The Washington times., 1915-05-27
APPEAL FOR LOYALTY
BY CHANCELLOR DAY
Head Of Syracuse University
Makes Principal Address at
!. American University.

On a sloping hillside, with the sky
for a vaulted roof and a May-garlanded
landscape for mural decorations the
first convocation Of the American Uni
versity was held yesterday. the chief
event Of interest being an address late
In the afternoon by Chancellor James
Roscoe Day, of Syracuse University.
The chancellor's topic was The
American Citizen" and his two principal
points were a demand for less inter-
ference with private business by the
Government and unqualified allegiance
to this country by naturalized citizens.
Though he made no mention OF Theo-
dore Roosevelt's name In his address
his audience generally understood that
many of the chancelor's shafts were
directed at some Of the Roosevelt
policies"
would condemn a railway train because
Of q hot box" said the speaker.
"Train Is Needed"
sNow in our economic. commercial
and Industrial systems there are hot
boxes, but we are not content to let
them cool Off Instead we begin to
demolish the train and even tear up
the track, though the road Is needed
and the train is needed.
"The attempt to regulate things by
arbitrary law has resulted in i'll for
this great country. The business man
rolled up his money, drew 1t out of
rushing out of the West is familiar
to some of us, and we were struck
by a veritable cyclone of prosecutions,
commissions, and Investigations, until
business was dismembered and scat
tered.
1--WE have been waiting for a possible
reaction. How long we shall wait
we do not know. Some day the war
will help us. but 1 say we must pay
our part of that debt"
EVERY citizen ought to be left to
carry on his commerce, and the United
States ought not to meddle with 1T.
The less officialdom and the more CIT
izenship the better. Put a locomotive
a train crew or a great railroad sys-
would be disastrous"
Only American Citizens.
Taking up the matter of patriotism
and loyalty the chancellor said that
he had been a little disturbed to
hear people discuss what would prob
ably happen to naturalized citizens if
this country went to war. But ior
himself. he said he was satisfied there
would be only American citizens and
no hyphenated ones. Continuing. he
said:
izens wherever they walk or sail. And
the President has never done a thing
SO praiseworthy since he entered the
White House as he did when he as
serted this principle"
Five fellowships were awarded at
the convocation. one to Frank Blair
Hanson, a graduate of George Wash
ington University, and another to
Miss Marie L. n. Morse. The fellow =
ships were distributed as follows:
Merrill Jacob Halmes. Simpson Col
lege, A. B., B. D., Garrett Biblical
Institute, nominated by Garrett Bib
lical Institute. to study the philosophy
Of religion at Harvard University
Hasse Octavius Enwell. A. B., North :
western University, S. T. B., Boston
University, School of Theology, nom
mated by Boston University. to study
philosophy at the University of Paris;
Marie Townsend Morse, A. b., Vassar
College, nominated by Goucher Col
lege. to study physics at Johns Hop
kins University; John Wesley f.
Bowen. jr., A. B., Wesleyan University,
nominated by Harvard. to study his
tory at Harvard; Frank Blair Han
son. A. B., George Washington Uni
versity. A. NJ. University of Illinois.
nominated by George Washington
University and the University of I'LL
nois. to study zoology at the Univer-
sity of Illinois.