Initiative The Foundation of Democracy ... and 170 years later all of these honorable men would have shaken their heeds if they could see what has become of their glorious foundation. In the name of democracy one has convinced the American People that little Germany was going to attack the great and mighty U. S. A. The free sons of a free nalion were shipped like cattle to Europe and hundreds of thou sands of them had to give life and blood for an entirely senseless cause. The fields and ditches of France, Belgium and Germany are covered with the mutilated bodies of the finest youngsters America ever had. Gradually it dawned upon the Americans in Europe that their great democracy was never in danger of being attacked by any European nation. They decided that it was a far far better thing to live for democracy than to die for the interests of a few. This was the spirit that prompted the American soldier in Europe to take the initiative into his own hands and come to an understanding with the German soldier. Thus they made their own peace, setting up a great democracy in Europe, bringing the world a lasting peace. Truly a great achievement for America in the spirit of 1776....... YOU TOO will shake your head, but that's the essay your boy's going to write. Think it over, who can force you, a free and able bodied American, to give your blood and life for a strange cause in a strange country? You really need not be here, so why don't you take the initiative and go home? TO LIVE AND WORK FOR DEMOCRACY IS FAR BETTER THAN TO DIE FOR THE INTERESTS OF A FEW AMBITIOUS POLITICIANS!