The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-15

nomics and Government, Western State College
Gunnson Colo.
f5l HAT war is necessary and spite of its mon
NJ strous features wholesome agency for promoting
M the progressive ends of civilization view which
mas been urged with considerable plausbility In Ger
many Tor example this view had lately wide acceptance
and with the Junker class in particular had all the
thority of Holy Writ 1t derived much strength from
the teaching Netsche that Chrstianity reversing Ma
practice pepetuates the weak and cutters up the
world with molly-codde mediocre folks whom in the
interest of civilization, it becomes necessary to off
or trample out by The nation that conquer
estfes by that fact to its superiority in all mpor
ant racial qualities, and it deserves conquer and
to bless the world with its progeny War is therefore
IN indispensable corrective of Christianity which cod
dies the unfit and tends to weaken the human stock
War by its drastic discipline brings the needed nvigor
alton.
The view with different emphasis was given
wider publication through book by Bernhard, Ger
man cavalry officer which after wide reading Germany
appeared in English sometime during the World War
Amid much detail we are given to understand that in
peace the spirit of declines Manufacturing, COM
merce, money7makng advancement through not offend
ing folks and so premium put compliant, accommo
dating the middle-class philosophy with its
glorifcaton of the conventional and safe all easygong
luxurious life inclined oungin easy chairs and easy
saps the virle force in and renders them abby
and decadents War tones up; sets mans task for
men; calls uncompromsngly for courage and hero
ism The weak must scurry off, better STILL go to
the wall The strong, redblooded and no longer
the favor-currying, the rueof thumb the moneyco
ectng fraternity, have their day and lift the world up
to their level
Let quote briefly from one of our own apostles
of the militant life Theodore Roosevelt perhaps
received wider approval for any than for his ad
dress before the Hamilton Club of Chicago in April 1885,
on The Strenuous Life in which he said: "The army
and the navy the sword and the shield which this
nation must if she is to do her duty the
nations of the earh-if she is merely the
China of the Western Hemisphere. * I" The twentieth
century looms before big with the fate of many
tons. If stand idly by, if seek merely swollen
sothful and gnoble peace if shrink from the
hard contests where must win at hazard of their
lives and at the risk of all they hold DEAR then the boder
and stronger peoples will pass by, and will win for
themselves the domination of the world Let there
boldly the life of strife resoute do duty
well and manfuy; resolute to uphold Righteousness by
deed and by word resoute to be both honest and brave
high ideals yet to practical methods Above
ALL let shrink from strife, moral physical within
without the nation provided certain that the
strife justified for it is only through strife, through
hard and dangerous endeavor that shall ultimately
win the goal of true national greatness"
shall assume today the opposite point of view, and
that evil and that it is unnecessary
shall maintain though feel it to draw out
my argument at length that Christantys practice of
saving the weak is improvement Natures method
Of killing them that the physically weak kept alive must
necessarily weaken the human stock but that intel
ectuay and otherwise they greatly bless the race
that is nos the only method of strengthening the
tissues OF society SINCE many an occupation ana many
calls for sefsacrce and the exercise of the hardy
virtues that it is not "ony through strife that we
ultimately win the goal of national greatness
5ut rather shall win that goal through peace which
fraerna understanding, justice and unselfs
ness not hesitate to that the boasted compen
,atons of war are delusion and a snare; that is
twice cursed it those that lose and those that
win ordinarily off the flower of the and moi
he weaklings The weaklings who unfit for wal
stay home making, it may be- their standing in the
garious communities still stronger.
Every in the world today pays penalty for the
World War in debt and utter loss. Take case
ch of the best Do you know that of the total ap
propriatons made by national government for the
isca year 1920 939o went for obligations arising out o
and for preparations for possible future wars? AS
for the balance go went for general governmental
poses 80 for public works and % for education Thnl
of it! five billion dollars spent in in time
by nation for war 10 for education! One
thinks of Longfellow's observation:
Were half the that fills the world with terror,
I Were half the wealth bestowed camps and courts
Given to redeem the human mind from
There need of arsenals forts"
The last sacrificed the lives of nearly ten mil
lions of people, another twenty to twenty-five millions
died through hardships entaed other unnumbered mil
lions have been impoverished and enfeebled
world has been cursed with dsarrangement slackness
and futility in it's ordinary processes of life But
this is not its worst indictment Worse than ALL it has
left the world heritage of bitterness, awlessness, br
taty, gross depravity animal baseness which offer
grave menace the very existence civilization itself
To prove my second proposition that is unneces
sary is undoubtedly difficult piece of business
Of course, to argue that Isl is not tc
imply that any which have fought unneces
sary. Bring issue between nations to certain point
and is necessary. Bring the quarrel to point
cowardly submission to and self-respectina
nation fight 1t quite necessary for the NORTH
to fight the Civil War There alternative O1
course would have been much cheaper for the naor
to bought the slaves and liberated them The wal
cost probably eight billion dollars whereas three bor
would been good price for the slaves Besides the
nation lost million men, killed, injured to be
a charge and there was concocted bitterness which has