Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-11-18
Armistice Day Speaker
Gives Need of Praise
While DeplOring
War
BUT WE DO NOT
WANT ANOTHER
WAR, HE SAID
Ministers and Singers Contrib
ute to Success of Patriotic
Community Gather
ing

Ladysmith and her guests paid
solemn tribute of respect and rever-
ence for the soldiers. living and dead,
who sacrificed and fought for our
country in the great World war, in
community gathering at the First
Methodist church of Ladysmith on Ar
mistice Day
BY II O'Clock the big auditorium was
filed with people of many denomina-
tions who gathered to listen to patriot
ic and memorial services and to pray
for the success of he international
conference which on that day convened
in Washington to consider ways to do
away with war. Rev. c. W. Emery,
pastor of the church. made the an
nOuncements Rev. Fred Sawyer, IF
the Christian church, led in prayer, and
IA choir of excellent voices sang sew
eral beautiful and inspiring selections
Rev. John Ritland, of the Scandinay-
ian Lutheran church, and Rev. Fred
Dahlberg offered fervent prayers.
Rev. Grant V. Clark, of the COngre-
gatiOanl church, made the principal
address of the meeting In his tribute
said in part
Experience UnfOrgettable
This morning as we assemble our
thoughts naturally travel back three
years. We recall the mingled emotions
that swelled up in the breasts of all
true Americans on that eventful morn
ing This generation had never before
passed through an experience so I'M
fOrgettable
There were the emotions Of joy and
gladness, enriched by gratitude; the
feeling of pride in the nobel part played
by the American soldier. General Per
shing in giving his report afterwards
said In the American troops Marshal
FOch found that great reserve, almost
without limit. necessary.
Frank H. SimOndS, writing about
the ArgOnne campaign said, Other
generations will visit our battlefields
and wonder how men could have made
their way through country SO diff
Back in 1916. when the Germans
were throwing division after division
of their best troops against the French
at Verdun the slogan, forever memor-
able. was sent forth They shall not
pass.
I'm 1913. late in September, the Am
erican army occupied the same posi-
ton. and the slogan was: We shall
pass. And in six short weeks, through
the greatest difficulties and against
terrific fire of the enemy, they made
their way from Verdun to Sedan, wear
ing TO a frazzle forty division Of Ger
crack troops, and clearing the
country from the Afgonne Forest to the
Meuse river.
"On the first day Of November the
great trunk line from Maubeuge 20
Metz was cut. leaving only the routes
through Belgium for the retreat OF me
German army.
ROut Near
1T is the universal opinion of mill
tary critics that had the war cOntin-
ned another week after the date Of
the armistice that the German army
would have suffered the greatest mill
tary rout in all history.
But this great drive br0ugh about
that memorable meeting of representa-
tives of the German and Allied armies
at the little village Of Senlis, where
the terms of the Armistice were signed.
"In few short weeks a section of the
American army together with the al
lied armies were on their way to the
Rhine region. and German soil which
had not been trodden by an invading
army for more than a hundred years,
yibrated with the footsteps of the a.
lied battaliOns.
If ever troops won glory in war it
was the American troops; il ever
great nation was knit together and ln-
spired by spirit of altruism it was
the American people.
The part which will ultimately be
assigned by the historians Of the FIJI
ture that was played by the American
army will be an important one. Their
glory is secure for all time; the cOur-
age and outstanding qualities Of the
American people as represented by the
young men who went into the service
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