Arizona republican., 1919-05-31
Memorial Day

Continued from Page Threel that took this country day before yes .erday as desert and made it blossom Rs rose gave us the Buckley O'Neil of yesterday and the Frank Luke of today.
 The conduct of a modern war is so much like the life of an entire nation that it is hard to find place that has not it's heroes. The army at the front is only the advance guard. and the fail ure Of the farmer or the miner or the factory workman may be as disastrous as the temporary defeat of a portion of the army.
 They also serve who only stand and wait" and the thoughts of the wives, mothers. sisters and sweethearts at home was a great factor in this great conflict, while those at home waited only in spirit, as their active thoughts and busy hands were always engaged in backing up their men with every thing that goes fartherest to build up the morale of a soldier.
 Give him such spirit and such a mo- rale, and in the aggregate he may be temporarily short of ammunition, his meals may get to him irregularly and cold and he may be fighting knee deep in mud, but there is no nearly equal human force that can stop him on the march to his goal
 The newspapers and magazines have told you of the failure of this project or the apparent stupidity of that oper- atou, and the men now returning home have criticisms to utter of local phases or local leaders. But has there ever been a great enterprise in the history of the world that had not it's critics |? And then consider well that in a year and a half this country Of ours, with an army of well under 100000 and a body Of citizens untralned in all the arts of war put into Europe, armed equipped and with a three months supply of food always behind them nearly 2,000,000 men with an organiza- ton that built and operated railroads docks, barracks, warehouses and hos piUlls, besides putting into the actually lighting line nearly a million mer with force that from June to Novem Der not only checked an advancing en- emy of greater strength, but pushed him backwards through one hitherto impregnable position after another un. Ill he signed an armistice in terms oi almost complete surrender to save al utter rout
 The undertaking was a stupendou! one, and it appears to me that there i. no small place for the condemnation of the service of supply for temper arv shortage at one place or another the ordinance department for the lacl of a certain arm at a certain time, tn, air service for failure to develop plane as fast as it trained aviators or tn Y. M. c. A, for the shortcomings of few of its secretaries. Consructiv criticism is another thing, and not al of us were in a position to offer such It is human nature to forget the man, things that were well done when on more recent error is made. And ther is a lot of human nature in an arm. the size that we had.
 The past two years have been a per iod of education for the young men o this country to the number of millions and there are few of you who have no noticed that those who have returne, to the community from the traininj camps Of this country and the expedi uonary forces in France appear to hav been broadened out and made into diff Ierent men. And these are the mel who are going to be the main force O this country in the years to come. The ~e'A4NAA AAANN fAAA NlllGl 6tnNy lud gave them small time to prepare fo battle from all tn paths enc Y.Myy battle from all the paths of peace. an the experiences they have gained wi help them in the problems of recon struction that is necessary to brin America. and the world back again t a peace footing
 The problems of today are as gray as those when everyone was preparin for war and the bolshevism that wa The downfall of Russia has gained to much of Q foothold in the Unite States.
 America must be for Americans. an the graves that we reverence today i France must not have been made vain sacrifice. We believe that the iu stitutions and ideals of free Americ will be safe as long as the hearts bes and there is strength in the limbs , those who have worn the khaki an carried tho Stars and Stripes in tf greatest war the world has ever seen
 A beautiful tribute to the dead wi siven by the Woman's Relief cor and the Woman's auxiliary.
 lnterspersed throughout the progra were excellent selections by the Indis school band, which played '@The Bait Cry of Freedom" "Over There" al
 other appropriate selections. and il meeting was concluded by the si ngii by the entire standing assembly of t