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Show CHIEF FORESTER GRAVES IN A STIRRING APPEAL TO THOSE WHO SHOULD BACK THE SOEDIERS Chief Forester Henry S. Grav i spoke today at a luncheon given in his honor at the Weber club. Colonel Graves went to France last summer in order to personally attend to the work of getting the first Forest Regiment, the Tenth Engineers, started In forest-r forest-r operations on the western front. The key note of the speech of the noted visitor today was that each and every ono must be ready to do with all his might even an Inconspicuous service ser-vice for the cause of America. ' We cannot all be generals," Colonel Graves said, "but even though we have the ability to act in a high capacity in civil affairs, we may have to take a subordinate place in military affairs. The most of us in this war have got to he privates." The speaker was introduced by Charles Barton, prosident of the club, colonel Graves told of the seven months he had spent in France, watching watch-ing the men of the United States forces preparing for the great work before them, and he explaiued the gradual development ofthe men from green recruits to the best among all the forces. The colonel was given his rank in order to give him both recognition recog-nition for his work for the government and to enable him to have authority act in specific ways. Message of Cheer. He said he was bringing back from the men of the American forces in France a message to the people at home. It is a message of optimism, of courage and of good cheer, he said. And he also said that, unless there is ample support at home the men at the front will sacrifice their lives. He impressed im-pressed upon his hearers the necessity for the greatest efforts among those in the rear He laid stress upon the fact that there are heroes in the rear who are as great as those at the front. The speaker took occasion once to score those who are not putting the national interests ahead of all private Interests. "There is just one thought and just one aim that should dominate the actions of all good Americans " said Chief Graves, "and that is to whip the Germans." Anything outside of a will and firm purpose on the part of each one to whip the Germans in this war. be said is placing private interests in-terests ahead of the national interests. Must Be Speeding Up. Colonel Graves made a plea to all citizens to make the work they are doing fit into the national scheme for ter effort in war measures. He urged the speeding up of all resources iirvthin" eonnected with the war nuu p v q plans. , In commenting on the resources ol I this country i both as to materials and L man power he said thai they have not ' been scratched as yet. "There is at j present," said the speaker, "a greater i test on' the resources of this country' ' than has ever been placed on it before, be-fore, and yet our resources and our man power have not even been scratched When we once really get under way, we are going to whip the Germans, and Germany knows it. And that is why she is doing everything she can to retard our progress. And the things she is doing are numerous and are done in various ways. Some of this is the talk of ihe pacifist and some of it is the Interference with our industrial in-dustrial pl mts and the stirring up of labor agitation." The speaker ended by telling the diners that 'he thing now needed most In this countrv is the speeding up of the whole war program, including thc-maklng thc-maklng and Bhipping of supplies to back the men In Prance. Everything in the war depends on time, he said, and It is our duty now to lay aside our own private opinions as to how things ought to he done and each and everyone every-one get in and work to help win the war. |