Judge — September 12, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Peace and War THe GREATEST potencies of peace for happin and human progr appeal at a time when war is devastating a continent and threatens the world The great countr whose armies are destr ing and being destroyed no doubt already deplore their loss of tranquillity and the blessings they have thrown to the winds. The terrors with which war now fills the public mind and shocks the imagina- tion invoke the works of peace by sheer contrast. War means death, waste, butch- ery, desolation and all manner of suffer- ing. It destroys industry, paralyzes com- merce, halts» the beneficent work of science, causes art to languish, and not only tends to obliterate the results of all peaceful achievement, but wipes out masses of men whose lives are worth more than all else that it submerges in its path of ruin. ce is preached as a necessary element of civilization, and civilization should make war a paradox to humanity. Yet what can avail when great ions of the race show that the primal impulse to fight and destroy simply sleeps, and that men may become barbarians again at the beat of a drum? And in what does the present international conflict of kings differ from the plundering exploits of savage rulers of remote ages? It is difficult to justify any war on any theory. The nations now murdering each other may destroy their own identities and erase the geographical lines that have demarcated them; but the graver result will be their halt of the progress of the world and the menace to civilization i self their deadly riot embodies. No tory in such a destructive upheaval can prevent the evil effects it will visit upon generations to come. Under Two Flags WHILE, of course, the United States flag will be at the fore in the in- ternational naval parade at Panama, many of the ships of other nations will have to sail under a flag of truce. At least that is the way it looks at this session of the court. Mars—Go ahead, boys! That's the right spirit, anyway The Passing of Bigamy RE WE about to bid good-by forever to bigamy? When a gallant in Los Angeles was caught with too many wives, his lawyer put up the pic- fense that he was not guilty of bigamy or trigonometry or any- thing of that commonplace kind; he was merely af- | flicted with ‘‘matrimonial Let. philosophers and psychologists discuss the more profound question as to whether a man, having once knelt at Hymen's alt can allow the incident to escape his mind to such an extent as to go and do it again; the fact remains, now the ice has been broken by this Los Angeles legal mind, that we shall hear more and more of this novel marital disorder. There are too many astute jurisprudes in this coun- try for an opportunity like this to slip by unembraced. It requires no imagina- tion whatsoever to sve the chancery courts of the future filled with mighty experts learnedly disagreeing as to whether aman is a bigamist or merely an unfortunate matrimonial aphasiac. Brief Decisions T TOOK so long to move Mr. Huerta that we are afraid the moving-picture peo- ple found little but still life in their negatives of that interesting episode in American hystery. A good deal of the war news received suggests that the bulk of it was originally told to the marines and by them trans- mitted by special wireless by means of an endless series of hot-air vibrations, comicbooks.com