men to believe that all ambitions have all of a sudden beer foregone. They remember territory that was coveted, the remember rights it was attempted to extort, remember politi cal ambitions which it was attempted to realize, and whil they believe men have come into different temper they canno forget these things, and so they don't resort to one anothe for dispassionate view of matters in controversy.

RESORT TO FRIENDLY NATION

"They resort to that nation which has won enviable distinc ion being regarded as the friend of mankind. Whenever it i desired to send a small force of soldiers to occupy a piece o erritory where it is thought nobody else will be welcome the ask for American soldiers. And where other soldiers woul be looked upon with suspicion and perhaps met with resist nce, the American soldier is welcomed with acclaim. I hav ad so many grounds for pride on the other side of th vater that I am very thankful that they are not grounds fo ersonal pride, but for national pride.

PRIDE IN THE U. S. SOLDIER

"If they were grounds for personal pride, I'd be the mos tuck-up man in the world. And it has been an infinite pleas re to me to see these gallant soldiers of ours, of whom th onstitution of the United States made me the proud com ander. Everybody praises the American soldier with th eling that in praising him he is subtracting from the credi

nd all of a sudden, in short, 18 months, the reversed. There can be but one explanation w what we did, that without making a single I our men and all our means at the disposal -ere fighting for their homes in the first inthe cause the cause of human right and at we went in, not to support their national support the great cause which they held in when they saw that America not only held ted the ideals, they were converted to Amerirm partisans of those ideals.

ing for th of what i lifted the they saw

ers, and th ger not or thing that fied to me thing that not like an dream, and they turned And now c lished thro

THE REFLEX OF TIME

Some

up of scholars when I was in Paris.
one of the Greek universities who had come
n whose presence, or rather in the presence
of learning, I felt very young indeed. And
t I had had one of the delightful revenges
come to men. All my life I have heard men
t of condescension of ideals and of idealists,

of those separated, encloistered persons ›se to term academic, who were in the habit s in a free atmosphere when they clash with cular. And I said I have had this sweet reg with perfect frankness in the name of the nited States I have uttered as the objects of leals and nothing but ideals, and the war has t inspiration.

you choose which any resists the

self thrown

as if he had

"Europe th it had never hope. The E of the third born despera achieved eve

there would their territor up their hom

of what it was all about reached them from America ti lifted their heads, they raised their eyes to heaven, th they saw men in khaki coming across sea in spirit of crus ers, and they found these were strange men, reckless of d ger not only, but reckless because they seemed to see so thing that made that danger worth while. Men have te fied to me in Europe that our men were possessed by so thing that they could only call religious fervor. They w not like any of the other soldiers. They had vision, they dream, and they were fighting in dream, and fighting in dre they turned the whole tide of battle and it never came ba And now do you realize that this confidence we have est lished throughout the world imposes a burden upon usyou choose to call it a burden? It is one of those burd which any nation ought to be proud to carry. Any man w resists the present tides that run in the world will find h self thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will se as if he had been separated from his human kind forever.

THE EUROPE OF TO-DAY

"Europe that I left the other day was full of something t it had never felt fill its heart so full before. It was full hope. The Europe of the second year of the war, the Eur of the third year of the war, was sinking to a sort of st born desperation. They did not see any great thing to achieved even when the war should be won. They ho there would be some salvage; they hoped they could c their territories of invading armies; they hoped they could up their homes and start their industries afresh. But t

have wrought this new magic that all the are buoyed up and confident in the spirit ney believe that we are at the eve of a new when nations will understand one another; support one another in every just cause; 1 unite every moral and every physical at right shall prevail. If America were at il the world, what would come of it?

ERICA HOPE OF THE WORLD

any disrespect to any other great people America is the hope of the world. And if Ey that hope results are unthinkable. Men ck upon bitterness of disappointment not s of despair. All nations will be set up as Lin; men at the peace conference will go eads upon their breasts, knowing they have vere bidden not to come home from there ething more than sign the treaty of peace. the treaty of peace and that it is the most - of peace that the confusing elements of will afford and go home and think about I know that we have left written upon the Versailles, upon which Vergennes and Benwrote their names, nothing but a modern nations united to defend it, no great forces it good, no assurance given to the downful people of the world that they shall be who thinks that America will take part in any such rebuff and disappointment as that

make

of America sipated. S narrow, sel some minds I should w fighting bloc have scope,

an indulgenc ness that w America mad America sai to-day, not fo

to vindicate r of itself and We set up li

we have lower

of America would be gone and all her power would be dis sipated. She would then have to keep her power for thos narrow, selfish, provincial purposes which seem so dear t some minds that have no sweep beyond the nearest horizon I should welcome no sweeter challenge than that. I hav fighting blood in me and it is sometimes a delight to let have scope, but if it is challenged on this occasion it will b an indulgence. Think of the picture, think of the utter black ness that would fall on the world! America has failed America made a little essay at generosity and then withdrew America said, 'We are your friends,' but it was only fo to-day, not for to-morrow! America said, 'Here is our powe to vindicate right,' and then next day said, 'Let right take car of itself and we will take care of ourselves.' America said 'We set up light to lead men along the paths of liberty, bu we have lowered it-it is intended only to light our own path

LIBERTY, TRUE AND IDEAL

"We set up a great ideal of liberty, and then we sai Liberty is a thing that you must win for yourself.'. Do no call upon us and think of the world that we would leave Do you realize how many new nations are going to be se up in the presence of old and powerful nations in Europe an eft there, and if left by us, without a disinterested friend Do you believe in the Polish cause as I do? Are you goin o set up Poland, immature, inexperienced, as yet unorgan zed, and leave her with a circle of armies around her? D you believe in the aspirations of the Czecho-Slovaks an ugo-Slavs as I do? Do you know how many powers woul