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r*' Kthoroiighlv ■07071 ■rrrr. ENTENTE ALLIES HAVE NEED OF . JOINT GENERAL STAFF TURK ARMY BOLSTERED . ■ » , j Journalistic Writers Cause Outbreak _ Among Allies, Says London Cor- respondent of The New York Her- “Id—Some Views as to Verdun Fight and Russian Operations. JournalistipirQubleniakers, draw ing comparisons between the En tente powers oft the basis of their contribution to the allied military power, have drawn down on their heads a general chorus of indigna tion, not only in England but in France and Italy. Rome, especially, is angry at the intimations that she has fallen short of her expected strength as an ally, and tho newspapers in the Italian capital are expressing themselves in the most candid terms, not tempered by the*circumstance that the British critics arc almost an severe on Bri tain. It is safe to say no partnership, even for the moat inconsequential business, can be conducted without some disputes. Here, ranged against the central empires, are four first class powers, closely bound together in a partnership agreement in which also minor powers have important interests. tiient Britain, France, Iljbssia and Italy have their separate national aspirations. In many eases they o|» pose the interests of their partners in the main business of the alliance. In the dnys before the war Britain and Russia kept cloco watch one on the other. Italy was jealous of France. _ French ambitions at times clashed with Britain’s. These ante-war conditions—a part of the very life of-the people—can not- h*- obliteratert emr tnnTfT the hi*? bn denied, the capture of the city ;would recompense the German peo ple as a whole In some measure for the cost of the struggle. France, on 'the other hand, would be little affected, except by regret at seeing a famous and venerated French town pass Into- the hands of an enemy, and the allied cause would be affected no more than by the withdrawal from any other Vvell for tified but difficult to defend posi tion, at any point on the long front. The Germans made hn assault in some force against the British be tween La Bassee canal and Loos on Thursday. Their principal object seemed to be the gain of more ground ,in front of the Hohenzollern bedoubt for the better protection of that stronghold. They took over abut five hundred yards of British front, but counter attacks on Friday recovered a small part of the lost territory.. Considerable artillery activity oc curred all along the British front during the week, but the sector around Ypres saw the only other In fantry actions. These were in small force, however, and of only local sig nificance. Further north, about Dix- naudo, the Belgians had a taste of activity on Wednesday. The Germans attempted to expand their ground west of the Yser canal, but the little body of French who still hold the line for a few miles north of JJteenstraate used their artillery and the Belgian infantry enthusiastically went Into the fight, which left the situation relatively unchanged. l<arge Turkish reinforcements are holding up the Uussians east of Er- zingan and in some places throwing them back. An important battle de veloped on Monday also in the Mount Kope region, where the Grand Duke's forces seem to have been compelled to retrerft over a ten mile front. This region of the I.ower Caucasus promises to be the big centre of the Turkish campaign for some weeks to eome. The Ottoman forces are stand ing in front of Erzingan and on the hills outside Baiburt w iHi the knowl edge that a definite ann decisive de feat will throw open the whole, of Armenia to invasion- and will open the door to the 'Mediterranean and 111 RiU'ilpd C 1 *. Tr~r'- 1 i 1 pressure of thegrcaleaLTar In hi tofy. - And" IT they could few state men wopld desire-it, for it would be a certain indication of a dissipation of the national character, on which not only governments but "alliances depend. It was Inevitable that diverging Interests should give rise to differ ences in regard to the methods of carrying on a common war. It was inevitable that these differences should give rise to acrimonious dis cussions. To them may be traced more than one error in the general allied military policy. Hut it may be recalled that these errors, none of which perhaps has had any effect on the ultimate result of the conflict, should bare occurred before the dose co-ordination of the Entente war of fices was arranged. Tbe Entente powers hate labored umler the dioailtitntage of having bo permanent and rent rail zed I trad to direct milibiry operations. It is rec ognized that even the war council as it Is now constituted is not eqtfal in efficiency or effectiveness tolhe gen eral staff directing tbe operations of the central powers, on which all the Germanic allies are represented, but which is dominated by the Gorman high command. This general staff may decide in a day to undertake or abamjon a par ticular movement. A similar deci sion of the Entente Allies, preaum- ing it to be of more than local signi ficance. would mean first the submis sion of the scheme to Paris, London, Petrogrnd and Rome. This condition has been recognized and wnloly discussed by military writers in I^ndon and lir Paris, and efforts have been made to expand the co-operation now obtaining In the four capitals into a real allied gen eral staff, but thus far without suc cess, where .decisions can be made that are equally binding on all the signatarles. It is the more or less independent action allowable to the Entente gov- ■feTnnients under the present arrange ment that" has caused recriminations, which can have no other effect that encouragement of Germany and her friends. It is what Germany is de pending on to separate her enemies while the war is in progress and what she is depending on to obtain the juiciest plums when the diplo matists gather around their green table in peace conference. The renewal by the Germans of tho battle of Verdun—the ninth distinct phase of their struggle to capture the •Meuse city—ended as all the others have ended, some advance, heavy losses to both sides, but no serious •damage to the main French defences. The exact situation on both the Dead Man and Hill 304 is not quite clear, hut it seehis'from a compari son of the French and German state ments that the north slopes of botli hills are controlled or occupied by the Gerrnans, with the French hold ing the reverse slopes. • Paris said several days ago the French had withdrawn to the summit o-f No. 304,’ but tha4 the Germans had been un- »able to occupy the slope because of the French fire. , ’ Two days later Berlin officially said Hie German troops occupied the top of the’hill. If seems probable this referred to one qC thgTrtlghtiy lower heTghla just northwest of No. 304 and not (o the main position. The French on No. 304 as well as on the Dead Man Hill, even if they hold the south side of the hills, are in the .unfortunate position of hav ing to withstand flanking fires.' The ground between them constitutes now such a salient, althoftgh not so arp, as Rethincourt constituted he re its evacuation. With this advantage It Is not to bo expected the Germans will 'rest on thelt* accomplishments I9 this area. The two hills dominate all the conn- ly and aootneast to Verdun. By securely oeenpyinf.them the ehanref lor compelling the evacuation of the Verdua salient would be vastly In creased. And wktie the value of Verdna as a prita of battle has boon, Constantinople recognizee tlist this _ theatfw jqst now 1S~ of ~vaHry moreTfuture liii|M>tiance than any threat against NEW NOTE TELLS ENGLAND Work Will be Begun Imniedlatetyon a Reply to British Note on Blockade Orders. Negotiations with Great Britain regarding interference with mails to and from the United States and in terruption of neutral commerce by the British fleet are.to be resumed in the very near future. A note insisting sharply upon modifications In the treatment of malls already is being prepared at the state department, and as soon as possible will bo begun on a re ply to the last British note defend- r ing the operation of the blockade orders in council. - Secretary Lansing let it be known last week that the implied change in the. German note on submarine war fare expressing confidence that the United States would hold Great Bri tain to compliance with international law had made it difficult to proceed with the British negotiations. He said, however, that: these nego tiations would be continued prompt ly in spite of the embarrassing situa tion. The note now being prepared reiterates the original protest of the United States dgatnst. the detention and interference with American mails. . y , The reply of Great Britain, receiv ed sevefal weeks ago, is considered unsatisfactory to President Wilson. It is understood that the new de mand will be more decided in its lan guage than the first. A phase of interference with mails, which would be made the subject of special protest, is the custom of tak ing neutral ships into British ports for inspection and then removing the mails, and sometimes subjecting them to long delays. The refusal of Great Britain to allow hospital supplies to be aent by the American Red Cross to Germany and hey allies at 111 is being carefully investigated at the state department. a protest on this subject is ex- pocted to go forward Luthw aeaa- WILSON REVIEWS BIS THREE YEARS IN WHITE HOUSE f ■ '■ ♦ A HEART TO HEART TALK President Says His Job is to Inter- ' " . > • ... pret the Wish of the People—Hard to Decide When They Want to I'se Force in Order to Assert the Rights of Mankind. President Wilson has made public a frank and intimate review of his three years in the White House and his impressions of foreign and do mestic problems, delivered confiden tially Monday night before W'ashing- Jopr correspondents gathered at the National Press Glub. He spoke of the difficulties of the presidency and particularly of the motives which have guided his handling of 'the European situation. The president’s remarks as origi nally delivered were read by him carefully before they were made pub lie, but no important portions were eliminated, and the wording was not “changed substantially. The president said: . “I am both glad and sorry to be here; glad because I am always happy to be with you, and know and like so many pf you, and sorry be cause I hrve to make a speech. One of the leading faults of you gentle men of the press is your inordinate desire to hear other men talk, to draw them put uppn all occasions, whether they wish- to be drawn out or not. 1 remember being in this Press Club .pnce : before, making many unpremedilated disclosures of myself, and then having you, with your singular instinct for publicity, insist that 1 should give it away to everybody else “I was thinking as I was looking thelask, aware that America Is one self, told more than It does no#. A of the chief nations of tho yorld, i^t friends of mine says that every man only, but hfii of the chief nations 'of! who takes office in Washington either ^ows or-swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he Is swell ing or growing. The mischief of It is that when they swell they do not swell enough to burst. If they would only swell to the point where yon might insert a pin and let the gases out, it would be a great delight I do not know any pastime that would man except by occasionally knocking! be. more diverting, except that the vi_ j ■- *>-- •— < 1-' gaaeg a re probably poisonous so that the world—a'nation that grows more and more powerful-almost in spite of herself; that grows morally more and morsi influential even when she is not aware of ft; and that if she is to play the part which she most covets, it is necessary that she should act more or less from the point of view pf the rest of. the world. If I cannot retain my moral influence over a ■ Ml |M >1 1UII'CBISJI liiiwrsai A^uau^s* _—---hittf-t I i.aiidt u|vvyu vvz the Tigris valley from the «llrc<-tlou U A [U MAN IFAVF TOWN perform, and I was going over in my of tbe Persian frontier. An advaiwe| i 11 ** 1 **^ lUHlt L.I.H t L, ivmi mind the impressions that I then bad by way of forecast of the duties of flnaWy was over- f rentier. tn force from tbe Middle Caucasus would be literally cutting into the heart of the Ottoman empire. To meet it all the available reserves are being sent north from Nlsibln and east from Stvas. It is believed that two hundred thousand fresh troops have reached this front in the last two weeks, amounting In some meas ure for the reverses suffered by the Russians On the other hand, there is little evidence that large forces on either side are osieratlng along the Per sian frontier. The Russians who ad vanced through Ilamadtn in the mid die of the winter are not believed to exceed twenty thousand men. This column took the strong Turkish posi tion Khanlkan, on the frontier, early In the week, but from the best ad vires the defence consisted of only about five thousand Turkish regulars, reinforced by an equal number of Kurds and Persian tribesmen. This was the force w-nirh pressed Into Persia last autumn and occu pied Kenuanshah and retreated on the development of the Russian of fensive. It stood for a time in the difficult . mountain region about Kranikin' but powered. ‘There Is little question that the presence of Russians a hundred miles from the Tigris will cause a regroup ing of the Turkish armies in the Bagdad region, but for this purpose the Ottoman command has available the greater part of the army which had been besieging Kut-el-Amara. A part of this force will be left to augment the army facing General Aylmer and his British column at Felahle, but the remainder will be transported, if it has not moved already, to assist in covering Bag dad on the north and east. On the main Russian front the week has passed without an event of importance. The Petrograd official communiques continue to refer to of fensive operations on the part of the Germans, but these have developed into nothing more alarming than local and Insignificant engagements. Quiet prevails on the Galician and Bukowina end of the line. The long period of inactivity for tho Austrian army may be broken in the near future by offensive opera tions against the Italians at Ayiona. Reports coming from the Balkans in the last week indicate that the army • under General Koevess. which is in occupation of a large part of Al bania. is being reinforced with a view to attacking the Italian posi tlons around the port. Outpost skir mishes have occurred, and with the breaking of'U-inter in the mountains considerable general activity- has been observed. Military writers who have been predicting a new attack by the Italians along the Tsonzo thus far have been disappointed. It is re garded as being very nbcessary for General Cadorna to undertake an as sault before many weeks pass. The Italian army should be well equipped and supj>1ied with ammuni tion in quantity great enough to sup port an offensive on a large scale. Except for small affairs jit tha moun tains involving a battalion or two at a time there has been no unusual drain .on the enormous munitions output of the Italian factories since the last assaults against Gorizia end ed the first week in December. FACE FOOD CRISIS The American crisis Is practically forgotten In Germany now, eclipsed by the growing Interest In the food situation, particularly tbe meat ques tion Tho first positive results of tho government’s determination to- take indicated by the resignation on ac- connt of ill health of Secretary of the Interior Delbraek, whose office mg hose aiguaed to erttldi maay aidea for lack of effl- ia eopfag with WHO INSULTED VETERANS Kingntree ('itizmn Escort (liiragw 1*10(0x0 t'oncera's HepTmoata- tire to Edge of the City. A committee of prominent Kings- trva citizens made it their business Friday afternoon to see that one Crla Johnson shook tho dirt of Kingstree from his pedal extremities on account of a certain remark he made Wed nesday while the Confederate Vet erans of Williamsburg were, enjoy ing tiieir annual entertainment by the United Daughters of tbe Cou- federacy. During the address of Prof. Yates Snawden, of the University - of South Carolina, at the Opera House, a can non was fired and the young man. Johnson, inquired what was the cause. Upon being informed that It was Memorial day and the cannon wras being fired in honor of the Con federate Veterans, he remarked that 'the last d -d one of them should be lined up and shot.” The remark was made at the dinner table in the Du- Bose House and several hearers re monstrated with the indiscreet young man from Oklahoma, but he showed no disposition to retract the state ment. Several Veterans and Sons of Vet erans got wind of the young man’s remark and constituted themselves a committee to invite him out of town, but from Wednesday until Friday he could not be found, being in the country delivering enlarged portraits for a Chicago picture concern. Fri day afternoon Johnson- was located in the pool room and the committee called upon him. They gave him thirty minutes in which to leave town, and they marched him down the A. C. L. railroad track and saw him beyond the corporate limits of town heading for Lone, wher.e he made sure that he boarded a north bound train that was not scheduled to stop at Kingstree. DRINKING MORE WHISKEY Government Statistics Show Increase in Consumption. Notwithstanding the fact that pro hibition laws have become effective in seven states since July 1, 1915, approximately seven million five hun dred thousand gallons more whiskey have been used in the United States so far during this fiscal year, ending Juqe 30, than ever before. Returns to the Internal revenue bureau ap proximate the total increase for the year ^at ten million gallons.' During 4he same period the use of beer has fallen more than one mil lion five hundred thousand barrels, or forty-five million gallons, from last year's figures. Tho total us© of beer for the year ending Juno 30, It is estimated, will be about sixty mll- Ji.oh gallons less than It was in the last fiscal year. ■ 1 An extraordinary increase in the amount of cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco is reported for the current year.. Tho tax collected during the nine months endcl March 31 shows an increase of approximately five million dollars on tobacco over ,the last ficcal year. List Illinois as Doubtful. Astute politicians threw Illinois into the doubtful list of states on the presidency. Democratic leaders dur ing tho last fortnight haze- been lent Wilson has far more than a flitting cfcanoe to carry IKInola, rhlch la normally Republican by ap- proxlmately_one hundred and fifty >n the state by thoneand eighteen ploralltr Wilson won tbirusaad five lilt. hundred him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally tA knock him down. . “You know bow we have read In ~i8n’t it Ralph Connor's stories of Western life In Canada?—that all his sky pilots are ready (or a fracas at any time and how the^ ultimate salvation of the souls of their parish ioner* depends upon their using their fists occasionally. If a man will not listen to you quietly in a seat, sit oil ills neck and make him listen; just as I have always maintained, par ticularly In view of certain experi ences of mine, that the shortest road to a boy’s moral sense Is through his cuticle. There is a direct and if I may be permitted the pun, a funda mental connection between the .sur face of his skin and his moral con sciousness. You arrest his attention first in that way and then get the moral lesson conveyed to him in milder ways that, if he were grown up, would be the only ways you would use. “So 1 say Umt I have be«*n atvare (bat in order to do (lie very thing that are proudest of the ability to do. there might come a time when we would have to do it in a way that we would prefer not to do it; and the great burden on my spirits, gen tlemen, has been that it has been up to me to choose when that time came. Upn you imagine a thing more cal culated to keep a man awake at nights than that? Because, just be cause I did not feel that I-was the whole thing and was aware that my duty was a duty of Interpretation, how could I be sure that I had the right elements of information by which to interpret truly? What we are now talking about Is largely spiritual. You say all the f~r~i—rt t~ coming here this evening! out think, so and so. T-fiCcaslonTfllen lldood Now. I know peTTO-lly well that of tharot1TT»Y _ bf r casl nearly at the threshold of the duties that 1 have wince been called upon to you have not talked with all the people out your way. I find that out again and again. And so you are taken by surprise. “The people of the Unltnl Stales are not asking anybody's leave to do tiieir own thinking, and are not ask ing anybody to Up them off wiiat I hey ought to think. That are think ing for UietusoAven, every man for himself; and you do not know, and the worst of it Is, since Uie responsi bility Is mine, I do not know what Uiey are thinking about. 1 have Uie most Imperfect means of finding out, and yet I have got to art as If I knew. 'That Is the burden of it, and J tell you. gentlemen. It la a pretty serious burden, particularly if you look upon the office as 1 do—that 1 am not put here to do what 1 please. If I were it would have been very niiy'li more intercating than It has been. I am put here to interpret, to register, to suggest, and, more than that, and much greater than that, to be suggested to. “Now that is where the experience that I forecast has differed from the experience that I have had. in do mestic matters b think 1 can in most cases come pretty near a guess where the thought of America is going, but In foreign affairs the chief element la where action is going on in other quarters of the world, and not where thought Is going in the United States. Tlterefore, 1 have several time* taken the liberty of urging upon you, gen tlemen, nut yourselves to know more than the state department knows about foreign affairs. Borne of you have shown a singular range of omnlscence, and certain things have been reported as understood In ad ministration circles which I never heard of until I read the newspapers. I have constantly been taken by sur prise in regard to decision* whicli are said to be my own, and tills gives me an uncomfortable feeling that some providence is at work with which 1 have had no communication at all. “Now that is pretty dangerous, gentlemen, because it happens tha\ remarks start fires. There is tinder .lying everywhere, not only on the other side-of the water, but on this side of the water, and a man that spreads sparks may be responsible for something a great deal worse than burning a town on the Mexican border. “Thoughts may he bandits. Thoughts may be raiders. Thoughts may be invaders. Thoughts may be disturbers of international peace, and when you reflect upon the im portance of this country keeping out of dte present war, you will know wjm tremendous elements we are all .dealing with. We are in the same boat. “If somebody does not keep the processes of peace going, if some body does not keep tiieir passions disengaged, by what impartial Judg ment and suggestion is the world to be aided to a solution when the whole thing is over? If you ar© in a conference in which you know no body is disinterested, how are you going to make a plan? I tell you. gentlemen, the only thing that saves the world Is the little handful of dis interested men that are in it. “Now, I have found a few disin terested men. I wish I had found more.. I can name two or three men with whom I have conferred again and again and again, and I have never caught them by an inadver tence thinking about themselves for their own Interests, and I tio tQ those men ns you would tie to an anchor. 1 tie to them as you would tie to thewolces of conscience If you could be sure that ytfh always heard them. Men' who have no axes to we would have to stand from under. “But the men who grow, the men who think better a year after they are put in office than they thought when they were put in office a -e the balance wheel of the whole th n (. They are the ballast that enable; s craft, to carry sail and to make port in the long run, no matter what the weather is. "So I have come willing to make this narrative of experience to you. 1 have come through fire since I talked to you last. Whether the metal is purer than it was, God only knows;/but the fire has been there, the fire has penetrated every part of It, end if I may believe my own thoughts. 1 have less partisan feel ing. more impatience of party ma noeuvre, more enthusiasm for the right thing, no matter whom it hurts, J,han I ever had before in my life. And 1 have something that it ip no doubt dangerous to have, but that I cannot help having. I have a pro found intellectual contempt for men who cannot s*e the signs of the times. "I have to deal with some men who know no more of the modern processes of politics than if they were living in the eighteenth cen tury, and for them I have a pro- fonnd and comprehensive Intellectual contempt. They are blind, they are helplessly blind, and the worst of It is I have to spend hours of my time talking to them when 1 know before 1 start as much as after 1 have fin ished that it is absolutely useless to talk to them. I am talking in vacuo. "The business of every one of us, gentlemen, is to realize that if we are correspondents o{ . papers who have ruvt ye* heard of modern times we ought to send theih as many Inti mations'of modern moTemeptf aa they are WIIUBf to print. There la a simile that was u%ed by a very In president and comparing them with the experiences that have followed. I must say that the forecast has been very largely verified, and that the Impressions. I Lad then have been deepened r#th«r than weakened. “You may xecall that I said then that I felt constantly a personal de tachment from the presidency, that one thfng that I resented when I was not performing the duties of the of fice was being reminded that I was president of the United States. I felt toward it as a man feels toward a greet function which, in working hours, he is obliged to perform, but which out of working hours, he Is glad to get away from and almost forget and resume the quiet course of his own thoughts. "1 am constantly reminded as I go about, as I do sometime* at tbe week end, of the personal inconvenience of being president of the United States. If I want to know how many people live in a small town p.ll I have to do Is to go there and they at once line up to be counted. 1 nfight. In a cen sus taking year, save .the census takers a great deal of trmible by ask ing them to accompany me end count the people on tne spot. “Sometimes when I am most be set, 1 seriously think of renting a pair of whiskers or of demanding something that will furnish me with an adequate disguise, because I am sorry to find that the cut of my Jib Is unmistakable and that I must sail under false colors if I am going to sail incognito. "Yet. as I have matched my ex periences- with my anticipations, I. of course, have been aware that I was taken by surprise because of the prominence of many things which I had not looked for. When we are dealing with democratic affairs, gen tlemen. we are dealing with things that to us as Americans are more or less calculable. There Is a singular variety among our citizenship, it Is •true, a greater variety even than I had anticipated; but, after all, we are all more or less affected by the same traditions,, and, moreover, we are working out something that has to be worked out among ourselves, and elements are here to be dealt 'with at first hand. "But when the fortunes of your own country ere. so to say, subject to the incalculable winds of passion that are blowing through other parts of the world, then the strain is of a singular and unprecedented kind, be cause you do not know by what turn of the wheel of fortune the control of things is going to be taken out of your hands, it makes no difference how deep the passion of the nation lies, that passion may be so over borne by the rush of fortune. In cir cumstances like th.ose which no# ex ist th^t you feel the sort of—I had almost said resentment that a man feels when his own affairs ere not wjthln his own hands. You can imagine the strain upon the feeling erf any man who is trying to interpret the spirit of his country when he feels that that spirit cannot have It* own way beyond a certain point. And one of the greatest points of strain upon me, if I may be per* mitted-to point it out, was this: “There are two reasons why the chief wish of America is for peace; One is that they love peace and have nothing to do with the present quar rel, and the other is that they be- lieve the present quarrel has carried those engaged In it so far that they cannot’.be held to ordinary standards of responsibility; and that, therefore, grind! Men who lore America »<>I tomac and ui> the” James and subBti- teresting English writer that ha* been much In my mind. Like my self. he had often been urged not to try to change so many thing*. I re member when I was president of a university a man said to me: 'Good heavens, man, why don’t yon leave something alone, end let it stay tho way it Is.’ ‘If you will guarantee to me that It will stay the way It is I will let It alone, but If you knew anything you would know that If you .leave a live thing alone it will not stay where it is. it will develop sad will either go tn the wrong direetloa or decay.’ "I reminded him of this thing that the English writer said, that If you want to keep a white poet white you cannot let It alone. It will get black. You have to keep doing eonH-tblng to it. In that instance you have got to keep painting It white, and you have got to paint it white very fre quently In order to keep It white, because there are forces at work that will get the better of you. Not only will It turn black, but the forces of moisture and the other foreea of nature will penetrate the white paint and get at the fibre of the wood, and decay will set In. end the next time you try to paint It you will flad that there is nothing but punk to paint. “Then you remember the Red Queen In Alice of Wonderland, or ‘Alice Through a Looking Glaaa*—I forget which ,H has been to long since I reed them—who takes Alice by the head end they rush along at a great pace, and then when they stop Alice looks around and saga; 'But, we are Just where we were when we started.’ ‘Yes.’ says the Red Queen, ‘you have run twice aa fast as that to get anywhere else. “That la also true, gentlemen, of the world of affairs. You have got to run fast merely to stay where you are, and- 1m order to get anywhere you have got to run twice as fast aa that;. That is what people do not realize. That Is the mischief of these hopeless dams against the stream known as reactionaries and standpatters, and other words of ob- liqup. That is what Is the matter with them, they are not even stay ing where they were. "They are sinking further and fur ther back in what will some time comfortably close over their heads as the black waters of oblivion. I sometimes Imagine that I see their heads going down, and I am nqt in clined to throw them a life preserver. The sooner they disappear, the bet ter. We need thetr places for peo ple who are awake; and we particu larly need now, gentlemen, men who will divest themselves of party pas sion and of personal preference and will try to think in the terms of America. “If a man describes himself to me now in any other terms, I am not sure of him; and I love the fellows that come into my office sometime* and say, ‘Mr. President, I am an American.’ Their hearts are right, their instincts true, they are going in the right direction, and will take the right leadership if they believe that the leader Is also a man who thinks first of .America. “You will see, gentlemen, that I did not premeditate these remarks, or they would have* had aome con nection with eadh pther. They would have hed some plan. I have merely given myself the pleasure of telling you what has really been In mr heart; and, not only has been in my heart, but Is In my heart every day of the week. If I did not go off at week-ends occasionally and throw Off. as much as it la possible to throw off. this harden,-I coaid not stand it. “This week I went down th* Pe as some men. have expressed it to me. since the rest of the world is mafT. n.hjr should we nflt ylmply r rest of the world in the ordinary channels of action? Why not let the storm paw, and then, when it la all over, have the reckonings.” * “Knowing that from both these two points •ef v*ew (he passion of America vaa for peace, I was. aever- that they would give their lives for it and never care whether anybody rJ that thej^aAjt&pp their Uvea Tf! wfllfhg to’Tfte In obscurity If only they might serve! •’"These are the men, and nations Hka those men aro the nations that ere going to eerve tbe world and save It There never was a time la the history of the world wtapu char acter, just sheer character an by 1b- tuted lijatory for politics, and there waa an Infinite, sweet calm la of-ttose oHr", me of the records that wen Bade fan the days that tye past; forted myself with the that tbe men dis'ntereeted mea who deeds that have; >1 mmrnmommmmm