The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-25

the viewpoint of the common people, 1t is impossible to avoid arnazement and wonderment at the stupidity of statesmen and poli- ticians whose blunders drench the world in the blood of the peo- pie, in wars that breed more wars, for even an eighth grade pupil knows that war does not end war, but sows 8 crop of endless future wars, that as surely as night fol- lows day, revenge begets revenge, as love begets love. And yet we find adult legislators, rulers, pres idents, dictators, and emperors, kings and queens deliberately seeking causes for wars, unmind- full of the precious lives of their subjects even when the people are supposed to rule, they are betrayed into war by their rulers. Some of whom are obsessed with egoism that causes them to believe 1t is their mission on earth to create a Utopia through war, in which all will be happy and that universal brotherhood will be Q fact in r1a- ture.
 Such egoists pray devoutly for war, even at the cost of hundreds of thousands slain in the flower of manhood, for power intoxicates until human life is but a pawn in the dance of death.
 It is @ cause of astonishment and wonder to the average nor- mal human mind that any man or group of men can so far for- get their humanity as to brag in the very teeth of the people who entrusted them with power to safeguard them, that they seek to break or destroy some dictator or tyrant just for the sake of per- sonal hatred, or the pompous vanity of boosting that they can whip such an enemy. But they never fail to camouflage the hideous truth that only by spill ing oceans of the blood of the common people can they attain their ambition.
 NO Wdl ULAdV ido CtSA UCCll fought has been of benefit to humanity, only in the case of wars to attain liberty from ty- rants. The world today has gone haywire over idealogies. So that men speak of war for ideals of government until they fall in love with their thought creations, and like the ancient Hebrews mould them into a golden calf, and fall down and worship the golden image, and become so enthused that they seek to force their ideals on other nations, and SO start more wars. They label such wars as wars for freedom and liberty, or some other catch word, and promise new world pat tern of civilization that will sprout incense over humanity instead of cannon balls and dynamite. Such policies instead of being wars to end wars breed wars that will murder mankind for thousands of years to come.
 Another phenomenon of the times is the wave of Anglo-mania that has swept over the country in answer to intensified war prop aganda, as differentiated from the surge of Anglo-phobia of the turn of the century, caused probably by a fear of the possibility of a Germanization of the world. The truth is that, according to Albert Leon Guerard, individuals as well as nations, we never know what we can do, or will do.
 If we want to fight dictators we do not have to go to Eu- rope, but a short time ago one of them committed atrocities on our doorstep, no European dictator ever attempted the un- utterable Machado, brutal dic- tator of Cuba, who with his sec- ret Porra or murder gang slaughtered over a thousand men women and children under the protection of our government, and got away with 1t until driven into exile by the Cubans, and hardly a word in our newspapers, with the exception of the New York Times. So with the shootings of men, women and children in the Black and Tan masacres in Tree land, same with the Ethiopian slaughter of men. women and children, same with the Chinese horrors. and so on until the pres- en { worldwide turmoil broke loose, and civilization was rocked