Will the mothers protect their children's nature against the unsocial small souls who are always ignorantly or maliciously ready to thrust fangs and venom into the generous natures of frank and social children by having them recite stupid praise of distinguished human butchers and "famous victories"?

An American literary man of great eminence, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, thus rebuked the poisoners of school children:

"But even now, think how much more care you give to the study of the histories of war than to the histories of peace. There are ten times as many people who know who commanded at the Battle of New Orleans as there are who could tell me the name of the great apostle who made freedom the law for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Michigan. This man died leaving no memorial."

(6) The working class should speedily get control of public libraries and throw out and keep out books written especially to exalt war and puff the brilliant butchers who have guided millions of working men to death on blood-soaked battlefields, throw out and burn all books designed to praise the Christian or pagan cannibalism, or the civilized savagery called war. LABOR UNIONS AND ALL OTHER WORKING CLASS BODIES SHOULD MAKE FORMAL AND VIGOROUS PROTEST AGAINST HAVING ANYTHING SAID IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN PRAISE OF WAR AND IN PRAISE OF DISTINGUISHED BUTCHERS. Let them reflect too that military drills, given as such, with martial songs and war tales, cultivate blood lust in the children, blind them to the true meaning of war, make them an easy prey, later, to the crafty cowards who will seek to use them in future savage contests, and are thus an outrage on the children. For a dozen reasons the working class should get control of local school boards.†

(7) The following lines from a poem written by an ele

* See Lucia A. Mead's Patriotism and the New Internationalism, p. 22.

Read Walter Walsh's Moral Damage of War, Chapter Three on the "Moral Damage of War to the Children." The chapter is of startling importance.

The Boy Scouts in this picture have each a staff instead of a rifle, which, of course, proves (to the stupid and ignorant) that "the Boy Scout organization is not militaristic." The New York Times used this picture June 9th, 1912, and gave it the following name: "The King [of England] at Aldershot, on His Way to the Manoeuvres, Salutes the Coming Army.' The man who inspired the Boy Scout Movement in England, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, induced the blood-stained Tsar of Russia to organize three million Russian lads as Boy Scouts to serve as future soldiers. Baden-Powell is a special hero of the Boy Scouts of America. Note the bribed, prideless human toads, the professional palavering decoy-ducks, in the left of the picture. Read Chapter Eight carefully. See Index, "Boy Scouts."

gant coward, are often used in the primary grades of the public schools:

A SCHOOL TEACHER CAN MAKE A FOOL AND A MURDERER OF A BOY OF EIGHT OR TEN YEARS WITH SUCH LINES. REMEMBER THAT POETS AND TEACHERS WHO FURNISH THE WAR-SONG CHLOROFORM FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN USUALLY "SIDE-STEP" WHEN THE STORM BREAKS-NO RIFLE BUSINESS FOR THEMTHEY LET OTHERS "MEET THE STORM" WHICH THEIR POETRY AND TEACHING HELPED STIR UP. THE WAR-SONG POET AND THE WAR-SONG SCHOOL TEACHER, IF YOU PLEASE, TOO "CULTIVATED AND RESPECTABLE" TO BE PATRIOTICALLY

BUTCHERED.

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Under no circumstances should a working class father and mother keep silent while a public school teacher or a Sundayschool teacher thrills the children's blood and blasts the glorious sentiments of human brotherhood with recitals of war-tales and fulsome praise of men whose "glory" is red with the blood of tens of thousands of working class men. Such stories and such praise scar and brutalize the social natures of the children as distinctly as a hot branding iron would disfigure their tender faces.

(8) The little lovers, the children, who are conceived in love, born in love, and live on love, who hunger for love, long to love, glorify the home with love and make the sad world hope for almost mad for-love, one generation of these sweet little lovers, these prattling sweethearts of mankind, would, when grown up, fill the world with an international love, if they were not bitten by the viper of petty, local patriotism.

The mother who will think about this matter somewhat will promptly realize that there is something disastrously wrong with the education which stings her little lovers with a murderer's aspiration. There is something wrong when the gracious neighborliness and charming sociability of children give way to swaggering insolence and savage blood-lust.

Let the mother think of it: Even their playthings, their toys, are craftily used to sting, to debauch the imagination of the children, to write the hopes of brutes in the hearts of gentle children. Lately there has been enormous increase in the business of manufacturing toy soldiers, toy cavalry horses, toy cannon and toy Gatling guns, also khaki soldier clothing for children. "120,000 bales of scrap tin from the Puget Sound canneries were sent recently to Hamburg, Germany, to be made into toy soldiers."* There can be no doubt about the results of using such garb and playthings. That the child is thus scarred is revealed when the tiny boy assumes the attitudes and the strut and swagger of the professional manslaughterer. His very conversation with his military toys shows he is marked-ready.†

William Lloyd Garrison wrote:

"My country is the world, my countrymen are all mankind.” But the stung child can not learn the meaning of Garrison's noble words.

(9) Boy, kill one human being, and you will be called a murderer-despised and hanged. But kill a thousand human beings in war-and you become "great"! Deluded women smile upon you, little children gape at you, preachers praise you, politicians pet you, orators glorify you, capitalists grin at you, universities honor you, and the Government medals and pensions you;-but lonely, war-orphaned children and war-robbed widows, these despise you exactly in proportion as they understand you.

Remember, boy, the soldier's sword reaches through the slaughtered father to others-reaches the hearts of helpless women and helpless children.

Which would you rather be, boy, a dead and useless slaughterer of men, or a live and useful man of peace?—a dead butcher or a live brother?

* New York World, editorial, May 6, 1910.

† See New York Times, October 31, 1908, long article on the increasing manufacture of such toys.