164 Presidential Addresses 



for our people that we should have those qualities 

 in evidence before us in the life-work of a big group 

 of our citizens. 



In American citizenship, we can succeed perma 

 nently only upon the basis of standing shoulder to 

 shoulder, working in association, by organization, 

 each working for all, and yet remembering that we 

 need each so to shape things that each man can 

 develop to best advantage all the forces and powers 

 at his command. In your organization you accom 

 plish much by means of the Brotherhood, but you 

 accomplish it because of the men who go to make 

 up that brotherhood. 



If you had exactly the organization, exactly the 

 laws, exactly the system, and yet were yourselves 

 a poor set of men, the system would not save you. 

 I will guarantee that, from time to time, you have 

 men go in to try to serve for the nine months who 

 prove that they do not have the stuff in them out 

 of which you can make good men. You have to 

 have the stuff in you, and, if you have the stuff, 

 you can make out of it a much finer man by means 

 of the association but you must have the material 

 out of which to make it. So it is in citizenship. 



And now let me say a word, speaking not merely 

 especially to the Brotherhood, but to all our citizens. 

 Governor McMillan, Mr. Mayor : I fail to see how 

 any American can come to Chattanooga and go over 

 the great battle-fields in the neighborhood the bat 

 tle-fields here in this State and just across the border 

 in my mother's State of Georgia how any Ameri- 



