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Sees Attempt Pt To Frighten ‘ Americans ~ Bowdéin Professor Deplores Talk . Spectal Detpateh te The Press Herald Brunswick, May 23~—Lashing out! ‘at those who he alleges are seeking to confuse a well-meaning and honest] Public with nightmare apparitions, of. Newton P, Stallimecht, associate Professor of philosophy at’ Bowdoin College, in a@ chape? address today Urged the students to mature their” opinions and make them heard. He Quoted from a recent address by Ad- 5 Tira] Yarnell that the United Btates 4s safe from foreign invasion. Prof. Stallknecht terjoed the recent talk by Col. oor as as panes _talligent, geous opin- lon, but a te resented, bit’ tactiessiy. a . “Why then all these alarms?" asked Prof. Stallimecht. “Why all this talk! irom high schoot to Congress of, Winged warriors descending upon us? ‘Why this attempt to torture the pub- Uc?’ Have they not heard enough ale! ready? Why repeat Orsen Welles’ hor-! rible fairy tale about the Martians? ‘That, to be sure was an accident. But} there is nothing accidental sbout its Tepetition. H “I the people desire to involve us! tm war for reasons of economics, of; International morality or sheer pres- tige, let them speak out but their| gritics ‘must require them to state their true reasons, And they should Tefrain from confusing well-mean- ing and honest public with nightmare, ®pparitions. We all know that the state of the world 1s bad enough as: 3 ds without such fantastic’ ais- tortions, “It is my belief that an effort is now being made to frighten the? American people. We hear from the President of the United Btates a) Public statement of the flying times irom Greenland to Maine and from Bermuda to New York City. And these seem merely to be offered ai evidence 2. cannot possibly stand_aleof from the European conflict. ‘To be, SAY /Yo Ar a nay nents Gi _ _ Under war-time messutes which sus- pend competitive ‘bidding, and some labor regulations which’ m recent years have been’ prepared to protect the forgotten man. “Now of course we do not know what the Administration's next move will be. In fairness, we must admit that it may not be an unwise one. But it will be most unwise and unfair it It involves any further effort to frighten the public. A frightened pub- Me means @ confused Congress that! Gares not appear to ignore popular { excitement. And such e Congress is | likely to do the wrong thing. No. leader who frightens his people ts a ‘truly Democratic leader. F “Not so long ago one leader tald us ‘that grass would grow in the streets Mf he were not elected. And soon other leaders may be telling us that foreign bombs will be bursting in air af they ‘are not reelected. “Since I have gone so far it ap- Dears only fair to you that I state more fully my opinions concerning our proper attitude toward the war. Iwill not aay that the European. war {5 no concern’of ours, It is very obviously a cause of great and dis tressful concern. We talk, these days, of Little else and we must take an intelligent stand concerning it. : “The war abroad ts a painful mat- ter for all of us—it is inhuman to Taugh at it or even to try to forget: it, I am sure that everyone here is‘ ready to contribute generously to the Red Cross funds and to offer help to refugees when the chance arises. Americans have experience in _ or-} genizing such assistance and such: help can be offered with a clean con-{ science. { “Bul there $s no ground upon! Which our own Government has & Tight to interfere in this war, Our. Government 1s not a militant benev- olent society for policing the world. Since we have proceeded according to ‘that assumption, we should not sud- denly desire to enforce law ;and order” on & grand scale In Europe or Asia ‘To desire to do 60 under these cir- cumstances fs nothing but militant sentimentalism—which is at once the worst kind of sentimentalism and al- most the worst kind of militarism. “with ‘reasonable foresight and good leadership we may insure our safety and the continuity of our civ iiization for years to come and this 4s the only end we ‘should instruct our government to pursuee. This is not all, We should make certain that our government hears our Instruc- tions. There are involved in such a licy many special problems. Proba- Be ites “of much foreign trade is one of them. But even this is a smal? price to pay for the sanity and wholesome. living which waft-emost ‘certam seriously to impair.” LebYl-