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of business and enjoy a period of prosperity. 
_ world at large will face a serious condition of affairs. 
WHEN THE War Is Over the financial problems that 
the various governments will have to meet will be great. 
There will be enormous debts that will have to be paid. 
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_ justice and fair play.” 
‘agreement between Austria and Germany 
mien of large fortunes, will be repudiated. 
bursement and ‘rehabilitation 
Already there are those, including Rudyard Kipling, who 
believe that many of the debts, especially those owed to 
Some debts 
will be liquidated at the death of the individuals making 
the loans, the assumption being that persons of such for. 
tunes can afford the losses thus sustained,—a -veritable 
conscription of wealth as of men. It is doubtlessly true 
that many forms of industry will have an unusual amount 
But the 
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condition never before faced by the nations of men. It is a 
fallacy to believe that that prosperity that is prognosticated 
will be permanent and world wide. There is coming for 
the nations of Europe a period of hard times and strict 
economy. Someone must pay for the terrible costs of 
these years of destruction. .To believe that the war 1s 
the harbinger of. prosperity is a delusion. The prosperity 
of America would have been immeasurably better in 1917 
if the whole world had been at peace than it will be be- 
~ cause of the existing conditions. 
__ If tae Arties Win—and it seems likely—-Germany 
will be called upon for no crushing indemnities. There is 
a likelihood of indemnities to be detranded for the reim- 
of) Belgium.. - The great 
features of the peace agreement are likely to be of a politi- 
cal character rather than financial or commercial. The 
territorial problems of distributing land will engage the 
attention of the keenest minds in the world, but the real 
terms and the lasting and great change will be the effect 
upon the government of the Empire. The monarchy has 
gone to its limit. There will be a break, and at the council 
for peace. 
ONE OF THE STRANGE ELEMENTS in the war is Italy’s 
attitude and her war against Austria, the ally of Germany. 
Germany has never declared war on Italy and Italy has 
tiever declared war on Germany. Yet there exists an 
which makes 
it the duty of the one or of the other, as the case may be, 
to come to the aid of the other in the event of an attack. 
Austria has been attacked by a former member of the 
Dreibund, which composed Italy, Germany and Austria. 
. According to that agreement there could not have been, 
theoretically, an attack by any one member upon the other. 
In THE CORRESPONDENCE seized by the British gov- 
ernment, now published for the first time, George Sylves- 
ter Viereck, editor of the Fatherland, is credited with say- 
ing, “While I am thoroughly ashamed of my country at 
present, I nevertheless intend to stay here and fight for 
What a significant statement of 
shame and loyalty. 
It Now Transprires that the fire at Ottawa was prob- 
ably due to an accident rather than to incendiarism. Can- 
ada, however, has reasons to be careful during the coming 
months. The threats against its military stations, arma- 
ment plants and public buildings may not be realized, but 
Canada will take no chance. In times of war too much 
care cannot be taken. 
EMMANUEL Kanv, the great German philosopher, 
really unfolded the only great plan for universal peace. 
If Germany had only accepted the overtures made by 
Great Britain on July 26, 27 and 28, 1914, a long step in 
_, advance would have been made for a world peace ? 
. shall the balance be struck? 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 9 
War Notes. 
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War and the dread of it 
Bids us be rid of it; 
That’s the best can be said of it. 
The world, in saner moments, 
Believes in Christ; 
But for the unthinking multitude 
Not yet hath He sufficed. 
If half the effort to prepare for war 
Were spent.in measures for avoiding strife, 
Nations for shame would rise superior 
And earth, redeemed, take a new lease of life. 
Mankind, with God’s help surely may invent 
A scheme of wise and just arbitrament. 
ey aes 
Tue ARDENT PactrFicist, who is advocating peace at 
any price and demanding disarmament as the national 
policy does not seem to be able to understand that it is 
possible for one to be a pacificist in spirit and desire and 
yet advocate armament and preparedness with that very 
end in view. There are dangers which go hand in hand 
with nulitary preparedness and there are dangers which 
go arm and arm with military unpreparedness; where 
The peace-at-any-price en- 
ihusiasts must not forget that it is possible to be an out 
and out advocate of peace and yet see the wisdom of 
preparing agaimst war. No sane man believes in war or 
the spirit that it inspires. 
THERE ARE THREE important liquor bills before Con- 
gress which indicate the gains that have been made by the 
“drys” during the last decade. One bill provides for a 
prohibition enactment for the District of Columbia, and 
this bill will probably become law. ‘The bill providing for 
a national amendment will be discussed and some gains 
will be made. Another interesting bill based upon a Su- 
preme court decision, provides for a national law pro- 
hibiting liquor as an article of interstate commerce. 
Pror. Royce Maintains that the United States 
government should have made an official protest against 
the invasion of Belgium at the time of the invasion. How- 
ever that may be, Germany fully knows what the attitude 
of America is on that question. Whether our government 
was remiss in its duty at that time or not, there is no ques- 
tion whatever about the feeling and opinion in America 
concerning that violation of Belgium’s neutrality. 
THERE Ovucut Nor to be a dual standard of morals, 
one for individuals and another for states. Not until the 
standards that are accepted as the ethical standards of 
individual living have become the standards of inter- 
national relations will the golden age be ushered in. 
Tuer East Boston CrtIzENs are now rejoicing over 
their remitted toll charges. The inhabitants of Noddle 
Island must now feel that they really live in Boston. 
Hazel—Do you really believe that man is made of 
dust? 
Aimee—I don’t know; but the one you marry should 
be made of gold dust. 
According to the law of averages, all homely women 
ought to be interesting. 
