Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-10
! ROOT PROPHES|ES NEW
ERA FOR AMERICA
All Learning of Free Peoples Must
be Laid on Altar of Service,
He Tells War Students.

For the greatest cause the world has
ever known the army you enter today ~
fighting and suffering and sacrificing.
For the same cause which Washington
led. for which Hamilton, the young gradu-
ate of Kings College gave his genius, ior
the same cause that was fought Tor NJ
Concord and " Nhitc Plains and Saratoga
and Yorktown. for the same cause Tor
which men suffered ~ Valley Forge, the
cause of liberty and civilization, the army
which YOU enter to-day Is fighting. SAID
Hon Flihu Root. a few DAYS ago, III an
address to college students from all over
America. who, at the opening OF Columbia
University. with It's new course ut miii
tarv training, became - part ot the army
Cf the United states
III has been Thought pstlN H. many
that American education has been dc
fectivc IN failing to give proper stress
in the ideals ui service. and 20 the great
part that one country plays III the
affairs of the present and 81 the future,
continued Mr. Root Il has been Thought
and Justly thought. that IN our universities
and colleges and schoulS We have been
giving too much time learning that WAS
rcntr lllgnl and too little that was con
centric upon the great and ftmdamcntaI
Il ties Of mankind for the preservation ol
liberty and Justice throughout country
and civilization
rhn, failing oi Amcrirau ctldchllnn
cnds today ncN era begins III which all
the learning Of \mcrica l- now laid upon
the altar uf service. and II Is vuHr hugh
privilege to minister at that prca' sacri.
fee M one can conceive what II viii
mean IN he future years tlGt YOU. aud
the l1O.UOl Other ,ollcsr and university
students and ali he learned faculty and
all the learned alumni aud all ih'
americans whose hearts are full oi pridr
and hope in American education. unite IN
concentrating military power and capach
and promise for the future ~ one pledge,
sacred and uniorgcttabie. ot hrrvie" .
our country. II is for YOU Row 70 tak'
Your part in The great process ni recon
clling liberty and discipline
The reason why Germany expected =
conquer tho world. was because III
thought the free peoples, tho ldloil'
,icmocraclcs, we're uudisciplinrd and here
fore incapable of successfully meeting he
disciplined forces The world i now
learning by the demonstration ct
served facts that high intelligence an
Independence of character come only iron
| the life nf free man. q man tree undo
I law. with the truc spirit q freedom ~ In
1 breast free himself and willing tha
/ others shall bc fro and hat such frr'
| man. master ot himself, accept dls
/ ciplnr to the highest degree foi tho ac
1 compliShncnt Of 4 great purpose that ~
understands md among other thinP
| that are being proved g the world nov
| upon thc battle hrld. ~ Europe and Nst
il thus hat a man trained il the 'nd"
pendent character u = frcc. self govern
! ing people is het,cr bigger, ahlcr MAJ
i NTH tho sworj with the fltc with th
hand grenade wuh he haNonct ~ Al
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