Humans Prefer Order to Chaos, Says Hickory Record Editor, June 24, 1919

From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, June 24, 1919.

Order at Last

The Record never doubted for one minute that the Germans would sign the peace treaty. Human beings naturally love order, and the Germans have been an orderly people. That is their history. Great warriors also they have been, but they lived under a system of government for a thousand years that made them fighters and under conditions which seemed to them to make fighting necessary. The older order has passed in Germany, and we are hopeful that there is only a small percentage of the wild fellows in that country now. The Record is even optimistic enough to believe that the Russians, now dominated by a set of wild, impracticable brigands, will evolve a system of government that will work satisfactorily and that in a few years the whole world will be at peace again, except for the spasmodic outbreaks which have occurred from time to time in various parts of the world. We are to have order, because normal human beings prefer order to chaos.