Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-12
AT BOSTON
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h.ox 70 the bandstand. where DR..
paine was still presiding. "A ring
Of police kept them at distance
but thew marched around the-band-
stand enclosure singing and Jeerlns.
when the meeting was hnisneo, tnear
leader mounted the rostrum ana an
nounced the resolutions his CON-
rades had adopted.
s"The Veterans view the paraoe
with shame" he read, "as an UNI
forgettable insult, not only un1ai,
to us but to our dead comrades.
The resolutions were again carried
amid shouting and CHEERS anu 'he
veterans dispersed.
The parade met with criticism
earlier this week, it's opponents op-
iecting to participation in 1t by -FOUR
organizations, the Women's inter
national League for Peace and Free
dom. the Fellowship of Reconcilia-
ton. the Fellowship of Youth for
Peace, and the League for Demo-
cratic Control.
The booming of the 81 guns or
the national salute echoed away into
a period of silence at eleven In the
forenoon when the city halted its
Veterans organizations held their
observance in the morning on the
common.
Speakers varied their themes from
pleas for peace to the honoring of
the memory of the war dead, from
the need for maintaining American
ideals to militant call for prepared
ness. In the afternoon two mile
parade for peace" under the aus
pioes of the Federation of Greater
Boston Churches, moved through
lanes Of thousands of watchers and
filed past the state house where Gov
ernor Alvan Z. Fuller and Represen-
tatives of four veterans organiza-
tons reviewed the procession.
1t was a sombre procession, almost
States army or navy uniform appear.
In it rode disabled veterans. There
were scores and scores Of placards
and banners urging peace. Women
and girls in long lines outnumbered
all other marchers. In the blue sky
to the southwark a bit of raibow
blaZed In a patch Of cloud through
out the parade.
A few of the placards were out
spoken. The Socialist Party of Bos-
ton announced: I'VE stood for peace
in 1917 and we stand for peace to-
day." Apother banner recalled mo
nation ever declared war against
u.s." Others said, There never was
a good war; "Above all nations
humanity; Thou shalt not kill"
Others urged Joining the league of
nations and the world court.
The spectators watched the parade
in dead silence. But Francis J.
Coed, commander of the Massachu-
sets department of the American
Legion, said afterward that neither
he nor any of the other veterans
representatives reviewing the parade
saw in it anything seditious.
Earlier at the veteran observance,
Commander Good declared Our own
duty is to perpetuate the purity of
our American democracy" Governor
Alvan T. Fuller deplored the exis-
tence of extremists in the peace
movement and urged that the middle
ground be taken by veterans as well
as the general public-maintenance
of defensive forces and spirit which
will send men to battle, but doing
everything possible to keep peace.
General Hanson E. Ely, president
of the war college in Washington.
urged the honoring of the war dead
and declared that reasonable pre-
paredness is the only road to peace"
Mayor William, E. lever of Chicago
insisted that "As yet no power man
kind knows of can guarantee peace
in the days to come"
Mayor James M. Curley declined
to review the peace parade terming
it pacifist and unpatriotic.
At a mass meeting tonight In the
Old South Westinghouse. where Gov
ernor Fuller again spoke, United
States Senator William M. Butler Of
Massachusetts said that America
wanted "a world peace. a peace of
honor" He advocated that the Unit
ed States give its support to join In
the permanent court of international
Justice and Endorsed that sproposal
to that end now pending before the
senate.