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Article On "Lei's Keep Out"
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be so foolish, our people need have who luffered the heartaches and should make all of us cringe with hor­ power, gas, and sewerage systems,
¿o fear of invasion.
headaches of seeing their men—the ror, even though this new weapon of disease and pestilence will cause
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With the moral fabric of the people flower of youth—torn from their destruction has only been experi­ plagues beyond our imagination.
of the old world having collapsed, bosoms—never expecting to see them mented with to date.
With thousands of planes and pilots
there can be only one result from thia again.
Realize, that, in spite of the Polish on both sides by comparison with a
present conflict at its conclusion-
May I implore them to remember air force, which was considered rel­ few hundred during the World War,
Last week the Sentinel presented®-
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no matter who wins.
those deadly days of ISIS, »17 and atively good, the superior air force and three to four times as deadly and
Herbert Hoover's splendid article en­
through additional, better and larger
With millions of the flower of their 1018? Here, too, we have a great as­ of Germany was able to ruin it within effective—with hundreds by compar­
titled, Two Great Reasons Why We
institutions of learning.
lands
having been blown to bits or set—an emotional asset—of untold forty-eight hours after hostilities ison with a few hundred and many
Must Keep Out of the War,” which
Well could we afford, not one, but wrecked for life; with billions of dol­ value that must help to keep us out started In the undeclared war.
times more accurate than those used
has been rnmmsntsil upon most fa­
several airports in every large city. lars worth of their property having of this war.
Wave after wave of German bomb­ during the World War, the mortality
vorably by any number of people who
Well we could rid ourselves of the been destroyed, revolution and revo­
To you leaders of finance and in­ ers destroyed airdromes, hangars and rate in aerial warfare will be terrific.
read it in the Sentinel last week.
inadequate highways, narrow streets lution alone will follow.
dustry, well may you remember that reserves, and blotted out the eyes of
And in my opinion, within ninety
Today we present another article
and the constant congestion in ev­
Wars are the stamping grounds for thia country's national debt was only their army in the trenches. Then it days after warfare in the air truly
along the same line by a famous avi­
ery city—large or small.
revolutions, and revolutions are the one bililon dollars at the start of the was a simple matter for the Germans starts, the reserve of planes and pi­
ator-fighter in the last world war—
Well
could
we
multiply
our
air
­
stamping
grounds of communism. Wofld War, and well may you re­ to cut the arteries of supplies and lots on both sides will be exhausted,
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. The
caption of his message is "Let’s Keep ways, expediting the transportation Let us guard against that happening member that today we have a national communications behind the armies at meaning that the belligerents, whose
the front by destroying highways,
productive capacity of planes and,
Out,” and it appeared in the June of mall, people, and merchandise to here. With the vast improvement in debt of approximately fifty billions
railroads and bridges, shutting off re­ primarily, of pilots is the best, even­
issue of the American Legion maga­ and from every hamlet in this coun­ destructive weapons, men, women, of dollars.
try.
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•• and children are being, and will be,
The war of 1014-1018 cost this na­ serve troops—ammunition, food and tually will be the victor.
zine.
Well may we remember the for­ destroyed ten times as fast as during tion forty-seven billions of dollars, medical supplies for those at the front.
Events have moved swiftly since he
But, in the meantime, they will re­
Warsaw and many other cities have
wrote his article a few months ago, gotten statistics of the World War. the World War. We, in America, in and due to the improved deadliness of
vert
to the trench and dugout war­
methods and weapons since the world been ruined for years to come.
before Belgium and Holland were
Seventy-four million men mobiliz­ view of these prospects, may well
fare resulting in a war of attrition.
Witness
what
has
happened
to
that
war,
the
rapidity
of
destruction
of
raped by the Nazis, and many of his ed; ten million killed; three million recognize that our frontiers lie in
So I say to you, no matter what the
both mankind and property will be gallant little nation of Finland by
suggested possibilities are already maimed; nineteen million wounded; the western hemisphere.
price may be that this nation has to
those
hordes
of
Russian
eagles.
Cities
many
times
greater
—
meaning
that
Let us develop our social, political
coming to pass.
ten million disabled or incapacitated
were wiped out for all time to come pay to stay out of this war, it can
The article is well worth reading for the balance of their lives; nine and commercial intercourse between should this nation be forced into this
and today, what was a little land of never be too big, because no matter
war
it
would
cost
us
another
hundred
and cogitating, not frosn the view­ million orphans; five million widows. our neighbors of the twenty-one re­
how large it may be, in economic, so­
happy
people is a nation of misery.
point of a pacifist, but as illustrating
In view of these startling facts, who publics to the south of us, for the best billions of dollars.
cial and political welfare, to say noth­
When
war
in
the
air
is
started
in
This
will
leave
us
with
a
national
the duty at the United States in could wish for our participation in interest of all concerned.
ing of our so-called national honor,
Let us guard against our economic debt of one hundred and fifty billion reality between the major belliger­
bringing the war-torn world back to another World War?
ents, I doubt whether you and I, who it would be only an infinitesimal part
dollars
when
peace
is
declared,
all
structure
being
keyed
up
through
sanity and stability when one side
Certainly, it could not be the moth­
of which means the dollar will be have seen Paris, Berlin, London and of the price we would have to pay if
has to quit because it was bled white. ers with babes in their arms—nor promises of false prosperity.
worth very little and the clothes on many other centers of interest and we should participate.
Let
us
recognise
that
selfishness,
We hope and pray it will not be the fathers, wrinkled and withered
In closing, may I utter this fer­
your
back may be your only assets. culture in the old world, will be able
the allies who are exterminated, al­ with age. Certainly, it could not be greed and hate might well develop an
to recognize them the next time we vent prayer?—that this generation, in
Particularly
will
this
be
true
in
unsound
economic
structure
—
the
col
­
though things look moat dark for the middle-aged men and women
see them.
its wisdom and mature considera­
them as this is written.
with their vivid memories of 1014 lapse of which no democracy can sur­ view of the fact that all the belliger­
The startling fact is, that even tion of this question of absolute neu­
1 ents were financially stable at the
Following is Capt. Rickenbacker’» to »18. No, but It can be the lack vive.
Let those who profit through the 1 start of the World War, whereas by though this new weapon has been trality, will prevent posterity or fu­
article in full:
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of knowledge and understanding on
used only experimentally as a feeler ture generations, from condemning
the part of our youth, coupled with development of such unsound econ- ’ comparison they are bankrupt today.
of each other's defences, that so many or indicting us, as having legalized
Bear
in
mind
when
peace
is
de
­
omic
structures,
and
at
the
expense
the selfishness and greed of a few. '
of thoee trying have reached their wholesale slaughter, murdered the
Let us not permit our boys and of other people’s misery and mistakes clared (and that day is as sure as
objectives.
flower of our youth, and massacred
girls to be regimented into uniforms, —be they capitalists, politicians, or death and taxes), with forty to fifty
democracy.
With
waves
of
one
hundred
to
two
millions
of
men
being
thrown
back
carrying wooden guns, almost from wage - earners — bear in mind, that
hundred bombers protected by high
into
productive
effort,
and
their
they
are
in
a
minority.
the time they leave the cradle, but
Let us maintain a sense of balance, countries’ treasuries and pantries be­ speed pursuit planes attacking their
The new model of the Woodstock
preserve for them the game of
in thought and activity, even though ing empty, men will become serfs objectives every hour of the day and typewriter is now here. Let us dem­
marbles on the street corner.
night, the carnage and destruction will onstrate this beautiful machine which
Preserve for them the baseball it may mean for the moment, less in and slaves for the sake of three meals
a day, and a place to rest their weary be horrible.
won all school speed tests at N. Y.
game on the commons after school worldly belongings.
. With high explosive bombs, incen­
Or, even, let us keep in mind that bodies at night.
World's Fair. H. S. Norton, Music
hours.
This will mean one simple fact— diary bomba and gas bombs being & Stationery.
Preserve for them the opportunity we can well afford, through the main­
dropped
on
those
large
centers
by
the
for developing model airplanes and tenance of our abeolute neutrality, to that their ability to produce com­
suffer even the consequences of low­ modities and products for export at hundreds of thousands, those cities
other happy pursuits.
may well
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be destroyed
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and burnt up.
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A. L. Hooton, electrical contractor
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our standard of living, for a prices so low, it will eliminate the
Then, and then alone, .need we
With the destruction of the water | and dealer, 374 Second St, Coquille,
short
short
period
of
time,
to
prevent
possibility
of
this
nation
having
even
never fear for men and women of
happening here what is happening in a semblances of our present export system of large cities, the heat, light, Complete stock of wiring supplies, tf
character to carry on.
trade left.
Let us realise a few more pertinent the old world.
Let us realize that the obligation of
H wiU bring about a depression in
facts that have been forgotten or
smothered by insidious propaganda, our leadership, be It capitalistic, po­
from those people in the old world litical, or social, rests heavily on our
and their agents in our land. There shoulders in these trying times. » .
We, who live in the land of aWn
is no difference in the lack <Jf reason
for the war of today in the old world, dance and liberty, should be willing,
than that which caused wars of past through peacetime services and ac­
complishments, to maintain these lib­
centuries.
The same selfish reasons of greed erties and independence—to prevent
and hate are responsible for the pres­ bankruptcy and starvation bore.
Today thio country stands united
ent catastrophe. These same reasosis
—selfishness, hate greed—can well be with few exceptions on the major is­
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responsible for our being involved sue that is before us, namely—
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Keep m out of this war
again, in a war of destruction of prop­
Our
true
obligation
is
not
only
the
erty and mankind.
Certainly I feel no ill will toward destiny of our own children, but
AEWA YS FRESH
the people of any of the belligerent all the children of America, who will
NOW IN 1 lb. C ANS
countries, and my heart bleeds with be set back a hundred years in their
sympathy for all of them. But this opportunities, as well as the growth
i tan be no justification to me for our of American life, if we participate in
involvment again, with its horrible this war in Europe.
And, we of the general public, have
consequences of the probable leas of
millions of our young men and bil­ a right to call upon our statesmen—
regardless of party or creed—to hold
lions of our wealth.
In view of my record during the this country resolute to the one great
World War, such a statement may issue, of keeping us out of this war.
Some ask, 'Why this war of words
well be questioned.
But it was the very nature of my and nerves?” as compared with the
experiences that has brought to me war of 1014-1018. It must be remem­
the realization that American sol­ bered that for years prior to_»14 both
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diers and billions of American dol­ sides knew whose side who was on,
lars have no place on foreign »oil. with very few exceptions. In other
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However, hould this country ever words, both sides had their duplicate
ducks in a row. That was not true in
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September, 1030, and it is not true
today, but it probably will be soon.
The war may well see mankind and
property destroyed on a scale un­
known in history
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For years past the totalitarian states
have thought only in terms of build­
ing up their military and economic >
reserves to be prepared for the day.
This is evidenced by the fact that
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all belligerents are limiting their pur­
chases throughout the world to a
degree that makes them insignificant
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