The latest telegrams to hand reporting the changes which have been made in King Ibn Saud's terms of peace to the Imam of Yemen indicate as another purging in blood restores the world to a greater degree of sanity than it enjoys at present. Other wars may come. They will come if this fallacious doctrine of inevitability—a defeatist doctrine it ever there were onc—is to be allow-to obsess the mind of the world at large. But it is the duty of the older generation—which has "grave duties even if the impatience of youth would deny their existence—fo work towards the postponement of hostilities, to thrust them far, far into the background, until the younger generations come to a fuller realization of the blessings of peace, the true medium for the development of all that is best in the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.