The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-06
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
BREAKS VACATION
BY SPEECHMAKING
! Ideal of America Is Pictured as
Nation Committed to Task
Of Reforming World
ADDRESSES GROUP OF
DISABLED VETERANS
President Harding Would Teach
Mankind That Is Is Not
Good to Make War.
ley rhe AssoeIated Press.l

10y U ne ASSoCiateQ FreSS.)
GoRHAM, N. H. Aug. 5.-A nation
committed to the task of reforming
the world" was pictured by President
Harding here today as his ideal for
America.
In a speech delivered In the course
of a flying circuit of Northern New
Hampshire towns the president de-
clared his conviction that Americas
mission not only was to Danish war
fare from the earth but to establish
everywhere right principles of free
dom and justice.
In the same speech. wnicn was ad-
dressed to a group of disabled world
war veterans, Mr.. Harding said :he
real reason behind the adminstra-
tion's opposition to immediate action
on soldier compensation was that it
desired first of all to do it's duty by
those who came from ths war i'm
paired.
The presidents appearance here
was a part OF a strenuous days pro-
gram which concluded his vacation
visit to New Hampshire by giving him
a taste of almost every experience
except rest and quiet. Leaving his
vacation lodge near Lancaster shortly
before nine o'clock this morning, he
motored ITO miles, delivered four
speeches. held two public receptions,
I played Is holes of golf and inspected
the Gorham tubercular sanitarium for
service men before he returned to
Lancaster at nightfall.
The other places in which the chief
executive spoke were North Stratford.
Coleback and Berlin. In each speech
he alluded to the nations efforts to
receive a guarantee of lasting peace
in the coming disarmament conference
and pledged himself to put his best
into the task.
The growing impression of Ameri-
can leadership was an outstanding ele-
ment IN every instance.
I'D like ours to be a God-fearing
people," he said here, committed to
the task of reforming the world and
teaching mankind that it is not good
to make warfare"
At Coleback the president expressed
his conception of American leadership
in different words, asserting that when
he had brought the nations together
n
tended to show them what this coun-
try could do in the formation of
peace program that all could accept.
In Coleback, North Stratford and
Berlin, Mr.. Harding spoke to throngs
that crowded about his automobile in
a fashion recalling campaign days
The speech here, the only one Of the
four that had been pre-arranged. was
delivered from the steps of the tuber-
cular sanitarium, with the fifty pa
tients OF the institution and several
hundred townspeople gathered before
him.
while It always is a pleasure to
visit your beautiful country" said the
nresident. 1--WE have driven this way
today particularly to give me an op-
portunity to express the interest Of
the executive and of the government
IN the welfare of the men who offered
what they had in the service of our
country.
Il know I speak the heart of Ameri-
ca when / say to the men impaired
IN the world war that America Is in
terested in them in every way 1t knows
how TO express itself. 1 do not want
this great republic OF ours ever to
slow up one moment until it has done
everything ii can to make them whole
again.
eThere was some criticism recently
Of the interest of the administration
passing by temporary the considera-
ton of what was known as the COM
nensation bill I want TO say to you
that the chief reason was that we all
believed that we owed our first con-
sideration to the men impaired in
service.
TT is wonderful thing. and it is
some compensation in itself. to have
served ones country and then come
back whole in mind and body, but II
lis far different to come back impaired
Hand that is why 1 am anxious that
>the country do everything 1t can to
make you whole again.
1T is a great thing to have given
ones life for country, but it is q great
thing also to live for country. And
no matter what may be the discourage
ments. our America Is the finest place
in the world to live in. 1 want an
America where each is concerned for
the welfare of others.
IF may tell you my own ideal for
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