Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-03-26
Remembering tho Ex-scr,icc Man

s"QE ASSURED" President Harding said
- TO the disabled ex-service men when
he visited them at the Walter Reed Hospital
that the government will never be unmind
full OF your cohdlliou AND Of what YOU have
done" What national disgrace II is he
could not say truth(uliy that the government
had not been uumiudful OF them instead OF
confirming himself 10 promises for tho future.
What will be done rests With the new ad-
ministration. but those months between
sArmistice Day and the present form an
unerasable blot upoM this nations boasted
gratitude TO the "ex-service men for whom
the war will mover be over long as there
is breath in their mutlated bodies. The
sad truth is that the government has not
done what it should in caring for those men
1 who gave all but their lives and tho qucs-
: ton OF their future is one that mus, be
. answered largely hy Mr.. Harding
s The President has made no promise OF IA
& definite nature but The interest he has mani
: tested in the welfare OF the cx-service men
< gives ground for hope that he will be able 10
1 formulate n program acceptable To them and
\ to the country. In such an undertaking he
!. should have the nations united support
& How quickly the world forgets Having
y failed in doing our full duty to the diving
/; il is not strange that We are lacking in honor
& TO our dead. Thank Heaven the inCictmen
lis not general There are communities
i where the sacrifice of The sons OF America
Sis not forgotten. But. in support OF the in
idictment we cite recent writer in New
York newspaper who points his accusing
Il finger az that city which was ircnzied with
enthusiasm when the American boys nearly
12,000,o0o OF them. embarked from its port
SfCr the battle ground in France. Now these
4 boys. those Of thep'Mho givc their lives are
NJ hDC tnil oil. l.,
/ with their grim and sacred cargocs slip
squietly into their hcrths Already 1854
f flag draped caskets have been carried
s ashore. But does New York know ii. or,
} knowing, pay any attention to ito Not ii
Ethe writer referred 10 is trustworthy There
#is no pause o: moment in the mad swirl
fof pieasur" in honor OF these dead. who.
Swhen living, were so vociforOUsly acclaimed
SThere are no flowers for these caskcts con
Claiming bodies cXhumed from Among the pom
Apies Of Flanders, although few squares
faway New YORK society gathers nj its an
&nual flower show They are sighted and
funnoticed the While Sew YORK laughs and
.{applauds the Stacker hero in its fayoriic new
;splay, wh!cli casts AN American soldier in
ifthe villain 5 role One is almost tempted to
.task in view OF Sew Works disregard of the
ixTation's noble dead. Was il worth the sacrl-
flee they made?
II With New York 5 example before us. We
#here in Richmond, might with prom, 10 our
Hown seif-resp"ct. review III" period that has
ssinteryened since tho armistco. ana ask our
Hselves this question HAY. wc done ANA arc
live doing our duty no, 10 the dead Wherein
hive have no, failed toward our own cy-
fservice mon? Have sc been n. upriri,,y
land as enthusiastic in helping them 10 re-
fcover from the sacrticc NJ business or uro-
}tfession they made To protect us as we wcra