Show PEACE AT ANY PRICE A group of young people in an eastern city pdro advocating cating neutrality for this country in the italian echio pian conflict make this statement in a recent letter we stand tor for peace at any price have these students stuarts stua ets thought this thing through and accepted tile the logical conclusions to which that aland must mu L lead has not their hatred for 1 war which every right think thinking ing in individual shares led them i into nto an 1 expression and position inconis inconsistent with their otheir own honest viewpoint view point and their own to the exigencies of everyday every day affairs can one think that these young youn people if indeed they are of the ace fair minded upstanding virile type characteristic of our american youth would stand supinely by and see a friend imposed upon or attacked by a bully a woman insulted or a dumb animal tortured without any attempt to lo we all know athey would n not ot and it seems reasonable to think that in great mattes matters as in small mail in affairs of the nation as in their own personal contacts they would be on the side of fair play and justice and militancy raili mili tanty if that were necessary it is only natural that young people should speak first and hink afterward ter ward but what of the older people who are leaders in this peace at any price movement what ot of those who have so much begs regard for their own safety and so little for the country in which they live that they will take the attitude we will not defend the united states in any war can we find for them the th same excuse we do for these impulsive youth no grea great t religious leader ha has taught the peace at any price doctrine it is true that J esus sus said unto him that thee on the one cheek offer also the other and him that away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also but he also said think not that I 1 am come to send peace on earth I 1 came not to send peace but a sword and the sight of the grafters drafters gr in the temple imposing upon the poor people who came there to worship roused in him suh such anger that lie he overthrew the tables scattered their money over the floor and in a flame of righteous indignation which none could resist he drove them all from the sacred enclosure no jesus was not a peace at any price man our government ought of course to use great care to avoid unnecessary entanglement in the present european conflict or any other sim 1 ilar exigency but should our neutrality be carried to an extent where we are afraid to express ourselves regarding some of the world events of the past few months 1 the united states did not join the league of na I 1 tons although ahat league was was boi boin n in the mind of an american president but it lid did sign the kellog briand peace pact can this nation honorably avoid a condemnation of a flagrant fla giant violation of that pact just because we ne might thereby subject our saves to loss or in inter ur the enmity of sonie some other nation does not neutrality of that character savor of peace at any arice and subject us to the suspicion that there is some where in OUT our makeup make up a spirit which has always characterized us as a nation of courage and conviction vic vio tion truly war is an honorable things it 16 is the lowest form of human it is a catastrophe to be dreaded and avoided but it is not the rot thing ahat can an happen to a nation just as death is not the worst thing that can happen to an individual one should do some hard thinking beffie he says 1 I will not defend the united states in any war |