Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-01
Americas Heroic
 Dead Eu|ogizGd
IMPRESSIVE EXERCISES AT ARL. INGToN NATIONAL CEMETERY.
TRIBUTE BY PRESIDENT
Uttered an Audible "Amen!" at the Conclusion of a Prayer That the United States May be Led Alright in the Present Crisis.

Washington, May 31. - Eulogies of Americas soldier and sailor dead were voiced here today by President Will son, Secretary Bryan, Secretary Dan iels and Governor Willis of Ohio at impressive Memorial day exercises at Arlington National cemetery. Large crowds seized upon every opportunity to show that the present international situation was uppermost in their minds. President Wilson, cheered on his arrival and departure, and during his address, carefully avoided any di- rect reference to problems now facing the United States.
 President Enthusiastically AppIauded.
 He was enthusiastically applauded when he declared that greater days lie before this nation that it has ever yet seen, and the solemn consciousness of those who bear office in this time is that they must make their best en- deavor to embody in what they do and say the best things in the United States"
 Governor Willis evoked applause when he said:
 Introduced by Governor Willis.
 ''The president of the United States is making successful effort to keep us out of the broils of Europe" and add ed: Now is the time to keep cool, thinking careful, and stand by the president. He and his cabinet know vastly more of our delicate relations with European belligerents than the rest of can possibly know. let us hold up his hands in the patriotic effort he is making in this crisis"
 Sat in Midst of Veterans.
 The president sat in the midst of veterans of two wars during the ex- ercises and uttered an audible Amen at the conclusion of an invocation by Bishop Earl Cranston of Washington, who prayed that the United States might be led alright in the present crisis.
 In opening, the president said:
 "Reminiscences Not Profitable.
 q have not come here today to de- liver an address, but merely reverently to take part in expressing the senti- ment of this impressive day. It is necessarily a day of reminiScence. Reminiscence is not always profitable exercise. It generally belongs to those appropriately to those only, who have left the active stage of life and have nothing to think about except the things that are gone and dead. It does not behOoVe nation to walk with it's eyes over it's shoulder. Its business is constantly in the years that lie ahead of it and in the present that challenges it to the display of it's power. But there are "reminiscences which are stimulating and wholesome and among those "reminiscences are chiefly to be ranked the recollections of days of heroism, days when great nations found it possible to express the best that was in them by the ar dent exercise of every power that was in them.
 Stimulating Memories.
 That is what gives dignity to a day like this. It is not a day of regret; it is not day of weakening memory. It is a day of stimulation. But, my friends, these stimulating memories are sometimes apt to minimize because we do not see the full significance of them. We are constantly speaking of the great war of which We think today as a war which saved the union, and it did indeed save the union, but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what never had existed before-a na- salvation of the union; it was the re- birth of the union. It was the time when America for the first time real ized it's unity and saw the vision of Its united destiny.''
 President Wilson concluded his ad- dress as follows:
 Keep Nation Noble.
 America, as I have said, was re- born by the struggle of the Civil war but America is reborn every day of her life by the purposes we form, the conceptions we entertain, the hope that we cherish. We live in our visions. We live in the things that we see We live, and hope abounds in us as we live in the things that We purpose Let us go away from this place re- newed in our devotion to daily to duty and to those ideals which keep a ma tion young, keep it noble, keep it rich in enterprise and achievement, make it to lead the nations of the world in those things that make for home and for the benefit of mankind"
 At the conclusion of the exercises in the amphitheatre at the cemetery, President Wilson was escorted by a regiment of marines to the Maine Me moria1 monument, which was unveiled and dedicated in honor of the 264 men who lost their lives when the battle ship was sunk IT years ago in Havana harbor. The monument is the main mast and fighting top of the Maine, set in granite and marble base chiseled In the form of a gun turret
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