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Show waiting for reconstruction out of the ruins of the old. We hope it will be a world from which the tear of war is in a very large measure banished. We hope it will be a world governed by a little less of selfishness, a little more of altruism, than was the world that exploded into disastrous war. The difficulties of the problem are monumental. They call for all the patience, all the tolerant forbearance on the one hand and all the faith and the courage on the other of which we are capable. They will tax the utmost of human wisdom and draw deep on the reserves of human virtue and goodness. These problems are so much greater great-er than our partisan differences, here in the United States, so much greater than personal grievances and ambitions, likes and dislikes, as to make them seem insignificant. But yesterday we were republicans and democrats, looking at each other askant. Yesterday is history. This is today, and the future lies before us--a future to be largely of our own making if we play our parts worthily. Today then, let us reform the lines that were broken for a time and stand shoulder to shoulder not as partisan enemies, but as Americans, as friends and brothers, with a keen realization of the fact that all our eggs are in one common basket. The World Herald. M P WE ARE NO LONGER DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS Election day is past, it was a short campaign, but a merry one. Indeed it was a bit more than merry; it was earnest to the point of ferocity. The attacks of republican leaders on the presi-ient presi-ient and his peace program alarmed and embittered many, and others felt themselves little short of personally insulted by the appeal of the president that the country support him by electing a democratic congress. That is all over and done with now. We have chosen the new legislative branch of the government that must act with the executive branch in guiding the destinies of America for the next two years and in influencing the destinies of the whole world perhaps for all time. It i to our great interest, as citizens, that there should be effective teamwork on the part of the two branches of government. Public opinion, that most powerful of factors, should help bring it about. And to that end the more nearly we can forget partisanship, for a while at loast,, the better it will be for us all. While we Americans are divided into two great parties and : a number of little ones, our differences are not so great as to overshadow our mutl interests. It used to be said of us that C"r uutics ceased at the water's edge. It should be so now. We should be not democrats, not republicans, but simply Americans in upholding the hands of the government that acts for us in a great international undertaking. It is characteristic of American politics that while it may cause the people to boil over for a week or two before election day the subsidance to a state of philosophic calm comes just as rapidly in the week or two following. There is abundant reason for rejoicing that this is so. If we, kept ourselves worked up, throughout the year, to the point of campaign frenzy, it would soon be all 'day with the cohension and unity and sound .common sense that makes of this democracy a great and powerful nation. Civilization is on the threshold of probably the most difficult and momentous task it has ever undertaken. In its performance we hope and expect that the United States will play an import-' import-' ant part perhaps the lending role. It is a new world that is |
