New Britain herald., 1928-09-24

remind you in closing of the words of the immortal Lincoln at Gettys- burgh: Tt is for us. the living. rather, to be dedicated to the un- finished work which they who fought thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.'
 "'God give us men! A time like
 ours demands
 Strong minds. great hearts. true
 faith and ready hands.
 Men whom the lust of office does
 not kill;
 Men whom the spells of office can-
 not buy
 Men who possess opinions and
 will:
 Men who have honor. men who will
 not lie;
 Men who can stand before a dcma-
 gogue And scorn his treacherous flatteries
 without winking
 Tall men. suncrowned, who live
 above the fog
 In public duty and in private
 thinking"
 Rabbi Hadas speaks
 Rabbi Hadas' address was as fol- lows:
 "I know that the boys who went across and returned are no longer boys. More than 10 years. vital and significant years. years of struggle and effort at adjustment and read justment have passed, and it is to men mature in years and wide in experience that l now address my self.
 You went over there and accom- plished a magnificent task. You car ried to completion job in a manner that startled the world so thoroughly so nobly and so Loyalty was the work done. Heroes you are. if ever a hero trod this earth. l am not speaking of the political issues in- volved. of the social. moral, religious implications of the war. As we saw the war, at the time at least. as you and we all viewed the struggle. yours was a job of heroes.
 But this honor that you have justly earned carries with it a heavy and that responsibil ity is i'll very brief, again to take up arms. To take up arms in war greater heroism than did the great war. l mean of course the war against war. I would be a traitor to America and to humanity every where if I did not use my oppor- tunity now to call upon you to carry on your struggle for peace. For if it is true that the world has been saved for democracy. it is also true that the world has been saved for bigger and better wars
 Need l tell you men, and women too, whether you be Jews or Chris tians, Catholic or Protestants, that you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, that you cannot create de- cent and livable world here below with guns and bayonets. In very truth, all decencies, all the civiliza- ton that man has so patiently, so wrought are very quickly swept away in the hellish fires of war. For war destroys all that is good and generous; it crucifics hu- and at the same time it evokes all that is evil in man: it the beasts in us. I know that there have been excellent speeches and brilliant political plans for the abolition of war, but you well know that unless you and l are ready to back them up with our will for peace, these speeches are empty | words. and those treaties are mere i scraps of paper.
 You remember, do you not. that | the war you fought so well was to end all wars. Most of us have al- | most forgotten. And if we do not now recall that fact. and more. do | about it. these of the boys | who did not return. will have died in vain. Socrates said that he | wanted freedom. personal freedom, To speak and think as he liked.
 "I love and cherish you, but l shall obey God rather than you he said to his fellow Athenians. He | drained his cup of poison to the dregs but he assured for mankind the freedom he demanded. Abra- ham said he did not want slavery. Slavery was abolished. Christ want nd to bring Christianity to man. and covers the globe. It is not strange that these men, &c.,