Life — December 7, 1928 — page 49: what you’re looking at

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a_i w oo , oe back invited co-operation of everybody to keep the peace. It got a large though not unanimous support and undoubtedly has a value and prospects of further develop- ment that will increase its efficiency. | Even critics who deride it might admit that it is a ail towards peace. The im- mediate errand of the international doc- tors would seem to be to develop and strengthen it as much as possible. But after all, the League of Nations is a machine and though modern war is three-fourths machinery and it is reason- able enough to try to make a machine to beat it, there are doubts whether that is really the way to do the job. It is nothing | new to plan to fight the devil with fire. | That has been going on a long time, but the Adversary is still pretty active. The | plan for world peace that was inaugurated | by the Herald Angels who gave us the | great Christmas slogan did not seem to rest. on the efficiency of machinery. It looked to the saving of the world by spiritual means. It was based on the be- lief that the greatest power in human life and indeed in the universe was the power of spirit, that spirit controlled matter and not the contrary. The idea was then that | there would be peace on earth when men no longer wanted to fight, and the teach- ing that followed the slogan supported that idea by disparaging the things that men had always fought for in comparison with other things which they might have for the asking if they knew how to ask. The Pact of Paris, called the Kellogg Pact, looks more to the controlling spirit and less to machines. That is its strong point and best warrant to be the world’s new hope. So that is about the way things stand} at present, We and our neighbors, espe- | cially our neighbors, are devising the best obstacles to war we can think of, in the hope that they will at least defer until we can think of something better any such vast calamity as we have lately observed and gone through. We all know, how- ever, that the only real assurance of peace will come from ‘such advancing knowl- tdge and such improvement in the minds of men that war will become impossible to them, that conquest will look futile and foolish, that hogging will look like hogging and not like laudable acquisition, and some other forms of aspiration will surpass the eternal craving after more ma- terial things and more of what we are accustomed to call pleasures. The more we can get our minds off the things that Money can buy or force obtain, and fix them on Good Will to Men and the higher happiness that belongs to it, the more we shall do for peace. The best Property a man has is his thoughts. 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