One cannot tell what service is more important.
When I landed at Newport News, the first sound that I heard was the
machine-gun hammering of thousands of riveters building ships. I know
how vital that service is to the boys "over there." They could not
live without the ships.
Then I came from Newport News to Washington, on my way home, and we
entered that great city by night. The Capitol dome was flooded with
light. As I looked at it I said to myself: "To-day from this city
emanates the light of the world. The eyes of the whole of humanity are
turned toward this city. That lighted dome is symbol of all this."
As I looked out of the train window as we entered Washington from
Richmond, Virginia, I thought: "Surely not the shipbuilding but the
ideals that go out from the Capitol are the most important 'Services of
Supplies.'"
The next morning I was in Pittsburgh. As my train pulled into that
great city, all along the Ohio River I saw great armies of laboring men
going and coming from work. As one tide of humanity flowed out of the
mills across the bridges, another flowed in, and I said: "Surely not
the shipbuilders, nor the ideal-makers at Washington, but this great
army of laboring men in America forms the most important part of 'The
Services of Supplies'!"
Then I came to New York.
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