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That is tlie sum and the substance of the soldier's hfe. Orders obeyed. The laws 

 enforced. Character deepened. All have their center in that single word, "Duty!" And, 

 my friends, what the Army has done for these lithe-limbed, clear-eyed, frank-speech boys, 

 these months of government of the Army, by the Army and for the Army again aided to 

 give government of the whole people, by the whole people, for the whole people to the whole 

 world. 



The Toastmaster : — It was quite patent to me when I met Judge Buffington last night 

 that he could do exactly what he has done, and I tender to him not only my personal thanks, 

 but the thanks of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. 



The next toast is one which we always receive with enthusiasm — "Our Navy" — and with 

 this toast I ask you now to couple the important corps forming a part of our Navy, the corps 

 that at Chateau-Thierry drove back the advancing Huns and became the saviours of Paris — 

 Our Marine Corps. Tennyson's lines paraphrased come to our minds : — 



When can their glory fade? 

 Oh, the wild charge they made ! 

 All the world wondered. 

 Honor the charge they made! 

 , Honor our Marine Brigade, 



Noble few hundred ! 



To these sentiments I ask the Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Josephus Daniels, to speak. 



