Life — September 19, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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THE HIRED GIRL Mistress usual fallibility, yet the main job is going well and very, very strong, and there is plenty of life still left in the country to push it T is going so strong that, no doubt we should be taking more thought about what is to follow the war, The only plan advanced is for a League of Nations to keep the peace. NOW THAT I'VE GOT HER, WHAT Coop Is SHE? But Mr. Day: speech. point that enough to count Roosevelt. in his Lafayette 1 out that the have military nine nations power something in a League. include Germany, Austria, Tur- key and Russia, none of whom, for years to come, will be acceptable or He also said any better trustworthy as partners that no League would be than a trap, that did not provide for effective military strength to back the treaties to which it assented. That's all true enough, So far as mere mortal vision can see ahead, this 413 weary and wasteful job of soldiering must go on on a considerable scale for years to come, and somebody ought, no doubt, to be working out a plan for it And it is trae that the nations, and that other nation which is three criminal just now so terribly afflicted with fits couldn't he accepted as League part ners for the present. But here are Great Britain, the United ched nee, Maly, Japan and States, now working to ently bound to remain am for some time t form a combin to insure ince of ped the administration of justice m- this world, and it is held that they will have to do so, and that it is time they got out it, especially fe the ( the effect upon manomind, which, as a cor respondent. reminds us, “believes in submission to a firm and durable authority, hut makes small account of voluntary action on the part of a na- oor individual.” here are going to be a lot of Ger mans left after the war. They can't be exterminated nor left to starve to death, nor yet enslaved. They must have a fair chance to live and work and earn money, of which they will re- quire very large sums to pay some bills will be n for damages that them. Bu! sent in to there must something on earth that can hold them dnd keep them in order, and that can only be a that include all the combination will chief 1 ns that are now. exerting ch intensity Avra will themselves with su that such a to per- form duty ements f combination have to. be m and its ms defined, and its terms worked out Should all that be done beiore peace h Germany or afte If possible, because it will be one of the chiei tions of what: ever peace comes. .\ united command on the Western front has been the mak- ing of the Allies’ A definite and public summer campaign arrangement be tween these same allies for co-opera tion to promote certain necessary and unselfish purposes after the war, would safeguard the peace that is to and help to bring it No doubt everyone capable of work- Allies is too come, ing out a League of the busy with the war to want to do it. But it is worth thinking hard about as a detail of the war. comicbooks.com