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ABREAST THE NEW YEARAuthor(s): Percy B. Baxter, William E. Borah, Victor Hugo and GoetheSource: Advocate of Peace through Justice, Vol. 90, No. 1 (January, 1928), p. 46Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20661793 .

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46 ADVOCATE OF PEACE January

our several countries, only there issues are settled by majority vote enforced by the

machinery of law and violence is pro hibited by the police. Even more violent

partisan spirit arises between nations from time to time, and these differences are

likely to become more and not less fre

quent as time and space are annihilated.

Only in this case there is no legislature to

give effect to majority decisions, no court with unlimited jurisdiction, no policeman to intervene. Today between nations there is no redress save war.

The women must take the lead in this crusade against war. I am for equal rights between the sexes, but it is obvious that

nien alone have failed to end war largely because the appeal of heroism and sacri fice makes them blind to its hideous wick edness. It is women who see most clearly the horrors and futile madness of war.

They realize that almost no cause can

justify the wholesale massacre of their own children. Let it be the primary busi ness of our women to decide now that war shall be ruled out as a method of settling international disputes, at any rate be tween the most civilized nations of the world. The time for them to act is not tomorrow or next year, but now, for the

adversary is once more active in the land. The Geneva failure proves it.

ABREAST THE NEW YEAR Let us, whatever our origin or creed and regardless

of our station in life, enter upon this new year with the determination to recognize honest differences of opinion and to make serious effort to get other peoples' point of

view; to credit others with good intentions; to think and speak well of others; to ask no privileges for our

selves we are not willing to accord to others; and to remember that true personal liberty goes hand in hand with self-control.

PERCY B. BAXTER.

Piracy used to be legal, but when made a crime it

disappeared. The same is true of slavery. Why should

war, the most stupendous of curses, wear the crown of

legality? WILLIAM E. BORAH.

A day will come when a cannon shall be exhibited in our museums as an instrument of torture is now, and

men shall marvel that such things can be.

VICTOR Huoo.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

GoMHz.

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