Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-06-15
Great American Army In
Europe Is Americas Best
Protection
MUST HELP ALLIES WIN
OR FIGHT 1T OUT ALONE
There Can Be No Peace for
World Until German Auto
cracy Is Destroyed
By George Martin

NOhltcd Press staff. correspondent
New York, June Self prescr-
walton is the first law Of patriotism.
America must recognize that she is in
a war of self preservation.
Isaac +. Mareosson, American maga-
zine writer and publicist, just back
from five months in Europe today sum-
med up for the United Press the rca-
sons demanding red blooded, whole
hearted, nation wide participation by
America in the great war.
II left England thrilled with the
thought would find America aroused
and at work., he continued. sI had
watched an American. DESTROYER flash
its flag in the van of British ship, its
sole protection; | had heard American
troops and American jackies eheered to
the echo in London streets; | had seen
on oil sides a proud and grateful aek-
nowledgement in Great Britain, France
and Russia of America 3 lineup for the
great cause of world democracy.
America Still Asleep
:" But to my amazemcnt / find Am
erica indifferent--oven apathetie; fran
, tic appeals for enlistments; o delugc of
literature urging the nation to buy a
liberty bond, which should be self sell
ling; everywhere the echo Of that daad-
| ly slogan business as usual America
lis making precisely the Same mistitke
that England made during the first
lyear of the war. Then there was q
mighty flag waving-but with a dead
ly inertia begot of sclf-sufficiency.
"The Englishman solaced himself
with the idea that England was, an is
land. fooled himself with the idea that
the war would soon be wherefore,
why disturb his business or his habitsf
The net result was that the flower or
England 3 young manhood was eliminat
ed before the country realized that the
German submarine had put o. ring of
terror around Great Britain.
What happeneda
Famine stared the nation in the
face and there had to be recourse to
conscription.
"Here | find that same fatal self
sufficiency that came near being Eng
land 3 undoing.
May Come to America
"Millions of Americans are still hit
ten with the delusion that the Atlantic
is God-givcn bulwark against the in
vader. They have forgotten for one
thing that the exploits of the Ul53 off
the coast of Nantucket annihilated the
security that an ocean barrier once Of
fered; they do not reckon with Ger
possible development of aerial
warfare making possible an oversee
aircraft whose endurance will be equall-
ed only by its destructiveness.
Gin other words, the battle front
of Europe is slowly, but surely spread
ing from the old world to the new.
''This is one. definite reason why it
is up to the whole American people to
regard the war as their war; to feel
that every advance by the allied ar
mics is one more step in the direction
of their own national security.
"If Germany is not beaten on the
battlefields of Europe then the deadly
conflict with her world ambition must
be fought out on our own shores.
"a huge American army in Europe
today is the best insurance against the
of our own land.
"The war today has . message or
for every American citizen,
be he banker in New York, a Tanehman
in Texas or street car conductor IN
Spokane.
''Success of the allied arms in Eu-
rope this year means peace and secnri-
ty for the free nations of the earth
for years to come.
Fig. ting for Ourselves
HFailure means the eontant threat
and ultimately the effort to impose au-
toeratic German ideas of government