to come away to get reminded of the rest of the country. I have come away to talk to men who are up against the real thing and say to them, I am with you if you are with The only test of being with me is not to think about me personally at all, but merely to think of me as the expression for the time being of the power and dignity and hope of the American people.

me.

THE KEEPERS OF THE LIGHT

THEODOSIA GARRISON

We are the keepers of that steadfast light
That guides a people's course and destiny;
Not ours the skill directing over the sea
The mighty beams that blaze the path aright:
Ours but the hands that, serving, keep it bright;
The bringers of the oil, the workers we
Who day long, without pause and faithfully,
Toil that its radiance may pierce the night.

Above us are the wills that guide and turn;
It is not ours to watch nor question these:
Ours but to see each wick is trimmed and fit,
Lest on a night of storm it fails to burn
And a Great Ship goes down in awful seas.
O Keepers of the light, keep faith with it!

A SONG OF SERVICE

THEODOSIA GARRISON

Folly and Complacency went singing through the dark, They paused before a window that showed a candle's

spark.

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"Come forth, come forth and join us or bid us entrance win!"

"Nay, I've a wheel a-turning and I have wool to spin; Unless your hands may aid me ye shall not enter in."

Folly and Complacency went singing through the night; They paused before a casement that showed a shining light.

"Now bid us in, old Comrade, to revel until day!"

"Nay, I've a sword to sharpen to keep a foe at bay; Unless your hands may aid me I speed you on your way."

Oh, there are swords to sharpen and there is wool to spin,

And woe betide the foolish ones who let these wastrels in!
At the cost of a dulled sword a people may be sold;
For lack of warmth a nation may perish in the cold,
And unto us the reckoning and price thereof be told.

Folly and Complacency-on our heads be the sin

If once our hands should slacken, our voices bid you in. While there's a sword to sharpen, while there's a wheel to turn,

A word to say, a prayer to pray, a signal light to burn, God give us strength and wakefulness to match the wage

we earn.

MORE THAN A NAME1

SAMUEL GOMPERS

To me the term America is more than a name. It is more than a country. It is more than a continent. To me America is the apotheosis, a symbol of the ideas and the ideals for human betterment and human justice among the peoples of the world. Perhaps it may be strengthened by the hope, but somehow there is a sub-consciousness in me that tells me that when for the first time in the history of the world a Teutonic army shall face the soldiers of the United States with the flag, the Star-Spangled Banner, waving above them, it will penetrate the very souls of the men in the German uniform. In all their fights they have met men carrying the standards that Germany hated. They have never yet come in contact with Old Glory.

I ought to say, my friends, that the policy pursued by the government of the United States in this war, in matters of development and growth and preparation, amazes those who are permitted to know the truth. Some day, my friends, you and I, who may be kept from all the information just now, will know what marvels America has done within these past few months. And then, too, we have started out on a different line of action than in any previous wars in which we or any of the other countries on the globe have entered. It is to the honor of the committee of which I am chairman, that the bill was drafted which provides not only for compensation for injured soldiers and sailors and for their dependents, but 1 From a speech delivered at Buffalo, September 14, 1917