WHAT EUROPE IS LOSING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 249, 30 March 1915, Page 7

WHAT EUROPE IS LOSING.

(From Collier's Weekly, New York.* The Italian earthquake was an appalling disaster, but Germany has had such an earthquake practically every tlir.-c weeks since the beginning of last. August, and worse, for only her pieked and skilled men are slain. What did nature do to men as bad as the things they inflict on each other. The wnte of property is not so important, for what we have had we can make again, but human life, once wasted, is forever lo9t. Think of the devil's task to which Europe's leadership has devoted her strength. The masses of men now busied in slaughter have no personal interest in it. When thin war is over i n :ev will go back to work, and their lives will be narrow and hard, or not, according to what they can do in their several places. But even now the power that could achieve for all of them a broader and better life is being poured out in murder, like heart's blood into sand. These armies could construct a Panama Canal every month, they could rebuild all the slums on earth, irrigate tile Sahara, clear the jungles of .Africa and South America, and set mankind to living in a world worth while. Why is there not sense enough to do the - ,? Why do we waste the ages in these cancelling policies of hate and death and fear? Tt is the inmost creed of t ! <o United States that constructive, hclo;nl work is better than lies and war, that "a city of brothers in brotherlincss abiding," is a dream that can be made io come true for all incii. Keiopc's tini? for seeing this is uostooatd wily; ir, u not lost.