Evening star., 1923-05-30
Care OF Disabled n Duty,


spoke moment ago of the
deeper gratitude expressed in
action. My thought was not of
compensations or of pensions or
OF the governments care for the
disabled. These are obligations,
and their discharge is duty.
There can be a gratitude of action
which Is a still finer and nobler
thing.
Ii was nation grateful in ac-
tion which followed the ciyil war
with reunion and reconstruction.
and strobe forward to a concord of
union which did not exist prior
To the war. revealed the mutuaIity
OF interest essential to the nation
expanding in influence and power.
ii was gratitude of action to de-
Nelop Union which has been
proven to he worth preserving, in
spite of all the cost involved.
lie was gratitude of action which
led the republic to keep faith with
the ideals of liberty which led the
veterans of 1898 to strike at op-
preston. With the expanded area
of the flag has attended the ex-
panded area of liberty which We
grant to others. precisely as we
demand for ourselves.
Must War In Open.
1t is the gratitude of action
which has SO zealously committed
us TO the preservation of the civil
iZation for which the world war
veterans fought. and the task is
only a little less difficult than
theirs. Civilization can never be
- oh nA Q
open. ever ready to march on. En-
trench it and it dies. Its defense
must be progressively offensive.
In the inspiration of the example
of you who have thrice saved the
republic, and firm in the belief of
the Righteousness of American in
tent, and strong in the faith, we
mean to carry on.
There is another gratitude of
action which surpasses all ex-
pressed in the others which / hope
to see recorded to glorify the last
days of the civil war veterans and
to add fullness to the lives of the
world war veterans, and tranquil
iZe the lives of all America and the
world. | devoutly wish the United
states to do it's full part toward
making war unlikely If not i'm
possible. While 1 would abhor a
pacifist America i would rejoice to
have the United States proven TO
be unafraid. and yet the mos
peace-promoting nation in all the
peace loving and the foremost
world. We have already proven
that we can have less of arma-
ment. Let US strive for the assur-
ance that we shall have none of
war.
80. Must he No More War.
There comes into the lives of
each and every one of us. some
time. a picture never to be effaced
from memory. Veterans in the
service have seen the suffering and
sacrifices and the thrilling hero
'iSms which are never visible, ex-
cept to those. engaged in conflict.
j have fried to visualize the
carnage and conflict and the hor-
rors and suffering of war. softened
by the comradery of camp and the
less perilous adventures of march
and field, but I came to understand
how imagination had failed me
when / stood at Hoboken pier
among 5000 dead in their flag
draped collins two years ago. Here
was death in wars unheeding al
lotment, corridors of sorrow and
sacrifice, so far as the eye could
see. and grief that no human soul
could appraise. Under the spell
of the great sorrow, which gripped
nv heart, l said then and repeat
now, TT must not be again! 1t
must not be again."
but the saying is not enough.
We must do the things which ra-
tional thinking leads us to be-
lieya will tend to render war less
likely. If we ever have the in
sanity to make conflict among
ourselves we will deserve to sac
rifice. But that must never be.
Searching our own souls, beliey-
ing in our own good intent, we
can see no cloud on the horizon.
We are thinking of no war for us,
anywhere. But thsrs was no