Senator Root says this one triumph alone saves twenty million dollars a year to the business interests of the United States! I call that true patriotism.

Ernest

[with a nod of assent to Lucy]

Lemon.

Theodore

[with sincerity]

General Wood says it saves more human lives a year than were lost in the whole Spanish War! I call it service.

Judge

Colonel Goethals says the Panama Canal could not have been built if it hadn't been for you self-sacrificing scientists. Not only that, but you have abolished forever from the United States a scourge which for more than a century had through periodic outbreaks spread terror, devastation, and death.

[A pause.