Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — Irresistible. [ARTICLE]

Irresistible.

Some nations (of a remote world) were very intent upon living at peace one with another — so latent that they spent enormous sums in making themselves prepared for war. For in that world, curiously -enough, the conditions were such that there was no way to keep from fighting except to he ready to do so at the drop of a hat But incidentally to these martial preparations it was impossible to prevent war acquiring, potentially, new horrors, and when these numbered several the nations suddenly flew at one another’s throat They laid it to a hatural curiosity. “We “himply had to try those new honors out!” they explained to the astonished onlookers, who had been saylag tbat tbwc aW .would be : other great war.