The log cabin Democrat., 1921-11-11
HARDING SETS U. $. TO SERVE
 WHOLE WORLD
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 tive was somewhere a thought of a world awakened; and we are here to testify gratitude and reverence for that thought of wider freedom.
 On such an occasion as this, amid such a scene, our thoughts alternate letween defenders living and defend CTS dead. A grateful republic will be worthy of them both. Our part is to atone for the losses of heroic dead by laking a 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 conscience. It is better and nobler for their deeds. Burial here is rather more than a sign of the governments favor, it is a sug- gestion of tomb in the heart of the nation, sorrowing for it's noble dead.
 Today's ceremonies proclaim that the hero unknown is not unhonored. We gather him to the nations breast, within the shadow of the capitol, of the towering shaft that honors Wash lngton, the great father, and of the exquisite monument of Lincoln, the martyred savior. Here the inspira- tions of yesterday and the conscience of today forever unite to make the republic worthy of his death for flag and country.
 Int, as with tribute to the dead we con- secrate ourselves to 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 a 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 theoretical de- ense of a hypothetic objective But
 
 lentless methods of modern destruc- tion. There was the rain of ruin from the aircraft, the thunder of artillery, 1ollowed by the unspeaKable devasta- ion wrought by bursting shells; there were mortars belching their bombs of desolation; machine guns concentrat- ng their leaden storms; there was the Infantry, advancing, firing, and falling like men with souls s crifcing for he decision. The flying missiles were evealed by Illuminating tracers, so that we could note their flight and appraise their deadliness. The air was streaked with tiny flames mark ng the flight of massed destruction; while the effectiveness of the theoreti- al defense was impressed by the sim ulation of dead and wounded among those going forward, undaunted and unheeding. As this panorama of un- utterable destruction visualized the horrors of modern conflict, there grew on me the sense of the failure of a civilization which can leave it's prob- lems to such cruel arbitrament. Surely no one in authority, with hum- an attributes and a full appraisal of the patriotic loyalty of his country men, could ask the manhood of king dom, empire, or republic to make such sacrifice until all reason had failed. until appeal to justice through ul- derstanding had been denied, until very effort of love and consideration or fellow men had been exhausted, ntil freedom itself and inviolate hon. had been brutally threatened.
 1 speak as pacifist fearing war, but as one who loves justice and hates war. l speak as one who be- ieves the highest function of govern nent is to give it's citizens the securi- ty of peace, the opportunity to achieve, and the pursuit of happiness.
 The loftiest tribute we can bestow oday-the heroically earned tribute ashioned in deliberate conviction, out of unclouded thought, neither shadow ed by remorse nor made vain by fam cies, IS the commitment of this re- public to an advancement never made before. If American achievement is a cherished pride at home, if our un- selflshness among nations is all we wish it to be, and ours is helpful example in the world, then let us give of our influence and strength, yea, of our aspirations and convictions, to put mankind on little higher plane, exulting, with wars distressing and depressing tragedies barred from the stage of righteous civilization.
 There have been a thousand defenses justly and periodically made; thousand offenses which reaso~ orA righteousness ought to have stayed. Let us beseech all men to join us in seeking the rule under which reason and righteousness shall prevail.
 Standing today on hallowed ground,