The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-10
Southern Newspaper
Publishers Meet At
Ashevine, N. c.

Publishers Association, in session
dress delivered last night by Colonel
John Temple Graves, editorial rep
resentative OF the Hearts publica-
tons. Colonel Graves, one of the
| most eloquent orators in the coun-
try and for years a favorite in the
South, reviewed in detail the superb
achievements of the American gov
eminent in the conduct of the war and
the unprecedented results of its ex-
cellcnt preparations.
Il note the amazement and inspira-
ton with which our allies in foreign
countries have followed the vigor and
expedition with which this great Re-
public has crossed the ocean to their
relief, and the staggering realization
of our imperial enemy that the United
States under the stress Of necessity
and purpose has developed in a night
into a military power of irresistible
force and efficiency" he said
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 mar
shall general He emphasized the re-
sources of the country and the STU
blime devotion with which they have
all been consecrated to the winning
of humanity's Armageddon. 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 and so abundantly worth dying
for"
Colonel Graves spoke of the lessons
this great war will teach, speaking
of it as a stern and bloody school
master whose teachings will develop
character and alter all the future of
the race
1T shall be nobler race" he said.
More unselfsh, more efficient, more
patriotic, more helpful, more man
loving and more God-fearing than in
all its previous history. There will
be an equality and fellowship among
the millionaires and the men in the
ranks who fight side by side and bleed
and sacrifice together. There will be
fellowship of races and nations
never known before.
England and France are bound to
the great republic in bonds that CEN
turtles will not dissolve. Italy is our
bond brother through the ages to
come, as the Czech-Slavs and Poles
and redeemed Russia will be knit in
the grand brotherhood of man which
makes inevitably for the fatherhood
of God. All the thousand years be-
hind us will not have brought so much
or counted so far toward the ultimate
of the race as these bloody, heartless,
hearbreaking but triumphant years
that are about us now.
There is not a shadow of doubt in
my mind. ! know that we are abso-
lutely sure to win this war All the
prophecies of Holy Writ and all the
promises of God are above and be-
meath and beside America and her al
lies, against the foe of all creeds and
all humanity. The sword of the Lord
and of Gideon is unsheathing now in
the providence of diplomacy and in
the dispensation of God, in the hun
ger and discomfort, the reaction and
revolution of the Germanic ma
tons, and i'll the more than natural
power which He is putting into the
armies of the Republic of Liberty,
whose strength is as the strength of
ten because his heart is pure to the
cause of liberty and humanity God
Almighty is coming at 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 ad-
dress with the great question of why
God permits this war He recently
addressed Bible class in Washing
ton on this subject 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
publishers is one of the most largely
attended and successful in the history
OF the organization. The discussion
is largely devoted to the influence of
war conditions upon newspaper pub
fishing, circulation and advertising,
and the necessity of adapting meth
DDS to meet the changed conditions,
while rendering even greater service
to the Government in speedily and