our cause! Shame on the wisdom that does not seek a council-seat to-day!

This war this supreme test of brains and souls - will challenge all position and ambition, call upon every leader to justify his prominence and his office, expose graft and ignorance, and win now every field for keen, clean minds to serve America.

Opportunity is rapping on humble doors with an impatient sword-hilt, while the republic summons incompetents and dastards to unmask and yield their power to fitter, finer men. Base ores cannot cheat the smelting-pot.

The hour of sacrifice reassays every citizen and correctly marks his quality.

From Concord and from the Alamo we call to you, from Valley Forge and from Balaklava, from the wastes and the wilds and the frontier blockhouse, and from every grave that marks a martyrdom, we cry you to your duty-carry on!

The price of liberty is dear, but liberty is more precious than its dearest price.

Fear God and conscience and humiliation and injustice and defeat; serve your fears with valor, and defend the high faiths of Humanity.

The Flag and the Fight

From an article by Charles Ferguson, in the Bookman, November, 1917. Used by permission.

You have seen it perhaps breaking out from a flagstaff over an American consulate in some distant land that wriggle of red slashes and speckle of stars! Or perhaps — very rarely indeed in latter days you have glimpsed the flag of your country on the high seas or in some foreign port. Always when you have come upon it in alien or unexpected places, it has given you a shock and a thrill; and you have thought of it, for a moment at least, as it has been thought of, now for seven scores of years, by the buffed youth and the disappointed faith of ambitious men in all the lands that are not Ameri

can.

This flag is not the flag of a nation only, it is a spiritual symbol that has stirred the world as no other symbol but the cross of Christ has ever stirred it. It is the conquering sign of a super-nation, a super-nation existing prophetically in the thoughts of the wise if not in the actualities of our achievement. To say of the United States that it is "one of the great powers" is to say a small thing. It is a kind of disparagement to say so. For America is so placed in history and in planetary space that it rounds a cycle of the race's experience and sums up the hope of four thousand years. One knows not what may befall mankind in other millenniums, but if liberty is to be realized in this age it must be here.

Here is the place where the westward march of the race has reached its terminus. Men out of every nation have been thrown together here. Here is a nation whose bond is not of blood or flesh but of the spirit. Here is the meeting place of all breeds. Here is the cross-roads of the world. And here is the moral and physical focus of the Great War. It is to be fought out here. America is liberty and liberty is America. If America cannot find the way to freedom then, for the present, nobody can find the way.

And what is this liberty wherewith we are to enlighten the world - this liberty of which we talk so much, and which is forever judging us and all our works from day to day? It appears that liberty is not to be thought of as just a state of mind, as some moralists pretend a mere stout-heartedness or freshness of spirit. It presupposes that. But the freedom that the flag stands for is more than that. It is a new and transforming politics - a civil order that is wholly different from the order of the Old World. It is what men think in the streets of American cities. It is what political refugees have thought for many generations, and westwardlonging peasants in Ireland, Italy and the Russian plain. Here is the formula of it, if it must have a formula: in the Old World a man's place in the social scale determines what he can do, while in the New World what a man can do determines his place in the scale. That is the freedom the flag stands for. Emerson of Concord meant this when he said that America is only another name for Opportunity.

America to the Rescue

From an address by W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, at Madison, Wisconsin, High School, October 3, 1917.

My friends, can you think of what is happening in Europe now? As you sit here happy, contented, care free, without anything to disturb your repose or your comfort, can you think of what is happening in those desolated homes of Europe, in Belgium, in France, the horrors, the blackness of the night there, without food, without fuel in the terrible winters through which they must pass, men being blown to atoms by shells, others grievously wounded and being rescued by noble women of the Red Cross, gallant men driving ambulances into the jaws of death to drag the wounded from the battle fields and take them to the hospitals where they may receive the ministrations of angels of mercy? Many may be saved; but some will come out sightless, armless, legless, or tongueless, and yet compelled to live. To live for what? To live upon the satisfaction alone that they have sacrificed for liberty and civilization in the world. The blackness of night is upon Europe - brought there by whom? By a military autocrat-the Kaiserwho brought this terrible curse upon mankind. Isn't it a reflection on the civilization of this day that any one man should have the power to plunge the world into this horrible abyss of suffering and disaster? That is the thing-military autocracy -we have got to destroy, because democracies are

incapable of that sort of thing. Where peoples are self-governing, where they are free, where they determine their own lives they are incapable of the commission of such colossal crimes.

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Those stricken people in Europe, in the blackness of three years of night and suffering, with hope almost destroyed, with the talons of despair clutching at their hearts, are suddenly revived by what? A light, this time in the West, instead of in the East. What is it? America America to the rescue, holding aloft the torch of liberty again, dispelling despair and illuminating the dark recesses of the night and bringing the assurance of peace to agonized humanity. That is our mission, a glorious mission for old America and young America; and, by God's help, we shall soon succeed

What Can a Woman Do to Help Win the War?

By Albert Bushnell Hart.

WHAT can a woman do to help win this war? How did Eve spend her time while Adam was hunting dragons? How did Calphurnia help when Julius Cæsar was practicing frightfulness on the Gauls? What aid did Mrs. Grant give while the General was fighting the Virginia campaign? What have heroic women always done when the war cloud descended upon their country and their men took up spear or cross-bow or rifle? Just the same thing that the women of America are to do during the continuance of this tremendous war.