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THE ATHENAEUM 178 COLLEGE MEN ACCEPT CHALLENGE TO ABOLISH. WAR It was in the discussion group of the Young Men's Christian Association at Morehouse that we had our attention focused on the great subject of war as never before. We were lead to believe that war as it is now practiced is wrong and should be abolished. So great was the inspiration received that we felt that we should not divirce emotions from activity, but go on record as taking a well defined, united stand for peace. At our request the college publications of Atlanta and local week lies of surrounding territory have agreed to co-operate with the Athenaeum by making simultaneous attacks upon this subject. We feel that if we can start the students of Atlanta to thinking on such a vital issue, and stimulate them to action, we will have accomplished a great good and that our efforts will have received their reward. Just as the tooth of time and the relentless weapon of ob livion have spared the parthenon and its matchless sculptures, the noble tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles, and the un dying charm of Herodotus, so have historians as often lifted their recusant brttle worn voices in the constant defence of man's most impelling instinct—-pugnacity. This inherent ten dency has wearily travelled the rocky roads of the ages, paus ing at intervals to appease the selfish, greedy, acquisitiveness of man. Yea, even the first invention to grace the earth, the club, was an instrument of war. A little later on we find the bow and arrow was invented, which shows the desire of man to improve upon instruments of a destructive nature. And so the story goes even down to the great war when billions of dollars were spent in connection with the advance in modern destructive inventions.