The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-01
GREATER DAYS BEFORE US,' SAYS PRESIDENT WILSON IN
 NOTABLE HOLIDAY ADDRESS

| Washington, June 1-Eulogies of Americas soldier and sailor dead were voiced here yesterday by Presi- dent Wilson, Secretary Bryan, Sec retary Daniels, and Governor Willis of Ohio, at impressive Memorial Day exercises at Arlington National Gem etery Large crowds seized upon every opportunity to show that the present International situation was | uppermost in their minds
 President Wilson was cheered on his arrival and departure and dur ing his address. He carefully avoid now facing the. United States. He | was enthusiastically applauded when ! he declared that greater days lie be- l fore this nation than it has ever yet seen, and the. solemn. consciousness l of those who bear office in this time ] is that they must make their best l endeavor to 'embody in what they do and say the best things in the United l States"
 He also said: ..Those who stand l at the head Of affairs have it as their bounden duty to endeaVor to express in their own actions those things that seem to run out of the conscience of the great body of the people them selves
 Governor Willis evoked applause when he said: The President of the United States is making a successful effort to keep us out of the brojls of Europe and added. Now is the time to keep cool, think carefully, and stand by the President. He and his Cabinet know vastly more of our deli- cate relations with European belliger- ents than the rest of us can possibly 1 know Let us hold up his hands in the patriotic effort he is making in l this crisis"
 The President sat in the midst of veterans of two wars during the ex- lercises, and uttered an audible Amen at the conclusion of an in vocation by Bishop Earl Cranston of 1 Washington, who prayed that the United States might be led alright in the present crisis
 The Presidents Speech.
 The President spoke as follows:
 s'I have not come here to-day to de- liver an address, but merely reverently to take part in expressing the sentf- ment of the impressive day It is necessarily a day of "reminiscences. lRerniniscence is not always a profit labIe 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. r,s e 4
 '.It does not behoove a nation to walk with its 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 wholesomeJ and among those "reminiscences are chiefly to be ranked the recol1ections of days of heroism, days when great nations found 1t possible to express the best that was in them by the ar dent exercises of every power that was in them.
 s"That is what gives. dignity to a
 day like this. It is not a day of re- gret; it is not a day of weakening
 memory It is a. day of stimulation,
 but, my friends, the stimulating mem Tories are sometimes apt to minimize,
 because we do not see the full signif1-
 canoe of them. We are constantly speaking of the great war of which we think to-day as a war which saved , the Union, and it did, indeed, save the Union, but 1t was a war that did
 a great deal more than that. It creat-
 ed in this country what never. had existed before, a national conscious ness. It was not the salvation of } the Union, it was the time, when America for the first time realized it's unity and saw the vision of it's united destiny.
 sHThe solemn lesson of these mem
 ories for us is not that we must be ready to save the Union again, for
 there are none among us who threat
 en it's life, but that we must see to it
 that the unity then realized, the vis-
 ion then seen, is exemplif1ed in us
 and the things that we do. Because
 there is no stimulation in any lesson A unless it be the stimulation to duty. There is no stimulation in any occa-
 sion if 1t be merely the pleasure of
 recollection, it must also be the ardor
 and courage of hope.
 Greater days lie before this nation
 than 1t has -ever seen yet and the
 solemn consciousness of those who
 bear office in this time is that they
 must make their best endeavor to
 enbody in what they do and say the : best things in the United States. eIt does not do to talk too much
 about one's self, and I do not think that 1t is wholesome for the United ] States to talk too much about itself. 2 I do not want to know what you are l today so much as want to know Fl what you are going to do tomorrow. The only test know of that is conn potent to determine what you are Is
 the test of what you may do. = Let us not think of our characters; let us think of our duties and of the ao- : tions that lie before us. I have al-
 ways maintained that the man who | lives to cultivate his own character
 will result only in cuItivating an in-
 tolerabIe pride, because his object will be himself.
 Character, my friends, is a by
 product. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. But duty