The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-23
GUERDONS OF
FRANCE COVER
GOLDEN STARS
William Dudley Foulke Makes
Stirring Address at Honor
Services in H. S. Auditor
ium-Memorials Given.
LIBERTY TO Be GUARDED

Gold star heroes of Wayne county
were honored at memorial services
featured by the presentation of memor-
1als from the French government,
under the auspices of the local Amer
ican legion, Sunday afternoon, in the
high school auditorium
William Dudley Foulke made the
address of the occasion. Dr. George
B. Hunt, head of the Richmond
legion, presided and made a short
talk. Will Keller read a poem
by Edwin Markham, and the names
of the dead were read by Paul Beckett.
while the audience stood DR. J. J.
Rae gave the opening benediction, and
the Rev. James Ryan, of St. Mary's
gave the closing one. Mrs Fred
Bartel sang.
In his address, Mr.. Foulke said the
hest tribute to the memory of the men
who had died, was to preserve the
things they brought TO us. Liberty,
both for ourselves and for the world
and closer union with our allies, he
said. he believed the most important
results of their sacrifice. which we
should guard the more closely.
Crazy but Harmless.
He said that America in the last few
months in her anxiety to keep the
form of liberty had seemed to forget
the spirit of it.
Radicals and Bolshevists, although
Bolshevism is an insane thing" said
Mr.. FOulke, when they don't advocate
armed violence and overthrow of the
government by force, have a perfect
night under the constitution to say
what they please, and this right has
been abrogated.
He doubted, he said, whether the
violent measures of search and de-
portation had done any good in the
fight against radicalism and denounced
the attempt to unseat five New York
assemblymen because they were
Socialists.
Founded on Martyrs.
Powder is only dangerous when it
is confined, and the church was
founded on the blood of the martyrs"
said Mr.. Foulke. "By imprisoning
these men we are making martyrs of
them. We can not help them more.
Let them blow off. so long as they
advocate no armed violence. BY do
ing this we shall best be obeying and
preserving the precepts of our con-
stitution"
Mr.. Foulke made a strong plea for
The League of Nations.
THE league which was brought from
Paris had many serious defects. but it
was better than no league at all he
said. I'VE are bound to have a League
of Nations. We ourselves know the
benefits of union. At the time of the
foundation of the United States there
were many prophecies of disaster, but
we laugh at them now, and some day
those who prophesv disaster to come
from a League of Nations will be
laughed at.
Lets trust our allies. They were
good enough to be our comrades dur
ing the war, they are good enough to
be our comrades now"
Mr.. Foulke recalled much Of the war
history, and the way Americas armies
had turned the balance. He said thai
the war was a great one not from mas
ses of men engaged, but from the pres
ence of two opposing ideas, Autocracy
and Liberty, and that the latter had
, scored an entire victory.
DR.. Hunt pledged the American
Legion to preservation Of the memor-
les of the great war.
Upon his arrival in Paris" he said
General Pershing visited the grave of
the French General of 1875, and, echo
/ ing the lasting gratitude Of the Ameri-
can people, as a pledge for the future.
, said Lafayette, 1--WE are here" So
| today in voicing to you the sympathy
| and coincidence of every member of
the American legion, this organization
whose greatness of purpose is as truly
great as it's membership, l would say
/ to you: Fathers, Mothers, we are
here We are here as we'll as for all
time,. the memories and incidents Of
our associations in the great war. We
are here to commemorate, forever, the
/ deeds of the dead as well as the living
| and most of all, to see to it that what
your dear ones fought and ied for,
whose sacrifices secured thu ,1victory,
shall always be preserved, protected
! and cherished"
| A concert by the Garfield orchestra
was given before the services.
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