The Washington times., 1923-05-30

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century after that, be meeting
gratefully on Memorial Day to
pay memory's tribute to the SOL
der dead who had served the re-
public. Veterans marching near
the shadows, but with heads erect
and hearts all brave; veterans of
middle age, who look back on
marvellous achievement and to
the future for, still greater; vet
Grams of youth, with the serious
ness of life mostly before them,
starting with the supreme ex-
perience-all may go on, assured
Of a becoming and grateful re-
membrance, which is chief among
the compensations of life.
Gratitude I'm Action.
/ spoke a moment ago OF the
deeper gratitude expressed in ac-
tions My thought was not of
compensations or of pensions or
OF the Governments care for the
disabled. These are obligations,
and their discharge is a duty.
There can be gratitude Of &C.
ton which is q still finer and
nobler thing.
1t was a nation grateful in &C.
ton which followed the civil war
with reunion and reconstruction,
and strobe forward to a concord
OF union which did not exist
prior to the war, revealed the
mutually of interest essential to
the nation expanding in influence
and power.
1t was gratitude Of action to
develop a union which has been
proven to be worth preserving, in
spite of all the cost involved.
1t 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 oppression.
With the expanded area OF the
flag has attended the expanded
area of liberty which we grant to
others, precisely as we demand
for ourselves.
1t is the gratitude of action
which has so zealously committed
us to the preservation Of the civ
iliZation for which the world war
veterans fought, and the task is
only a little less difficult than
theirs.
Civilization can never be en-
trenched, it must battle in the
open, ever ready to march on.
Entrench it and IL dies. It's de-
Tense must be progressively often.
siVe.
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.
Plea for World Peace.
There is another gratitude OF
action which surpasses all ex-
pressed in the others which /
hope to see recorded to glorify the
Grams and to add fullneSs to the
lives of the world war veterans,
and tranquilize 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
pNpEslbtTs' w hiiC "Outu
pacifist America, would rejoice
to have the United States proven
TO be unafraid, and yet the most
peace-lOvinR and the foremost
peace-promoting nation in all the
world. We have already proven
that we can have less Of arma-
ment. Let us strive for the as
surance that we shall have none
OF war.
There comes into the lives Of
each and every one of us, some
time, a picture never to be ef-
faced from memory. Veterans in
the service have Reen the suffer
ing and sacrifices, and the thrill.
ing heroisnas which are never visi-
Bile except to those engaged in
conflict.
have tried to visualize the
carnage and conflict and the hor-
rors and suffering Of war, soft
ened by the comradery of camp
and the less perilous adventures
OF march and field, but came to
understand how imagination had
failed me. when 1 stood at Ho-
boken pier among 5000 dead, In