Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-06-17
JAY DEvoRE ON WAR

Expresses Himself Also on
Question of Preparedness.
Jay DeVore, who recently
wrote a letter to the Chicago
Herald on the present interna.
tional situation, further express
ses his views in the following
correspondence with a nephew,
whose wife, now deceased, was
Miss Ida Miller of Pearl City:
Ida Grove, la. May 20, 1915.
Jaw DeVore, Freeport, III.
noted in the Chicago Herald
today, your letter-well, it is q
serious matter, would not be
surprised to see it become more
serious. But l am not in favor
of war, unless we are absolute
ly forced in. 1t means perhaps
the surging back and forth of
the battle lines, the charge,
the meeting of a rain of lead,
the falling of its boys and
among them Forrest DeVore
Macomber, that handsome
young athletic of Stanford Uni
versity, Palo Alto, California,
he is now a member of that
crack Washington regiment 1t
might mean another-an Ore
gon regiment and the fall of
that able young civil engineer.
Stanley. Qda's first born,)
whose fighting courage is un-
questioned.
If you are the man | think
you are, then you will know.
that these two boys, the sons of
your departed niece, and my
only boys, are what war would
mean to me, so l do not want
war unless it be one of self de-
Tense, then they can go in and
none too soon to suit me.
CHAs S. MACoMBER
Freeport, ILL.,, May "a, 1915.
Chas. S. Macomber,
Attorney-at-law,
Ida Grove, Ia.
Dear Nephe W:
Yours of the 20 inst. received.
Carefully read the Pentzer let
ter in Chicago Herald of the
18th inst, and you will endorse
my eulcgium Of his eloquent
patriotism.
| am extremely patriotic. |
am not in favor of war with
Germany or England under
present exigf ncies, neither do /
contemplate such a terrible ca
tastrope. We are not prepared
to effectually defend our patri-
otism and the integrity of
American man and womanhood.
We are at the mercy of a
maniacal fate, on the brink of
volcano, a combination of de-
structiveness and an insane
assininity, a mighty cataclysm
|of armed resistance cata-
|clysm that might eliminate this
splendid nation from its pin
nacle of highest and best citi-
zenship to an obsolete oblivion.
The insipid intellectualities
responsible for such a deplor-
able condition, such a monstrous
crime against the best civiliza-
t on on earth deserves to be
branded with contempt for such
traitorous negligence to their
flag and to their constituents.
We need the greatest and
the best equipped navy in the
world to maintain respect for
American citizenship and a con
tiauity of peace everywhere
a navy for every patriot, ma
tive born or adopted, to admire
for is unequalled efficiency
and for it's righteousness to
represent universal peace,
brotherly evolution and to en-
gender spirit of unprecedent-
ed admiration among the peo-
pie Of all nations beneath the
beautiful sunlit splendor of a
worldly unity-a unity which a
powerful American navy will
b ing into a peaceful realiza-
ton.
We should be the cynosure
of all enhancing eyes of liber-
ty, of peace, of justice, of re-
fined culture, of highest intelli-
gence, best man and woman
hood, noblest and most perfect
citizenship of brotherly and
sisterly love and the quintes-
sence of highest qualities of
christian civilization.
A navy to elevate, to beauti.
fy, to harmonic and to benefit
man and womankind every
where-a navy to bring har.