The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-10
John Temple Graves
 Addresses Publishers at Asheville Meeting

ASheNiue. x. C., July S- One or tic outstanding features of the convention of the Southern Newspaper Publishers association, in session at the Grove Park inn. was the address delivered by Col. John Temple Graves, editorial represeE- tative of the Hearst publications. Col onel Graves one of the most eloquent or ators in the country and for years ta- vorite in the south. reviewed in detail the supero achievements of the American government in the conduct of the war and the unprecedented results of it's ex- -cellent preparations.
 T note the amazement and inspiration with which our allies in foreign coun- tries have followed the vigor and expeGi- ton with which this great republic has crossed the ocean to their relief, anc the staggering realization of our im- perial enemy that the United States under the stress of necessity and pur- pose has developed in night into a mil itary power of irresistible force and ef ficiency," lie said.s
 Colonel Graves paid tribute to the genius and devotion of President Will son, the Secretaries of War and the Navy, to the shipping board, the ord- nance board and the provost marshal general. Hc emphasized the resources of the country and the sublime devotion with which they have all been conse- ccrate1 to the winning of humanity'S Armaeeddon. He set in order the mighty and transcendent issues for which the United States is fighting and made it clear that peace short of achievement is cowardly surrender of all that is worth living for ard so abundantly worth dying for
 Colonel Graves spoke of the lessons this great war will teach, speaking of it as stern and bloody schooimaster whose teachings will develop character and alter all the future of the race.
 Tt shall be a nober race' he said. more unselfish more efficient, more pa triotic. more helpful, more man-loving and more God-fearing than in all it's previous history. There will be an equal ity and fellowship among the million aires and the men in the ranks who fight side by side and bleed and sacrifice together. There will be a fellowship of races and nations never known before, England and France are bound to the great republic in bonds that cen turies will not dissolve. Italy is our bond brother through the ages to come, as the Czech-Slavs and Poles and re- deemed Russia will be knit in the grand brotherhood of man which makes inev itably for the fatherhood of God. All the thousand years behind us will not have brouyE. so much or counted so far toward the ultimate of the race as these bloody, heartless, hearbreaking but tri- umphant years that are about us now.
 There is not a shodw of doubt in my mind. I know that we are absolutely sure to wia this war. All the prohecies of Holy Writ and all the promises Of God are above and beneath and beside America and her allies, against the roe of all creeds and all humanity. The sword of the Lord and of Gideon is un- sheathing now in the providences Of diplomacy and in the dispensations of God, in the hunger and discontent, the reaction and revolution of the Germanic nations, ana in the more than natural power which He is putting into the ar- mics of the Republic of Liberty, whose strength is as the strength of ten be- cause his heart is pure to the cause ot liberty and humanity God Almighty is coming al last to take His part in this war.
 For our eyes have seen the glory of
 the coming of the Lord.
 He is trampling out the vintage where
 the grapes of wrath are stored:
 Our God is marching on. '
 Colonel Graves concluded his address with the great question of why God per mits this war He recently addressed a Bible class in Washington on this sub- feet which caused so much comment that Dr. Charles Wood. of the Church of the Covenant invited him to repeat it before the great congregation,
 The convention of the Southern pub fishers is one of the most largely at tended and successful in the history Of the organization. The discussion is largely devoted to the influence of war conditions upon newspaper publishing. l.irc,1la ion md adXarfiSino and the nt-