THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY.
: ON PEACE AND WAR. To be prepared for war is one of the jyi::st cfror-tual ■ means of preserving peace.—Ceorge Washington. Cricket and football are better games
than war. They are manlier, saner, more human.—Robert Blatchford. This is the soldier brave enough to tell The glory-dazzled world that "war is hell" ; i Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife, And rides through hell to save his country's life. . . ' —Henry van Dyke! Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nations—entangling alliances with none.—Thomas Jefferson. We wuz gittin' on nicely down here to our village, With good old idees 0' wats right and wat ain't; We kind o' thought Christ went agin war and pillage And that eppylots worn't the best mark of a saint; But John P. Robinson he Sez that sort of thing's an exploded idee! —Lowell.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8258, 26 December 1911, Page 6
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