ARMISTICE DAY

Twelve years ago the nations of the world laid down the tools of war. The first Armistice day in 1918 was a wild thanksgiving that peace had been restored. Gradually the world has forgotten the significance of November eleventh, and the joy of victory has given way to the happiness of a day of rest. This is altogether natural. To those who fought, the war has become four years of far off turmoil. For the others it is only a distant memory.

Armistice Day should mean more than parades and mild rejoicing. The haggling of past years has taught the world that the conflict of 1918 was not necessarily a war to end all wars. An estimate of the past is valuable only in as much as it stimulates concern for the future. The true significance of Armistice day will be felt only when the people will mingle the faded memory of a decade ago with an anixous thought for the years that are to come.