize them all and select
the war workers by scientific methods.
cording TO national convenience and neces-
sity All OF which Is true and logical. And
IL women are put under conscription for
munitions work for ambulance and truck
driving for the thousand and one varieties
OF light labor which they can perform in
.he rear areas of an army zone, we must
proceed by the same methods which we use
In selective conscription of the male element.
We shall. first Of all. spare the mothers. the
women who have already given their strain
10 the breed They are needed in their
homes for the vital business OF rearing chill
dren. We shall take the young unmarried
women, and choose from them by scientific
test the strongest and most brilliant. re-
iecting the weakest and most stupid. That
process was begun IN the late war. The
best managed munitions works gave no
woman a job until medical and psychological
tests proved that she had the body and
brains for the work. lust as with the men
we shall send the culls back to civilian life
free to pour their inferior blood into the
veins OF the new generation"
Warning Is Irwin's task But he adds a
positive plea for the reorganized world be-
ginning In the mind And he hits one
fallacy equarely in the solar plexus II is
commonly said by mtarists that war-or
al least an army establishments needed
for discipline Go back and read William
Jamess Moral Equivalent for War" And
consider a familiar yet too little considered,
aspect of the question Irwin puts IT,
"ln the modern world az contrasted with
the ancient we all live under strict discipline,
partly sef-imposed. Every morning the
reader gets up and goes at a set hour TO his
office on shop. No bugle wakes him; no
sergeant barks out the order TO fall In and
20 to work. II he grows weary Of getting
up at six or seven he has only 70 quit his
lob He viii not be shot or Jailed or publicly
dsgraced for that as he would IL he deserted
from the army. To quit the job might hurt
his career. might work privation on his fam
ily-that Is all. Every morning after break
fast 7 sit down and write. To-day there Is
dog show in town I want very much 70 20.
/ am not going because I have too much
voluntarily. Now both the reader and arc
doing thing, II seems to me. better for our
mortal fibre than as though the buglc blew
us out of bed and the sergeant backed BY
the whole force OF the United States Govern
ment ordered us TO work II is self-discipline.
self-control. as contrasted with external
discipline external control. The modern
world requires always more and more of this
kind Of discipline That IS one reason for
the unexpected hardness and valor Of ali
European and American troops In the late
war-forty years or the discipline of peace"
Wells is generally classed as 2 radical. IN
one view he is. But he must be sharply set
or from the whole anarchist t-nihilist school,
because he holds with absolutely firm grip
10 the conception Of an organized world.
Indeed he Is the true conservative because
he wants to make only such changes as will
conserve mankind's best treasure which the
blind reactionares and the blind explosion
ists arc Joining hands TO destroy.
Tho base Of everything Is education. And
Iii this Wells Is slngularly conservative. For
he points to the Bible as the best example
and guide humanity has. II has accomplished
moro than any other hook IN the past. lie
would have us assemble. on a similar plan,
alI that We have learned about life and living
IN these later centuries. lie modestly cites
his outline as 2 hint, q beginning He
writes
THAT outline is Of course. corrupting
mass OF faults and minor inaccuracies, but
II does demonstrate the possibility ~ doing
what Is required And it's reception both In
America and England has shown how ready