Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-06-06

The presidents address was deliver,
ed from the cloister of the Washington
memorial chapel to a crowd of several
thousand persons assembled under the
auspices Of the Valley Forge Historical
society. just before the address he had
attended services within the chapel It.
self. to which he and Mrs. Harding
motored from the country home Of Sen
ator Phlander G. Knox, with whom
they are spending the weekend.
Mixes a Little Medicine.
= At luncheon, Governor Sproul and
senator Penrose also were guests at
the knox home. and during the after
noon Senator Knox and his three dis
unguIshed visitors had long talk. The
meeting started many stories of i'm
pending developments in Pennsylvania
pontacs but none of those present had
Late, in the afternoon the entire
party took an automobile ride through
the valley Forge memorial park and
paid short call at the home of e. T.
ntotesoqry, financier and member of
the morgan banking firm of New York.
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= The evening was spent quietly at the
hno1 estate. the president and Mrs.
Harding retiring early in nrenarat;on
for Mondays 40 mile motor ride . hack
70 washington. They planned to leave
soon after day break and reach the
capitol by early afternoon.
Tribute to Patriotism.
I have always been grateful to NV
good friend Senator Knox for the SER
wee he rendered the nation as one Of
Its ablest statesmen, but find myseH
paving the tribute of added gratitude
today. for the second time he has made
II possible for me to come to his
shrine of American patriotism and
join with you in tribute to those who
gave us the heritage of liberty and ma
tsonality. | thought while the rector
was speaking how indissolubly we are
linked with the beginning. Washington
came to Valley Forge in the making of
the republic and you made him presi-
dent because of the things he did here.
and century and third afterwards
come as president because we share
the heritage he has left us and we can
'oln in paying tribute to his service.
:. 1T is good to come to this shrine of
liberty not ale ., to offer willing trib-
ite to those who perished. but re-
dedicated ourselves to the patriotism
which suffered and sacrificed here in |
order that our new standards of free
ION and democracy should abide.
Metal of the Republic.
Valley Forge tested the heroic res
'lution of the new world contenders !
or liberty. In the crucible of suffering /
hey blended the conflicting elements
# the colonies and revealed the metal /
# the republic. |
They proved that lofty heroism is i
ot always tragic. but develops it's su-
RENE offerings in the dull prolonged
uffering which glorifies abiding faith
nd unalterable resolution. We Amer
'ans have wrought SO maryelously and
0 seemingly easily. that it brings us
. new appreciation to stand amind
ne scenes Of the dearly purchased re-
ublc. We need to know the making
an inheritance to measure our own
esponsibility in its preservation.
Manifestations Of Sacrifice.
II thought as we rode through the
ark today. yielding our emotional rev.
'ence to the outward signs of the great
emories, Indicated by the preservation
the trenches and the reproduction
the huts in which the patrols suf-
red. that if We can find satisfaction
/ these outward manifestations of
leir service and sacrifice, how much
ore important is it that we retain
# all time the substance Of things
+ which they contended.
Hssponslve to Development. f
II do not mean to say that the or
r established by Washington and the
.roes of Valley Forge is to be held
resist the order Of human progress.
be wonder Of it il that they made 1
Q order 50 readily responsible to the
ghty development Of which they never
canned. Our supreme task iea to pre-
rye the fundamentals Of our new
,rld liberty. and guard against the
uses and inustices which have sought ,
attach themselves to the established
der since the world began. The ra- |
nal work Of every civilization h 10 | /
re without destroying, and Suard !
ainst the enemies Of liberty Whcih I
me to US cloaked in pretended help- I<
lhesA Here ID the chief difficulty 81 ,
! world today. In the tnrbulenco and /
heaval Of world war, when an ID. II
unity was distracted and distressed.