The Washington herald., 1921-07-05
URGES CUT
IN ARMAMEyTS AND
AIMS TO END WARS
Patriotic Pleas Made by
Speakers on Eve of
The Fourth.

Work for the reduction of arma-
ments among the leading nations
of the world. and the Immediate
entrance Of the United States into
an association Of nations"
"Curtail the attempted enact
msnt of un-American Legislation
in the legislative halls of the coun-
try"
Teach the foreigners coming 70
our shores to become true and loyal
Americans"
These we're among the pleas made
to the churchgoers of Washington
from pulpits in all sections Of the
city Sunday, on the eve Of the
celebration of the birth OF American
independence.
Prayers were offered in practi-
caIly every church for the retention
of the ideals and Institutions which
have made this country the leading
nation Of the world.
Urges Association Of Nations.
Special patriotic musical pro-
grams were presented in all of-the
city churches.
They that take up the sword
shall perish by the sword" was the
text of a sermon by the Rev. Henry
II. Ranck. pastor Of the Grace Re
formed Church, during which ne
urged all patriotic, Christian Amer
leans to work for an agreement
among the leading nations to reduce
armaments and form the association
has favored.
President Harding has the great
est opportunity to serve his fellow
men since Napoleon" said DR..
Ranck.
Legislation cannot create and
inspire loyal citi.enship." said the
Rev Henry Allen Tupper. pastor
Of the First Baptist Church, yester-
day during q sermon on Loyalty
to Our Land and Lord"
Mast Gain Love u Flag.
The thousands who are coming
to our shores may pass superficial
examination and hundreds Of thou
sands may call themselves natural
lied citizens: but unless they love
our Constitution, our nag and our
Institutions, they cannot catch the
genius of our civilization and obey
the spirit OF our American life. Our
deadliest foes are those who live
-monS us and have no love for US"
Sinister influences are at work
worming their way through Ieeisla-
tive halls of the country and obtain
ing the enactment Of Legislation,
which is un-American, Brig. Gen
George s Richards, of the Marine
Corps. said last night in an address
At the patriotic exercises of the
Luther Place Memorial Church
Objects to Pater.alixA-
The legislation Gen. Richards re-
ferred to was the paternalism of
government interference in business.
1T is American to rely on indi-
vidual Initiative Gen Richards
said.
There seems to be a quite zen
eral demand that the past be ig-
nored In the solution of the problems
Of the present The problems of
today, we must remember, are not
essentially different from those
which our ancestors SO successfully
combatted- New conditions in some
ways have arisen, but the principles
for which our ancestors stood are
immortal"
Starting on his third crusade
around the globe to again preach his |
declaration of inter-dependence,"
the worlds standardbearer." James
William Van Kirk, of Youngstown,
Ohio, who designed the nag accepted
by the LeAgue, ,of Nations as the en-
blem Of world brotherhood. last
night delivered an address in
the Foundry Methodist Episcopal
Church
LRe1s Harding to Jeshua.
Stating that ideas govern the |
world or throw ii into confusion"
DR.. Van Kirk declared that the ideas
OF bringing the nations together,
which have thrown the world into
confusion, will be supplanted with |
IN twelve months by the ideas which
viii give law and order to mankind
forever.
DR.. Van Kirk likened former
President Wilson and President
Harding to Moses and Joshua and
expressed the hope that like Joshua,
PRESIDENT Harding would profit by
mistakes made before and succeed
In leading all mankind across the
JORDAN into the Promised Land
which his Predecessor dreamt of.
DR.. Van Kirk warned against be-
Ing drunk with patriotism"
Germany was drunk with pa
triotism, declared the globe
cireier, so drunk that an operation
was necessary, and before that op-
efation was over all of us had
bloody faees.-
uAfuris League Flag.
At the conclusion of his address.
Dr. Van Kirk unfurled the nag
which he designed and which was