The Washington times., 1933-08-08

life and gave the Allies time enough-two and a half
years-to persuade that they were fighting on our
side. A few months later you may, If you Wlsh cele-
brate Armisce Day. giving it two minutes of your pre-
cous time-n silence Silence is appropriate for there is
nothing to say-and the World War has no day really
given over to celebrate It's beginnings, us VICTORIES or us
Only 1.-The First''
For jog to your memory, if you need one look at "The
First World War;" edited by Laurence Stalngs for
Simeon & Schuster. Look longest at the title-"The
FIRST World War;" The editor and the publishers are
not cheerful about prospects, AS editor, Mr. Stangs
has two great vrues-he is brief and he is appropriate
Most of his titles of or two words some are
ironc quotations of familiar phrases OF poetry More
detailed information is supplied IN the back OF the
book
find have omitted the central point: this is book
of photographs They both official and nonottlcal
some 300 large pages many containing several pic
tures all beautifully reproduced and placed for interest
and contrast Soldiers marching ION to Berlin and on
to Paris" and civilians singing "Rule, BRITANNIA and
Deutschland Uber Allies" are on the same page pic
ture of the dead is without national
was the one power which crossed national lines IN those
days.
Not All Horror
The record is as complete as any have 1t has
less of the horrors of than the book published
years or so ago by Brewer, Warren & Putnam, but 1t
has more pictures showing what war actually is like
There is one photograph for instance of direct hit
(probably from an airplane) railroad, there are
sea-raiders sinking and submarines sinking and there
is the ignobe fury of cvans there three pictures
of religious ceremonies-Englsh German and Russian
all captioned ooh, God, Our Help in Ages Past There
are pictures from every front, but only few photo
graphs of famous leaders. It horribly anony-
nous war.
The final pictures show Hitler Staln Mussolni and
Il think) Kemal Pasha and proceed to headlines OF
the crash the depression, and the armaments of
the world It was impossible of course to put in all
the intervening steps, but the moral is clear enough as
it u.s. The days of normalcy and the Ku Klux Klan
the days of the permanent prosperity which led to our
crash and the most revolutionary change in American
social and economic life, all given their form and
power and direction by the war;
Back to the War
We have grown accustomed to our later disasters
and have found many villains in this fourth act of
the drama that we have forgotten the fac
tor 1t crops up occasionally in problems of the debt
and even there prone to forget that if there had
been no war, there would have been debts Radical
critics assure that is inevitable element IN
capitalist society and simultaneously with due respect
to Mark that the capitalist crash would have come
sooner or later without the Neither expla-
nation gives any for putting out Of minds
what we and our elders did for ourselves between 1914
and 1918.
In Germany, they defending POSSIBLY
because it kills JeWs) and in every country of the
world the preparations for continuing, because
no one has yet found the formula by which
be avered That formula will not be found by hating
the horrors the brutal stupdites of war; will
be found only when the causes of eliminated
Until then, study pictures and learn what
we are in for-next time. Only it won't be good
as the first one.
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