New-York tribune., 1920-10-05
HardingUnveils
Memorial to
Ohio War Dead
Tribute to American Sol
diery Is Voiced in Park
. Given State in Memory
of Ex-President HAYES
Reviews Veterans Parade
Share of Youth i'm Winning
Nations Battles Is Em.
phasized by the Nominee
FrOm a star Correspondent

FREMONT, Ohio, Oct 4.-Senator
warren G. Harding paid glowing
tribute to-day to the men of the Amer
lean Expeditionary Forces at the un-
yelling of tablet in memory of the
seventy Sandusky County men who
gave their lives in the World War.
The Republican candidate spoke in
Spiegel Park, once the nome of Presi-
dent Rutherford B. Hayes, and recent
ly decided by his son. Colonel Webb
HAYES. to the State of Ohio, to be
maintained as a patriotic shrine The
tablet is to be affixed to the facade of
the Hayes Memorial Library, q struc-
ture that houses relics Of the life of
the President. Senator and Mrs.
Harding drove here from Marion in
an automobile, returning late this
afternoon
q voice to-day tribute to the
steadfastness. the resolution, the un-
daunted courage, the irresistible de-
termination. OF the soldiers in the
American Expedtionary Forces" said
Senator Harding. He spoke from a
hag-draped platform erected on the
lawn OF the old Hayes homestead. On
all sides OF him about 5000 people
were pressed in among tall oaks and
hckories. each of which is named for
some one of the many DISTINGUISHED
Americans who have visited the HAYES
place.
Reviews Parade of Survivors
Before he spoke Senator Harding re-
viewed a parade of the survivors of
those men of Sandusky County who
went into the World War and of vet
erans Of the Civil and Spanish -Ameri-
can wars. This procession marched
through an aisle of newly planted buck
eye trees, each of which bears plate
giving the name of one of the seventy
men or the county who died in service.
Senator and Mrs. Harding reviewed
the parade from the bed Of dirt
wagon Then the bronze memorial
tablet was unveiled at the library. in
another part Of the grounds. and after
that the candidate walked down an
aisle formed by the men in uniform to
the speaking stand.
IN ms speech Senator Harding said:
Youth holds the safety of the Re-
public its especial obligation. 1t is no
figure OF speech, signifying comrade-
snip, to refer to the boys of our
armies. The soldiers of the Revolution.
OF the Mexican War of the war for
~" tVl4 Ol tHS spanish american
War and of the great World War were
mems of the flower of American vonno
manhood Regal in their confidence
robust IN their strength and regnant
IN their hopes, American youths have
more than responded to the nations
reeds American youths have rushed to
NE country's salvation.
Revolution Won by Youth
When the Baroness Redesel wrote
OF the surrender of the British under
Furgoyne at Saratoga, to which she was
witness, she remarked the handsome
lads OF the age Of about seventeen. and
we know for ourselves that but for
tnese lads the war of the American
revolution could not have been won.
he same type of striplings wrought
'he American victory under Croghan,
and carried the flag in triumph to the
City OF Mexico and unfurled it from
them go forth for the war to liberate
Cuba, and know the story of youths
defense OF union and nationality in
me CIVIL War. There were nearly
100000 boys in the Northern armies
alone, boys of the age of Mckinley and
Foraker. A half million youths fought
Tor the Confederate cause, from Bull
NUN 20 AppCmdtOX. AT Getty burg,
where the high tide of the Rebellion
ebbed from its crimson flood, the aver
age age Of the veteran armies of that
famed battle was but twenty years
Mckinley enlisted at seventeen, Fora
ker was a captain before he was twenty
one and Miles commanded the Second
Army Corps before he was twenty-six
Line Never Moved Rearward
Retreats are honorable, often neces-
sary, but the youth from America could
not understand it, or they could not
harmonize it with their purpose 1t is
said our missing dead in the World
war is relatively the smallest in the
records of warfare. The explanation
is that no American battle line moved
rearward over our glorious dead
"A Republic worth fighting for in
Europe is even more worth living for
at nome. The men who battled for
American rights, American security
and American honor must hold an
america whose rights are beyond ques-
uon, whose security means guaran-
teed righteousness, whose honor is un-
questioned az home or abroad If we
are sure about these, then the honored
dead Of Sandusky County, of Ohio and
the nation shall not have died in vain.
Let US do even more than is sym
bollzed IN memorial tablets, in memor-
lal parkway, in memorial trees and
monuments all beautiful, all becoming,
al giving outward expression to the