Arizona republican., 1918-04-21
Constructive Criticism

Constructive Criticism
 Now. do not mean that there should not be constructive criticism and sympathetic suggestions. We. in h. diana, expect it in the war work as in everything else. Our great war executive, Governor Goodrich, asks it. l could not understand that men, ! tai process, frankly, or the heart beats of any in authority, if there are any, who want otherwise. If there is. any place, in any state in i the nation, anybody in authority in this awful crisis, if there is any one who won't use every conceivable pos sible effective instrument to help win this war, then he is guilty of con- duct most reprehensible, and if that should be so there will be an awful accounting therefor, as sure and cer- tain as the patriotism and intelli- 1 gence of the American people The one purpose of every one is to win the war now, and to strive, and to stand for a peace by victory only and not by compromise bargaining; 1 and to prepare in sane manner for the great problems of reconstruction. The responsibility resting on men and women Of the intelligence, substance and character of you is measured by the strength of those qualities in you. If you do not feel it, act it, live it, and talk it, then how do you expect the man on the street to dc it?
 Impossible things have to be ac-
 complished. A few years ago, l stood at the fountains at Versailles
 They played twenty minutes, then,
 every other Sunday, at a cost of
 some S20,000. They are not playing
 now. l hope the day will soon come
 again when they do. But there l
 heard the story of how Louis XIV
 wanted to build the fountains oi Versailles when he built that great
 palace, and he called his architect
 and said, "We will have fountain al
 Versailles" The architect said "It
 is impossible. sire. There is no wa
 ter" And there was not. The word
 impossible is not in the French Ian
 guage" said the King. And so it is
 here, the word impossible" can no' be in the American language anc
 will not be until this war is won.
 All Must Make Sacrifice
 Sacrifice, yes. Yours and mine ! yes. Thank God, we are in a com. pany today where wo do not have lO dpOlOSlZC AOI real liedIl pdJIIOJlSfll } Sacrifice, yes. And what sae-!.
 flee? When we think of this coun.
 try and what it stands for, of glor. ious past, its magnificent present anc
 it's sublime future, of the anguish l the heart throbs, the bleeding and tn, dying which it took to conceive an( : preserve tive must be stirred tc l the depths of our souls and moved , with an imperishable determination to keep it where our forefathers witt kGods help have placed it.
 } You remember the story of tht
 French soldier of the Empire tha
 lay sorely wounded. and they wer, probing for the bullet, probing yer, close to the heart. The poor fel low, feeling that the probe was end ing his life sooner than the bullet : cried, "A little deeper in the hear, } a little deeper, and you will find tn Emperor
 An. little deeper, little deepe
 in the heart of every citizen of tn , republic I pray God tonight tha l there may be engraven the imag :. of the Stars and Stripes, and a : these awful days and months go b that are ahead of us, I pray that tn 9 mage of the flag and the principle l for which it stands shall gro, l brighter and brighter until the lov
 of it and then shall become a par l of our being, an ingredient of ou very hearts blood. For then, an s then only, will we know that our in : stitutions shall not perish and ou f country shall endure forever, for i X the love of it's people and only i
 the love of it's people is the safet g of the nation. I do not appeal t e you at all from any altruistic stand s point or ideal, but as practical, sue : cessful men of affairs. Let us pu
 the soul of America into this wal : It has not been touched as yet. Le e us have little more every day c