Arizona republican., 1921-11-12

here to testify undying gratitude and reverence for that thought of a wider freedom.
 On such an occasion as this, amid such a scene, our thoughts alternat- ed between defenders living and de- lenders dead A grateful republic will the worthy of them both. Our part is to atone for the losses of heroic dead by making better republic for the living.
 Sleeping in these hallowed grounds are thousands of Americans who have given their blood for the baptism of freedom and Its maintenance, armed opponents of the nations con- science. It is better and nobler for their deeds. Burial here is rather more than sign of the governments favor; it is suggestion of a tomp in the heart of the nation sorrowins for its noble dead.
 Unknown But Not unhonored
 Todas's ceremonies proclaim that the nero unknown is not unhonored. We gather him to the nations breast. within the shadow of the capitol, of the towering shaft that honors Washington, the great father, and of the exquisite monument to Lincoln. the martyred savior. Here the in spirations of yesterday and the con- science of today forever unite to make the republic worthy of his death for flag and country.
 Ours are lofty resolutions today, as with tribute to the dead we conse- crate ourselves to a better order for the living. With all my heart I wish we might say to the defenders who survive, to mothers who sorrow, to widows and children who mourn. that no such sacrifice shall be asked again.
 It was my fortune recently to see demonstration of modern warfare. It is no longer a conflict in chivalry, no more test of militant manhood. It is only cruel, deliberate, scientific, destruction. There was no contend ing enemy, only the theoretic defense of hypothetic objective. But the attack was made with all the relent- i less methods of modern destruction There was the rain of ruin from the aircraft, the thunder of artillery fol- | lowed by the unspeakable devastation | wrought by bursting shells; there were mortars belching their bombs of | desolation; machine guns concentrat- ing their leaden storms: there was l the infantry advancing, firing and falling-like men with souls sacri- | ICinE TOT the decision.
 The flying missiles were revealed | by Illuminating tracers so that we could note their flight and appraisc their dead lines. The air wa, streaked with tiny flames marking l the flight of massed destruction; while the effectiveness of the the | oretical defense was impressed by ths 1 stimulation of dead and wounded among those going forward, un- l daunted and unheeding. As thi. panorama of unutterable destruction visualized the horrors of moderI conflict, there grew on me the sense of the failure of a civilization whicf can leave it's problems to such crue arbitrament. Surely no one in au-
 thority with human attributes ant full appraisal d the patriotic loyalt, of his countrymen could ask the man
 hood of kingdom, empire or republi
 to make such sacrifice until all req son had failed, until appeal to justic
 through understanding had been de
 nied, until every effort of love an,
 consideration for fellow men hal
 been exhausted, until freedom itsei
 and inviolate honor had been brutal,
 threatened
 War Hater-But Net Pacifist I speak not as pacifist, fearini 1 wal R0N aS OhO NAO ApNNo JdoAASC Nh
 hates war. I speak as one who be
 lieves the highest function of govern
 ment is to give it's citizens the SC curity of peace, the opportunity t
 achieve and the pursuit of happiness:
 The loftiest tribute we can bestoN
 tCday-the heroically earned tribut
 fashioned in deliberate conviction
 out of unclouded thought, neithe
 shadowed by remorse nor made val : by fancies. is the commitment of thi
 republic to an advancement neve made before. If American achieve ] ment is a cherished pride at home if our unselfishness among nations , all we wish it to be and ours is