The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06

I paying the lrlDuLe or aQdeQ BTaIlJuue because today, for the second time, he has made It possible for me to come to this shrine of American patriotism and join with you in tribute to those who gave us the heritage of liberty | and nationality. l thought while the rector was speaking how indissolubly we are united with the beginning. l Washington came to Valley Forge in l the making of the republic and you made him President of. the things he | did here and & century and a third afterwards I come as President because we share the heritage he left us and we can join in paying tribute to his | service.
 1 Tt is good to come to this shrine of l liberty, not alone to offer willing tri- -bute to. those who perished here, bat to rededicate ourselves to the patrio- tism which suffered and sacrificed here
 in order that our new standards o. I freedom and democracy should abide.
 Valley Forge tested the heroic res olution of the new world contenders for liberty. In the crucible of suffer ing they blended the conflicting ele- ments of the colonies and revealed the metal of the republic.
 They proved that lofty heroism is not always tragic, but develops its supreme offering in the dull prolonged suffering which glorifies abiding faith l and unalterable resolution. We Amer 1 jeans have wrought so marvelousiS and so seemingly easily. that 1t bring; us to a new appreciation to stand amid
 the scenes of the dearly purchased re- public. We need to know the making 1 of an inheritance to measure our own responsibility in it's preservation.
 q thought as we rode through the park today, yielding our emotional rev erence to the outward signs Of the 1 great memories indicated by the preser- walton of the trenches and the repro auction of the huts in which the pa triots suffered, that if we can find sat isfaction in these outward manifesto 1 tions if their service and sufferings
 how much more important 1t Is that | we retain for all time the substance or
 things for which they contended
 Responsive to Development
 l "I do not mean to say that the order established by Washington and the he
 roes of Valley Forge is to be held to
 resist the order of human progress The wonder of 1t is that they made that l order so readily responsive to the
 mighty development of which they lnever dreamed. Our supreme task is to 1 preserve the fundamentals or our new world liberty and guard against the
 abuses and injustices which have sought to attach themselves to the es- tablished order since the world began The rational work of every civilization is to cure without destroying, and guard against the enemis of liberty which come to us cloaked in pretended I Ihelpfulness. Here is the chief difficult ty of the world today. In the turbu- Hence and upheaval of the World war, when all humanity was distracted and distressed, the vandals who operate I amid calamity have sought to loot suf- fering civilization. But an America dedicated to its standards at Valley
 Forge will hold fast and suffer if need be until our inherited institutions are 1 justified and guaranteed anew to this generation and all posterity.
 "If we could only bring all America I to this shrine if we could bring those
 who are the natural inheriters, and l those who come to share our inheri- tance. we should affect realization l which would strengthen the American | resolution.
 T am less impressed by our helpful | example to the world in whose in- firmament there are the shining stars l of scores of new republics. aglow with liberty lighted on these beautiful hills. than I am impressed by liberty's be- I stowal on those who come to join us in
 the American achievement.
 q had an exceptional and unexpect- ed and most delightful welcome on yes l terday afternoon. Before we had fairly viewed our surroundings there came lromping and rollicking several hun .l-dred school children from Philadelphia l who had come out to Valley Forge tc fget youths impress at this patriotic
 shrine They bestowed the reverence
 of innocence and unselfishness to one 'l called to authority.
 !. All Real Americans
 "Enthralled as I was by their cheers and cordiality, I found myself riveted to a study of their faces. Per l kaps they were all American born but their parents came from other lands ! as we'll as our own. Among their