War Appropriations and Universal Peace
By Editor
Secretary-of-War Garrison has presented to the House his estimate for the army for the next fiscal year. He requests $106,000,000, which is about ten million greater than the figures submitted a year ago. The armies and navies of the world are seeking constantly for increasing appropriations. How good it would be if that $106,000,000, instead of being appropriated for the destruction of mankind, could be used to relieve the wants of the ten million people in the United States who are said to be living below the bread line! Some great, good, and true men and women in these times have high ideals for universal peace and for relieving the sufferings of humanity; but the pressing majority crowd them into the background, and the great war-god ruthlessly demands his sacrifice year by year. Some men think that universal peace lies just ahead of us, but the prophecies and the facts point to the universal war of Armageddon instead.