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3 THE CIATTANOOG A TIMES: CHATTANOOGA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19," 1S50. Credit for the Pinch Opera Popularity Hard to Explain BY OR. WT.RNKK WOLTT ASBURY FARK, N. J. I wish could find an explanation for the fact that certain operas are popular while others of not less artistic importance never met with the same approval et the s.

Very rarely only is It pos- 1 E3TABI.tHTO 111 East Tenth Street. 4DOL2f B. Cent, President, 1S78-1835 Published Every Day In the Year by Thz Time PKKTtyo Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Svuxt Ocm acles, Publisher and President. ADOLTH 8KEL8T OCHS, Secretary and Treasurer.

CHARIX3 MCD. Pt'CKETTE, General Manager, ALFRED D. MTKDCRS, Editor, a Next to the'News BY ALFRED SrTJtDERS Wkil0 the conductor ef Next to ttm Kevt i on vacation, gurt colnm-sf will fill this pac at interval. Today, John TempUt Grave, author, lecturer, columnist of the Birmingham Pont Herald, contribute a fanciful article on Southern cornerttone, let' ting hi imagination contemplate tchat may be the situation chm the "Crypt of Civilization9 at Oglethorpe Untver-ity i opened in 8113 AS). JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES (Editor, Author, Lecturer) LAYING a cornerstone these days, as we have been doing for our new Birmingham city hall, has lugubrious aspects.

You wonder if the things put underneath will ever see a A-J i spend the gasoline tax revenues cn roads while the state suffered. The impetus for this proposed amendment comes, we suppose, chiefly from two sources. One is from tha combined forces of road builders and users. They may well be sincere in their belief that better roads are in the public welfare, but there is also the obvious motive of self-interest. Another group is composed of those who hold the theory that we ought to pass such restrictive amendments so as to prevent our Assembly from passing unwise legislation.

One of the strongest assets of our democracy should be its flexibility to meet conditions as they arise. Our constitutions and our laws should be written to preserve this flexibility. When we do make mistakes in our laws, as we shall do quite often, we should have the corresponding flexibility in our power to correct these mistakes promptly. No one is wise enough to write today an amendment tying' our hands for years to come in so important a matter as the tax revenues from gasoline and motor vehicle registrations. If the road building advocates have a good case for spending money, let them put it before the bar of the voters' opinion as the need arises.

But let us do away with this proposed amendment to our State constitution in a hurry, and decisively, and then go on to spend our money as our current needs and good sense determine. CRIME REPORT M- erin rr bo 1 Ml em -w; TODAY AND BY WALTER xi The Light of Asia sible to tell why this work has been sue-, cessful ever since its appearance and why I IT that failed to draw a big crowd. It certainly Is easy to say that a good) libretto Is an essen-i tlal requirement for popularity, but at once' this Question will arise: Have all the favorite cpa eraa really good stories and fine diction such as to make the libretto attractive? There) ia "Martha' by Flotow, a work that enjoys highest eiteera wita tha opera management and the box offices because it ia considered as one of the best drawing cards. Yet. any time I produced thla opera I wondered how the audience would take tht primitive, even childish story and text If I had good singers In the cast no complaint ever came to my ears because nobody seemed to care about the meaning or the arias and ensembles.

Stronger evidence to this Indifference of the autdlence la given by Verdi's masterwork, "II The plot is here so confused that it takes a guide to find the way out et the labyrinth of Intrigues, traps and ambushes. I remember this story: I oncv asked everybody ln the cast of "Trova-tore" to explain the plot to me ln a few words. Nobody was able to do it So I turned to the person that is concerned with the words of the opera only, 1. the prompter, and asked him how much he knew about it "Nothing easier" than that" was his reply, and he started saying something from the introductory scene, then stopped and looked helplessly at me. I dara say that not many people are anxious to understand ths story of "II Trovatore" nor of other operas they like, either.

Thla Is true especially for America where operas are sung ln the original language not understandable to the majority of the hearers and yet are received with enthusiasm. The standard repertory does not Include many operas besides the French, German and Italian works. The same is true for the song recitals, where we see again and again three sections ln foreign languages on the typical concert program, the closing part containing some English and American songs. On the other hand, there have al ways been beautiful stage works with music that had a masterful text with poetic, dramatic, tragio or comic characteristics which never could acquire real popularity. Outstanding among these is, for instance, "The Barber of Bagdad," by Peter Cornelius.

All prominent conductors have tried to secure for it a permanent place in the repertory but had to give up after a while. I could not tell why. The words to Verdi's last works, "Falstaff," were written by the outstanding composer and poet Arrigo Bolto, himself, in accordance with that Shakespearean figure. The opera shows the octogenarian master on the summit if his creative power and la admired by all connoisseurs but never became a favorite with the masses. a Richard Wagner, realizing the Importance of the balance between both, libretto and music, decided to write himself the text for all his musical dramas, aa he called his great operatie creations.

Eventuslly they conquered the whole world, but with the lapse of time a strange phenomenon became visible: Just the Innovation of which the master wns especially proud, the authorship of the libretto has by now begun to lose its Impact and it is the music that has captivated the Budlenres with unfading strength. Wagner did not like to be considered as a composer only, he claimed to be also a poet, a stsge artist an architect and philosopher. Time has decided against this ambition of his. After his desth, there seemed to develop a vacuum that possibly could never be filled ln by any composer. He threatened to overshsdow any potential succeor.

I will continue this subject ln future columns. Briefs on Science i If a time ever comes when petroleum supplies are Inadequate to meet demands, plenty of fuel oils can be obtained from oil shale and coal. Some of the natural gases, as they come from the erth contain carbon dioxide in recoverable quantities for the manufacture of dry ice. A portable tent for military photographic work is made of glass fiber and nylon; the impregnated-fabria shelter i waterproof, fireproof and will not admit light An average of 30 Americans die la fires every 24 hours. In Poet's Corner CHOICE.

WITT! WISDOSt from Thm Tork Ttaiee. The young girl found a meadow In between Two city streets, a meadow wet aa4 green. Quick fireflies shuttered lanterns ctt and on And ln the shadows she eotiii dreast a fawn. In the greea twilight robins giawed Else sparks And there were seven grMe-wst mfcs4 owlarks. The young girl walked among at her ese, Net being itrarger to tnh thiss at these.

Past this deep gTeensward, gatura ritigi ef light ClrclM the lamppost at the e-5-e ef night And the swift city waited for hr there. But being young, she did not see no care Eut wandered, Alice-Ttrouih-tie- to trewn-ested grsaa. i i -V Humanist-Artist Subject of Portrait MOHOtT-NAGT, EXPERIMENT IN TOTALITY. By Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. 25S pp Illustrated.

New York: Harper Bros. 86.50. Future historians will evaluate individual contributions to the-transition period in art through which western civilization is passing. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy contributed significantly to this development. Siegfried Giedion has grouped Moholy-Nagy with Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Malewitsch, Mod-rian and Van Doesburg, as the leaders who rationalized cubism into architecture.

Moholy'e contributions were significant as thinker, writer, teacher and artist. The process is described in th introduction to the book by Walter Gropius as "a new attitude in the contemplation and formation of our physical world." Moholy was instinctively aware of the basic changes taking place: The ultimate effect of power tools and scientific research on our physical, economic and social environment. His childhood on a Hungarian country estate; his service as an artillery officer during World War his legal degree from the University of Budapest did not foreshaaiow his decision to become an artist. Without formal training, he won an invitation to give a one-man show in Berlin in 1922, which resulted in such Immediate success that he was asked to join the faculty of the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923. Later he achieved distinction as a photographer, cinema cameraman, 1 stage designer, and in Industrial and advertising art.

The Nazi regime ended his work in Germany. After a period of activity in England he went to Chicago, where he died in 1946. He suffered many disappointments during his 20-odd years as a teacher. Of his Chicago experiences he wrote: "They're all excellent men, these industrialists. They try to do the right thing by education, they say they understand it But there is a basic misunderstanding; and I finally saw it.

There's an insidious paternilism involved that strangles creative independence, Somehow I have to make it clear that there is such a relationship as guidance and being guided. It is industry that follows vision, not vision that follows industry." Sibyl Moholy-Nagy has written the biography of her husband with Insight and Interest. She refers to him as a humanist who thinks in terms of relationships, as opposed to the specialist who thinks in terms of problems. Throughout the book there is a growing impression of his regard for spiritual conviction. "There's no stamina because there are no convictions, he once remarked.

And on another occasion: "Spiritual force can surpass the mere process of changing food into energy." Moholy's appraisal of the revolutionist. Bakunin, might have been applied with equal force to him- self: love him because he was a man without compromise. His faith in the self-determining dignity of the individual was so outrageous that he had to live it every minute of his life to prove it to himself. HARRISON GILL. Sign of the Times front tht Monifomery Aitertitcr.

From Durban, South Africa, it Is reported that hunters and game wardens are unable to account for a sudden and unprecedented outbreak of aggression among animals in wild game preserves. We learn, for example, that "The already thinning ranks of the rare white rhino have been seriously depleted by numerous duels to the death for leadership of the herds. Hippos are- also in a militant mood; at least a doxen have mat their death Ln battle." Maybe the example of the human species haa proves contagious, and communicated itself to the so-called lewer erder. we have the epeetaeia ef the wtite rhlne acting almost as tfusth and murderous as bumta 111 vr; a a SATURDAY, ACOUST I. pbict Datlr and mo.

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id WASHINGTON SURSAO: W30 National Prni Buildlna atertlne 1041 MtMHER Of THS ASSOCIAT1CD PRWW Im Ameoctated Preee la exriueivele emitted 111 uee for publication of all na diepateriea credited to It or not otherwla credited in thla paper, and aiao tha local rta of epontarteoua orirln publUhed herein. All rlfhta of republication of aU other matter herein are alao teeerved. Entered at tha Poatofflea in Chetlanooca, aa Second data Mall Matter. BATTLEFIELD ATROCITY Atrocity it the mildest word one ctn apply to the torture and deliberate murder of U.S. prisoners of war captured by the North Korean Communlsta.

The reports pierce the heart of every American and add intolerably to the heavy burden already borne by the families of service men In action there. Field dispatches say survivors of the massacre are positive in their Identification of North Korean prisoners as among those who either ordered or participated in' the bloody crime. No one doubts they will be dealt with as justice demands. The only regret will be that there is not some sort of special punishment for the guilty. The brutality reveals anew the nature of the enemy we fight, not only in Korea, but wherever Communists holds sway.

Disregard of human life is typical of the Orient. High prieats of Communism have glorified it in their concept of the ail-powerful state. Similar atrocities were reported early in the Korean war. Representations to the North Korean regime brought a pledge of adherence to the international rules of warfare. Thirty-six broken American bodies testify to the cynicism with which all Communists regard solemn promises.

A United Nations commission is tn the field in Korea. The full facts should be laid before it, so that the Security Council and the world can judge the Immensity of the crime. Man has never ceased his struggle to rise above barbarism. Unable even now to outlaw war, which is ftslf his most inhumane expression, civilized man has at least laid down rules by which to fight. The test comes in obedience.

The North Koreans havs failed the test. This new evidence of their failure must strengthen our resolve to wipe out the aggressive forces in Korea as quickly as possible and to gird ourselves at whatever the cost for the continuing struggle against Communist imperialism wherever it la manifested in expansion by force. STRAIT JACKET APPROACH Our Nashville correspondent reports that "probably the most intensive effort ever made to amend Tennessee's constitution wras started' this week in the interest of a provision which would prevent the state from using gasoline taxes and motor vehicle registration fees for any purpose except roads and streets. We hope the people of Tennessee will have enough sense to kill this proposition dead. It is wrong from every point of view.

We are badly in need of a new constitution, men that happy day comes we hope that the instrument will confine itself to only the broadest statement of basic principles and to the strongest guarantees of liberty, and not attempt to Include such traitjacket propositions as the one now offered. Our gasoline taxes are too high la Tennessee. The motor vehicle registration fees are in the middle to the higher brackets not so low as In some ether states where low fees have, been used by legislators to curry voters favor. For some years it has been apparent that too high a proportion of Tennessee's total taxes came from gasoline taxes. That is an additional reason why we should not, by constitutional amendment, assign this substantial revenue to one fixed purpose.

It is not far fetched to Imagine years in which other taxes might shrink in volume, and Right need money acrt'y for the essentia! services ci icwnssat, for eth- the light, or what the flight will be. You wonder if the wind is jj going to blow atone, building and mortals I to atomic dust long before opening time, Our cornerstone i proceedings are defy to Joe Stalin. They tell him we expect to be doing business in the same old place a hundred years from now, still speaking freely, and still speaking English. IN THE famous Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, which is not to be opened until 8113, precaution was taken against the possibility that English would have become a dead language. "A language integrating machine" is the first thing that will confront the opening party.

The machine is described as "a mu-toscope with a phonograph attachment. Upon turning the crank a motion picture of a man will appear who will hold an object such as an apple, pronouncing the name, and the name will appear beneath in printed English. IN CASE Atlanta is just a lot of dogwood and razzle-dazzle-weed by 8113, it has been arranged that the crypt be located on maps determined by a triangulation from Stone Mountain and Kennesaw Mountain, these to be sent to libraries and institutions of learning all over the world, especially the Potala in Lhassa in Tibet (somewhere near Shangri-La). The idea is that somebody, somewhere may be surviving and set forth to find where Atlanta went with the wind. Hope they send one to the Birmingham Public Library.

We of Birmingham think we are the logical ones to find where Atlanta was. Even the possibility of return after death has been considered. In that event, Bing Crosby has been invited to be master of ceremonies at the opening. He has accepted "contingent upon my motion picture schedule at the time." The Atlanta Crypt, most ambitious and all-inclusive ever conceived, was fathered by famous Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, founder of Oglethorpe University.

It is a vault 20x10 feet, closed with a stainless steel door. Walls and ceiling are lined with vitreous porcelain enamel. THE year 8113 was chosen because, when Dr. Jacobs had the big idea in 1936, there had been 6,177 years of recorded time since the year 4241 B.C., when Egyptian priests began their calendar. Wondering how much of life In 1938 would be intelligible after 6.177 years, that number was added to 1936 to arrive at 8113.

The hope is that the 82nd Century will have much more of a line on us than we have on those Egyptians from their pyramids, parchments, mummies and tombs. It makes your flesh crawl to think history might repeat the oblivion Shelly described: "And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozimandias, king of kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away." WE WHa believe in God and our American genius and our own strong right arms do not propose to be a lone and level stretch of Jones Valley limestone sand a hundred years from now.

Let the official cornerstone opene'r recall it in our favor when clad in gay and shining raiment he applies the atomic jet-chisel on Aug. 3, 2050, while the band playa Downing: Street Drawbacks From th Gaardta. No. 10 Downing Street, where furnishings for the state rooms have cost the taxpayer 9,200 since 1945, was once described by Margot Asquith, who lived there from April, 1908, till December. 1916, in unflattering terms.

"Liver-colored and squalid, the outside of No. 10 gives but little idea to the man in the street what It is really like." Although she could claim to have been the friend of four prime ministers before she went to live there, she found that she had been quite wrong in thinking that he knew the I house pretty "Well, an the more dis-j covenes sne miac uie jess bub ki-hu to have liked it. "It is an inconvenient house with three poor staircases, and after living there a few weeks I made up my mind that I could only entertain ray Liberal friends at dinner or at garden parties. From her diary she quoted: "I never knew what prevented anyone coming into this house at any moment. There was a hall porter who looked after our interests when visitors arrived, but he was overanxious and appeared flurried when spoken to.

Poor man. he was never alone; he sat in his hooded chair, snatching pieces of cold mutton at odd hours; tired chauffeurs shared his picture paper, and strange people not important enough to be noticed by a secretary or a messenger sat watching him from hard sills in the windows; or if he were left for a moment, the baize doors would fly open and he would find himself faced by me, seeing a parson, a publican, a protectionist out ef the hou." Ose drawback wfcid sfee oted was tha the early jscrss? efrtassaP ef tS pea-eocfcs Jtsi i The Senate Crime Committee, headed by Tennessee's Estes Kefau-ver, has gone about its business with a minimum of fanfare. In keeping with this attitude, a preliminary report just issued is devoid of sensationalism, but full of facts the country needs to know. Some of its conclusions are dangerous in their implications, but they appear to be based solidly on facts developed by the committee. There is nothing new in its finding that criminal elements hold a strong grip on gambling and related illegal activities.

A greater menace lies in the evidence that criminal syndicates are fast moving in on legitimate businesses. The crime boss is attracted to any business which involves a big turnover of cash or which has black market potentialities. The committee finds criminals active in the operation of hotels, restaurants, meat and provision companies, liquor distributorships, automobile dealerships and even small steel companies. Once in legitimate business fields, the committee said, organized criminals have a big advantage over lawful operators "because of their accumulations of cash and their vicious methods," including violence, bribery, corruption and intimidation. The committee is convinced there are strong and wealthy criminal organizations in many parts of the country.

But at this point, it said, it has no evidence to warrant the belief that one or two super-syndicates rule the underworld. The committee found, however, methods of operation are "strikingly similar" and there are combinations on occasion. At present, the committee recommended the tightening of several laws now on the books. For instance, it would require a more detailed accounting for huge cash incomes reported for income tax purposes. It 8lso felt laws to prohibit the interstate transportation of slot machines and the interstate transmission of gambling information should be.

enacted. The committee called attention to official crackdowns oh Florida gambling operations following its hearings in that state. But however salutary these localized "practical results" may be, the group still feels its primary responsibility is to frame Federal legislation to get at the crime problem on a national scale. The tone and content of the report justify the general approval of the committee being voiced by the public. We believe the nation will continue to look on the Kefauver group as an effective agency determined to do a good job.

THE BEST PROPAGANDA Sometimes the simple truth is the best propaganda that can be used. In the U.N. Security Council debate, Dr. F. Tsiang, the Nation-alist China delegate, spoke on imperialism.

He mentioned the? fact that the United States gave more aid to China during" the war than any other country. Then he went "At the end of the war, the U.S. did not ask of China any port, railway or mine concession whatsoever. The American troops simply said goodbye to us and returned to their homes in New York, Texas or where-ever they might be. If that should be imperialism, I wish the Soviet Union would follow tha example of the U.S." This is the kind of propaganda which strikes home because It tells the truth in simple terms and understandable words.

We hep the Vc! 'Acsetiss makes th Best ci its la its TI TOMORROW LIPPMANN and why all the cities of Korea must be destroyed. a On the other hand, there is no use pretending that we, too, have not the strongest reasons for wisihng to see a diplomatic solution. A victorious campaign back up the peninsula, assuming that the Korean war can be localized is, of course, entirely within our power. Everybody knows that. Nobody would think of denying it We do not have to prove to the world that the United States, supported by the British Commonwealth, is able to defeat.

North Korea. What we do have to prove to the world Is that we can help a country without destroylng.it. If we hava to spend a year building up ground forces in the beachhead while the air-force demolishes the roads, bridges, public utilities and factories of all of Korea, the "victory" when it comes will indeed by pyrrhlc. Even If the operation is successful, the patient will be dead. We shall not have proved that we can contain aggression but only that we can wreck a country while the aggressor is trying to enslave it.

That is not what we wish the Japanese, the Germans, the French or anyone else to think that reliance upon collective security comes down to. a The Indian proposal Is, therefore, most opportune as the Korean campaign is tending to end in what might be a long, expensive and destructive stalemate. Looking Backward Twenty-five years ago, Mr. and Mrs. George E.

Scholia entertained at Fairyland Inn. The honor guests were Flora Mae Black of Memphis and Neil Thomas of Montgomery, Ala. Ths young ladies were the guests of Hilde-garde, lamented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scholze.

The table had elegant appointments. The centerpiece, of plaque design, was fashioned of French bouquets which were later presented the girls. The attractive place cards were imported and were decorated in girl figures. Miss Scholze was lovely in a gown of white tulle, trimmed in silver. Miss Black's gown was designed of red chiffon.

Miss Thomas wore a costume of peach-colored georgette trimmed In ostrich and rose petals. Those invited were Miss Black, Miss Thomas, Susanna James, Barbara Lea Jones of Washington, D. Mary McGee; Julia Wilson, Mary Foster Brown, Helen Graham and guest, Olive Williams of Jackson. Miss; Tavennor Hazelwood of Danville, Augusta Allison, Caroline Pound, Elizabeth Lacy, and Messrs. Whitney Colburn, Burton Frierson, William Brock, Will Allen Wilkerson.

Lewis Hutcheson. Jack Heston of Philadelphia, Mack MaGee, Clifford Purse, O. B. Andrews Harold Crouch, Werth Faulkner, Lee Montgomery Caldwell. Gsrnett Andrews, T.

Preston Jr, Harry Spencer and Charles Colburn. Senator Soaper Says "Railroads are here to stay," says the ad and a good thing, too. Without those tracks there would be nothing to grow up on the wrong side of. All-we-have-to-fear-ls-fear Item: Speared to death by natives, a lion that had terrorized Khartoum is found to be a moth-eaten specimen without teeth. In Kentucky, geese are found to be Ideal weedrs of commercial strawberry patches.

It appears that the goose, being a goose, will have nothing to do with this succulent fruit. A careful student of headlines says he has stayed off crack trains for 45 years and never been In a wreck. a are not yet tack to the full wartime status In which the cugtemtr is wrerg. Let us sty, rather, that burd3 ef proc that he Is right la upon Lisa. On Monday in the Security Council, Sir Benegal N.

Rau, representing the government of India, offered, if he found enough support ln principle for the idea, to move a resolution dealing with a settlement in Korea. The idea he presented is so well conceived, is so well timed in relation to the diplomatic situation in the U.N. and to the military situation in Korea, and has been put forward so deftly that any government had better think twice before it fails to support it. The crux of the idea is that the permanent members of the Security Council are for the time being not only incapable of agreeing on any settlement but that all are in varying degrees suspect in the eyes of the Koreans and the other peoples of Asia. The nonpermanent members only none of them great military powers and none of them imperial powers cannot, said Sir Benegal, "be accused or suspected of any expansionist ambitions." There is no serious question but that this is a true expression of the Judgment of Asia.

Any proposal for a settlement originating among the Big Five is doomed to fail. It is doomed because the Big Five no longer dare to agree lest they appear to be weak. It is also doomed to fail because the suspicion of the peoples of Asia against the great powers is so very strong. The Indian proposal would take the diplomatic initiative away from the great powers and give it to the small powers, led by India. Thus the proposals for a Korean settlement would be uncontaminated by the suspicion of imperialism and power politics, and they would bear the Invaluable, indeed the indispensable, recommendation that- they were the work of Asian thought and statesmanship.

a a The Indian action Is well timed. The debate In the Security Council has reached a point where there was no chance of any understanding and yet there was nothing more to say. Mr. Malik had made his speech half a dozen times, and his principal arguments had been answered half a dozen times. The law of diminishing returns had begun to set In for the arguments of both sides.

Mr. Malik's constituents, having heard for two weeks that the United States is the "aggressor" ln Korea, are soon bound to begin to ask what the great Soviet Union, the alleged lover and defender of the peace, is going to do about it. And our constituents all over the world, satisfied as they no doubt are that Mr. Malik is mischief bent, are beginning to ask what we are going to do about It except to make cutting remarks. The time has clearly come when somebody has to act.

But for the Russians as for ourselves the only actions left are to fight or to compromise. If neither Is ready to fight and neither is willing to offer a compromise, then someone else, whose prestige is not St stake, must intervene. a The Indian action will help any government which has the sense to support it actively and cordially. It will embarrass any government which rejects it or evades it- For it will provide the acid teat in Asia, and almost certainly among the peace-loving masses of the western world also, of a disinterested purpose to achieve a Just peace, Th Indian proposal is well timed in relation to the military situation. Though It Is not as yet entirely certain, it I now probable that the United Nations forces, will retain a foothold in Korea.

In that event the world will not be dealing with the accomplished fact of the reunification of Korea by the North Korean army. The campaign launched on June 25 will, despite all Its successes, have been indecisive. The North Koreans will be faced with a long war unless there is a diplomatic solution. If there exists the plan a fair and peaceable settlement ef the whole ef Korea, originated and sponsored by India and hj the uacwramitted nations cf Asia, the North Koreans win find it hard explain why the war must go ea.