Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1931, Page 79

PART 7. he Swundy Stax Magasine WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 8, 1931. What Pr Art Notes: Features 20 -PAGES:; ofit F rom the War? A Famous Author Looks Back Upon the Ruin and Death W hich Littered the Earth ~ Just Thirteen Years Ago— Nations That Stare Across Each Other’s Frontiers W ith Same Old Suspicion and Hostility—The Passion of National Egotism. T is 13 years since the bugles blew “Cease Firing” in the World War, and living men and women who had es- caped from the destroyer looked around at the ruin and death which littered the earth. Millions of young men—the best of the world’s youth at that time—who would have been the leaders of life in science and business and beauty, and all human energy, were dead. The genius of a generation went “Civilized Nations Must Unite or Perish.” A A B AR A AAAARAAT BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS down with them, and we have not yet made up that loss. OtHer things went down with them and into the discard— many illusions, many hopes and some of the faith by which the human mind has reconciled itself to life. Belief in the progress of humanity itself toward some higher intelligence and more perfect or- der had received a heavy shock. While the war was in progress only a. few minds here and there had dared to look across the frontiers to the wider aspect of t$ruth. Then the immediate need haéd been for self-defense; the —Drawing for The Sunday Star Magazine by Joseph Simons. urgent and desperate desire had been to defeat the enemy. The first ideals which had stirred masses of men to a sacrifice beyond self-interest for their country’s sake had faded out or weakened under the strain and agony of the long ordeal, but the fighting men had gone on to the end with a sense of inescapable destiny. Some of them believed ‘to the end that somehow their sacrifice would lead to &