Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-18
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Thou. too. sail on o ship Of State, Sail on o Union, strong and great Humanity, with all it's fears,
 With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate. Sail on, nor fear to brave the sea, Our hearts. our hopes are all with
 thee;
 Our hearts, our hopes our prayers,
 our tears,
 Are all with thee-are all with thee.
 No words could express more ap- propriately the sentiment of the en- tire nation at the present hour than this passage from The Building of the Ship, written 60 years ago by Henry Wadsworth LongfellOw. The eyes of Orient and Occident are turned to our Ship of State, now launched on her most perilous voy- age. Now she must show how stanch- ly she has been built, of what mate rial she has been hewn. Now the pilot must guide his ship through an al most uncharted sea into the teeth of the gale. The crew must perform each his appointed task with cheer fitness and all diligence; there can be no mutiny here. Truly, humanity, weary of the struggle against inhu- manity, is hanging breathless" on the outcome of this voyage.
 Six months ago the United States entered the arena. During that period steady progress has been made toward meeting the unparalleled exigencies of the situation in the face of stubborn opposition from the pacifists and their prc-German propaganda. Every prep aration is being made. every precau- ton taken. to bring the war to a speedy and happy ending. Movements are now afoot that may bring benefi- cent results now undreamed of.
 No one can doubt for a moment that the immediate outcome of the war must be the triumph of democracy. History records a slow, continuous evolution onward and upward. Since the days of the Phoenicians and the Pharaohs. civilization has been ex- banding and broadening. The nation that has been thrown into the dis card has been the nation that has fallen into weakness and effeminacy, and that is the last thing that can be said of the United States. For mental virility. as well as physical vigor, America. including Canada and the United States, is second to none. To those two qualities. add purity Of ideal. and there. results a combination of forces that cannot fail in any good purpose it sets out to accomplish.
 Any man or woman who cannot say at this time, with Longfellow Our hearts, our hopes. our prayers, sour, tears, our faith triumphant OCT our fears. are all with thee-are all with thee," needs 10 undergo a rigid self examination to find out and correct whatever is wrong with his thinking.
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 ut AtllAlSlu CluU nCiu ANo regular bi-monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon at the club room in the Y. After the business of the meeting was transacted an hour was devoted to a general talk about the state of Maine. Mrs. Mcclellan gave her "reminiscences of summers spent in the Maine pine forests and on the coast; Mrs. Cochran furnished statistics in regard to that state, and Mrs Parish gave very acceptable reading of Longfellow's "The Building of the Ship"
 Miss Opal Core of the Central school entertained party of friends at the r. w C. A. last Wednesday evening.
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 Mrs. NJ. F. NJ. Frantzen, state chair man Of the American fund for French wounded, will be in charge of the tag