Show efly SOLDIERS ARE OPPOSED TO LEAGUE impossible to arouse proper spirit to face death for foreign countries es bollong fol long is the third of bur 1111 r a articles rt scie by capt rapt eddie 8 k haacker on IV rhy hy Sold soldiers are arnst the league of nations copi Ricken aas the ace of nets in american aviation on the me front in france ats acquaintance among the sold soldiers of the late war is when he speaks for tor them he speaks he knows by sy CAPT EDDIE chapter 3 it I 1 t Is ll a ac solemn thing to go out to kill dr r to t 0 b be killed moat mait men do not 1140 to so go ible belt go because duty force forces item them to their sense of duty to their country Is al i ronger than their sense of self elf they face death be bs caw cause they ought to protect what they love at home that Is I 1 what makes spirit la to an irmy amy the ne west pointer colls calls it morale without INIth out this spirit a soldier lo liller Is not worth much and find an anny army ti is no army at all el ei ery err soldier know known this and so he asks how ilow at aie a you yot going to get the proper fighting ci at rit irit into american troops when under article 10 they will be called to fight for poland against kus az lie or fur ur Kouman lu against BuI bulgaria guria or r tor for grace turkey mi IN hat Is there to nerve a 0 man against death in the thought that by his blath be will help on ons of these foreign coun tiles retain a ferritor terri tor as big as long lonz island and prevent another country from getting it itt N hlll III that tho con COD sole ole him when big mind turns tums to the mother or wife ife in america Is there any inspiration in it does a man die gladly for anything so foreign and so sordid the soldier who has stood by the charred flesh and bones of a comrade knows there Is no spirit or consolation la to any of these thinie thin fre he ile knows that men cannot fly willingly into the face of benth for any such causes the ft bole hole thing Is impossible ti e of the line it is 1 SINT simply y unthinkable to him all gli th the e talk about making the world safe for democracy by fighting boundary were all till around the globe means just nothing at all you might as va ell tell allm to die for the blue ark sky yos aa to dle ile for blunda bo unlA 7 I 1 ianes eteen hire at 11 1 tir tor III general I 1 have never seen a col got her lier or a anny that could get the u si 1 t in uch such n cause as hat that r I 1 a any other american adiv rican soldier n amer lean anny army that ha hal I 1 no other inspire Itar pirn lion would be an all grav spirit without morale it kulil ie le no army I at all I 1 defy any soldier to imagine a fighting african ams Am rican anay under tl it ee T tn to august st 1018 10 american Yme rican avia tors lol were lined rp nt at claremont prance it ce to go to the front they shook hands with ith even body aal an smil d bv I 1 an engineer officer asked the captain in charge 0 of the kroup group kiy wity all al this gloom th the e reply was woe bell ell those tate rican ma tua chines have no protection a al oon boon a bullet hits ilits that kas gas line tank it Is certain it will tabe take fire immediately anin eil lately and the men have no chance to get a ay A month later the engineer again met the captain an and d asked it if those men came back iliev trev dover never came back wa was the simple answer they ney neer neier came back I 1 do men do th these the e things as they go to break breakfast fart or board a street car cart do the do these things tor for political theories or tor for general principles plea or for a miserable pa piece of land that some foreigner covets and some other foreigner ft not give up cun can you expect any soldier who has been seen men do what those 10 did to be tor for the league 7 can you imagine his tits wishing such sacrifices to be tan made je on the order orders of a foreign country can you picture to lf an american army sent overseas by the american people to such or it if suit can you think it possible to in inspire pire ua nn army amy to bra e 0 dis oil oi buch pretenses I 1 cannot 0 no o soldier can that 1 Is why the soldier li ill ai alast the league cl |