Arizona republican., 1918-05-19

dred years of peace could have knitted this nation together as this single year of war has knitted it together; and better even than that, if possible, it is knitting the world together.
 Look at the picture. In the center of the scene, four nations engaged against the world, and at every point of vantage showing that they are seek ing selfish aggrandizenient and, against them twenty-thre governments repre- senting the greater part of the popula- tion of the world drawn together into a new sense of community Of interest, a new sense of community of purpose, a new sense of unity of life.
 The secretary of war told me an interesting incident the other day. He said when he was in Italy a member of the Italian government was ex- blaming to him the many reasons why Italy felt near to the United States States.
 If you want to try an interesting experiment go up to any one of these troop trains and ask in English how many Of trem have been in America and see what happens
 "Fm From America, Too"
 He tried the experiment. He went up to a troop train and said, How many of you boys have been in Amer ica. and he said it seemed to him as if half of them sprang up: Me from San Francisco; me from New York all over.' There was part of the heart of America in the Italian army. People that had been knitted to us by asso- citation who knew us, who had lived amongst us, who had worked shoulder to shoulder with us, and now friends of America, were fighting for their native Italy.
 Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. And this intimate contact of the Red Cross with the peoples who are suffering the terrors and deprivations of this war is going to be one of the greatest instrumentalities of friendship that the world ever knew, and the center of the heart of it all, if we sustain it properly, will be this land that we so dearly love
 Great Day of Duty Here My friends. great day of duty has come, and duty finds a mans soul as no kind of work can ever find it.
 May say this? The duty that faces us all now is to serve one another, and no man can afford to mako fortune out of this war. There are men amongst US who have forgotten that, if they ever saw it. Some of you are old enough-l am old enough--to remember men who made fortunes out of the civil war, and you know how they were re : sarded by their fellow citizens. That was war to save one country-this is a war to save the world.
 And your relation to the Red Cross | Ic 4$ Akn ~~I-
 lieve you of the stigma. You can't give anything to the government of the United States; it won't accept it. There IS law of congress against accepting even services without pay. The onIy thing that the government will accept is loan, and duties performed: but it IS great deal better to give than to lend or to pay and your great channel for giving is the American Red Cross
 Down in your hearts you can't take very much satisfaction, in the last analysis, in lending money to the gov ernment of the United States, because the interest which you draw will burn your pockets; it IS a commercial trans action and some men have even dareo to eavIi at the rate of interest, no, knowing the incidental commentar, that constitutes upon their attitude,
 Something at Heart
 But when you give something ot your heart, something of your soul something of yourself goes with the gift, particularly when it is given ir such form that it never can come bacl by way of direct benefit to yourself You know there is the old cynical def. milton of gratitude as the lively ex pectation of favors to come
 Well, there is no expectation O favors to come in this kind of giving These things are bestowed in order that the world may be a filter place to liv' in. that men may be succored. tha : homes may be restored; that suffer , ing may be relieved; that the face O the earth may have the blight of de struction taken away from it and tha