The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-31
Coolidge Calls Nation
 To World RespoTfsibility
President Re1tcrates Stand On World Court A
 Aligned With League Of Nations

in entire harmony with the policy which we have long advocated. I do not look upon it as a certain guarantee against war but it would be method of disposing of troublesome questions, an accommodation of which leads to irri- tating conditions and results in mutually hostile sentiments. N
 Changes Kmpractieable
 @More than year ago President Harding proposed that the Senate should authorize our adherence to the conditions of the permanent court of international justice with certain con ditiors. His suggestion has already had my approval On that I stand. l should not oppose other reservations but any material changes which would not probably receive the consent of the many other nations would be imprac- rticab1e
 we cannot take step in advance of this kind without assuming certain ob- Hgatiens. Here again, is we receive anything we must surrender something. We may as we'll face the question can didly and if we are willing to assume these new duties in exchange for the benefits which would accrue to us, let us say so. If we are not willing, let us say that. We can accomplish nothing by taking doubtful or ambiguous po- sition. We are not going to be able to avoid meeting the world and bearing our part of the burdens of the world. We must meet those burdens and. over come them, or they will meet us and overcome us. For my part. desire my country to meet them without eva sion and without fear in an upright, downright. square, American way. Perils Come Anyway
 While there are those who think we would be exposed to peril by adhering to this court, am unable to attach great weight to their arguments. What ever differences, whatever perils exist for us in the world will come anyway, whether we oppose or support the court. | am one of those who believe we would be safer, and that we would be meeting cur duties better by supporting it and making every possible use of 1t. l feel confident that. such action would make a greater America, that it would be productive of a higher and finer and national spirit and of a more complete national life. 1t is these two thoughts of union aud peace which appear to me to be especially appropriate for our consid- erafion on this day. Like all else in human experience they are not things which can be set apart and have an in- dependent existence. They exist by req son of the concrete actions of men and women Here on this wooded eminence, Overlooking the capital of the country for which they fought, many ci them repose, officers of high rank and privates mingling in common dust, holding the common generation of a grateful people. The hefoes of other wars lie with them, and in a place of great pre-eminence lies one whose identity is unknown, save that he was a soldier of this republic who fought that it's ideals, it's institutions, its lib- berties, might be perpetrated among men. A grateful country holds all these services as her most priceless heritagle to be cherished foreyermore.
 Testify By Actions
 We can testify to those opinions; not by our words, but by our actions. Or country cannot exist on the re- nuneiation of the heroic eoals of the past. Public service, from the action of the humblest voter to the most exalted office. cannot be made a mere matter of hire and salary. The supporters of  our institutions must be inspired by a more dominant motive than conviction that their actions are going to be prof itable.
 I've cannot lower our standards to what we think will pay, but we must haise them to what we think is right. It is only in that direction that we shall find true patriotism. 1t is only by that method that we can maintain the rights of the individual the sovereignty of the states, the integrity of the union, the permanency of peace and the wlfare of mankind. {. ..
 'AThat is the standard of citizenship for all time. It is the requirement which must be met by those who hold public place. That must be the ideal of those who are worthy to share in the glory which you have given to the name of America, the ideal of those who held fellowship with Washington and