No nation ever won a war waged in a half-hearted way and we are going to win this war because we shall fully prepare ourselves to win it.

It is not necessary for me to dwell on these points which I have briefly touched. I know by your presence here and by the unhesitating way in which you have come, that you realize the gravity of the situation and that you feel American rights and American ideals must be maintained at every cost.

Therefore, I can but bid you welcome and Godspeed in that which you are about to undertake. We are proud of every one of you, whether you come to us from our state, from Ohio, or the two great commonwealths below the river. The hope and the confidence of the nation rest with you and with thousands of other young men who, like you, are to assume positions of leadership and fight the nation's battles. You will not fail us, can not fail us in the light of all the heroic past.

Many of you are descendants of those of '76 and others of the men of '61. If you are not the blood sons, you are the spiritual sons of our revolutionary forefathers and of the veterans of the Civil War. The traditions of all the mighty past affect each one of you and you are what you are because of the days of heroism at Bunker Hill and Valley Forge, of Chickamauga, of Gettysburg and the hundred battle-fields of the republic.

There is an old legend which tells how long ago the City of Is-a dream city of the bold sailors of Brittany-was swallowed up by the sea. When a storm sweeps over the sea, the sailor can see the tall spires of the sunken city in the hollow of the waves, so the story goes, and when a calm broods over the waters, he hears the sound of its bells

ringing from the depths of the sea, sounding the music of another age.

Every man carries in his bosom a humanity that is like unto that of the fabled city and from the depths of his nature, he hears the voices of the past breaking his profoundest silence.

In the hidden recesses of his being, where sleep the souls of his ancestors, there lies a secret power that shapes his life to purposes larger than his own and lifts him, in mọments of inspiration, above his conscious and voluntary self. So, to-night, the souls of your ancestors speak to you across the centuries. The heroic sacrifices of your fathers and the splendid traditions of our country in the days gone by, are calling to each one of you to measure up to the highest and best that is in you in this critical hour of the nation's life and I know that you will not prove disobedient to the call, but will so discharge the duties that fall upon you as to justify the confidence placed in you by the government in accepting your services.

EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE.

STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE

EX-GOVERNOR SAMUEL M. RALSTON, REPORTED IN The Indiana Daily Times, DECEMBER 14, 1917

Indiana assures all the world beyond its borders that its citizens propose to do their share to make the world safe for democracy. This is not a time for profit making, save that the profits be contributed to aid in winning the war. It is criminal, it is unpatriotic and inhuman that our boys go to the trenches unless we feed and clothe them as their necessities demand.

The man who is not in complete accord with us must go. Let us then contribute our mite to make public opinion so strong that no man dare to raise a whisper against the flag of our nation. It is your duty and my duty to see that no man is long at large in this country who favors firing upon our boys from the rear. We are not going to take any halfway ground, and the man who is not with us in this fight had better be out of the nation's borders, and the sooner he gets out the better it will be for his health.

The master mind of the world to-day is the president of these United States. Woodrow Wilson will go down in history side by side with Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. I want to commend my distinguished successor, Governor Goodrich; and I am as much concerned that the people of Indiana stand back of him as I am that

they stand back of President Wilson. We have no politics, in a narrow sense, in this conflict. Let us save the nation and then we shall again take up the honest differences of our domestic life. Let us measure patriotism by the willingness of a man to make sacrifices to win the war. All we have must be laid on the altar with willing hearts and brave minds. Unless we do this we fall short in our citizenship.

OUR COUNCILS OF DEFENSE

GEORGE ADE

When the United States of America, defending the lives and the sacred honor of its own people, accepted the Prussian war challenge and began to battle for liberty, this overgrown country of ours was not organized for the business of making war.

Our country was like a big, strong and intelligent young man who has in him the making of a champion athlete, but who does not understand the rules or the fine points of any athletic sport and never has had a special training to put him in condition.

Perhaps it would be nearer the truth to compare the United States to a group of stalwart and willing and bright lads who are suddenly called out to a practise field and told to make up a team and get ready to play a game of football with a lot of seasoned professionals.

The boys might know that they had the material for a championship team, but they would also know that their only chance of defeating the experienced and speciallycoached veterans lay in immediately organizing, perfecting the teamwork, and causing each player to steel his determination and resolve to do or die.

The war came upon our peaceful country, not because we desired war, but because we either had to defend ourselves against open attacks and hidden intrigues or else lose our standing as a self-respecting nation.