THE NEXT WAR

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3842, 4 December 1936, Page 2

THE NEXT WAR

CANNOT BE STOPPED! “Chatting with Dr Nicholas Murray Busier, the year my so-called pacifist Play, ‘The Enemy,’ was produced, I recall making a zealous remark about stopping the next war,” writes Mr Channing Pollock. "We were sitting in the president’s office of Columbia University, and Dr Butler leaned back in his chair, smilling faintly. “ 'You can’t stop the next war,’ he said. "Dismayed, I asked, ‘Then what are we struggling for?’ “ To prevent the war of a hundred years from now,’ Dr Butler replied. ‘A hundred years, or five hundred. And it isnt’ a moment too soon to begin.’ “ 'The world wasn’t made in a minute, and it won’t be remade in a minute. either. We are an impatient people. We still believe that our race can be made sane anti sober and economically secure by passing a law, and we are congenitally disinclined to start anything we can’t finish. We forget that, big jobs aren’t done that way, but that our job is done when we’ve done our part of it. Man was millions of years learning to walk erect, and then thousands more learning to use fire and tools. He has come a long way from that in a mere 40 or 50 centuries. His pace grows faster and faster, too, but it is absurd to believe that his progress can be measured by our own little lives.’ ”