The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-15
AMERICA
LIFE HANGS
IN BALANCE
War Is For National
Preservation. Says
Writer
IL y. HAuCOSsON
by GEoRGE MARTIN.


NEW YORK June II Selfprcs.
er,auon IS he first law OF patriot
ISM America must recognize that
she is In war OF seltpreservation
Isaac r Marcossou. American
magazine writer and publicist, iust
back from Eve months in Europe.
today summed up Tor the United
Press The reasons demanding a red
eloodcd. whole hearted. nationwide
participation BY America IN the
great war
I lef, England thrilled with The
Thought that would ind America
aroused and az work he continued.
~ had watched an American De.
stroyer Gash its Gag 90 the van %
q British ship rs sole protection
! had heard American troops and
American tackles cbeered 70 the
echo In London streets had seen
on an sides proud and grateful
acknowledgment Ia Great Britain,
France and Russia 81 Americas
lineup FOR the rrea, cause OF world
democracy
'Pu- 20 my amazement 7 End
America Indifferent even apathetic
frantic appeals FOR enlistment,
ieluge ~ literature urglnr
the nation 70 buy a Liberty bond
witch should 6e selsselling every
whore ne echo ~ that deadly slo-
gan business As usual America
b mauns precisely the same mis.
take that England made during the
ars' year % The war Then there
VAS mighty fag-waving but with
II deadly Inertia begot OF selt-sut
aciency 4
The Engllshman solaced himself
n-th The idea that England vas an
Island. fooled himself with the. idea
that tha war would soon be/over--
therefore why disturb his business
or his habits7 The NET result was
that ne flower n Engl9nd's young
manhood was eliminated before the
country realized thag the German
submarine had put a ring OF terror
around Great Britzin
What happened
Famine s,argd the nation In he
face ard thare had 20 DO recourse
no conscr.pt5bn Here ind that
same fatal kelssuTciency that came
near be.nt Eng'aHd's undolnr Nil
Hons .6f/AmeEcans are Sill bitten
with 'Re delusion that5the Atlantic
IS god given bulwark against tho
invader They have forgotten for
-nt thing that the exploits Of the
U-3 ~ NE coast Of Nantucket an
AFFILIATED 'hc security that an ocean
barrier once offered they do not
reckon vl'h Germans possible de-
ve.apmcrf ~ aerial warfare making
uo afe an oversee aircraft whose
endurance VIII DO equaled only by
81. destulctiveness
"In other words The battle front
~ Europe is slowly but surely
spreading from The old world to the
NOW
If Germany is not beaten on the
tarlefeids ~ Europe then the
deadly conflict with her world am.
hton must Do fought out on our
own shores
"A huge American army in Eu
rope today is Tho best insurance
against tho crimsouing OF our own
land
The war today has message
and 3 meaning for every American
citizen. be- he banker In New
York. ranchman In Texas or a
street car conductor in spokane.
Success OF The Allied arms In
Europe his year means peace and
security for the free nations Of the
earth for years 70 come
Failure means The constant
throat and ultimately the effort 20
impose suiorratic German IDEAS Of
government upon every democr3cy
In the western hemisphere
Americans must realize that our
army Is zoIns 70 France 20 fight for
AMERICA
rhe scene Of nc nghtlhg is IN
Europe
The issue At stake x here in