Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12

The Presidents address delivered last
night follows:
Eleven years have gone by since the
day of the armistice, when the guns
ceased firing, 1t was day OF thanks
giving that marked the ending OF the
shambles of the trenches. For us it will
be remembered always as a day Of pride
pride in the memory of those who
suffered and of those who made the
last sacrifice of life In that great cause;
pride in the proven valor of our Army
and Navy; pride in the greatness OF our
national strength, pride in the high
purpose for which we entered the war,
and pride that we neither wanted nor
got from 1t anything of profit for our
selves. Those stirring memories will
always remain, and on each ArnliStice
day will glow again.
From the war we have two paramount
obligations. We owe to those who SUI
fered and yet lived an obligation Of
national assistance, each according to
his need. We owe it to the dead that
we redeem our promise that their Sacri-
tice would help bring peace to the world
The Nation Will discharge its obligation.
The men who fought know the real
meaning and dreadfulness of war. No
man came from that furnace a SwaSh-
buGkling militariSt. Those who saw its
realities and its backwash in the sacri-
fee of women and children are not the
men who glorify war. They are the men
who pray for peace for their children.
Eut they rightly demand that peace be
had without the sacrifice OF our indie
pendence or of those principles Of JUS
tfce without which civilization must
fall.
Such a sacrifice of freedom and JUS
tice is the one calamity greater than
war. The task of statesmen Is to build
a road to peace which avoids both of
these calamities. This road requires
preparedness for defense; it equally re-
quireS preparedness for peace.
Future Outlook Bright.
The world today is comparatively at
peace. The outlook for a peaceful flu
ture is more bright than for half q CEN
tury past. Yet, after all, il Is an armed
peace. The men under arms, including
active reserves in the world. are almost
10000. 900 in number. or nearly 10000
900 more than before the great war.
Due to the Washington Arms Confer
ence and the destruction of the German
navy, the combatant ships in the world
show some decrease since the war. But
aircraft and other instruments Of de-
struction are far more potent than they
were even in the great war. There are
fears, diStrustS and smouldering injuries
among nations which are the finder of
war Nor does a single quarter Of
century during all the ages of human
experience warrant the assumption that
war will not occur again.
Gloomy as this picture may be, yet
we can say with truth that the world is
becoming more genuinely inclined to
peace; that the forces of imperial DOM
ination and aggression, of fear and SuS-
picion, are dying down; that they are
r..G-@ AINn for
ity and peaceful development. The old
detectives of tortuous diplomacy are be-
ing replaced with frank and open rela-
tons directed to peace. There Is no
more significant step in this progress
than the solemn covenant that civilized
nations have now entered to renounce
war and to settle disputes by pacific
means. It is this realignment of the
mind of the world that gives the hope
of peace.
But peace is not a static thing. To
maintain peace is as dynamic in its re-
quirements as is the conduct of war.
We cannot say let there be peace"
and go about other business. Nor are
the methods by which peace is to be
maintained and war prevented to be
established by slogans or by abstract
phrases or by academic theory. Prog
ress toward peace and be attained only
as result of realistic, practical, daily
conduct among nations. It can be the
result only Of a frank recognition OF
forces which may disturb peace. For
instance, we must realize that our in
dustrial life, our employment, our COM
fort and our culture depend greatly upon
our interchange of FOODS and ideas with
other nations. We must realize that
this interchange cannot be carried on
unless our citizens are flung into every
quarter Of the globe and the citizens
OF every other nation are represented in
our country.
Protection Of Lives Obligation.
We must realize that some Of them
will get into trouble somewhere. Ger
tainly their troubles will multiply II
other nations are at war. We have an
obligation and every other nation has
an obligation to see to the protection Of
their lives and that justice is done to
them so long as they comply with the
laws of the countries in which they re-
side. From all these relationships fric-
tons and controversies will arise daily.
BY our undertaking under the Kellogg
pact to use only pacific means to settle
such controversies as these we have
again reaffirmed the doctrine ennunci-
ated by that sighted statesman,
Mr.. Elihu Root, in his famous declara-
ton at Rio de Janeiro in 1907. At that
time he announced that we would not
use war or warlike means to enforce or
collect upon private business contracts.
1t is our settled policy.
But there are other more deepSeated
and more dangerous forces which pro-
duce friction and controversy than
these eruptions over the rights Of citi-
Zens. We must realize that there are
MANY unsolved problems of boundaries