Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1946-02-21
L Might Be
WrOng--But
DEDUCTION
By
P. G. STROMBERG

And endless leagues and hear
vOice reply;
If he can span the earth on
fashioned qoimgs
And chart aOith pen the course
of distant spheres,
And take NTH mind and hand
from secret springs
The treasures nature held ten
million gears.
If he can stop "a river's roaring
FLOW
Create a forest in desert
a0Gste,
Destroy a land Nth one saoift
mighty blo1O
And shame the lightning aoith
his fearless haste.
II all these things mans genius
can release,
IT'S sure that he can shane a.
lasting peace.
JOSEPH C. BROWN.
WHAT A powerful appeal to
F." men to work out lasting
peace! How well Mr.. Brown
depicts the strength of man in
the development of things ma
terial. And yet,
A what an indict-
Permanent ment of man.
Peace kind because we
are unable to
accomplish A PERMANENT
PEACE which would be a great
er blessing to all than any in
vention or discovery.
Peace is what civilization
wants and needs. Atomic energy ?
cscfiab IL in ultimately De
shown where it can be of benefit
to mankind but up to now it has
done nothing more among ma
tons than scare them to the
point where each is afraid the
other will have too much advan-
tage. The one good it did was
to hasten the, end of our war
with Japan. But peace? We
have always had the tools with
which to solve the problem. All
that is needed is the universal
will to have peace. If this uni
yersal will ultimately determines
that disarmament is an essential
step to peace
Civilization then the powers
Wants and of the world
Needs Peace should work out
the formula. If
a worldwide police force is need
ed the nations should give it
support. If the question of
atomic energy should rest with
the Security Council of the
United Nations then this coun-
try should take the lead to make
the desire a reality. If the sus-
picions of nations cannot be
allayed. to the point where each
is willing to accept the other in
good faith, then each should sub
scribe to the proposition that the
Security Council be permitted to
make periodic inspections of each
country's ability to make war.
And should any country violate
provisions looking toward the
maintenance of peace, the entire
force of the United Nations
should be used to correct such
violation and impose such pen
atty as all nations would pre-
scribe.
History has shown that mans
desire to build and destroy is
stronger than
Man Is his desire to
Naturally make compro-
Warlike misses. This is
probably because
a compromise might tend toward
limiting building and destruc-
ton. Man is naturally warlike.
From early childhood the nat
ural instinct of the boy is to
take what he wants regardless
of consequences. Only training
develops the boy into a civilized
man and the natural instinct be-
comes subdued. But under pres
sure of some great emotion the
veneer of civilized training soon
vanishes and the naked instinct
of the man becomes the motivat-
ing impulse. 1t is under such
strain that leaders of nations are
led to warlike actions. II Is not
that the people who must finally
make the sacrifices Of war really
want war. Therefore it is
proper for us to realize that
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