As a Cum piece of American oratory, instinct with true
patriotism, se commend to our readers Mr. James M. Beck's address to the Patriotic Service League in New York, which is published under the title Warns the Committees (Patriotic Service League, 509 Fifth Avenue, New York). Mr. Beck told his audience how the educated youth of America had volunteered almost to a man for the war, and how the old Liberty Bell in independence Hall-at Philadelphia, silent. since John Marshall was buried, had been rung after seventy. five years to celebrate the now war for freedom. He recalled the work of the local Committees of Correspondence which organized the American Revolution, and how Jefferson in delirium on his loath-bat fancied that the old days had come back and cried:
Warn the Committees." In this crisis, said Mr. Beek, every American citizen must be convinced by local effort of the same kind that "this is the most vital contest that America was ever engaged M."
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