Evening star., 1924-01-30

President as he was engaged in OBJ
serving a professional golf game, he
at once recalled the incident and re-
called that that was the boy who had
fore In Burlington. a marvellous
memory for people, a marvellous in
terest in them, a marvellous love and
affection for them. The work that
he did as public servant is too
fresh in the memory of all Of us to
need any reiteration. His ordering
of the finances of the government
was enough of itself to warrant the
raising to him of a monument which
should endure forever.
Worked for World Peace.
''He did much more than that, Dor
his vision was not bounded by the
confines of our own country. 1t
reached beyond that His love and
affection reached unto all humanity.
He was man who desired peace
and harmony among our own people
and the people of all the rest OF the
world for perpetuating peace and
bringing good will to all the nations.
You recall he held here in Washing
ton that conference that resulted for
the first time in all history or the
responsible nations of the earth )oln-
ing together in covenant Tor
Limitation of armaments, very great
accomplishment both on it's domestic
side and on it's foreign side. You
recall, too, as we all do, those last
days: OF his going on that journey
which he undertook to that far-oH
possession of ours, the territory or
Alaska. / watched him through the
public press as he crossed the coun-
try, proud of the great acclaim that
came to him from his fellow country
rGen. | learned with dismay OF his
illness and with the most prof1und
sorrow of his death, of his taking
away there on the shores OF the
Pacific ocean, an ocean that is worthy
his thoughts and through whose
vision is made more pacific than IL
had been in generatio And 80 he
naSSed from the walks of this ll1e.
Sees Bright u. 8. Future.
"He left TO us to take up and carry on
the burdens Of civilization, the burdens
of the administration of our govern
ment l spoke a moment ago that L
could not hoast of many years, but WIN
in the short span of my own iiletiille
and my own memory there are those
eminent men. the product of the state
of Ohio, who have come up from
humble beginnings, reaching at last tne
highest position within the gilt or the
American people. | think in their lives
we should find a lesson OF great op-
timism.
I'VE are too prone to look on the dark
side of things: too prone to be little
pessimistic about affairs. about people
and about our own country ana It's op-
portunitieS You who live and have
lived in the. state of Ohio need but to
read the history of those men and their
accomplishments 10 realize that there Is
vet the same opportunity here as there
always has been, that through all ques-
tions and Derplexities there is yet grow
ing up among the youth of our country
the same vigor of manhood, the same
honor, the same character to meet
and solve those perpleNitles that
arise, and as yoL meet the sons
and daughters of the state of
Ohio, take that as your lesson. What
ever may be the perpleXities of the
day, whatever may be the perpieXlties
and the questions of the morrow, there
is coming on in the youth OF your state
and NV state and of the nation, char
actcr and ability to meet them and solve
them all for the welfare of humanity"