Show PRESIDENT OPENS I IRED RED GROSS CROSS DRIVE I Makes Eloquent Plea to All Al Classes to Give Freely to Aid in War Work Chief Executive In n Opening Red CrosS Cross Cros S Drive Declares That German Peace Terms Are I Insincere and Will WillS S Not Be Accepted by Allies New York To To win tin the war the tb United States Is determined to set n no restrictions restrictions' on the number of men t tc to tobe be sent to France President declared here herc Saturday night In z i a aspe speech ch reaffirming the purpose 5 I 0 ol of America to set no limit on Its Us effort As many ninny men will go overseas a as ships can cnn be bc found to carry them the till presidential after referring to to statements statements state state- ments meats that have ha been made that 5 5 should go The United States he said will not nol be diverted by insincere talk of f peace from the Teutonic powers Their proposals proposals proposals pro pro- he declared spring from a desire desire de de- sire Ire to have hac a free hand In the east The crowd arose when he said I 1 am urn here to stand by Russia Rusia as well wel as France S The president said he had t tested sted th the Teutonic nations and found them in 5 sincere The The- presidents president's s speech In full follow follows fol fol- lows lowe t Ir Chairman and fellow r countrymen country country- men I 1 should be ver very sorry to to S think that Mr DavIson in any degree curtailed curtailed curtailed cur cur- tailed his exceedingly interesting speech for fear that he lie was postponing mine because I am sure you listened with the same intent and intimate Interest interest In in- terest with which I listened to the extraordinarily extraordinarily ex ex- vivid account he gave of ol the things which he had realized because because because be be- cause he had come In In contact with them on the other side of the water Lists Two Duties We compass them with our Imagination nation nation nation-he he compassed them In n his personal personal personal per per- experience and I am not here tonight tonight tonight to to- night to review for you rou the work of the Red fled Cross I am not competent to todo todo do Elo so because I have not had lurd the time or Dr the opportunity to follow In Its de de- de- de tail I have come here simply to say saya a few words to you as to what it all seems to me to mean and It means a areat creat reat deal There are two duties with which we are face to face The first duty iso is isto isto to o win the war And the second duty that goes hand band in hand with It Is to win In it greatly greaty and nl worthily showing the real quality of our power not only but mt the real quality of our purpose and ourselves Of course the first duty the he duty that we must keep In the foreground of our thought until It Is accomplished Is to win via the war I have ha heard gentlemen recently say I that hat we must get men ready Why limit it to Puts No LimitI Limit I have asked the congress of the United States to name no limit because because bemuse be be- cause muse the congress intends I am sure as is we all Intend that every ship that can an carry men or supplies shall go laden aden upon every with every ery everyman man nan and arid ev every ry supply she can carry And we are not to be diverted from the he grim purpose of winning the war warby warby by any Insincere approaches approach s upon the subject of peace I can say with a alear lear clear conscience that I have tested those hose intimations and have found them hem insincere I now recognize them for or what they are an opportunity to have a free hand particularly In the east ast to carry out the purposes of conquest conquest con con- quest an and ami exploitation S Stand by Russia Every proposal with regard to accommodation accommodation ac ac- ac- ac in the west Involves olves a reservation with regard to the east enst Now so far as I am concerned I intend intend in in- tend end to stand by Russia as well as Fran France rance e. e The helpless and friendless are the ery ones that need friends and succor succor suc sue cor or and if It an any man In Germany thinks hinks s we are going to to sacrifice anybody anybody any any- body ody for fot our own sake e I T tell the them u now they hey are mistaken For the glory o of this his war war my fellow citizens so far as asye we ye are concerned is that It Is perhaps for or the first time In history an unselfish war I could not be proud to 0 fight for a selfish purpose but I Ian Ican Ican can an be proud to fight for mankind If they hey wish peace let them come forward for ward yard through accredited ted representatives Eves tives and lay their terms on the table We Ve h have ve laid ours ours' and they know what they are But Dut behind all nIl this grim purpose e emy my ay friends lies the opportunity to demonstrate not only force which will willbe wille be e demonstrated to the utmost but the thee opportunity to demonstrate character chara ter und lid Its It's the opportunity that we ve have most nest completely ly ie In the work of the Red ted Cross not that o our or r men do not represent our character for they do and ind it jt is a character which those who see ee and realize appreciate and admire but ut their duty Is the duty of force The Thc duty of the Red fled Cross is th the duty jf of f mercy ant and succor and friendship World to be Better Have you formed a picture In your our Imagination of what this war is doing for Cor or us and for the world In my ney own owie Bind ind I am convinced that not u a hun hun- dred years' years of peace could have knitted this nation together as tills this single year of war has knitted it together and better even than that Jf if possible it Is knitting the world together Look at the tho picture In Ta the tile center of the tile scene four nations engaged against the world and at every point of vantage vantage van van- antage tage showing that they are arc seeking selfish aggrandizement and against them twenty twenty-t-iree go er governments ments representing representing seating the greater part of the population population population pop pop- of the world drawn together into a new sense of community Interest In Jn terest a n new sense of community purpose The secretary of war told me mc an Interesting Incident the other day lIe He said when he was In Italy a member of the Italian gov government was explaining explain explain- ing to him the many reasons why Italy felt near to the United States He said If you want to try an nn Interesting interesting interesting inter Inter- esting experiment go up to any anyone one of these troop trains and ask in English English En En- glish how many of them have been in America and see what happens He lIe tried the the experiment He TIe went up to ton a. a n troop troop- train and said How II ow many of you boys ha have haC C been in America and he lie said it seemed to him as I if half of them sprang up Me Ie from San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco me from New Y York rk all over Love America There wa was was part of the heart of America in the Italian army People that had been knitted to us by association asso asso- elation who knew us who had lived hived amongst us who had worked work shoulder to shoulder with us and now friends of America were fighting for their native na na- tive Italy Friendship Is the thee only cement that will ev ever er hold the world together And this Intimate contact of the thee great grent RedCross Red fled RedCross Cross with the peoples who are arc suffering suffering suf self fering feting the terrors and deprivations of this war Is going to be one of the greatest Instrumentalities of friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship that the world ever knew and the center of the heart of it all If we sustain It will be land hand that we we so dearly lovelI love l I My friends a great day of duty has come conic and duty finds a mans man's soulas soul soulas as no sio kind of work worl can ever eer find It Raps Profiteers l Ia May I say this The duty that faces us all now is to serve one another another another an an- other and no no nd man can afford to make a fortune out of this war There are men amongst us who have forgotten that if they e ever ever er r saw It Some of you are ol old enough enough I I am old ola enough to remember men who made fortunes out of the Civil war war and you know how they were regarded by their fellow citizens That was a war tb to save one country this country this is a war to save the world And your our relation to the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross Is one of the relations which will relieve you of the stigma You cant can't give anything to the government I of Df the United States States States-It it wont won't accept it There is a law of congress against I accepting even services without pay The rhe only thing that the government will accept Is a loan and duties performed performed per per- formed but it is a great deal better betterto to Lo give than to lend or pa pay and your great channel for giving is the American American Ameri Amen can an Red Cross Down In your our hearts you ou cant can't take very much satisfaction In En the last analysis in lending money to the government of the United States because the thee interest which you you dra maw draw w will burn your our pockets It is a commercial transaction trans and some men Leave have even dared to cavil at the rate of f interest not knowing the Incidental tal tat commentary that that constitutes upon their attitude Giving a Pleasure But Dut when you ou give something of your heart something of your soul something of yourself goes with the gift ift particularly when it Is given in such form that It never can come backy back backby by y way of direct benefit to yourself You ou know lenow there Is 15 the old cynical definition definition of gratitude as the lively expectation expectation ex ex- ex- ex of favors to come Well there thera Is no expectation of favors to toome come ome In this kind of giving These things are bestowed in order that the world may be a fitter place to live In that men may may be succored that homes may be restored that suffering ma mae may maybe be e relieved rele that the face race of the earth may have the blight of destruction taken away from it and that wherever force goes goes' there shall go mercy merc and helpfulness Iness Until It Hurts And when you give give absolutely absolutely absolutely all that you ou ca can spare and dont don't consider yourself liberal in the giving If you give with self you are not giving at all you ou are giving giving- to your own vanity but if you give until it hurts thea your our heart blood goes oes Into it S And think what we have here We Wc call it the thee American Red Cross but It I Is merely a branch of ofa a great International organization which Is not only recognized by the thee statutes of each of the civilized governments of the world but bet It Is recognized and aC accepted instrumentality of of mercy i and succor And one of the deepest stains that rests upon the thee reputation of the German army is that they have leave not respected the Red lied Cross That goes to the thee root of the thc mat mat- ter They have not respected the instrumentality they themselves participated participated par par- in setting up as the thc thing which no man was b to touch because it was the expression of common humanity We Wc are members by being beIng beIng be be- ing members of the American Red RedCross Cross of a great fraternity and com cone comradeship comradeship which extends all over the thee world and ud this cross which these emblem of ladles bore today Is un an Christianity itself S Workers Praised It fills my Imagination ladles ladies and gentlemen to think of the time women au allon all allover on over r tills thIs country who are ure busy to to- night and are busy every night nl ht rand an and every day doing the thc work of the thee Red lIed RedCross Cross busy with a great eagerness to find out the most serviceable thing to do do- do busy with a forgetfulness of all the old frivolities fri of their social relationships ready to curtail the duties of the household in order that they may keep to this common work that all their hearts are arc engaged In and in doing which their hearts become become be be- become come acquainted with each cache other When you think of this you ou how the people of the United States are being drawn together into a great gr at family whose heart is being used for the service of the soldiers not not only but for the service of civilians where they suffer and mITe are lost in a amaze amaze amaze maze of distresses and distractions And you have then this noble picture of justice and mercy as the two servants of liberty For only where men are free do they think the th thoughts of comradeship only where they are free do they think the thoughts of sympathy only where they are free are they mutually helpful help ful only where they are free do they realize their dependence upon one another and their comradeship In a common Interest and common necessity Tells Story I heard a story told the othet day that was ridiculous but It II It worth repeating because it contains the germ of truth An Indian wa wafe wal enlisted in the army lIe He returned to the reservation on a furlough fl Ba flu was asked what h he lee thought of It ItHe He TIe said No much good too much not not much shoot Then he hew w was wils s asked Are Arc you ou going back Yes Well Velh do you know what you are aie fighting for Yes me know fight light to to make whole damn world Democratic party He lie had evidently misunderstood some innocent n. c n- n tence of my ray own But Dut after all although there is no patty party purpose purpose In In it he he got It right as ns far as thet the th- word party party to to tomake make the whole world democratic In Inthe Inthe the thee sense of community of interest and of interest of purpose and if you OU ladles ladies and gentlemen could read some of the touching dispatches which come through official channels channels channels chan chan- nels for even through those channels there come voices of humanity that are infinitely pathetic if you rou could catch some of those voices that speak the utter longing of oppressed and helpless peoples all over the world to hear something like The Thc Battle Dattle Hymn of the Republic to hear tho the feet of the thee great hosts of liberty going to set them free to set their minds free set their lives free set their children free y you u would know what comes Into the heart of those who are trying to c contribute all the brains and power they have to this great enterprise of liberty I summon you t othe otlie I summon you in this next week to say how v nuch ouch and tind how sincerely and ind how unanimously you y u sustain fiust ln the hear heart of the world |