Ellsworth Community College - Web Yearbook (Iowa Falls, IA)

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gli' -lxi uh -.., Q - S : ? Q? ,f 'l'l li . l j K' t' 0, .. . C:-'LJA W ' mm 'W' 1 O UR ORA TOR E112 Blast Emile WILLIAM H. KRIEG '18 There is but one great battle That all brave men must fight, It is the holy battle, The battle for the right. The paramount problem challenging the nations of the World to-day is how to live peaceably and prosperously with one another. To this end, the life of every man worthy the name is dedicated. To solve this problem successfully has baffled the wisest men of all ages. The mighty pendulum of civilization swings from War to peace, from peace to War. It must come to rest upon the middle ground of freedom or else the human drama is destined to be a sad heart-rending tragedy. Sixty centuries of history record an average of one great War for every forty years. On the tragedies that have been enacted, the treasons that have been committed in the name of necessity. Men said: There is no other way We must be free. It is Written in the skies, it is written in the grave, in the heart of every slave: up to freedom I must rise. The love for freedom is humanity's one controlling passion. It is the unquenchable fire of hope that warms the heart for every brave and noble deed requisite to pave the way to freedom. Freedom is the germ of life. From a million graves We hear the voice of freedom: to die is sweeter far, than to live and be a slave. In many millions massed in marble monuments we see the form of freedom pointing to the skies. Indeed, history knows no other verdict-but freedom. Freedom at any costg justice to the oppressed. No price is too precious, no burden too great if they but secure freedom. When hidden things Within the Womb of time are ready to unfold there come calamities sublime, followed by joys untold. Peace is the child of freedom. Manv children of freedom have been born, but none have been allowed to mature. All have been killed in the cradle. So today the World is straining itself that it may again give birth to the child of freedom. Meteors' in the sky seek equili- brium. The earth convulses to adjust its foundations. Nations strive to remedy their maladjustments. The star of Empire in its Westward course has

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'HC' M nd 70w J 'gf VW completed its circuit. No longer is it possible for men to seek freedom in new uninhabited lands and there work out their destiny. They are compelled to live with their fellows, to love or to hate, to survive or to perish. The hour of crisis is at hand. The leaves of the judgment book lie unfolded and there, written by the hand of the irrefutable logic of events, we read these verdicts: When nations will not listen to the quiet wooings of the spirit of brotherhood, then they will be forced to listen to the roar of the cannon. Nations will be either their brother's keeper or his killer. Neutrality is impossible. United, nations are able to stand, but divided they are destined to fall. 'tGod has made of one blood all nations of men. But nations have not paid the price for peace. The judgment day has come. War has divided the family of nations. Prussian militarism has committed treason. Treason against humanity, treason against jus- tice, treason against God. These are moments fraught with great solemnity. Trea- son against a nation is terrible to contemplate. But treason against the world- who can fully grasp its despicable atrocity! Oh. the tragedy of it all! It is indeed a crucial moment in the affairs of the world when it becomes necessary for one group of nations to impeach another group for the pursuit of folly. To-day Prussian Militarism stands convicted before the court of humanity. It is teach- ing the world that national aggrandizement and prestige are empty when pur- chased with the blood of trampled millions. That such treason should be committed in an age so devoted to peace seems paradoxical. Hague courts were established. Chief Justice Marshall had declared that No principle of law is more universally recognized than the per- fect equality of all nations. John Spargo wrote: It is the great merit of socialism-grudingly conceded by its bitterest opponents-that it has implanted in the breast of millions of souls in all lands a passionate love for all mankind, a sense of international fraternity. All signs seemed indicative of peace. Every mother's heart yearned and longed for it. Pulpits preached, presses printed, people prayed-peace. Not without faith. Peace was bound to come. It is written in the destines of men that nations shall learn war no more. Peace had been the dream of men everywhere. Now it is coming to be a blessed reality. This war is proving that peace is not an empty dream. When some nations are imprisoned in the gloomy dungeon of national agrandizement, selfishness, domi- nation, and oppression, then war is the only door to peace. The forces' of iniquity challenger, defied the efforts of peace. The challenge was accepted and by the grace of God will be fought to a successful close. It has ever been the one saving virtue of great calamities that they bring nations ftemporarily at leastl to their senses. They force men to realize wherein they have failed. With all the precious blood that flowed in all previous wars that had been waged in the interests of freedom the world had failed to secure peace. The old policies of selfishness were always reassumed and have unfail- ingly led again and again to war. Men knocked at the portals of science and asked for the keys to the palace of peace, but they asked in vain. They search- ed in the halls of learning for freedom's formula, but futile was their search. At last they are forced to deal with the inevitable. Now they are kneeling at the door of heaven pleading for the truth that shall make them free. And the clarion voice of the angel sounds forth the old, old message-love, true brother- hood. There is no other way. The only complex thing about it is its simplicity. During nineteen centuries the nations have failed to learn this simple lesson. However, the inevitable has come-war against war. At first men conjectured whether this would be the last great war. Now they are demanding that it be the last. This is their one aim, to secure a lasting peace, a disarmed world. At last humanity is determined to be free from the shackles of war. Poor, suffering, struggling humanity! All nature is free. The mountains, the hills, the valleys. the seas. Man alone is enslaved. Ignorant in his wisdom, poor with his wealth, slave to his passions. Man like many other animals preys upon his own species. It is indeed sad to contemplate the fact that the only thing enslaving man is man himself. Nature he has subdued, himself he cannot con- quer. Endowed with the will to choose love or hate, he has chosen hate, because 'ig'-. 4 I ni , -- I s 5 I , M g? V . I M, Q 4 : E 5 1 ff on ff' 5 K. --.......z. ' ,H ' '-. Z an e - - , ? i '! -f - 5 H' lkxvflllnxuxu N W 4 K5 Q ff-ma y J L MMM? ..nllru:lrmmxxxyv W- MI ll it .s 1' S