New Britain herald., 1928-11-12

ana pnnd8 the nauon to it's true meaning. Nine out of ten of these who favor 1t do not know to where it leads. The system prepares for only one ultimate end-to prepare the youth of the land for the field of battle. The next step will be to inoculate militarism into the minds of the little boys. and if the system can have its way we will go the same road as was the fate of Ger many.
 II know of what I speak in this matter. as I speak from experience. l myself have attended such course of training. And I have found tha, the methods of militarism from the days of ancient Rome to the pres ent has been to adopt more cruel and more barbaric methods than any end really justified.
 Weapons Becoming Deadly
 And what have been the prepa- rations made since the last war? We have invented more powerful guns and their range has been increased 90 per cent The high explosives have been made more powerful than ever dreamed of. Poisonous gases, liquid fire and such terrible weapous have been made even more terrible. There now is gas which when spread over the countryside kills every living germ and makes the soil incapable of growing anything for 50 years. High military authori- the widespread use of disease germs. and that men and women, entire populations, will be poisoned by the wholesale. That is the spirit or militarism which is being cultivated at this late day. after we had fo1dly hoped it had been slain on the bloodsoaked fields of Europe. And it's Justification, it's lying its decep- tion remains: it is saturated with it. It says we must have hatred through lies and falsehoods;' and thus we get stories of babies hands chopped off and women outraged. We had to be told those things to make us hate.
 'The subtle military system Is not only propagated through the high schools and the colleges, but through moving pictures. Who has not noticed the vast accumulation Of war pictures and the glorification of war through the eye? This is all a part of the system of educating a nation for war.
 Cost in Money
 Then there is the money cost what a price to pay for the fruits of war? We spent enough money on this last war to pave the entire nation. in checker-board fashion. with concrete roads only two miles apart. And so per cent of the peo- pie could live along the concrete roads. We spent enough money to build enough schools and colleges of all kinds to last 100 years and give every youth in the nation a free education in them during the next century. Up to a few years ago the war costs of the American government took S7 cents out of every dollar of federal taxes we pay. The waste of money in war is on par with its waste of human life and it isn't worth its cost.
 This spirit of militarism that the government fosters in high schools and colleges blinds the youth. stops them from thinking standardizes them. puts all of thSfn Tn the same mould-it all leads to the same end, the preparation of the youth of the land for more war The spirit of militarism has not been changed through the ages-it is no different today than when Ro- man soldiers, with Jesus into their hands, stripped Him, spat upon Him, degraded Him, nailed Him to the cross. lifted Him aloft and then played cards at its foot, grumbling that they should be given the extra work on hot day"
 The pastor, noting that he Is a member of the American Legion, said there was some misapprehen- sion about the Legion's attitude. and so that there be no mistake he an- nounced that petition was on hand which all his hearers were invited to sign. The petition was sponsored by the Legion and other organiza- tions and prayed that the govern- ment, through the senate, would speedily ratify the Kellogg multila- teral peace treaties to exterminate war. The petitions. duplicates of