The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-02-28

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And when they saw that America
not only held ideals, but acted ideals,
they were converted to America and
became firm partisans OF those i-,els.
met q group of scholars when
was in Paris-some gentlemen from
one OF the Greek universities, who had
come to see me, and in whose pres.
ence, or rather in the presence OF
those traditions Of learning, felt very
young indeed. told them that had
one of the delightful revenges that
sometimes comes to a man. All my
life | had heard men speak with a
sort OF condescension OF ideals and
OF idealists. and particularly those sep
arated, encloistered persons whom
tney choose to term academic, who
were In the habit OF uttering ideals
In the free atmosphere when they
clash with nobody in particular.
And said I have had this swee: re.
venge Speaking with perfect frank.
ness in the name Of the people OF the
United States have uttered as the OBJ.
jects of this great war ideals and moth.
ing but ideals and the war has been
won by that inspiration. Men were
fighting with tense muscle and low.
cred head until they came to realize
those things, feeling they were fight.
ing for their lives and their country,
and when these accents OF what IL was
all about reached them from America,
they lifted their heads, they raised
their eyes TO heaven, when they saw
men in khaki coming across the sea in
the spirit OF crusaders, and they found
that these were strange men, reckless
OF danger not only, but reckless be-
cause they seemed to see something
that made that danger worth while.
Men have testified to me in Europe
that our men we're possessed by some.
thing that they could only call a rei-
gious fervor They we're not like any
OF the other soldiers They had Wis
ion, they had dream ana they were
fighting in the dream, and fighting in
the dream they turned the whole tide
OF battle and 1t never came back.
And now do you realize that this con.
fidence we have established through.
out the world imposes burden upon
us-if you choose to call II burden. IL
Is one of those burdens which any ma
lion ought to be proud to carry Any
man who resists the present tides that
I'll In the world will find himself
thrown upon a shore so high and bar
ZEN In the world will find himself
separated from his human kind for.
aver.
The Europe that left the other day
vas full Of something that it had
lever felt fill its heart so full before.
I was full Of hope. The Europe of the
econd year of the war, the Europe Of
he third year Of the war. was sinking
o sort of stubborn desperation.
hey did not see any great thing to be-
chieyed even when the war should
e won. They hoped there would be
ONE salvage; they hoped they could
ct up their homes and start their in.
ustries afresh. But they thought II
'ould simply be the resumption OF the
Id life that Europe had led--led in
BAR, led In anxiety led in constant
uspicious watchfulness. They never
reamed that 1t would be Europe of
ettled peace and of justified hope.
And now these ideals have wrought
lis new magic, that all the peoples OF
urope are buoyed up and confident in
lie spirit OF hope, because they be-
eve that we are at the eve OF a new
re in the world when nations will I'm.
srstand one another, when nations
i'll support one another in every Just
use, when nations will unite every
oral and every physical strength to
e that the right shall prevail.