British authority for this statement; but exact citation unfortunately lost. Footnote 178: But see Index: “Desertion.” Footnote 179: _Expansion_, pp. 101–2. Footnote 180: Italics mine. G. R. K. Footnote 181: _National and Social Problems_, pp. 186–88. CHAPTER SEVEN. For Father and the Boys. Following are “Topics for Discussion,” commended especially to working men as themes for conversations by fathers (and mothers) and sons, daughters also. It is hoped, too, that many of these themes may be brought up for discussion by labor union bodies. The reader will kindly refer to the footnote on page 13. The divisions—or “sections”—of the present chapter and of the succeeding chapter are not always materially related, and for the author’s purpose it is not necessary that they should be. The section numbering is for convenience in cross reference and for indexing. (=1=) The Tsar of Russia and Germany’s famous general Von Moltke positively refused to permit the young soldiers to see Verestchagin’s pictures of war. Why? Because the pictures are true: they look like hell. Hell is not alluring. “If my soldiers should think carefully, not one of them would remain, in the ranks.”—Frederick II. Did you ever notice the attractive pictures of well-dressed, well-fed soldiers and marines displayed as our government’s advertisements for army and navy recruits? The pictures are lovely. They are intended to make war look good to the young and hungry wage-earners, especially to those out of a job. But let me tell you: Recently when a crowded transport reached San Francisco back from the Philippines, some of the soldiers, on seeing again the advertising pictures displayed as decoys in San Francisco, shook their fists at the pictures and loudly and bitterly cursed them as part of the bait used to lure them to the hell of war. They had been thinking it all over. A good time to think it over is _before_ you enlist—before you agree to go to hell. (=2=) Comment on war: German proverb: “When war comes the devil makes hell larger.” The Rev. Doctor Albert Barnes: “War resembles hell.” Bishop Warburton: “The blackest mischief ever breathed from hell.” Lord Clarendon: “War ... an emblem of hell.” William Shakespeare: “O, War, thou son of hell.” General W. T. Sherman: “War is hell.” Well, really, it does seem as if the workingmen should at least be sharp enough to stay out of hell. Now, since “war is hell” and the business men want hell and the politicians declare hell—why not let these gentlemen go to hell? (=3=) Suppose we should have two laws passed and suppose we were in political position to rigidly enforce these two laws:—