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DOES CIVILIZATION CIVILIZE MEN?
Contemplating the present war in Europe, the first thought
that comes to mind is: “Does civilization civilize man?”
When the Goths, visi-Goths, Vandals and Huns swept
down upon southern Europe some centuries ago, they were
after plunder. They wanted rich lands, more food and all
kinds of personal adornment. They had different gods that
they prayed and sang hymns to, but instead of that religion
causing the mto respect any property rights, they held in their
convenient religions that their gods would especially bless their
biggest fighters and biggest thieves.
Some of them were converted to Christianity, returned
home and they and their descendants have made up several of
the Christian nations of Europe. They have made vast ad
vances too in learning in the arts and sciences and in reducing
thier thoughts to a literature which it is a perpetual charm to
peruse.
They have discarded their pagan gods for the living God,
to whom they hold themselves responsible, and in reverence for
whom they preach truth, mercy, charity and all around right
eousness.
But, suddenly, last year they sprang to arms on the flimsy
excuse that one little power in southern Europe would not make
reparation for the murder of a prince and princess by some
coarse assassins. I7p to date perhaps three millions of men
have been killed and as many more so maimed that they will
be a charge upon society for the rest of their'lives. Aral the
killing is going on at an apparently steadily increasing rate.
During the centuries vast improvements have been made in
fhe means of destruction, but the last news indicates that the
armies where the heaviest fighting is going on, have come down
to hand fighting such as the old barbarians indulged in.
Moreover the fighting is for the same purpose that Atilla
andAlaric fought—for land and loot.
The question is, “Does civilization civilize men?” “Does
Christianity come any nearer quelling the wild beast in man
than Paganism did?”
If civilization has-done anything for men except to make
them more adroit murderers than their Pagan ancestors were,
it is not visible to the naked eye.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
A boxing match between Col. Teddy and Col. W. J. would
be quite apropos. ^
Dr. Jordon, great peace advocate, says war in itself settles
nothing, but that is mere philosophizing in the higher ethics.
Let’s study a clog fight for a few minutes.
Newfoundland cod fishers, blessed with an unusually heavy
catch,' are confronted with, great losses because the war has
hindered shipments of salt. The war hits right and left.
It was asked the other day what Mexico City would do with
Carranza, after he had captured it. You needn’t mind reply
ing; the question has been answered.
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A Pittsburgh paper gave us the hint of a happy hope in a
headline, large luminant, which said “Great Gasser Muzzled.”
The story beneath it told of a McKeesport gas well. He is t
still talking.
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A writer in the Christian Herald tries to reduce the question
to fudamentals, and has calculated’ that every American manu
facturer who makes $100,000 on ammunition for the European!
maelstrom kills 78,000 men.
Prof. Tliomfas Jefferson Jackson See says graviation is
movable like sound or sunlight. If the Qennans could harness
it, they certainly would have things coming their way. And
woudn’t Tv Cobb be a demon with a little gravitatino powder I
liihtiPfl An liie fflnvp!
It now appears that Russia pursued the policy of “strategi
cal retirement” in the case of the United States and Alaska.
She thought America would take Alaska anyway, so that it {
might as well be given. In getting $7,200,000, tbe Bear was
applying the policy now officially announced as “the principle
of partial defeat.”
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John \\ annamaker’s suggestion is that the United States
buy Belgium from Germang to be presented to the Belgians.
That, would be lovely but dangerous. For, a few years hence,
England or France, Russia, or some other country might decide
to take Belgium on the theory that the United States again
would buy it up. Belgium is in a terrible pickle to be sure,
but there is no real certainty that the Germans will hold it.
They say they will; maybe they won’t. While there, is no sign
of it in the sulphurous atmosphere at this moment, a few months
may see Germany having botlis hands full trying to save her
own borders from the allies. The war isn’t over, and no man
nkoweth how the map may yet be changed.
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