From the day the President appeared before Congress and made that wonderful address of his one of the foremost state papers in the affairs of the United States since the formation of the government from that moment all doubt, all hesitation, all unwillingness was banished from the minds of all the people, and he is now chosen leader for this great contest. Former Judge Strong asserted that the war had developed "a new feeling, a new attitude, a new recognition of the common man."
"In the trenches in Europe," he said, "be tights side by side with his titled companion. In the munitions shops of Europe he is working side by side with the man who in peace had been his lord's son."

News reports to the members at a luncheon held after a business meeting. Frank IV Noyes, president of the Associated Press, said:
"In the past it has been necessary on like occasions for me to explain the constraint the Associated Press was under to observe the strict neutrality on all commercial points due to the varied and manifold opinions of its membership.
"Today, thank God, this is not only not necessary, but the contrary is true, for no trace of neutrality is coursing in our veins—but red blood and red blood alone." 