sonal reason, where character is of the highest and achievement has no room for improvement. Are we there or even near it today? Answer for yourself.

We do things, prompted no by law or order, but by impulse. Even thinking twice before we speak proves that a hesitancy on our part is evidence that we are swayed by many things.

Since the beginning of the world we have had the stronger physical power overrule the weak. Can we conceive of anything more brutal than the bull fights for the entertainment of ladies and nobles? Would human intelligence delight in such sports today? Of old the fight for existence was crude and cruel, and therefore they live under the theory that might made right. The arena attracted thousands and thousands of people dressed in their brightest and best to witness a fight between a huge, hungry lion and a poor, small man, who through misfortune or undesirable birth was given that punishment. Education gradually came in and wiped out the arena. Education did wipe out the arena, but education must be still stronger and lead civilization. It must lead until even our prize fights are eradicated.

Can we conceive of anything more treacherous than a massacre of people because of a difference in religious beliefs? The Romans caused race prejudice and hatred among the

Jews and her people for many generations. Even the animosity which exists against the Jews today is revenge and antagonism inherited from ancestors. Our descendants will surpass us in education and intelligence. But let us begin now to tear down the barriers erected by prejudice, and then we shall see prevailing before us in every discussion a spirit of harmony and mutual confidence. We would not incite riots or massacre people today because of the difference in religions any more than we would burn down a church because we did not believe in its principles. Education is bringing us to a point where we shall all believe in God or the Unknown; call it what you will, but we will see no image of a person. That will rule our destiny, and yet civilization will not be present until the divine and ourselves shall be synonymous, and no secrets will be hidden from us.

The exceptions in medieval France serve to recall the love of war in ancient times. People were punished by death for the smallest theft; to walk on pointed red-hot irons, or tortured by gradually cutting off the limbs; these were the methods with which a supposed civilized nation used to instill respect of the inferior to the self-acclaimed well born. Today we have not the guillotine to chop off the offender's head and toss it to the crowd of spectators for

them to amuse themselves with at handball. We have developed a step and use more advanced methods of inflicting punishment. We give sentences of hard labor, deprive offenders of their freedom, or inflict the maximum penalty of electrocution. But real civilization, such as we do not have as yet, will warrant other conditions, and will not recognize such punishments. The courts for settling individual differences are now needed even with their verdicts under the present laws, which gives the judge the right to control part, or all, of the future of the offender's life.

There once lived a wealthy man who wanted to reform his wicked life in order to save his soul, and to regain the recognition of his old friends whom he had lost. He therefore visited the priest, who advised him to be pitiful and sympathetic. The rich man walked home after agreeing with the priest that love and charity were above wealth and fame.

That evening as he was comfortably seated near his fireplace smoking a good cigar, he heard the shrill voice of a woman outside, saying: "I am cold and hungry." Immediately he recalled the advice of the priest, "Be kind and sympathetic." With this thought in mind, he exclaimed: "Ah, my dear woman, I pity you." The woman waited, and then cried again, "Dear sir, I am starving and almost

frozen." To this the man again replied, “Ah, dear woman, I sympathize with you."

The next day the woman was found dead on the rich man's doorstep. He had given pity and sympathy, but that did not bring relief to the suffering woman. It takes action on the part of human intelligence to relieve others. We may pity the poor sufferers of war, we may sympathize with those who cry "Peace!" but what good will it do if we only feel it?

We must act. The only way to give relief is to establish international peace. We hear nations exclaiming in every tongue, "Peace, peace! We want peace!" If you believe in peace, you must act, act in the same way you would to relieve any suffering.

I believe with you, that the first law of life is self-preservation, which leads to the making of the individual. Development is the second, the stimulating of the intelligence by means of education. The third and most important law is equilibrium-the accord, co-operation and harmony of human life. When we shall have fully opened our hearts to these laws, peace will be substituted for war.

Somehow I cannot believe it-but who can tell? Germany is preparing for a conquest— I feel it.

Lovingly yours,

Dear Billy:

March, 1914.

I hope you are wrong in your thought about war. Strange though, I, too, feel it coming.

The cause of war is selfishness in almost every case. We want more land, more honor, more wealth, more recognition, more rights. In the old barbaric days we fought for these, but today we must submit our international grievances, not through a municipal court, not to the supreme court of a state, not to the supreme court of a nation, but to the supreme court of the world-a new institution which makes the foundation for a new civilization.

We cannot gain justice by means of fighting. You will recall the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. The latter wished to rule as he pleased, which naturally led to a duel. Might does not make right, and Hamilton, although the better man and in the right, was killed. Does not war result the

same?

Let us take the famous old battles and see if we derived any good from them. The battle