None of us will live to see another time when so many big things are at stake nor another time when our country can play so large or important a part in saving the world.

Hold up your end.

I'm doing my best here.
I think of you engaged in the peaceful work of instructing the people, and I think of the garden and crocuses and the smell of early spring in the air and the earth and--push on; I'll be with you before we grow much older or get much grayer; and a great and prosperous and peaceful time will lie before us.

Pity me and hold up your end for real American participation.

Get together?
Yes; but the way to get together is to get in! Affectionately, W.H.P.
_To David F.Houston_[54] Embassy of the United States of America, April 1, 1917.
DEAR HOUSTON: The Administration can save itself from becoming a black blot on American history only by vigorous action--acts such as these: Putting our navy to work--vigorous work--wherever and however is wisest.