The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-12


 reckon with the American spirit. What l it took Germany 40 years to do we have done in a year and a half.
 SOLDIERS TO FRANCE
 sarhe Kaiser said we had no ships, and with his submarines he would pre- vent us sending soldiers to France to aid the allies. For 10 years l have preached the gospel of shpyards. l was in Rio de Janiero and with our ambassador watched our squadron sail into the harbor. Big battleship fol- lowed big battleship into the harbor, and all the ships carrying supplies and foodstuffs flew the flags of for eign nations That fleet sailed out of Hampton Roads expecting to meet and fight an enemy, If it had met the enemy and ss shot had been fired every one of the supply ships would have been compelled to leave the fleet and take it's cargo of supplies. But now instead of 50 shipyards and 50,000 men working in them we have over 1o0 shipyards and over 500,000 workmea in them"
 Exnlaining the delay in launching ships, about which there has been heard so much criticism, MT, Story said after the appropriation was made it took time to find locations along the Atlantic, the Gulf and the Pacific to build them, to organize and train la bor forces; that ship was built anu floatea within 55 days that formerly would have been from 15 to Is months building; that similar ship was floated in 27 days in New Jersey, and a torpedo destroyer was built in l 12 days and July 100 ships slipped into the water from American yards
 WHAT AMERICA CAN DO ssrr,1.. { slan of a can do when she gets ready We are in this war. as President Wilson has said, to the last ditch, to the last doi- | lar. and to the last man. That flag, unfurled to the breezes Al years ago, was dedicated to liberty and freedom and it flies again over the battlefields in Europe to free the world of Prus sian miltarism.'
 | Lieut.. H. G. Nilsson, introduced by Mr. Beal, began by saying that Canada, l like America. is melting pot. and l that when the call for volunteers came, 1 it was doubted if more than 20,000 men promised England could be secured 1 But before the recruiting sergeant set out, before dollar had been spent before a war poster had been erected over loo, 900 men had signed the books showing the world they were ready to go over and fight, if necessary, die for liberty and freedom. The Irish the Welsh, the Austrian, the German they all joined, and on the battlefields of Flanders, German met German and fought German, Austrian met and fought Austrian. There were Indians, too fight ing for the freedom of the world"
 He said that the Canadians went over with only six weeks training ano fought heroically at the Marne. He said that we could thank the British for their bulldog spirit. and Britain raised an army of 7,000,000 men before the word conscription was ever men tioned."
 He said they had been pressing on fol three and half years and would keel on pressing until the job was finished His description of the battle for tho St Julian wood when their colonel, witt cane in hand. said, Come on, boys follow me down into the ditch, Wal truly pathetic. And every man fol lowed the brave colonel; we couldn' help it." lie said. The colonel wal killed. The Germans were seven tt their one, but they captured and helt the wood.
 STICK IT OUT
 "For Gods sake, stick it out l hay, the right to ask it of you. We went il 1o32 strong and came out 62 men ant one officer, and came back singing be
 
 ask you to stick it out
 .sThe Kaiser, when sending soldierl to China, told them to so fight that 1 Chinaman would never look German in the face again. We say with you loyalty and your help, we will 'sticl lit out until autocracy will never lool democracy in the face again.
 The voice or the dead comes acros the sea asking that the living keel the faith. Let us go out of this build s ing, thinking of the boys on the fight ing line. and the boys who are dead lest we forget.
 At the requst of Mir. Beal the audi ence stood up and repeated after hin q pledge of loyalty to the flag, loyalt. to our nation. loyalty}to our boys il the trenches.
 Lieutenants Choyce and Milsom an MT. Bear and MT. Story were eacl
 given an ovation at the beginnin and conclusion of his speech Thei visit here was for the purpose of arous | ing a greater spirit of patriotism loyalty and devotion, and oincite tn . manufacturers and the employees to pro duce essentials to the maximum, and - the demonstrators and the attitude C the audience last night indicate any , thing. it indicates that their missio