400 State Papers and Addresses

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ment. It has endeavored to make old-age secure against want. It has sought
parity for the farmer.. It has curtailed monoplies whose activities were di-
rected toward mulcting the people, by a control of essential commodities.

This record has been unrolled before our eyes in recent years. And it has
. been accomplished without hurt to any legitimate business. The great majority
have benefited. -The greatest good for the largest number has been ac-
complished, and that is the test of our brand and quality of government.

It is our duty, as citizens, to make certain that our Nation always remains
one in which life is worthwhile for all our people. I believe we have done and
are doing just that. Consequently, I am certain that the morale of America
—one of the two vital elements in our defense—is good—that it will stand any
strain that this emergency may place en it.

Now that our President has spoken, proclaiming an Unlimited National
Emergency, our duty is plain. There is no time now for quibbling, no place
for those who would impede our efforts for all "all-out" national preparedness.

National Unity must be the watchword of the day. All of us must realize
that the security of America is at stake—that not only our rights and privileges
as freemen are threatened, but our homes, our very lives as well.

Our Commander-in-chief has outlined the Nation's policy, has told us the
steps that are being taken, that will be taken, to insure the safety of our land.
Every American will rally to his support, will follow where he leads. Every
American will be prepared to do, to sacrifice, whatever may be required, to
the end that this stronghold of the world's democracy may be preserved, and
that man's dignity as an individual, with his God-given rights, may be main-
tained at least here in America, to serve as a beacon of hope to mankind in
temporarily less-fortunate lands.

Just so long as the people of America, from the humblest to those in high
position, continue to give evidence that they consider Americanism a living
thing, rather than a bloodless ideal; just so long-will there continue to flourish
that spirit which has made America what it is today and which, as long as it
survives, will beep the privileges and the liberties of America intact for all who
come after us.

I offer my heartfelt felicitations to those who originated the idea of B. & O.
Employees' Cumberland Day; to all who have participated in the arrangements
for it, and to all those who by their presence today exemplified their approval
of the relationship existing between the employees, the railroad and the City
of Cumberland.

Here is Americanism in its truest form. May we ever guard our devotion
to the ideals that make such gatherings as these possible. May history never
say of this generation that we failed to guard the most priceless possession
that any nation ever had—our American Liberty!