The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-30
COOLIDGE ASKS.
PEACE MOVES IN
MEMORIAL TALK
Executive Makes Address
at Arlington National
Cemetery.

bU CntIgU FfeSS
ARLINGTON NATIONAL GENE
TERY,VA., May 30.-President Cool
idge appealed to the world today to
discard the element of force and COM
pulsion in international agreements
sand to rely on reason ana law.
Standing before the grave OF
thousands of the nations military
dead in memorial exercises at Airing
ton National Cemetery, Mr.. Coolidge
laid down the program which will
dictate the action of this country's
delegates at the June 90 Geneva
naval disarmament conference.
while we wish for, peace every
where, it is our desire that 1t should
be a peace not imposed by America,
but a peace established by each ma
ton for ITSELF" he said.
Peaceable Nation
Although we are well aware that
in the immediate past and perhaps
even now there are certain localities
where our citizens would be given
over to pillage and murder, but for
the presence Of our military forces,
nevertheless it is the settled policy
of our Government to deal with
other nations not on the basis OF
force and compulsion but on the ba-
sis of understanding and good Will
"It is\ because of our belief In
these principles that we wish to see
all the world relieved from strife
and conflict and brought under the
hunanizing influence Of reign OF
law. Our conduct will be dictated,
not in accordance with the Will OF
the strongest, but in accordance with
the judgements of righteousness.
"It is in accordance with this pol
ICY that we have sought to discon'
TIME the old practice of competl'
ton in ornaments and cast our in
duence on the side of reasonable
limitations.
Everybody Owes
1--WE wish to discard the elements
of force and compulsion in interna-
tional agreements and conduct and
rely on reason and law"
But, Mr.. Coolidge pointed out, this
country should not be blinded to the
fact that there Is scarcely CIVIL
lied nation in the world which
does not owe us money and that
often the United States is the sub
iect of envy. Hence, he concluded,
we must have adequate prepared
ness.
However much we wish to pursue
the paths of peace, however much
we are determined to live on terms
of good will both at home and
abroad, we can not etscape the fact
that there are still evil forces in
the world, which all past experience
warns us will break out from time
to time and do serious damage to
!, lawful lights and the progress of
! civilization unless we are prepared
intervention" he said.
to meet such situations with armed
Need Soldiers
1--WE could no more dispense with
our military forces than we could
dispense with our police forces.
while we are firmly convinced
that it is altogether practical and
possible by international covenants
to limit them in size, to consent to
their abolition would be to expose
ourselves first to aggression and
finally to destruction.
1--WE are sufficiently acquainted
with human nature to realize that
we are oftentimes the object of
envy. Unless we maintain sufficient
forces to be placed at points of peril
when they arise, thereby avoiding
for the most part serious attacks,
there would be grave danger that
we should suffer from violent out
breaks, so destroying our rights and
compromising our honor that war
would become inevitable. 1t is to
protect ourselves from such danger
that we maintain our national de-
tense.
I'VE have sufficient reserve re-
sources so that we need not be hasty
in asserting our rights. We can
afford to- let our patience be COM
mensurate with our power"
Internal Strife Z
At the same time, in the presence
Of the endless rows of Civil War
dead, Mr.. Coolidge took occasion to
warn against the growth Of section
al desires and prejudices in our do
nestle life. While secession has no
\ advocates now and the issue has
y been decided, ut has left it's heirs
and successors in all the different
brands of sectionalism, with their
special pleaders, who are often
times extremely vocal" he said.
"All efforts to set one part against
another part, to advance one Sec
ion at the expense Of another Sec
ton, are a species Of disloyalty to
he spirit of the union" the Presi-
2 lent added
Unless. we observe the law we
annot be free.
Unless we are an industrious,
Nrderly nation we. can neither min