The Pulaskian., 1918-12-06

! HAoe ~ 10 luSy SuOulu accomplish.
Il am proud to be tho fellow-coun-
tryman of men of such stuff and val
or. Those of us who stayed at home
did our duty; the war could not have
been won or the gallant men who
fought 1t given their opportunity 10
win it otherwise; but for many a
long day we shall think ourselves ac-
cursed we were not there. and held
our manhood cheap while any speaks
that fought with these at st. Mihiel
or Chateau Thierry. The memory of
those days Of triumphant battle will
go with these unfortunate men 20
their graves; and each will have his
faVorite memory. old men forget;
yet all shall be forgot, but he'll re-
member with advantages what feats
he did that day!'
What we all thank God for with
deepest gratitude is that our men
went in force into the line of battle
just at the critical moment when the
whole fate of the world seemed to
hang in the balance, and threw their
dom in time to turn the whole tide
and sweep off the fateful struggle
turn it once for all, so that hence
forth 1t was back back, back for their
enemies, always back, never again
forward After that it was only a
scant four months before the COM
manders Of the central empires knew
themselves beaten, and now their
very empires are in liquidation!
and throughout it all how fine
the spirit Of the nation was; what
unity of purpose, what untiring zeau
What elevation of purpose ran
through all its splendid display of
strength, its untiring accomplish
ment! I have said that those of us
who stayed at home to do the Wort,
of organization and supply will al
ways wish that we had been with the
men whom we sustained by our Ia
Dor; but we can never be ashamed.
1t has been an inspiring thing to be
here in the minds of fine men who
had turned aside from every private
interest of their own and devoted
the whole of their trained capacity
to the tasks that supplied the sinews
of the great undertakings
THE patriotism, the unselfshness.
the thorough-going devotion and dis
tinguished capacity that marked their
toilsome labors, day after day. month
after month, have made them fit
mates and comrades 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 innumera-
BILE factories, upon innumerable
farms, in the depths of coal mines
and copper mines and iron mines
and copper mines, wherever the stuffs
of industry were to be obtained and
prepared, in the shipyards, on the
railways, at the docks, on the sea, In
every labor that was needed to sus-
tain the battle lines, men have We'd
with each other to do their part and
do it we'll. They can look any man.
alarms in the face and say, we also
stroye to win and gave the best that
was in us to make our fleets and ar
mics sure of their triumph!
"And what shall we say of the wom-
en-of their instant intelligence,
quickening every task that they
touched; their capacity for organiza-
ton and cooperation which gave
their action discipline and enhanced
the effectiveness Of everything they
attempted, their aptitude at tasks to
which they had never before set their
hands; their utter sacrifice alike in
what they did and in what they gave?
Their contribution to the great re-
suit is beyond appraisal. They have
added new lustre to the annals of
American womanhcod.
"The least tribute we can pay them
is to make them the equals of men
in political rights as they have prov
ed themselves their equals in every
field of practical work they have en-
| tered, whether for themselves or for
! their country. These great days Of
completed achievement would be sad
ly married 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 econ
omies by which our people have vol
UNFAIRLY assisted to supply the suffer
ing peoples of the world and the ar
mics upon every front with food and
/ y, @Jc 1.nf hot
might serve the common cause. The
details of such a story can never be
fully written, but we carry them at
our hearts and thank God that we
can say that we are the kinsmen of
such.