Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-31
President Says Prepared ness Possible Only If Men
 Will Volunteer.
DEFENDS PLAN FOR
 WORLDWIDE PEACE
In Memorial Day Address, Nations Executive Reiterates Suggestion for Alliance on Basis of COm1son
 Right and Justice.

Washington, May 3o.-President Wilson delivered the Memorial Day address at Arlington National ceme-
 tery in which he defined the spirit of America, warned citizens of foreign
 birth not to set themselves against the purposes of the nation, called up- on young men to perform voluntary military service, and defended his re- cent suggestion for an alliance of na- tions to preserve peace. He spoke before an audience made up largely of veterans of the war between the states, who applauded him vigorous ly.
 While he declared he had no harsh ness in his heart for Americans of foreign birth, and expected them still to love the sources of their origin, the president said America must come first in every purpose we entertain, and every man must count upon Icing s;Gst, out of our confidence. cast AOut even Of our tole sance who does not submit to that great ruling, princi- ple." avo,..,.t
 Speaking of America, made up out of all the peoples of the world, as the champion of the rights of man. kind, he sadd
 "We are not only ready to cooper ate but we are ready to fight against any aggression, whether from within or without but we must guard our selves against any sort of aggression which would be unworthy of Ameri- ca We are ready to fight for our rights when those rights are coinci- dent with the rights of man and hu- 
 The president reiterated his sug- gestion before the League to Enforce Peace last week that the United States was ready to become partner in any alliance of the nations (which would guarantee public rights against selfish aggression" Of published criticism reminding him that George Washington warned the nation against "entangling alliances" he said:
 FayOrs Disentangling Alliance.
 q shall never myself consent to an entangling alliance, but would gladly assent to disentangling alli- ance--an alliance which would disen- fangle the people of the world from hose combinations which seek their own separate and private in- erests and unite the people of the world to preserve the peace of the world upon basis of a common tight and justice"
 Universal training and prepared ness were possible, Mir. Wilson de- ,1Orod nn11y tho nF itoh 1ol strength and age will volunteer. He aid "the acid test" was about to be lpplied to business men to see whe- her they would allow their employees o volunteer. He said the army re-or- ,anization bill, now before him. ,ristled with that Interrogation point, which he warned all the business men vas staring them in the face.
 He said he was for Universal vol ltary training" but that America loes not wish anything but the com ,ulsion of the spirit of Americanism. Ie added that the people of the na- ion were watching each other and a ,reat many men, even when they lid lot want to were going to stand and 1 ay "Here."
 Honor Nations Dead. Ii
 The president was the principal peaker on the program of the G. A. }. exercises. Grizzled war veterans, ( government clerks, white-clad young lower girls, and Daughters of the Revolution and of tho Confederacy| oined in observing Memorial Day.
 Special honor was paid the memory f those who lost their lives on the attleship Maine and the submarine "A, which sank of Honolulu recent y.
 Fifty women, standing on the deck !, f steamer as it passed up the , Potomac river, strcwed flower on , he water in honor of the country's aval heroes.
 Graham county, Arizona, has ( ave DriSon hn.i1t in tho ,rooIr nl;ffr 1 :