The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-05-31
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Harding, in Memorial Address
at Arlington, Urges Action
to Make Strife
Impossible.
Defend National Honor

Washington, May 30.-Standing in
Arlington Memorial amphitheater and
facing the wooded slopes where rest
thousands of the war dead Of the ma
ton, President Harding today uttered
prayer that the United States do
its full part toward making war un-
likely II not impossible"
I'VE have already proven that we
can have less Of armament" the
president declared. Let us strive
for the assurance that we shall have
none of war;.
1T is not enough to seek assurance
for ourselves. I believe 1t a God
given duty to give of our influence
to establishing the ways of peace
throughout the world. We cannot
guarantee, but We can promote the
peaceful adjustment of disputes, we
can aid in the establishment of the
agencies of peace, we can be influ-
entail in committing the world to
the trumphs of peace and make hate
ful to humanity the spoils- of war.
The president declared there was a
world relationship which the United
States could not and would not choose
to avoid, il II followed in the spirit
Of its founders.
Draft Everything.
But there is one thing which we
may do among ourselves alone" the
president added, "to make our par
ticipation less likely and Danish much
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must call US to arms. In our fuller
understanding of today. in that ex
alted consciousness that every cit
izen has his duty to perform. and
that his means, his honor and his
life are his country's in time Of ma
tional peril. in the next war, II con
flict ever comes again, We will not
alone call TO service the use OF the
land. but we will draft every research. |
every activity. all OF wealth and make
common cause of the nations preser.
vation."
The president paid tribute to those
who fell in all OF the wars waged
by the United States. saying It lit.
tie mattered in what war an Ameri-
'ht hftA rflIt Aht 6dHAfh tAANA
Of life on the altar Of American
patriotism was the same for every
one.
Il spoke a moment ago." he con-
tinued "of the deeper gratitude ex.1
pressed 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 a duty. There can
be gratitude of action which is a
still finer and nobler thing.
Urges Bar TO War.
There is another gratitude Of ac.
tion which surpasses all expressed 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 tranquillize the lives of
all America and the world. / de-
voutly wish the United States to do
its full part toward making war un.
likely if not impossible. While I
would abhor a paeifist America.
would rejoice to have the United
States proven to be unafrald. and
yet the most peace loving and the
foremost peace-promoting nation in
all the world.
There comes into the lives OF each
and every one Of Us. some time. a
picture never TO he effaced from mem.
ory
Veterans in the service have seen
the suffering and sacrifices. and the
thrilling heroisms which are never
visible except to those engaged in con
nict | have tried to visualize the
carnage and conflict and the horrors
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