New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

there must be room enough for all
men in the world.
often hear that you are a young
nation. Don't believe It'll Don't be-
iieve it! You are as old as any Euro
pean. We come from the same
source. Your ancestors have labored
and suffered and cried and bled with
ours. We are all Of the same stock.
But You have new field, magnifi-
cent feld-the best that there was.
All these tales of antiquity, these
places IN Asia, where so many large
nations develop themselves, are now
all things of the past. 1t is not to
DC conceived that America will ever
DC thing of the past. No! / don't
say that you will remain as YOU are.
but you ought to strive to get better
and better, and the beauty of it is
that If man does something right
1t is good for the man it helps and
1t is good for himself, because each
VIII try to live better and better.
Many of the others have got it.
They don't show it, And you don't
want to make too much of show of
1t. But it is enough to speak with
you ten minutes to know that you
are the right kind of men and that
something great may be expected
from you.
Only let me tell you, if ! have re-
proaches to pass upon you-the
trouble is it looks absurd, with your
press and wireless and telegraph and
telephones and everything-that /
don't find you as we'll informed as
you ought to be. You are a travelling
people. / have met a great many
Americans in Paris. Do you know
what they do? They live among
themselves They talk OF Fifth Ave
nue., of Broadway, of business, of
California; don't know what-but
they don't take the trouble to learn
French and go and see the French
and mix up with them and get at the
bottom of the real information that
can be got from those people. That
is what l complain of. Learning
French is nothing. Ask your sol
diers. They took a young girl by the
arm, and very soon they managed to
get good talk Those ideal SOL
diers / saw American soldiers.
saw lot of them the other day that
saw me in France, when they had
been fighting as hard as fight could
have been. and their General Per-
shing, twenty-five divisions Of 1000
each, with four French divisions-all
They really carried the attack of ST.
Mihiel as it could not be expected it
could be done, and the next day what
were they doing? Filling their arms
with children, and young ladies
bringing flowers, singing. crying, be-
ing happy, carrying them all over
the country which they had not been
permitted to see for three years, and
two weeks after that in the deepest
of the fight and continuing their
works and going back to carry on the
) fight at Laon, and the young men OF
! the American army there to dig in
| with General Pershing.
And SO we have had terrific num-
| Der of dead and killed and wounded
Service Measured Not in
Numbers but in Effects
| / do not think about any other peo-
| pie. | say this to you as you are
| You may hear great deal and
| am speaking great deal to you--
! 100000 killed. That is not very lit
! tie Two and half million wound
/ ed, and then all this was double what
| it would have been if the men had
| not been so full of dash. But that
is great deal. 1t is great deal,
! considering the time you were en-
! gagged; and if more time had pro-
! gressed, if the Germans had not
| asked for mercy, the French in the
| war would have been giving their
! places to their American brothers
j and the iigures would have been re-
| yersed. Therefore do not look at
| the figures, look at the effects. Look
| at the work, look at the hope that
! you have given to the European
world.
You must understand it. Remem-
| Der how Europe was made out of
| human blood persecution of every
one that was right and good for
centuries and centuries. Think of
it! King Edward VII was the first
king of Europe for centuries that
did not carry in his title King Of
France" He told me himself as
being of the old times, and in the
America, and the King of England,
of course, was not the King of France.
Well, that shows that it takes a great
deal for those who understand and
think of the way that America was
founded. You had a magnificent lot
of men, beautiful set of statesmen
such as the world had not seen for
long time, and that was all. That
was enough indeed, because there
was people behind them. And when
we saw George Washington, Jeffer-
son. Madison, Adams, Alexander
Hamilton and such men as that don't
you see it looks like picture? You
at once see a grand work grandly
accomplished. But shat is the pic
ture, and love comes behind it. Eng
land has never been able--and that
is pretty goodto do more than lib
crate itself. | do not say it is moth
ing. Very far from it, but you went
further. You wanted 60 liberate 9th
ers, and when you were ready to get
free by yourself you wanted the
world to be liberated. yau said it
in your declarat en-; th9t yoa called