| Show what american manhood Is doing today id S r f r by thomas 0 marvin giant strides have been made toward active participation in the war the raising and equipping n of a million men for duty on the field of battle is a tremendous task and for a nation that had within its home boundaries three years ago a mobile army of less than regulars it would seem to be a staggering undertaking but back olour of our need of men and material were ivere unparalleled growth and wonderful industrial de development 1 no other nation has the manhood or the machinery to make its power so effectively felt jn in war or peace as the united states it has drawn from all quarters of the world men and women of aspiration ambition and enterprise england gave of her best blood to found our colonies and from that stock have come many of our most illustrious men and what this nation lias has become as a land of the free and the home of the brave is ig due in large measure to the fact that there yet lives the blood of england in our veins many have come too from the land of napoleon and lafayette from that heroic land where today the sons soils of france again awake to glory from france we learn the lesson of the courage and heroism of those who in the hour of tho the nations crisis march on march on I 1 all hearts resolved on victory or death great too has been our heritage from the sturdy german stock which has contributed valuable elements to our citizenship and who whose I 1 se sons have fought on our bloodiest battlefields for freedom for union and for liberty our arms have opened wide in welcome to the brave and the oppressed from the green fields of ireland and the historic homes of the norsemen norseman Nor semen from southern europe and the slopes of the ural mountains we have gathered here men hardened to toil and unafraid of great adventure athas it has been our task our contribution to that far off divine event toward which the whole creation moves to mold them into one people proud of our country and loyal to our flag and the way the country has taken up the gage of battle for civilization and the liberty of the world shows that we have not failed as a nation builder |
