Caption: Convocation - 1921 (Armistice Day)
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I I WMI England, next a ft ei ourselves the strong( I nation in th< world, sees herself in a position which terrifies her I itecraft. R< I II (;. Wells, th m it influential Englishman out of <>fli» ii von would be tn >mj about England's future. Her debts are inreasing instead ol l sening; her trade is growing less h id of < reat< ; the u n r t ol her woikeis is more obviou 4 every VCai and the belief that a class government in the place of a gen( il government an be set up is steadil) rowing. It is plain that in spite of the armistice and its military triumph, dem< racies are by no means entirely safe. There seems nowher in Kin pe any i mfidence in any political leaders, or any agreement on Jitical plan of salvation. T h e countries are split up into almost innumerable parties, which shift and rccombine like the bits of broken glas in a kaleidoscope. \ n d yet, except by confidence in a great leader and by unified and disciplined determination to carry out his plans, it is impossible r US to progress. In war every man comes very soon to realize the truth this pact. In our own Civil W a r the South was for a long time si; ful in spite of the most tremendous handicaps because it early perceived and permitted its armies to be controlled by the re t genius of Robert E. bee; and it was not until the North finally o perceived and established a similar confidence in the genius of cneral Grant that the war could be concluded. In the great conflict which ended three years ago, the same truth v. manifested. It was won onlv by unified effort under a great leader. He was among us only a few days ago—seventy years old D ' . >malh gray, looking like an elder in a country church in New Engl 1. But he had a genius for military strategy, a genius for dir men in huge masses, a genius for waiting without fear until the moment arrived when he could strike with the O greatest p fore . And because he v. s trusted b the trained and bl include that long agony hea $ and memoii ; of all of not only possessed this genius, but skillful leaders under him, he was and establish himself forever in the us—Ferdinand Koch, M a r s h a l of Fran< . \ military men re )gni/.e in war the necessity for leaders nd f r intelli nt men who can follow, and as surelv as there is a nn in h< n, the same thing is true in time of peace. By j (ting rid kings v have not gotten rid of the necessity of leaders; just the revei tin I Unl<- 8 our aemocracy i tn develop great leaders it is go down. Ii) a kingdom, in an empire, there is a tradition ,( i -n tnd confidence in the head ol the country which tends i. k* p men in line. In a democracy, this tradition bein set aside, mly ti .b • i ility ol leadership will suffice, And wh. will bring us, here in America, this leadership, ehan in ut enduril from generation to j nei .ition ? 13 I'du ition, train
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