Evening star., 1928-06-11

shing echoes the Iaconic and meaningful
words OF Grant. Let us have peaceT and
his challenge is as wide as the world
itself" That paper also states: Per-
shing Is no pacifist He Is a professional
soldier. But he has the greatness of
genuine humanity firmly and deeply
implanted in his soul"
The commander of the A. Z. p. dur
ing the World War;" according TO the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, "is not
Isolated In his stand. Few Americans
have been more unwearied In their en-
deayors for world peace than Gen.
TaSker H. Bliss. chief of stan during
tn first year of American participation
in the World War and later American
member OF the Allied Supreme War
Council. Gen. Bliss knows war.
These men show that pride In the hon
orlble traditions OF military service and
patriotic concern for the national de-
Tense are not incompatible with the
larger sympathy with international rec
onciliation. They work for peace with
the more zeal because they have init
mate knowledge OF the dangers cost in
blood and treasure and crushing respon-
sibilitieS Of modern war"
This Is the utterance OF one who,
above all other living Americans" states
the New York Times, has q right 70
say 1t without an imputatiOn OF paciiSm.
And the utterance was made on the
Held OF the military victory whose glory
he Shared-made where the dead unite
with the living in support OF the pro-
poSal OF the Premier of France with
which the other nations, great and
small. are showing sympathy. that war
should be eliminated as an -avowed in
strument of national policy France
does not forget! Every grave in which
she holds all that is mortal Of an
American soldier will be cherished rs
her own. For us those whom she thus
holds are as hostages given In binding
an enduring peace-and not with
France alone. but with all who left
their dead in her fields and whose
graves cry out against war;" .
HE expressed himself In terms ot
Christian civilization" as viewed .by the
Birmingham News. which feels that he
declined to be a party to the brutal
cynicism which looks upon war as In
eyttable, for he declared that the last
great war was due to the existence OF
the fallacious theory that war ia an
essential element Of the national ~olicy
OF q government and the erroneous be-
lief that nations become great through
aggressive undertakings carried ON re-
gardlesS Of right and Justice Thus
great soldier" adds that paper, dis
closes his absorption In ways and means
OF preventing war. and thus he uses
world forum To direct the minds of
peoples To the need for outlawing war"
THE man who commanded our mil
lions In France and who since has given
much ot his time 10 marking the graves
OF those who fell" observes the Mil
waukee Journal lis neither a pacifiSt
nor theorist; he Is for Preparedness
and defense so long as war Is the policy
OF nations, But he believes that the
policy Is fallacious. wrong from the
ground up and leading only 10 the
misery which he knows so well'
a longer step Is demanded by the Des
Moines Tribune Capital, with the state
ment: We may try the treaties. II
VIII do no harm except that Il will take
attention away from really effective
measures. We have tried treaties be-
tore, and they have done little good or
none. We cannot except this
treaty or any other To organise the
world Ia prevent a definite war when n
arises. Only definite organization,
determined upon before the occasion
arises, wiz do that