Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-06-17
WHY SHOULD WE GO TO WAR:
70 the Editor:


TO the Editor:
The propagandist. the atheist and
the jingOS arc at work. From their
lips come numerous incredible utter
anccS; from their pens How their
fatuouS writings. Day in and day
out they work ardently dispensing
their fallacious material so that 1t
may fall into. the hands Of our
tountrymen. From their lofty
pCrchcs they arc constantly coolne
how we must do this or do that to
save America and democracy. But
the grave problem is: They insist
in their subtle speeches ana thclI
diabolic writings that We should
send not only a few men and supplies
TO subduc Hitlcrism, Stallnglsm and
soon il will be MuSsOllnllsm, but we
must send q mass of troops and sup
plies TO combat the forces OF those
dctators
"Why should we participate in
any European conflict?
l wish some diplomatic person
would please answer hat mOmcn-
tous question and. also, what we
would benefit by participating in
any European war. But | assure
YOU, you arc going to have Il heck
of time convincing me that Amc-
RIGA should send their troops three
thousand miles to be murdered.
No. l shall not wait for an answer
for I have already seated myself
at the typewriter and I will let moth
ing divert my attention until this
article is completed
So we must go to War-er-Mr.
PropagandiSt. MIR. lingo and Mr..
Etc. We must send not only few
men and supplies to Europe. but we
must send our entire army and sew
eral billion dollars worth of fight
ing equipment to subduc dictator
ship. Hitlcrism, Stalinism, and other
iSms. even arbitrary Fascistiism
should be annihilated, so you tell
us-undoubtedly they should but let
the European countries do it. You
tell us that democracy and America
cannot survive unless this plan is
carried out. (America and Demo-
cracy cannot survive if we continue
to let the jingos, communist etc.
operate within our gates. Ameri-
canism and Democracy cannot be
prolcngatcd if we listen to the blab
of the un-Amcrican activities). You
even tell us that Hitler will ulti-
mately conquer the whole world
unless he is stopped, and the only
wav to stop him is by the American
soldier.
You charlatanS, iingoS and propa-
gandistS have been very clever with
your one-<idcd speeches and writings
and you have even bewitched some
of our honest citizens with your cry
of blood and murder. You have de-
waited mems attention to the west
crn front with your falaciOus balder-
dash. You have men excited with
anticipationS about the adventures
of war. You have told us that it is
brave and heroic deed to give ones
life for democracy, AmericanlSm
and his colntry-you always yell the
above in a strident tone. You also
told us about the glories, honors ana
laurelS of war But Mr.. lingo, Mi.
SOrcercr and all lovers of war, you
who have never seen war, you VINO
get rich from other peoples blood,
you didn't tell us all and here is an
construed cpitomc of what was en-
cludcd.
It is Il brave and heroic deed to
sacrifice ones life for his country
and AmcricaniSm if necessary, Mr..
PropagandiSt but VIC realize for one
to say that Europe has been peace
loving. sympathetic nation would be
faIlacv. We realize that even
from the dawn of history Europe had
their wars. so why should we sacrl-
flee our lives to fight some other
hostile nations wars? And then you
told us very little in your WrltlnSS
and astuto erocchcs about the hor-
rors and usclcssncSs Of wars. You
wasted no words depicting those VINO
wore wounded passcd and murdered
like rats in trap in the World
War. You failed 10 depict those
CHASTITY scenes where men were
moved down like wheat in front Of
= rnoncr Won ra;d n"''''''" of those
unfortunate mon who NJ" ~ INC nos
pital who must be cared ior even
todav-thc blind. the mHl"cd and
tho diseased. You only SAID war is
NJ A,,,o, ,,,,,c4 not 90 to war