Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-03
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 iS1So~~N~~~~~~O-~- --e~~~S~--~~-->~-~~-~~-~-, t,ose who know just what it is they tho fellow countryman of men of such would accomplish. l am proud to be stnff and valour. Those of Us who stayed at home did our duty; the Wal oon,d not have been won had the gal ,ont men who fought it, given their onnortunity to win otherwise; but for n,any long day we shall think our s.lycs "accurs'd we were not there, and hold our manhoods cheap while anv speaks that fought" with these at St. Mihiel or Thierry. The mem- nrv of those days of triumphant bat tle will go with these fortunate men to their graves; and each will have b;s fayourite memory. "Old men for cot j, vet all shall be forgot but he'll romfmber with advantages what feats he did that day!"
 &What we shall thank God fer with deepest gratitude is that our men went in force into the line of battle inst at the critical moment when the fate of the world seemed to hang in inc balance and threw their flesh ,strenath into the ranks of freedom in time to turn the whole tide and sweep off the fateful strueg eglc-turn if once for all so that thencc-forth if was back, back, back for their enc mics, always back, never again for ward.
 After tEat it was only<a scant four months before the commanders of the Central Empires knew themselves beaten; and now their very empmires are in liquidation.
 And throughout it all how fine the spirit of the nation was; what uni tv of purpose, what untiring zeal:: What elevation of purpose ran through all it's splendid display of strength, it's untiring accomplishment. have said that those of us who stayed at home to do the work of organization and supply will always wish that we had been with the men who sustained by our labour; but we can never be ashamed. It has been an inspiring thing to be here in the midst of fine men who had turned aside from every private in terest of their own and devoted the whole of their trained capacity to the tasks that supplied the sinews of the whole great undertaking! The pa triotism, the unselfishness, the thor ough- going devotion and distinguished capacity that marked their toilsomc labours. day after day. month after month. have made them fit mates and ccmrdes of the men in the trenches and on the sea. And not the men here in Washington only. They have but directed the vast achievement. Throughout innumerable factories, upon innumerable farms, in the depths of coal mines and iron min es and copper mines, wherever the stufs of industry were to be obtained and preferred, in, the shinHards. on the railways. at the docks. on the scas, in every labour that was needed to sustain the battle lines, mon have viewed with each other to do their part and do it well. They can look any an-at-arm; in the face and say we also strOvc to win and gave the test that was in us to make our fleets an darmics sure of their tii- umph!
 And what shall we say of the wom en-of.. their instant intelligence. , quickening every task that they touched; their capacity or organiza- tion and cooperation. which gave their action discipline and enhanced the effectiveness of everything they attempted; their aptitude at tasks to which they never before set hands. the utter sclf-sacrifice alike in what they did and in what they gave? Their contribution to the result is beyond appraisel They have added new lustre to the annals of American wo- manhood.
 The least tribute we can pay them is to make them the equals of men i'll political rights as they have proved themselves their equals in every field of practical work they have entered, whether for themselves or for their country These great days of com pleted achievement would be sadly marred were we to omit that act of justice. Besides the immense practi- cal services they have rendered, the women of the country have been the moving spirits in the systematic economies by which our people have