The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-11-17

alton; machine guns concentrating
their leaden storms; there waS the in
fantry, advancing, firing, and falling
like men with souls sacrificing for
the decision. The flying missiles were
revealed by Illuminating tracers, so
that we could note their fight and ap-
praise their deadliness. The air was
streaked with tiny flames marking
the flight Of nassed destruction;
while the effectiveness of the theOre-
tical defense was impressed by the sim
ulation OF dead and wounded among
those going forward, undaanted cT1d
unheeding. AS this pono;'arz1s: Of I'M
utterable destruction visualized the
horrors Of modern conflict, there grew
on me the sense of the failure Of
civilization which can leave problems
to such cruel arbitrament.. Surely no
utes and full appraisal Of the pa
triotic loyalty. of his coun3rynaen,
could ask the manhood Of kingdom.
empire, or republic to make such sac
rifce until all reas son had failed, I'M
til appeal to justice through under
standing had been denied, until every
fellow men had been exhausted, until
freedom itself and inviolate honor had
brutally threatened. 49,.
speak not as a pacifst fearing
war, but as one who loves justice and
hates war. I speak as one who be-
lieevs the highest function Of govern
nent is to give jts citizens the secur-
ity of peace, the opportunity to
achieve, and the pursuit Of happi-
ness.
The loftiest tribute we can bestow
today-the heroically earned tribute
fashioned in deliberate conviction, out
of unclouded thought, neither shadow
ed by remorse nor made vain by fan
cies, is the commitment of this Re
public to an advancement never made
before. If American achievement is
cherished pride at home, if our unset J.
fishness amcng nations is all we wish
it to be, and ours is q helpful exam
nj e'n the world. then let US give o.
our influence and strength, yea, of ou7'
aspirations and convictions, to put
mankind on little higher plane, ex-
ulting and eXalting, with war's dis
tressing fnd depressing tragedies bar
red from the stage of righteous civil
zatiOn.
There have been a thousand dc
fenses justly and patriotically made,
a thousand offenses which reason an
righteousness ought to have stage,
Let US beseech all men tn join us in
and righteousness shall prevail.
Standing today on hallowed groun@
conscious that all America has haltc'
to share in the tribute of heart al
mind and soul to this fellow Amer
can, and knowing that the world =
pothin gthis expression of the repUH-
lic's nnindfulness, it is fitting to &C.
that this sacrifice. and that of IT,
millions dead. shall not be in I'VE -,
There must be-. there shall be, f.
cnTnrq2nding voice of ? conscious civ
lization against armed warfare.
AS we return this moor CLAW -
its mother soil. garlanded by love c~1
covered with the deco ot;cns that c.
nations can bestow, / can sense -
PRAYERS of our people, of all people,
+h"t this ATTnistice adv shall m~77-
the be~;nn:!1@ of new and last
era of peace on earth. good wiz
among Non. Let mo Join. in r
PRAYER Our Father who ar in h~~-,-
on. hal1owed he Thv name. Thy ki~~-
dono come, Thv will ho done on ee7"h.
p it is in heaven. Give - this T-v
-o'7r daily, bread. 9nd forgive us r--~
tresues sses .ae we forgive those ~-'.o
treSpass 1~ainst us. And lead ur ~
into Temptation, but deliver us f~--o
evil, for Thine is the kingdom. ~,>I
tie mower and the glory, forevor.
Amen.
For SaIe-Jersev Wakefield ~o',-