Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-06-13

In cooperation with the Coun-
Gil of National Defense and it's
Advisory Commission, the direc-
ton of this Continental Railway
System has been voluntarily plac-
ed in the hands of an Executive
Committee of the Special Com
mittee on National Defense of the
American Railway Association,
now designated, for brevity, as the
Railroads War Board.
Railroad Officers and Employees
should be keenly appreciative of
this opportunity to demonstrate to
the Nation at large the value of
the Railroads in time of War.
Only by great personal interest
and effort on the part Of each man
will the Railroads be able to meet
the extraordinary transportation
needs of the Country, which have
become more acute since the en-
trance of the United States into
the War
"We are, normally, peaceful
Nation, and many of us are in
clined to feel that serious harm
cannot reach us, but this war that
we have been forced into is most
serious business, and will come
pretty close to many of us before
we get through with it, and the
sooner we all of us understand
that it means effort and sacrifice,
the better we shall be able to meet
whatever the future may bring to
us, and do our part. Some will be
privileged to do the fighting;
others of us must do our part here
in order that those who are fight
ing may properly perform their al
lotted task.
"Now that we have entered the
World War, the whole world is
turning their eyes our way to see
how we conduct ourselves.
"Our Nation is on trial.
"Our industries are on trial.
Each individual of us is on
trial
Each of us must do his part
in his or her own sphere, in order
that we may have symmetrical
whole and all parts of the Coun-
try, industrially and individually,
working to the highest efficiency
in order that we may have we'll
rounded nd successful result"
Following Mr.. Lees address
Henry B. Thompson president of
the Board of Trustees, publicly
thanked Pierre DUPONT for his
magnificent gift to Delaware Col
lege, and also the architects,
Messrs. Day and Klauder, for the
genius and imagination which
they had put into the three build
ings already completed as a result
of the gift. Mr.. Thompson refer
red to the four boys in khaki seat
ed among the graduates, declar-
ing, eve know these young men
will very probably in the future
quietly and surely, depart from US
Some of them may never return
Although this thought brings sad
ness to our hearts we also know
that to die in such a cause is but
the dawn of a glorious awakening
and not death"
Of especial moment and interest
at this time was the presence OF
DR.. Parkin, of Oxford University
England, director of the Cecil
Rhodes scholarship fund. DR.
Parkin spoke eloquently and in,
spiringly of the response of the
university and college to the cal
Of the country: Every college in
! England" he said, "has posted ir
their halls great long lists of those
who have already given to THEN
country, their lives. Out Of 6
normal enrolment of $500 at Ok
ford, there are now scarcely 300
men. Oxford has sent to the front
1000 men,"
DR.. Parkin has recently been il
England, and in the devastated
districts of France. GAIL of my
relatives of fighting age are at the
front" he said. 81 was recently
told by my son that he had not
single intimate friend who hao
not given his country his life. But
they have died in a glorious cause
II don't know that a long life is
necessary to a great life. A man
who spends his life and gives il
in a great cause becomes immor
tai; he links himself eternally with
the progress of his race and ma
ton.