The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
Harding on War, Peace, Progress

President Harding last Monday gave to the
country at large and to several groups Of the
body polite enough food for thought furnish con-
versatona topics and bases Of action for some time
The occasion was the Chief Executives trip to
New York in the yacht MayHower. He spoke al i
ceremony for 6ooo American soldier dead on Ho-
boken pier, at a luncheon rendered him by the
Academy of Political Science and dinner celebrating
the I25th anniversary Of the New York Commercial
The outstanding ideas contained in these three
speeches fairly indicated in the following excerpts
At the funeral cefemony: "One hundred thousand
sorrows are touching my heart 1t must be again.
God grant that it will be. do pretend that
the millcnnal days have come and that there will be
more | would wish nation so powerful that
none will dare to provoke its wrath"
At the academy luncheon Government to a
greater than ever before is under obligas
ton to give the greatest service for the lowest possible
cost To bring economy and efficiency into govern
ment is task second to none in difficulty. Few
people, in out of the government, have any con-
cepton of the growth Of government business in the
last decades before the world war still fewer at all
realize the to which that growth has been speeded
up since the war started" $50.
At the newspaper banquet: "We will do well to
keep in mind this time the fundamental importance
of agriculture and in every possible way insure justice
to it. - The governments part in business
should be no more than to insure adherence to the
principles of common honesty. and to establish regua
lions tnat VIII endDIc IL 10 san a SdIe course
1t is for all to get back to work. That is what
made country great il is what will put the whole
world back the right track.
THE President strove not to stay his tears as he
stood over casket containing the body Of
Private Joseph w, Guyton, Company !, roth
Infantry, of Michigan, the first Of the A. E. F.
to meet death upon the soil Of Germany. Recedng
into the distance the serred ranks of other cof
fms, their contents all eternay dedicated to love of
country and honored by the supreme sacrifice made
therefor
"This opportunity is not chosen to- express a sug-
gestion of hatred in the American heart he declared
"for there is hatred in the American heart but
have chosen it because am offering tribute to one
returned, whose death enemy soil marked the day
when civilization went face forward and the assault
our present-day civilization had failed"
Before the academicians the President told Of the
cost of war; the tasks which lie before the adminstra
ton result of participation in war, and the method
Of attack Inertia he termed the most detrimental
force in government organization.
A FTER he had finished his set speech at the
~ newspaper dinner, the President set FORTH in-
\ formally the Outstanding wish of the admin
straton" as follows:
"I want understanding between the government
and the people. ...
81 want understanding among the nations, and I
want America to have nothing to do with any
nation that is not willing sit at the table and
to understanding. ' a
81 want understanding between the captains of
industry and those who make up the toilng forces.
81 want understanding with those who come to
our shores to participate in the benefits of residence
in America want them to come understanding that
there are obligations as we'll privileges of American
citizenship. .''t
"Nay, MORE l want an understanding between
those who would preserve form of government
and those who would destroy 1t. And want the
destroyer or would-be destroyer to know he Is at
tempting destroy the thing that makes his existence
possible"