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The Mountain Trail I,a-v:3 ^ li5S/ September 29,1939 CAN^T WE CAN^TI Or more often I CAH’T I Howoften we hoar these 'X) rdsl "'/hy are these icjoar’ds used so much? Simp ly because can’t" think of anything else to say. It is extre - mely easy whon we come up a5ainst something that seems hard at fir st to say can’t” and stop; whereas, if we were not, as ir; most often the case, so lazy v/o could try a little and do it,‘’uien we usually say v/e can’t is whon we think some- thinfT is going to be hard; then so we won’t have to waste our very good energy we excuse ourselves by saying We can’t.” If some of the men too settled the vast region now known as the United States had said ”We can't” whon they encountered a seemingly hard obstacle, I am afraid many of us would be in the front lines cT the battlefields of 2urope, fightinn: with the nations now en- gan:ed in wr*r, since most Americans origin?Jlly camo from Europe. If all people said ”'"^e can’t” ai much as we do after we have tried a little v;e would more than likely still be v/riting on rocks, ’‘^^len v/o start saying “We can’t',’ right then and there progress stops. ‘■'/hile an epidemic is raging, if a doctor should get womod while tryinc; to vaccinnte and administer care to the hu'^dDdrj of people calling' for him, ^nd say,”I can't, I j’Tst can’t do it,” and loavo the people to die while he ’-Tent off to rest, V'fhat would we think of him? We would call him a coward and a weakling. All these cases serve as examples to show how we do and what happens v/hen we say ”We can’t.'* Certainly we can do nothing u.iless we try, and there is one thing certain, if wo say “We can’t”, then we can’‘S. -Margie "allor o SHOULD AMERICA KEj^-P OUT OF A>^ WA[ IN ’^:hich democr;'TIC praNCiPLEC ARE INVOLVED Since the present vrar raging ir. Europe is a war between Democracy and Oppression, the most natural impulse of many Americans is to rush headlong into it. However, can America afford to get into another war, v/hen she has never finished paying her debt in the last one and when she has su ".k further into debt by the depressi following it? '%r, as everyone knows, is always destructive. It ruins our homos, takes our health iest and strongest boys, leaving to the next generation a manhood v-f e 0 k e no d phy s i c a 117/, me nt a 1 ly, and morally. It piles up more and hea\ ier debts to be paid. The argument for staying out of war is strongei than that for entering it. By starring out of war, America can help the Democratic cause in a constri^ctive way far more than by adding to the destructive forc> nowat work in Europe. At the end of the war, however long or short Europe is going to need a nation able to help her rebuild on the ruins and ashes that ore left her*. America then can do more at the end of the war for the cause of Democ '^acy by staying out of the war now and by lending her aid as good neifdibor, interested in humconity. Europe *^’dll need our money and our resources to draw upon, as well as our sympath'7 in her effori at rehabilitation. o Charles; ’'’/hy are you limping? Do your shoos hurt*; Juno: Ko, but my feot do.
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