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Prize Essay Written by Miss
Alice liner, at West Hartford
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At the annual meeting of the Con-
necticut Peace Society. it your ego.
prizes were offered to the writers of
the best essays on “The Cost of War. "
'i‘wo prizes or twenty five and litter. cu
uIs‘ilfiiui‘is werootlored to the Will of
pot!- homily-sir” titend Litlrtieo ot
twenty-fir e. fifteen and ten were otter-
ed in compegtion toavhe stpdon zin
tlfe‘ High schools of the: State ‘he
prizes have been awarded as follows:
For the Illigh schools, Ithe‘first prize
to Alice Geer, of West 'Hartford; the
second to Muriel W. Avery, of New
rinven; the third to Alice Elizabeth
Stapicton. of-«South Norweik.
" ‘The «\‘ormul school prizes were
awarded to Katherine Monger and
Alice ISwenson, both of the New Bri-
tain Normal.
all
The High school essay which was
awarded the first prize is as follows:
THE COST OF WAR.
"Which of you desiring to build s '
tower, doth not first sit down and
count the cost?" Oh. that men had
heeded this question when it was uk-
od 'two thousand years ago! 'Had they
built by swords and spears. paid for!
by money drained from the poor. flll~I
' ed with millions upon millions of deadII
bodies. and mortnred together with
cruelty and immorality! if. the world
had counted the cost of this wicked
tower of war, we of the twentieth
’ century would look back upon the
v" ; wars of the first century as upon
. something as foreign to .lt‘ihriot’iini'l
civilization as the bull fights :voi‘ '
Ancient Rome. eras Nero's persocib; -
tion or the Christians. unleash "
have taken two thousand years to'
learn to “first sit down and count the
cost" of war, it true: yet too late;
Whatis the cost or wsr from on“
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it was through war that the French course between nations. hinders the
race degenerated in character and in intellectual growth which a freer ex-
stature. Wsr. not luxury, was the first ensue or ideas and customs would
cause of the decline of Rome. The true bring abt'ut. Civilization does notgd-
IRoman was above the temptations or Vance as rapidly as it would without
! luxury. The type of Roman has lower- this barrier between nations.
ed through war Rome for many gen- ThQiPiitwl effects of war are bad.
erations was coutinunily at war. Who Great benefit might be derived 1mm
fought and died in these wars? Was it the alliance of man) sins 'l nations, but
the slave. the coward. the weskiing‘hwar prevents these alliances.
N0! "- W“ the Roman with “3th ”MI We have already mentioned the vast
301“" with courage. the Rom“ "‘1’ sums of money annually thrown away
strong physique. Leaving for battle upon war. “u what might be ac-
whon a more ind, he was killed. Then ‘ compliment "it"this huge fortune were
his descendants who “"5,“ have been. ‘I spent sanely. What would become of
the me“ who would have inherited 1““ the liquor trnfllc, tuberculosis. the to
noble traits. never existed. instead. cial a“. child‘llnbor, and many other
the next generation inherited the '
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portnnt of all, the moral standpoint
too great for any nation to bear.
war immoral?
beyond a doubt by
What does Jesus think of war?”
any one has such a concoptinn of our
Savior that after honestly asking him
sell that question he does not believe
that war rs sin, that person is to be
pitted. See the sorrow on tho face of
Jesus as he looks upon a battlefield
the welfare of our nation? Instead.
this money is used to establish anoth—
er menace to tht world. What a bless
in; it would be to the thousands who
are starving for the word of God sim-
ply because the mission boards lack
funds, if this money were used to
nationnlperiis if these millions of dol- and 5996 men killing thdlhr hers bo-
traits, 0! i ther, the coward. the hrs 17 ‘ ml in carefully planned cause of someway
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battle. By the toms of heredity. the mom cost of Ivor lio
tree Roman stock diminished and the
lower type increased as long as this
slaughter of the noblest continued.
This is the fate of every warollke us-
tion which murders its noblest and al.
lows the characteristics of the interior
man alone to be handed down to pee.
story: “A young Angel IQ di inst
being sent down to this world on some
business for the first time, had an old
courier spirit assigned him as 9 guide.
They arrived over the seas of Martin
ico in the middle of the long day of
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productive labor. These men receive
salaries! while they contribute noth-
othe culture of the world. They
ambitious man to carry on the work:
of the nation.
Moreover the country has not paid
the price for its lolly when a new
generation hns‘mwn up to take the
place of the men killed in battle. it
takes many generations it takes an
eternity, to pay. ibr this slaughter of
the flower of the nation. War is one
of the worst causes of race dossiers.-
tion. Do menbroed sue cattle by hill-
iux the best and raising young from:
'the worst No more can national
bring forth the highest type oi man
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consume without producing. Thus
they are a drag upon the world
it soldiers are an economic \vsste
in times or peace. they are more
of a waste when their lives are thrown
away in times of war. Think what it
costs a nation to lose thousands or
even millions of its finest men! wwht
for the widows, the orphans, and the
mothers! Aside from any sentiment,
lthe destruction of tile costs the nation
a great price. lit slaughter: ovals»;
ables the strong and wurageous mun
while it leaves the crippled and‘un-
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be killed in war and lonvinx at home,
as room of the next. generation the
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g1“- Wl I“ W31“ "31' 00335 from ‘ ’0 it meets political allalrs badly. when
“9i Mouton ’by allowing their best to I
spread the teachings of aStnn. This
sod old world of ours needs retorms.
Doo- war WY economically when 1‘ Mme require money. but the y can-
wnotos vest sums or money, when it ‘0! got the necessary funds when mil~
gives millions of men unproductive in lions of dollars are wasted, are worse
obstinate fight between the fleets 0!
Rodney and do Grouse. When. through
the clouds of smoke, he saw the tire oi
the xuns,. the decks covered with than-
gied limbs and bodies dead or dying.
the ships sinking. burning or blown
into the air, and'the quantity of pain.
misery and destruction, the crews yet
allv'o were thus with so much eager»
Incas desiing around to one another. he
Does war pay nocinily when it hin-
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We have seen the cost of war fromI
an economic and from a social stand-
point. let us consider the cost of war
from the standpoint which is most im-
11‘ war lowers the morals, its cost is
is
The morality of war can be tested
ta: question.
if
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and put an and to wnr.
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took to m In '
replied the glide ~‘l
. tote. This is W
these are men. 6
each other in this . I
have more sense on
men call human“ I
men worse than dams,
their morals?
is war bringing ..
neighbors as thomseiv 4
more at pence MI 1.
with hatred in than“ '
slaughter those when;
His own imam? 990!
or life raise their on: ',
we reach Hut
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miss, bless than “:81
800d to they! trust hats ‘
for them that W ‘
persecute you " ‘
How long will the .4} "
submit to this barbuotu
war? illow long will
economic waste. this ~-
this moral doendnthan?
war is altogether too . I I ‘
time that the tollowgp of ' .
of Peace rallied around
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