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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1918, Page 1

“Tho greatest tiling,” saiil INTr Louis Hoetl, ail American, speaking at the Sydney Club luncheon in honour of America’s independence Day, “that tliis war is doing, besides wiping the dirty smear of Prussianisiu from the world, is in forcing nations and individuals to got acquainted with one another—to see. the decent, heroic, manly side of one another, and not the sham side, ft is forcing men into a bigger, larger, more splendid consciousness of the. unity of life; it is showing them that the Anglo-Saxon people have to pull together to make a success of their enterprise, of their country, and of their lives. (Applause).) If the AngloSaxon people cannot hold together now and after this war there is no hope for them, and they deserve to be crushed. (Applause). This war is forcing men to think, not so much about business. as about their obligations to their neighbours, to their city, to their State, and to the world. That is what the war is doing. We cannot live unto ourselves alone. People are realising their dependence upon one another. That is the stage where the progressive peoples of the world stand to-day. We must have a. new consciousness of business. Business is service, and service is the most wonderful word in the Eng lisli language.” (Loud applause.)