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 12 the savage impersonal hate of modern war is indefensible; that the butchery is unmeaning; that to kill off your customers in another country is stupid; that war is barbarism, and means delay of social happiness and progress. And, above all, teach that the poverty of the nations is mainly due to the enormous waste in the childish rivalry in armaments. Sir Max Waechter, who has had long conversations with the Sovereigns and leading statesmen of Europe on this subject, tells that Europe spends on armaments far more than it does on Education, Sanitation and Social Reform combined. More than 1,000,000 people emigrate every year from Europe through economic pressure, which is caused chiefly by the burden of armaments. If the same amount of brains, energy, and half the money, were devoted to the development of international law, and to making friends between nations, the federation of Europe would be firmly established, and armaments would gradually disappear. Money would become more plentiful, salaries and wages would rise. The hundreds of millions of pounds now spent on armaments could be saved, and be applied to industrial and social enterprises, and the millions of able-bodied men, who do nothing but military drill, would become important factors in producing articles required by mankind. (Let every woman who reads this join the "European Federation League," 39, St. James' Street, Piccadilly, London, S.W.)

must be made plainly and decidedly with no uncertain sound. Women have the right to do this, for they number two-thirds of the existing Church membership. They are more loyal to the Church than men are. Let them ask for loyalty to this cause in return. The Church has everything to gain, and nothing to lose, by working hand in hand with the mothers of mankind in this crusade against war. It will indeed be to the Church's lasting damage if