The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31

only on my own behalf put on Denal1 or my partner.
 mayor should have referred in his ad- dress to a very vital circumstance in our 1 friendship. He referred to the fact that our men and your men fought side by side in the great war.
 | But there was more than that in it For the first time upon such scale a, | any rate, they have fought under a common commander. That is an advance which we have made upon the previous days and what I have been particularly interested in has been the generosity of 1 spirit with which that unity of command has been assented to.
 T not only had the pleasure of meet l ing Marshal Foch, who confirmed my ad- miration of him by the direct and simple manner with which he dealt with every subject we talked about, but I had the l pleasure of meeting your own commander and I understand how they co-opera ted because I saw that they were real men. | Tt takes a real man to subordinate | himself and it takes a real soldier to know that unity of command is the secret of success. That unity of com mand did swing the power of nations into a mighty force. I think we all must have felt how the momentum which got | into all of the armies was concentrated iiNO lHS Sli6le dlIuN anu we ltll we Idu Overcome all the obstacles.
 With our unity or command there arose unity of spirit. The minute we | consented to cooperate our hearts were drawn closer together into cooperation and so, from the military side, we have | given ourselves an example for the years | to come. Not that in the years to come we must submit to unity of command | but it does seem to me that in the years to come we must plan unity of purpose, and in that unity of purpose we shall find great recompense, strength | ening of our spirit in everything that | we do.
 JEALOUSY A CANCER
 There is nothing so hampering and nothing so demeaning jealousy. It is | a cancer It is "a cancer in the heart not only that but in the counting room It is a cancer throughout all the pro- cesses of civilization and having now seen we can fight shoulder to shoul- der we will continue to advance shoul- der to shoulder, and I think you will l find that the people of the United States are not the least eager for the purpose I 1T remember hearing the story of a
 warning that one of your Australian i soldiers gave to one of ours. Our sol diers were considered by the older men to be bit rash when they were in the ] field. l. understand that one friendly Australian said that our men were rather rough.
 "On one occasion an Australian saio Ito one of our men: Man, a barrage is not a thing to lean up against. They
 were a little bit inclined to lean UT I against the barragel and yet must con l fide to you that I was a bit proud oi l them for it. They have come over te get at the enemy and they didn't know lIwhy they should delay. %
 COMMON ENTERPRISE
 But now that there is no common l enemy except distrust and marring oi !, plans we can all feel the same eager [ ness in the new combat and feel tha' there is a common enterprise before US
 We are not men because we have 1 skill of hand, but we are men because we have elevation of spirit. 1t is in thi'
 spirit that we live and not in the tasl of fhe day If it is not that, why i' lit that you hang the lads musket ol
 sword up above the mantle-piece, but nev
 CT haxg the yard-stick up? There | nothing discreditable in the yard-stick. I lis altogether honorable, but he is using it for his own sake. But when he takes the musket or the sword he Is givinf
 everything and is getting nothing. It i'
 honorable not as an instrument, but a!
 a symbol of self-sacrifice.
 "A friend of mine said very truly
 When peace is conducted in the spiri of war there will be no war Wher
 business is done with the point of view
 of the soldier who is serving his coun
 try, then business will be as histrioni'
 as war I believe. that from generation
 to generation steps of that sort are gain ing more and more and men are begin
 ming to see, not. perhaps, the golden age
 but an age which is conducting then
 from victory to victory and may lead u
 to an elevation from which we can se
 the things for which the heart of man