Evening journal., 1916-01-21
By JOSEPH DUNN.

T6S55SS557=7z751 HE United States will have to
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US/1- IN lcN@H fight the winner in the Eu-
lx63lGE E--ie9eI ropean war a short time after
lz~EL8cA N the war is over. This is in
lILjHEALXl evitable Neither the Ger
AE5g N5sS,zsql mans nor the Allies, in the
S-a=====s4s-4 heat Of passion that now dom
mates them, will be in a
mood to forgive some of the things that we may
feel compelled to do in the maintenance of our
neutrality. In short, the things we may be led to
do to avoid being embroiled in the present war
may serve to embroil US with the victors, unless
the war should end in a draw
This is the firmly expressed conviction of Hud-
son Maxim, who voices his sentiments in regard
to the war in line with the arguments set forth
at length in his book "Defenseess America" just
published by the Hearst International Library
Company
No thinking man can take neutral stand on
the question Of whether America should be ready
to defend herself in the war that is to come" con-
tnued Mr. Maxim. IF he believes that we should
set the other nations of the world a great moral
example by disarming, and that # smitten on one
cheek by invasion should turn the other cheek
to our enemies and let them smite us cheek and
jowl, it is his duty to disagree with me, to de-
nounce my book and have the courage of his CON
yictions. If he believes that our country should
be prepared for the war that is coming our way
just sure as fate, he should stand shoulder to
shoulder with me and fight to help our people
help themselves.
Our time OF travail is coming Here it is
put concisely in the preface of Defenseless
America
We should bring lesser calamity upon our
selves by abolishing quarantine system against
the importation Of deadly diseases and inviting
visitation like the great London Plague, or by
letting in the Black Death to sweep our country
as it swept Europe in the Middle Ages, than by
neglecting our quarantine against war as we are
neglecting it. thereby inviting the pestilence Of
INVASION
Expert Opinion on Our Army.
When the invasion comes what will be the
result? Have you ever stopped 10 picture that9
We have a certain amount-a really pitiable num-
ber-of trained men ready for the fray Here is
what the experts say about them as l have gath
cred it from various sources and set it down in
the book.
Our expert army and navy officers who
have been educated at the government expense,
and who are supposed to know about such mat
ters tell us that il would be impossible for us to
mobilize and bring to the front more than 10000 of
our standing army during the first month; and that
III NOulu DC UlDuSSlDt 10 IuODllLt ana get our MI
ia into shape to resist an army of 100000 or
more of the well-trained and well-armed troops
Of one of the great Powers inside of year and
half
IF an army did land on our shores to invade
us have you stopped to consider what it would
do2 How it would sweep over us2 Here it is
set forth. My only trouble has been that mere
words are too weak to say what will come to us.
Let US assume merely that an invading army
OF a hundred thousand men should be landed near
New York Should this army send out detach-
ments to capture the places where our arms and
munitions of war are made, they would not have
far to 60
Rich Prize for the Enemy
"'They would find the smokeless powder works
of the United States Army and the Pcatinny Ar
senal, where all the smokeless powder and high
explosives of the United States Army are stored,
near Dover New Jersey, about lhrty-hve miles
from New York. also they would find there the
big naval depot for ammunition and explosives
Take a map of the United States and a
pair Of compasses, and with one point placed on
the Hudson River at Peekski New York, draw
a circle having a radius of a hundredand-sixty
miles. There will be included within that circle
all of the aforementioned ammunition and arma-
ment works which constitute nearly all the smoke
less powder works, cartridge works, torpedo-boat
works. small arms works and big-gm and armor-
plate works in the United States. Also, this circle
will include not only New York and nearby cities,
but also Boston, Syracuse, Philadelphia and the
most important coal fields of Pennsylvania.
"'The conquest of this area would not be a
work of months or of years, but only OF few
DAYS. and the things would be done before we had
time to mobilize the available fighting forces we
have much less to enlist and train and arm a
citizen soldiery
"'Ths vital area is the solar plexus OF Uncle
Sam. and an army of hundred thousand trained
men. landed on our Atlantic seaboard would be
able to capture this entire section as the police
force of New York can subdue a roting mob.
Invaders always live off the invaded coun-
try. 1t is considered more important that they
should live well than that any one else should live
at all. If. after the invaders wants are supplied
there is enough left for the people to live on well
and good if not, then the people must starve
The invaders must have food and clothing and the