In the last issue of the "Herald" to hand I read with interest your editorial on "The Cosmetic Evil," jin which you quote the enormous sum of $750,000,000 as estimated to be spent by American womenfolk on Jeosmeties in the course of a yea and you say that "beginning wit
way urging the adoption of legisla~ the scientists, a movement is under tive measures prohibiting their: use.
If this is so, its effect had been entirely unnoticeable so far in this country. When I was in Shanghai last I found ly or indirectly, disloyal to the mn tion that shelters its propagandists. In all fairness Defence Day should considered for what it is, The is to educate the popular mind—in short, to do in America what Lord Roberts wanted to do in Great Britain years ago when we were all in the frame of mind to believe that no more wars would come.
The luncheon T attended to-day was keyed up to enthusiasm as the auditors listened to an eloquent colonel in, the National Guard who reminded his hearers that, when the United States, entered the war i April, 1917, ions did_sp) forth, but to what did they spring—no arms, no ammunition, no tothe ing. All we could furnish during that time was billions of money, event proportion of which might have been saved had we been in nome degree prepared." It is obvious that the United States will not be caught nappingit what one reads fon the surface of the national life real.
here is a desire to run to} earth all enemies of preparedness Pacifists ave an unhappy lot. Th vople are being given short talks n history, in which the tendency of men to adopt war on small provoention is emphasized. "T wonder how many in this audience," said the man I was listening to-day, "realize that from 1496 B.C, to 1861 A.D.—8,857 years—history records 3,190) years of war against 227 yours of Peace, or 18 years of war to one Of peace, I wonder how many of you realize that America was in five great wars between 1812 and 2917, and that of all the countries vf Europe only Turkey, Serbia, Aus.
France and Russin had as Even Germany, that great four, postic. of militarism, had only)
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