MADNESS OF MILITARISM

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 8

MADNESS OF MILITARISM

'(To the Editor.) publicity might well be given by the Press to such lectures, which deal with matters of the utmost importance, ™rf alone to i New Zealanders and Britishers! but to all the nations of the world Th. professor, after outlining the develop-t-r. °£ prunitlve races and the causes which have gradually led' up to the necessity .for the maintenance of huw navies and standing armies, quoted figure, showing that the cost of war and prepii t.ons for war and defencefcad now rfeS to such an enormous amount.that it represented about-six /times the amount Britain was spending on education or roughly 13 S 9d out of'every S^hich the people pay in. taxes, is being devoted to the worship of the god of war.:; N« nation really profits by war, even though they win the conflict, and the terrible S ho°d« a thousand times more de~ SJSS^II thali. the ruinous financial drain for «,» ? ? atloD 1* war- The prospect for the future, unless some better means fiLf^™£ .^.^^"tional disputes, be found, is dark indeed; scientific research is providing and storing up untold hort? ' -T + l? ma? let loose at anytime if .the nations go mad once afeain/ but education and a, thorough understanding between the nations can avert the most terrible calamity that could befall the human race. The names of bwl eral great firms interested in the manufacture of^ armaments were quoted, and their methods of complicated financa Sm^k*^ 1 French capitalists have sij^ most nations showed that a great sid^r the question" of allowing some o£ the smaUer yet vigorous nations having 1 place m^he sutt in order that they^mav" JOHN GASTLJL