New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-26
Opportunity Is Knocking
Now, He Tells Editors at
Press Luncheon.
SHOWS GRAVEST
PROBLEM FOR u. S.
Officers Of Associated Press
Pledge Loyalty as Americans
In Toast to Wilson.

Fiv. hundred newspaper editors from
every part Of the United states, rep
resentirg every shade Of political orin-
ion. drank 20 the health Of Pre'iden,
Wilson yesterday as loyal Americans.
A. luncheon in the Waldorf Astoris.
held In connection with the annual
meeting Of The Associated Press. Frank
B. Moves. presiden. Of the organization.
proposed the following toast:
Varied as are our opinions. on ore
point we all agree that each and every
one Of US is n loyal American. The 900
pho compose our membership exercise
their inalienable right Of holding an
opinion on every conceivable subject.
including the relations OF this govern
ment with foreign powers, and this
right they hold and exercise in common
with The res, Of the hundred million
Americans.
"Our form Of government provides
that the duty and obligation Of yoiclng
tho opinion Of this nation in its inter
course with foreign nations rests with
and is imposed upon our Chief Magi5-
.rate. When he speaks for us ne
speaks for all Of US. So IN this hour OF
uncertainty as TO what the immediate
future may bring 10 Us we tender our af-
fectionate sympathy and our loyal sup
port 20 the man who. by virtue OF his
great Office. is our spokesman 10 the
world and who speaks for our rights
and our honor as God gives him 70 see
our rights and our honor
Intergrate United States, Butler Urges.
Following this toast, Nicholas Murray
Butler. president OF Columbia Cniver-
sity, spoke on the problem OF integral
ing America. Declaring that with a
world war raging about the people Of
the country and with a Presidential
campaign opening IN front of them
they could not be sure Of their ma
tional unity Of thought. feeling and
purpose. The speaker said that the
presence Of disintegrating elements and
forces both weakened the sense OF unity
at home and deprived the nation of in
fuence abroad.
"The grave problem before the
American people to-day - nation
building" he said. at is the problem
Of setting our house in order. IL is the
problem Of subordinating every per
sonal ambition, every class interest and
policy. every race attachment, TO the
one dominant idea of an America free,
just. powerful, forward facing. that
shall stand out in the history Of ma
tiors as the name OF people who con-
ceive their mission and their true great
ness to lie in service TO mankind.
Nation as End in Itself.
The nation has come 20 be con-
ceived as an end in itself. superior 20
the rules Of law, 70 the conventions of
morality and 10 the principles of re-
ligion. A form Of patriotism has been
developed which finds in the nation IL
self the highest human end. The logi-
cal result of this type OF thinking is
the war which IL now creeping over the
worlds civilization and destroying II
with the sure pitilessness of an Alpine
glacier.
This war is the Nemesis OF nation
building conceived a. an end in itself.
Unless a nation. like an individual.
have some purpose, some ideal. some
motive which lies outside Of and be
yond self-interest and self-sggrandize-
men. war must continue on the face Of
this earth until the day when the last
and strongest man, superb in his
mighty loneliness, shall look out from
rock in the Caribbean upon world
which has been depopulated in its pur-
suit of a false ideal, and be left him
self 10 die alone, with none TO mourn or
10 bury him.
L.. IA ~
q our America has e place that is all
It's own. The American nation came
into icing IN response 20 clear and
definite purpose. 4 theory OF human
Ike and o. human government was con-
ceived and put into execution on re-
mote ard inaccessible part Of the
earths surface The moving cause Of
the American nation was the aspira
ton for civil and political liberty and
for individual freedom which was al
ready stirring in the minds Of West
srn Europe IN the sixteenth and sew
enteenth centuries"
Regret at Directors Deaths.
The seventeenth annual meeting OF
the Associated Press was called to or
der Yesterday morning by President
Moves. in the Aston Gallery Of the
Waldorf Resolutions were adopted
expressing the associations regret ut
the deaths Of three former directors.
Colonel William +. Nelson. of The
Kansas City STAR; Charles ". Knapp,
OF the New York Times" and Her
man Ridder, OF the New York Stats
Zeitung'
At the afternoon session the nomi-
mating committee presented the list OF
nominations for the FIVE directorships.
made vacant by the expiration of term =
and b. tho death OF Herman Ridder.
The following were made directors:
Charles A. Rock. Pittsburgh Dis
patch'. Charles Hopkins Clark. Hart,
ford Courant"; Clark Howell. Atlanta