Show t t t i lie e World H Has S s Changed Front Says Herbert Quick America I 1 I Ia a 1 Armed Democracy and Sub L Must Choose Between an jug A l' l 1 J HERBERT F. F By QUICK f iMS My friend Frank Graham of Bondtown Va has written me itter which i is of the tile greatest importance to me because it 1 es a 1 question as to my 1 V tal and moral processes ac ch must exist in t the e minds n ni re readers ers Here is the ther er r S r have have hav been en Interested in i 11 your arums arum's ar- ar um's until recer recently Uy You have blind blind- all your former views of turned your jour our face backward l. I t k of Lots Lot's wife looking back o Oj I n fleeing ng from a great curse May nt nl present attitude toward millas milla's mill- mill as a's be only a a pause In your jour our ond on- on d Hd march from the great peril P Pr you jou return to the ranks of ot the thet t rather than become a literary OBI Oar ar of salt saIto I am taking It upon self to send you jou ou these few lIn lines s j t spirit of friendliness and some IS of other writers for fol your per- per kl There are many who wh have fied Sled led the heights of fame tame and then 81 aced f-aced aced ced their steps to the foot toot again n n lost their grasp on the minds of thinking w world May this catas- catas Ie jie ie be he spared you jou The ideas h you jou OU are noW how putting forth are PJ f C the ideas that will live but are I mi L past SoW 1 is a kind and thou thoughtful let let- t 5 ter ter from one who while unknown to me persona personally I feel teel to be bea a thoughtful manIt man It is true tru as he says that I have reversed myself on the matt matter fo for defense aV i iI I do not think however that I have blindly repudiated my views I have changed some of them I though was ne nece nev ce a ca ary man with pain and with the utmost 1 at I agree with Mr Graham when h he says the Ideas which u putting forth ate are not of the Ideas which will live but are of ot the po vas pas i 1 1101 hope th thy y will perish with the necessity for them 1 hate the hate the necessity for them I b believe ll e them to be th the present by greed and lust Just of power but they belong i as 1 says to the past the vast the dark and ana evil past dp So does vaccination perhaps but we must face race the fact tact of sr smi As I see it we have havea a momentous choke choice to make Free land had the same choice offered her and chose an armed d deracy der de n racy rather than subjugation ft Surrounded as she was by strong nations nation armed to the teeth sh take on military preparedness or 01 accept a foreign tyranny It isea ise the greatest nations of the world ti tri invade the United States by bYl for Germany German Italy France or Hungary Austria to invade Switzer Ian land m WE ARE IN DANGER OF INVASION I did not realize that tin tinI in I and New Zealanders appeared at the Dardanelles and other I were ferried across seas as easily as across rivers Shall We as a nation say Resit not evil and Invite Invasion it would not save save have us from war for In case of attack we should fight i even with clubs and stones and to the death I have made my choice I I. I prefer preter that we prepare to fight on equa with any possible foe The world has changed front I hIve have changed front with j realization of that fact as a peaceful householder locks hi his if when rioting breaks out R Enough lias has happened It would seem since August 1 I 1 1914 to toj s sOme me readjustment of ideas |