New Britain herald., 1917-11-16
NATION MUST UNITE
 TO WIN THE WAR
Supt. Holmes Gives Patriotic Ad-
 dress at N0rthend School

Telling the people to prepare
 themselves for a war that will
 last three or four years and
 which will eventually see, 100000
 United States soldiers fighting
 on foreign soil for Uncle Sam
 and democracy, and warning the
 people to steel themselves for news
 of occasional disasters and defeats,
 also to be ready to receive the bodies
 or the (dead ana to be prepared to care
 for the wounded, Superintendent of
 Schools Stanley H. Holmes delivered
 stirring patriotic address before a.
 large audience at the annual me eetipE
 of the Parents and Teachers assocta-
 tion of the Northend school last even-
 ing. He impressed the audience with
 necessity of having a unified loyalty
 and an undivided nation in order to
 prosecute the war to successful end.
 His speech was delivered straight
 from the shoulder and several times
 MT. Holman was interrupted by out
 bursts of loud applause.
 MT. Holmes opened his address by
 omp1imenting the Northend Parents
 and Teachers association for being a
 live organization. He was greeted
 with much applause when he said that
 he hoped the school would soon have
 an annex. MT. Holmes urged the parents and teachers to bring pres.
 sure to bear and to prevail upon the
 school board to build an annex to the
 school which will contain an assem-
 ply hall, a gymnasium and several
 more spacious class rooms.
 Superintendent Holmes, in speaking on Patriotism, said that it was his purpose to give his audience a brief,
 straight heart to heart talk on the present war situation. During the last presidential campaign" he said, the party asking for President Will sons reelection used as its chief issue
 the argument that the chief executive
 had kept this country out of war; His opponents clamored that President Wilson was too much of a peace lover and that this country should be more prepared. That there were at the time of the election more peace lovers than advocates of war is evidenced by the fact that the man who oc- cupies the chair today was elected on a peace platform.
 Any sane man." continued Mr. Holmes, thinks 1t better to be at peace
 than at war unless we are fighting for a just cause. The Wilson platform, which stood for an honorable peace | is today back of the greatest war of human history. Those who advocate peace at present are in the minority. We must continue this war until 1t is carried through to successful conclusion. We must continue with a grim determination to win the war and vindicate the principles for which T | this war.
 "The people are slowly but surely 1 being brought to realize that this | country is waging a war. First the 1 draft law went into effect and when 1 carried out 5000 young men will be 1 under arms. The government has also | changed it's policy of Iassez-faire' o1 | let alone theory-to federal control policy. Individual interests are slow ly giving way to national.
 "The radical and fundamental 1 changes, such as accepting the con-
 scription law, the coal situation, the
 seizing of ships and making them property of the national government ] and interfering with manufacture, are
 being we'll taken by the people. The 1 quick response and loyal attitude of the citizens are the best evidences of
 the stability of the government in 1 which we live"
 1 Superintendent Holmes in speaking of the uprisings that were predicted at the time of the declaration of
 war against Germany said that no 1 stock should be taken in this. No ! government that ever existed has been 1 put to such a test as the United States l has been put to-" he said. "The re- | suit is great tribute, and is evidence | of the worth and efficiency of the ed- ucational system of this country. We have a reasonable and well-balanced 1 people. Their intelligence is evidenced l in the stability of the democracy and 1 the efficiency of education. The | schools are developing the right sort