HOW TO MAKE WAR WORTH WHILE.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1916, Page 2

HOW TO MAKE WAR WORTH WHILE.

•SOME STIRRINf! WORDS PROM MR. HORATIO BOTTOMLEY. Tn a striking article in the Royal Magazine, Mr. Horatio Bottomlev discusses our task as a nation after the war if we are to reap the full benefit from it. llerx! are a few extracts from the article:— "We are going t 0 w j tl fi,; s wnr '"Neither we nor onr children, nor our children's children will witness such a conflict again. '"We shall presently stand upon the threshold of the world's peace. "How are we to insure for ourselves ■and nil the world that Armageddon was worth while? "We have, as a nation, taken a moral bath, and we are being purified by our own blood. '"As a result of this war we may be thrust back a thousand years or flung forward a century. We must see that we are (lung forward. "We are already prepared for great N changes. Our social system has been revolutionised in a year. In the face of a common danger and a common end, class hatred is dead. We will 1 want business Kitcheners not so much to conduct wars as to prevent them. "We shall have to reform our business methods from top to bottom. "Tmpci-inl Parliament will have to be Imperial in actual fact. "If we can vote millions to be spent in shot and shell we can vote a few more to enable our soldiers to make ■the shot and shell of Peace. "Ift secure I lie advantages of Peace we shall require all our brsrins and all our hearls. "I.et us prepare ourselves for a rebirii: of the world."