THE MAIL

To the Editor of the Crimson:

I hope that the Caricature of President Conant between the halves of the Harvard-Yale game does not depresent the attitude of a considerable percentage of Harvard undergraduates. If it does, I hope that this attitude is the result of propaganda or of one sided teaching and is not evidence of a softness of the younger generation that makes it unable to be moved by considerations other than its immediate comfort and pleasure. The representation of President Conant, in the garb of the Pilgrims, as wildly and thoughtlessly brandishing a gun, is an insult to the President of Harvard, who undoubtedly thought long and earnestly before stating that he believed the United States should go to war. It is also an insult to the Pilgrims, who went through no end of hardship and suffering in order to obtain freedom. It was an insult to the alumni witnessing it who fought in the last war, and to all who have fought and died in order that this nation might survice.

The United States is now facing as crisis as serious as any in its history. Far seeing intelligent men feel that if Germany wins this war, the things our ancestors valued more than life will be destroyed. If Nazism is to be defeated, the United States will have to "go all out" to help Britain in every way. The United States can not do so without going to war. Great Britain did not "go all out" until France was defeated so it is wishful thinking to believe that we would do so, but when there are at stake things that our ancestors valued more highly than life, not to "go all out" would be folly. G. Colket Caner '17.