Evening star., 1918-09-23
WRITERS CONDEMN
(, PREMATURE PEACE
Noted Men Contribute to
Matter National Security
League CircuIates.
FIRES ITS FIRST SHOT

FIRES ITS FIRST SHOT
NEW YORK. September 23.-The
frst shot in a nationwide education
81 drive against the premature peace
suggestion of the Teutonic powers
was fired today by the National Sc
curity League in the form of personal
utterances on the subject from some
of the best known writers of the
country. The Security League makes
public these expressions of opinion as
part of a propaganda for education of
the people in the necessity for a con-
elusive victory over Germany which
will be continued Indefinitely by
means of material supplied by the
leading writer's of the United States
who are members of the leagues vol
unteer editorial corps.
Commend President.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Security League prefaced it's
anti-peace announcement today with
H. resolution commencing President
WILSON 1OT MS prompt telSGIlOn OIL Cn6
Austrian 'feeler.'
In anticipation of the Teutonic peace
effort the Security League had start
ed the compilation of the contribu-
tions on the subject from the promi-
nent writer's of the country some days
ago. A few excerpts from those al
ready received by the league read:
Gertrude Atherton-"1t is only those
incapable of grasping this great war
in it's entirety that hope and pray for
En immediate peace by negotiation,
peace that would leave the German
empire in the position of man who
has had a severe illness, but only
needs time and care and recuperative
rest-some thing she now yearns for
to be stronger than ever. If this war
finishes with the HohenzollernS and
Prussia in power and an undismem-
bered ia-Hungary to support
her, it will be because of breakdown
of morale on the part of the allied
powers, which has let them drift su-
plnely into negotiated peace And
II Prussia remains in the saddle and
the southern Slavs have not been per-
mitted to form strong buffer state
we will not only be plunged into an
other war ten years hence. but into a
hopeless war"
"Deadliest Menace
Harold MacGrath - "Americans.
teadliest menace of all. Americans,
stand firm, PacifiSts, take care, Ger
many wanted war. We chose it and
by the same token we shall finish it.
All pacifistS are warned to keep clear
of our road until them
Wallace Irwin-"No sane doctor al
lows a half-cured patient to go out
and behave like a well man, because
such u course would send the patient
back to bed. worse than he was in
he 6nc Nrt,rr ri ~ y
of the foul germ of war. Let US not
eat our peace-banQuet until an honest
victory by force of arms has purged
the war-sickness from our systems.
Otherwise we will suffer a relapse
from which we may never recover"
"Ground in the Dust,
John A. Sleicher-"Geamany with
peace bribes is more to be feared
sidious and lying Teutonic propaganda
put Russia out of the war. and almost
had the same effect in Italy. This
is a greater menace to the future
peace and security of the world than
the German armies in France. Ger
many is now in process of being de-
feated- If We stop before that process
Ia complete Germany will in effect
come out victorious and the allies will
have lost all the fruits of their strug-
sIe IOI QSIuOCTdGy. 1uo Ouly
upon the allies and America is to
ground Germany in the dust"
Cosmo Hamilton "A premature
peace will mean on the part of all the
allies who have remained in the Sc
curity of their homes, weakening of
mental moral and physical stamina
which will be an act of treachery not
only to the men who have made, on
their behalf, the supreme sacrifice at
the front, but to their children and
their children's children. never to be
forgiven"
''Needs Humiliation"
Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst--
I'VE must reduce the Huns to such
condition of mind as will insure their
doing what we insist upon and yield
ing all that we demand. When wise
and just father chastises his incor-
riRible boy he continues his discipline
and quits parleying. There is moth
ing Germany needs SO much. even for
her own sake. as humiliation"
Walter Camp-"1t is hardly neces-
sary to elaborate upon the fact that
il Germany emerges from this war
vent a building up again of militar-
ism. all the blood that has been shed
by the allies and by America will have
been wasted"
AlDeIl idySOn IL ny
greed or by fatigue or by ignorance.
we should be fooled into the grant
ing of such a peace, then our brothers
would have died in vain. Germany.
virtually. would have won the war.
The menace to our children and to
our childrens children would remain
una ba ted. There can be<but one real
peace. We are on the road to that
peace Every allied advance moves it
q day nearer. Let us not allow our
selves to be sidetracked into the
slough of German-made peace,
which would mean German tri-
umph."
"Must Be Exterminated."
Richard Washburn Child-'We are
not warning against a territory. .
red or green or blue patch on the
map. We are warning against a gov
eminent system and its ring. crooked,
cruel. brutal and ruthless. If 1t is
not wiped out by those who are op-
pressed by it. or are corrupted by 1t,
and are being led "a destruction by it