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SPIRIT OF WAR IS
FOUNDATION Of j.
5. PEACE: HARDING
PRESIDENT IN MEMORIAL DAY
ADDRESS SAYS AMERICA MUST
"GuARD ITSELF AND THEN AS
SYST WORLD breaches
AGAINST ISOLATION AS WELL
AS SURRENDER.

Washington, May 31.-Establishins
the way to preserve honor wlthouI
material waste and the costier hu
man sacrifice would be the SURPRISING
memorial tribute"
President Harding, surrounded by
battle standards held by soldiers OF
three wars thus enunciuted the hope
of America for world peace here Mon
day
He stood before the altar erected ia
dead soldersr in Arlington National
cemetery and pledged the influence
and example OF our America to the
principle Of international peace.
The marble amphitheater was
thronged as the President lifted bis
voice in memorial tribute He said
We are met on sacred soil today
for a solemn hour OF sacrament and
conservation But the soil whence
we come is itself saucitifed through
the sacrifices Of those who lie here
Wherever our flag flies, within the
boundaries of the republic it is over
lands whose freedom and security
have been wrought through their sac.
ritCes
Notable Americans ana representa-
tives of the governments associated
with America in the world war were
present
Sir Auckland Geddes. the British
ambassador. added words Of high trib-
ute for the part Of tho United States
IN that war. UnannouHcrd and ac
compauied only by British naval
officer bearing It huge wreath ~ red
roses be mounted the rusuum as the
President finished speaking
Turning to the President he said
''ln the name OF my King George
Y. in the name o he people Of the
United Kingdom, OF India, and of the
British dependence aNd commanders
throughout the world in token Of
their admiration Of he galannv and
devotion of American sons and daugh-
ters IN thhe great war in evidence b
their sympathy with America. who to.
day m0urns ami gloritcs her dead,
in unbalanced memory Of the sacrifices
That America has made for individual
liberty ana with your permission, Mr..
President | lay this wreath ON the
flag Of America
Sir Auckland then placed the wreath
over the Stars and Stripes that draped
tie marble altar.
Grayhalred veterans, wearing the
Union blue We're in the front rows
beside middle-aged men who had
fought with Spain and the younger
heroes Of Flanders fields.
President Harding turned to them
as he said:
We win not overappraise their sac
riice If we say that had they failed
their failure would have so weakened
the forces of liberty and enIightment
that these would have been doomed in
the more recent trial to failure and
defeat
1T is good thing to come to this
Consecrated place and renew the
pledges Of our LOYALTY to those whose
patriotism gave us our sertngth They
did not know, they could not ttnUW. for
what greater things they were laying
the foundations Yet as in the case
OF orr civil war. they won far more
than they had sought in the begin.
ming. They won for themselves their
homes their country, and in doing SC
they destroyed well-niqh the last in
trcncnments Of the mistaken doctrine
OF divine right 10 rule They gained
the victory for their own grateful
countries and with il they won, for
those whom they defeated. an onp0r.
tdultV NJ establishing free institutions