Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
CAPITAL WAR DEAD
HONORED BY MANY
Veterans, Planes, Flowers
and Speaking Memorial
Features.
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ornaments mean nothing. Until world
peace is secure, he said. the Nation
must maintain sound means Of de-
Tense in men. materials and military
knowledge"
The speaker paid tribute to the Gov
eminent for its efforts to alleviate the
depression. While previous business
depressions have been followed by
''panics," he said, this time price re-
gradual fashion, largely. I think, through
the wise action of our Government"
by cooperation between the Gov
eminent and large employers" he con-
tinued, wages have been maintained at
their predepreSsion level In most cases.
and such reductions as were unavoid-
able have been small"
johnson asserted vicious attacks have
been made upon the Government re-
Gently. but when the facts are known
it will be clear that the United States
has in no way changed its foreign
policy
Dif1culty Of Protection.
american lives" Johnson added.
been protected in the past, but the
Army and Navy cannot be used in every
spot in the world to protect all prop
erty rights at the same moment. We do
not have the forces for that purpose.
We should also remember that the
same rule must be applied to powerful
countries that is applied to the smaller
republics.
THE announcement Of the Secretary
Of State has benefited our relations
with our American neighbors and made
them again realize that this country
does not desire to dominate any Of
them. For some years l have increas-
ingly felt that the question Of our for
eign relations might properly be left In
the hands of those servants who have
the responsibility, and that they should
not be continually haraSsed by POLITICAL
ly minded propagandistS who seem more
anxious to criticize their own Govern
ment than to defend 1t.
I'VE have work to do If we attend to
our own domestic affairs and can prop
erly work out the relationship Of our
own citizens to our own Government"
Soldiers were lauded by Secretary of
Labor William N. Doak, chief speaker
at the annual ceremonies conducted at
the Battle Ground National Cemetery
near Fort Stevens. The exercises were
sponsored by the Grand Army Of the
Republic Memorial Day Corporation.
There are many noble professions"
Doak said but that of the soldier is one
of the noblest, if not the noblest, be-
cause while men of other professions
are ready to sacrifice their lives while
pursuing their callings. 1t is the soldier
alone, think who, in effect, makes
promise when he enlists that he will
carry on and make, If necessary. the
extreme sacrifice in behalf of the cause
which brought him to the colors.
Lines Thinning Fast.
THE lines of the soldiers of the great
conflict of more than threescore years
kI,;, So I'M
vivors still have the spirit of youth and
the love which marked their early will
ingness for sacrifice. Other wars have
come and gone since those days in the
SOS. The places of the veterans of
the earlier days were taken readily by
their sons and their grandsons; so may
it ever be, If, unhappily, this country
again shall need its defenders on the
field of danger.
Lincoln looked on this field on the
day of strife. We look on it on a day
of peace. believe his spirit still to be
here and that with us he holds in
grateful memory the deeds Of the men
of his time.
1t has been urged that we should
stop raising memorials to the dead OF
our wars. Extremists have declared
that such memorializing keeps alive
what they call a spirit Of miItarism, by
which they mean a spirit of aggression.
The man who braves death for a cause
is worthy in the highest sense of Q
memorial. A mans willingness to sac
rif1ce his life for what he believes to
be right marks him as one whose mem
DRY is worthy of honor throughout all
the coming years.
There Is no comradeship. perhaps,
like that of the tented field. The shar-
ing of hardships and Of dangers in
sureS bond of union between men.
The close association under the ordeals
of the field makes for lasting tie.
From it springs the desire of the vet
Grams of the service for q continuance
of the Union. Organizations, such as
are represented here today. are the re-
suit of the comradeship Of the conflict. !"
Children Strew Flowers.
At the conclusion of Secretary Doak's
address the band played '"rraumeri,"
and then 100 small school children
marched around the graves strewing
Angus Lamond. jr. The assemblage
sang America" accompanied by the
band. Rev. William L. Mayo pro-
nounced the benediction, Taps" were
sounded by bugler. and the exercises
closed with the firing of a salute as all
stood at attention while the colors were
lowered. The Sd United States Cavalry
Band was under the dictatorship Of
Louis S. YaSsel.
Capt. Lockwood on Air.
Capt. Charles w. Lockwood. 88-year-
old sole survivor of Minnesota famous
Last Mans Club of Civil War times,
whom President Hoover wished many
more years. spoke over the network
of the Columbia Broadcasting System
from Station WMAL in Washington as
a part of Memorial day broadcasts. He
was followed on the air by Gen. James
A. Drain, who eulogized in an address
the American Legion, over which he
formerly presided as national COM
mander.
Capt. Lockwood, who thinks Of a
radio voice being carried over the
wind" said that when he and his
friends answered Abe Lincoln's call for
volunteers in 1861, I'VE didn't know we
were going out to make history" They
enlisted for 80 days, he said, and
thought the war wouldn't amount to
much"
Gen. Drain, who delivered a Me-
mortal day message to veterans of all
wars, detailed the purposes and work
OF the American Legion in particular.
The motives of the Legion have been
high, he said, some of its acts mag
nif1cent in conception and perform
ance." It's faults, he continued, have
been those having their origin in hui