Arizona republican., 1919-05-02

life, l urge upon you to keep in mind the conditions that resulted in your splendid record as soldiers. Promotion, decorations. honors, recognition for dis tinguished service did not come to you and your comrades in arms. You went after them. Had the men of the 15Sth been willing to sit supinely by, waiting for someone to urge them to action, the record Of success have so proudly re- cited would never have been written. Instead, each individual was on the alert and eagerly watching for his op- portunity to give better service, behind which was the ability to do, born of months of hard work on the border and the drill field.
 And that is the secret of the success ! am sure every one will carry with you to civil life. At every turn you will receive sincere welcome and aid to help you into some place suited to your splendid tested abilities. And I know the welcome will not be evanescent. It will last because you will throw your selves into civil with the same spirit that you did in martial affairs and your success will he no less marked. The msn who wins promotion in factory, mine office. or on the harvest field, IS the man who looks on his employees IF terests as his own. The man Wifo studies how he can today give better service than he did yesterday and plans for still better service tomorrow is the man who becomes indispensable ile is the first to have his talents and in dustry recognized and the last laid CIT when work is slack.
 The Men Who Fail
 There is another kind of man. He does as little as he can Without risk of dismissal. He continually complains ' concerning the amount of his Wofk and the measure of his recompense You [ know him. There are always few in every group of men, even in the 19Sth- | They neither deserve nor receive recog- nition or promotion and no one IS ever proud of their comradeship. Thank God, there are less of this kind of crea- lures among real AriZonians than will | be found in nearly any other part ol lhe world, this condition being due to the i fact that most of the men and women 1 who came to Arizona in the early days i were too full of courage to recognlze ! defeat What would have wrecked the | hopes of less hardy folks, they deemed | only rebuffs that marked the wrong 1 way and helped them to start anew. 1 And to the men of the 15Sth came this heritage Of moral and physical courage ! and unquenchabe faith in their ulti- | mate triumph over difficulties. ! like l to think of this as the national splril l of America In fact, feel sure that II is the spirit of real Americans.
 Why America Fought
 Our nation accepts each year SC | many representatives of strange peo-
 ples with ideas and ideals different
 from our own that the lack Of the req
 American spirit in many thousand Is
 not surprising. This real spirit o1
 America was well expressed in the
 presidents message to congress or
 April ?, 1917. when he told that bod1
 why was was necessary. He said:
 American ships have been sunk
 American lives taken in ways which Il
 has stirred us very deeply to learn ol I advise that the congress de
 clare the recent course of the imperia
 German government to be, in fact nothing less than war against the gov
 ernment and people of the United States: that it formally accept th'
 status of belligerent which has beer thrust upon it We enter thi! war only where we are clearly forced into it because there are no other means of defending our rights
 American Protection Assured As in individuals, your duty va clearly outlined by the call to congress : It was to teach the Huns such lessor that neither they. nor any other natloi ] would again dare to mistreat Amerlcal 2 citizens or trample upon our nationa . rights.
 5 And now, two years later. we ar glad to see Alsace and Lorraine re f stored to France and financial repara l tion accorded her. We are glad to SC | Serbia get new administration. w
 are glad to see Paderewsd presiden
 of Poland. We hope that ultimatel
 one of the results of the great war vii
 be a league or covenant of nations tha l will insure, as far as possible, agains