g all the while,
Over twenty hundred mile,
And we're staying to the finish, to the last.

We are many--we are one--and we're in it overhead,
We are coming as an Army that has seen its women dead,
And the old Rebel Yell
Will be loud above the shell
When we cross the top together, seeing red.

KLAXTON.

PERSHING AT THE TOMB OF LAFAYETTE

They knew they were fighting our war.
As the months grew to years
Their men and their women had watched
through their blood and their tears
For a sign that we knew, we who could not
have come to be free
Without France, long ago. And at last
from the threatening sea
The stars of our strength on the eyes
of their weariness rose;
And he stood among them,
the sorrow strong hero we chose
To carry our flag to the tomb
of that Frenchman whose name
A man of our country could once more
pronounce without shame.
What crown of rich words would he set
for all time on this day?
The past and the future were listening
what he would say--
Only this, from the white-flaming heart
of a passion austere,
Only this--ah, but France understood!
"Lafayette, we are here."

AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR.

[Illustration: "Lafayette, We Are Here!" The immortal tribute of
General John J. Pershing at the grave of the great Frenchman. Notice
the difference between the American and French salutes.]

AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR

SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE, BRITISH PREMIER,

APRIL 12, 1917

I am in the happy position of being, I think, the first British
Minister of the Crown who, speaking on behalf of the people of this
country, can salute the American Nation as comrades in arms. I am
glad; I am proud. I am glad not merely because of the stupendous
resources which this great nation will bring to the succor of the
alliance, but I rejoice as a democrat that the advent of the United
States into this war gives the final stamp and seal to the character of
the conflict as a struggle against military autocracy throughout the
world.

That was the note that ran through the great deliverance of President
Wilson. The United States of America have the noble tradition, never
broken, of having never engaged in war except for liberty. And this is
the greatest struggle for liberty that they have ever embarked upon. I
am not at all surprised, when one recalls the wars of the past, that
America took its time