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Stefantasy, v. 5, issue 2, June 1949
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The Prospect for Peace An Appeal to Common Sense by Ysobel B. Smirch (Ed. Note: Those of you who are familiar with Miss Smirch' style will no doubt welcome her back--if not with open arms, then at least with open fists--after a long absence from these pages. As a matter of fact this article has been kicking around for some time and only the facts that world conditions are getting steadily no better and I need something to fill about three pages induce me to print it now.--wmd) Preventing the forthcoming war is a problem so serious that each one of us (if he makes any pretense at all of being interested in the welfare of the human race) must (unless, indeed, he is desirous of bringing about) devote a large part of his energy and ability to the securing of such a desirable result which few would deny is wanted by the majority of the public of every nation (or at least of every nation except those in which the public has no opportunity of expressing its desire publicly) and there is no doubt at all that it can be done if and when such action is taken by a sufficiently large proportion of those whose duty it is to take such action; it seems hardly likely, however that there are very many in any one country (of those countries mentioned above) who will take the trouble to do what they can to help make it possible to provide conditions of such a nature that it will be praticable to attempt to achieve such a result. So much, of course, is quite clear, as is the complicity of uniforms, armies, women, atomic bombs, heroes, enemies, laxatives, etc., in the scheme of things as they are (in contradistinction to the scheme of things as they ought to be) in which, of course, the stupidity of Homo Tewler has a most important place--a place which includes the production in times of so-called "peace" (in factories whose main purpose is the making of implements of war during wartime) of either too little of goods "for the public"--as a source of supply of countless numbers of cannon-fodder, while on the other hand there are and can be so many unforseen and possibly inexplicable factors opposing this point of view that one is at a loss to decide just which factors are and which are not; as a matter of fact some are only partially so while others are at some times and not at others--a condition which, under certain circumstances that my easily be imagined, is likely to cause no small measure of confusion--while still (Turn to page 20. 18 STEFANTASY
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The Prospect for Peace An Appeal to Common Sense by Ysobel B. Smirch (Ed. Note: Those of you who are familiar with Miss Smirch' style will no doubt welcome her back--if not with open arms, then at least with open fists--after a long absence from these pages. As a matter of fact this article has been kicking around for some time and only the facts that world conditions are getting steadily no better and I need something to fill about three pages induce me to print it now.--wmd) Preventing the forthcoming war is a problem so serious that each one of us (if he makes any pretense at all of being interested in the welfare of the human race) must (unless, indeed, he is desirous of bringing about) devote a large part of his energy and ability to the securing of such a desirable result which few would deny is wanted by the majority of the public of every nation (or at least of every nation except those in which the public has no opportunity of expressing its desire publicly) and there is no doubt at all that it can be done if and when such action is taken by a sufficiently large proportion of those whose duty it is to take such action; it seems hardly likely, however that there are very many in any one country (of those countries mentioned above) who will take the trouble to do what they can to help make it possible to provide conditions of such a nature that it will be praticable to attempt to achieve such a result. So much, of course, is quite clear, as is the complicity of uniforms, armies, women, atomic bombs, heroes, enemies, laxatives, etc., in the scheme of things as they are (in contradistinction to the scheme of things as they ought to be) in which, of course, the stupidity of Homo Tewler has a most important place--a place which includes the production in times of so-called "peace" (in factories whose main purpose is the making of implements of war during wartime) of either too little of goods "for the public"--as a source of supply of countless numbers of cannon-fodder, while on the other hand there are and can be so many unforseen and possibly inexplicable factors opposing this point of view that one is at a loss to decide just which factors are and which are not; as a matter of fact some are only partially so while others are at some times and not at others--a condition which, under certain circumstances that my easily be imagined, is likely to cause no small measure of confusion--while still (Turn to page 20. 18 STEFANTASY
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