New Britain herald., 1925-11-09

darkness 1t is. Beware ot false prophets that come 10 you In tho garb of sheep but at heart arc ! ravcnous woyes-you will know ! them by their fruit. If anyone wishes 10 come after me let hin deny himself, take up tho cross, and follow me IL is something in this wise that the founder Of Christians 1 " spoke 10 his followers calling on them for higher and noblcr- for a Chrlstlan-life. There are nc half measures given. Blessed are the peace makers; they shall be called tho sons Of God And ac. cursed be the war makers-it may be justly aldcd-lor they shall be call. ol the sons Of evil--BleyaaL To put the matter b.un,ly and clearly, VIC can do no better than did Lowell in his little poem;
 Els fur war I call it murder,
 There you baIg !t plain and fiat AFIl 4'hNt Ap Ep llp ILlA'l
 Than my Testyment fur that
 f you take q sword and drawr 1t
 And go an stick a feller through Government aint 10 answer fur it God1l send the bin 10 you,
 "Thcre indeed you have it plain and flat And that 10 my mind is the attitude-the only attitude-ac- ccptable to q religious man.
 Peace Demands its Price
 And the truth is that men are seeing 1t just that way Men every where are against war. They long for peace. And yet there is not an effort that will make for peace. Two vital factors have made impossible the abolition of war. In the first place, mon are not yet fully aware of the awful cost Of war, of the tre- mendous drain Of human energy and frightful moral and spiritual expense that war entails.
 Tn the second place, men have not yet realized that peace cannot come of its own accord. Like free dom which demands eternal vigil ence, so peace demands is price.
 First as to the cost Of the wars. Let us again repeat some of the statements you have seen again and again here and there in the press. What are the figures?
 "The cost 10 the allies alone in dollars, was 163 billions. The cost in men killed or wounded. 6,943,719 Of which the United States suf- fered loss of 1Q9,740 killed, and @00,00 wounded. These figures do not include the losses since the armistice.
 "l need not rehearse again before you the losses in other ways,-the awakening of the lusts and passions Of men that led to the massacres, the ravage Of helpless villages and towns as well as of millions of hu- man bodies. The mothers by the hundreds of thousands made in- sane. and the untold number of chil- drcn brought into the world crip- pies and demented. I do not want to review again the tragedy that sent the best blood of Europe and America and even Of far-away re- gions in India and Africa to be poured on the fields Of Nerdun and Yprcs and 10 be sunk in the marshes of lithuanja and Galicia. There is q song that vas recently penned by the poet Carl Sandburg. It is en- titled, Grass Mark how it sum mares the tragedy Of 1t all.
 Pile the bodies high at Auster-
 li.z and Waterloo,
 Shovel them under and let me work
 I am the grass; I cover all.
 And pile them high at Gottys-
 burg
 And pile them high at Tyres
 and Eerdun,
 Shovel them unler and let me
 work,
 Two years, ten years, and pas
 scnGers ask the conductor:
 What place Is this?
 Where arc we now?
 ] am tho grass, let me work
 And so l hope there be none among you who is not clear as to the cost ol the war. But you will reply that 1t was necessary. l tell you that no war ever paid. That no matter what was in the past, wars today surely cannot pay. What have We won from the war? What precisely has any nation won from the war? Just the millions of the dead and all the other losses of morals anu morale, Of civilization that has won after the greatest of struggles. What have we of the uito1 States won? Just this: that the thousands lie buried. and that out of every thousand dollars that the government spends for all causes, $716 or almost So per cent is used for Tars,-past present and future
 "Thcrc are those amongst us who will grant that it was a waste. that '.. .ast var did not bring LIS any sort of gain. I'u, they will insist th1t tH. VHr-t that wms in general --nlvo a moral and aesthetic value. l. is a paradox that is as unienable as 70 argue that murder exists. They l''' u$, for example, that wars have hoIped to create great litcratues. that much Of tho creative literary work is The direct result Of wars. SIra a" illusjo7 rau indeed be SD rr1ii'y 'Npose1 that it hardly merits argument. A great deal of the h. rratur. o' th" world was born of "a"s simply because tho WoriI has r'u c."Gy o~enu.'j with wars. But g'Irrr at "l' that Is worthy all 'I.o' is ot.'al great in literature, ..l ;n1 "iH .,aI that with very ',~'~~ pIons the great works deal ro' "t'a WAT but with psacc. And
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