The sun., 1919-10-18
GEN. WOOD PLEADS
FOR AMERICANISM
Makes Stirring Speech at
Williams College Victory
Celebration.
wHITTLEsEY GETS MEDAL
Many Other Alumni Are Hon.
Ored for Their Services
in France.
wHITTLEsEY GETS MEDAL
Special Despatch to TIE sur.

WILLIAMSBURG, Mass, Oct 17-''Buin
up a strong Americanlsm. Avoid in.
ternationalism as you would death"
These were striking sentences in the
speech made my Major-Gen. Leonard
Wood at the williams College victory
celebration this morning at williamstown.
After q few words " tribute to the
Williams men who represented the col.
lege and the country In the world war
Gen. Wood asked for a continuation OF
their spirit and for appreciation on the
part of the people at home Of the service
rendered by the four and half millions
who answered the call. Americanism.
with all II means Of law and order was
the ideal he set up. Not Americanisn
which would avoid international help.
fulness. he said but Americanism with
a national conscience. a national spirit
which In another crisis would send an
army to war even more quickly.
Law and order must stand steady
Keep your feet on the ground and your
eyes on God; cling fast to your ideal,
support the Constitution and those prin.
ciples by which our country has been
made; support the authorities; avoid
criticising as much as possible" These
were the guiding principles uttered by
Gen. Wood
40 Per Cent. Went to War.
The celebration. planned by the alumni
of Williams College to honor the Ito
Williams men. constituting nearly 40 per
cent of all living alumni and undergrad
yates and over 60 per cent of all those
graduated since 1900. who entered the
army. was the hrst of its kind to be held
by any college in America.
The ceremonies were held In Grace
Hall. Above the stage was the college
service flag with its forty-fve gold stars.
After the singing Of the national anthem
and the invocation by the Rev. Dr. John
s. Zelie, Prof. Bliss Perry, a williams
graduate. delivered an address, In which
he set forth the record of the part Will
Jams men played In the war, a part said
to be- greater in proportion to the size
OF the college than that of any other in
stitution In the country. An anthem fol-
lowed and then Major-Gen. Leonard
Wood delivered his addre>a Following
that, the entire audience rose at Presi-
dent Garfield read the forty-five names
on the roll of honor. Then, during a
most solemn and impressive silence, came
the distant sound Of taps" played by
one of the undergraduates.
Medals Are Presented.
Owing to the limitation on the time
which Gen. Wood could remain he pre-
sented medals personally only to the
$50 or more alumni who were present
at the exercises. Among these were
Lieut.-Col. Whittlesey, leader of the
Lost Battalion of the Argonne" Col.
H. H. Lehman, Capt. Meredith Wood
| and Franklin II. Mills of this city.
Medals were also distributed to some
twenty of the nearest OF kin to those
who gave their lives In the war. All
others win be sent out later to the rest
of the 1,770 men who earned them.
Then. amid tumultuous applause, DR..
Garfield presented a medal to Major
Gen. Wood himself, who received an
honorary degree from Williams in 1902.
In his address in reply to the con-
ferring upon him by the college of an
honorary degree Gov. Coolidge referred
only to the heritage left by Col. Ephraim
Williams when by his will he founded
the college and not at all TO Cecent
events in which he has played such a
prominent part. The celemonies were
| closed by the singing of THE Noun
tains," the college song.