Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-01
Wilson Determined
to Impress Germany
With His PURPOSES
INTERNAL T|ONAL CRISIS
UPPERMOST IN THOUGHTS
Memorial Day Crowds at Arlington
Seize Every Opportunity to
Show Patriotism.
WILD ENTHUSIASM FOR WILSON
President Carefully Avoids Direct
Reference to- Problems Facing
United Statcs-Bryan, Daniels and
Governor Willis, Of Ohio, Speak.

United StatcS-Bryan, Daniels and
Governor Willis, of Ohio, Speak.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-EuloEies OF
Americas soldier and sailor. dead were
voiced here to-day by President Wilson.
Secretary Bryan, Secretary Daniels and
Governor Willis. of Ohio. at Memorial
Day exercises at Arlington National
Cemetery. Large crowds seized on
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 direct
reference TO problems facing the United
States He was enthusiastically ap-
plauded when he declared that
| greater days lie before this nation
than IT ever yet has seen. and the
bear office in this time is that they must
make their best endeavor to embody in
what they do any say the best things
in the United States"
Governor Willis evoked applause
when he said: The President of the
United states is making n successful
rope" and added Now is the time 10
keep cool, think carefully and stand
by the President. He and his Cabinet
know vastly more OF our delicate rela-
tions with European belliCerents than
the rest OF us can possibly know. Let
US hold up his hand in the patriotic
effort he is making in this crisis"
The President sat in the midst OF
| veterans OF two wars during the cx-
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 he led Alright in the present
crisis.
| CERTAIN "REMINISCENCES
STIMULATING AND WHOLESOME
II have not come here to-day to de-
liver an address. but merely revercntly
TO take part in expressing the senti-
ment of this impressive day." said the
President IN his address. 1T is neces-
sarily a day of "reminiscences Remin!s-
cence is not always profitable ex-
ercise. IT generally belongs to those
appropriately to those only. who have
left the active stage OF life and have
nothing 10 think about except the
things that are gone and dead. II
ii
its eyes over its shoulder. Its busi-
ness is constantly In the years that
lie ahead of it, and In the present what
challenges it to the display OF its
power. But there are "reminiscences
which are stimulating and wholesome
and among those "reminiscences are
chiefly 10 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 ardent
exercise OF every power that was in
them
That is what gives dignity to a day
like this. 1t is not a day of regret; 1t
is not a day Of weakening memory. It
Is day of stimulation. But. my
friends. these stimulating memories we
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 to-
day as war which saved the Union.
and IT did. indeed. save the Union, but
II was a war that did great deal
more than that. 1t created in this
country what had never existed before
a national consciousness IL was
the time when America for the first
time realized its unity, and saw the
| vision OF Its united destiny.
GREATER DAYS BEFORE NATION
THAN 1T HAS EVER SEEN
The solemn lesson of these mem
| cries for us is not that we must be
ready to save the Union again, for
there are none among us who threaten
its life, but that we must see to it that
the unity be realized. the vision then
| seen is eXemplified in us and the things
that we do. because there Is no stimu-
lation in any lesson unless it be the
stimulation to duty There is no slim
ulation in any occasion If it 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 even seen yet: and the solemn
consciousness of those who bear office
in this time is that they must make
their best endeavor to embody in what
they do and say the best things in
the United States.
1T does not do to talk too much
| about ones self. and l do not think
that it is wholesome for the United
States to talk too much about itself
l do not want to know what you are
to-day so much as 1 want to know
what you are going to do tomorrow
The only test ] know of that is com
Detent to determine what you are is
the test of what you do Let us not
think of our characters; let us think
of our duties. and of the actions that
lie before us. l have always main
| tanned that the man who lives to culti-
vate his own character will result only
in cultivating an intolerable prig; be-
cause his object will be himself.
Character. my friends, Is by-product.
Continued on Second Page.)
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