Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-19
Hoover Eulogizes Victory
Yorktown Among Worlds Greatest Battles, Says
President in Pointing to Present Glory
and Power of Nation.

more than great general; 1t lay in his
soul and his character. OF him, IN
sober, critical judgment, q gifted
modern historian, James TrusloW
Adams has written: In the travail
of war and revolution, America had
brought forth a man to be ranked with
the greatest and noblest Of any age
in all the world. There have been no
greater generals in the field and states.
men in the cabinet in our own ana
other nations. There has been no greater
! character. When we think Of WASH
ington 1t is not as a military leader,
or as executive or diplomat. We think
of the. man who by sheer force OF
character held a divided and dlsor-
gained country together until victory
was achieved, and who, after peace
was won, still held his disunited coun..
trymen by their love and respect ana
admiration for himself until Ma
ton was welded into enduring strength
| and unity
This national shrine stands for
more than a glorious battle. 1t a
shrine which Symbolizes things OF the
spirit The victory of Yorktown was
a victory for mankind. 1t was another
| blaze in the great trail of human Tree
dom. Through these ideas and Ideals
the minds of people were liberated,
their exertions and accomplishments
stimulated.
Marks Nations Growth.
THE primary national consequence OF
the independence we finally won mere
was the release of cur national mind
from all hampering restraints put upon
US by subsection to another nation end
an older civilization. Here America pc
came free to be America. We acquired
the opportunity for unrestrained cevelop-
ment Of a government and culture that
should be our own. 1t has made pos
sible the realization of those visions OF
government and organized society wnich
arose among us as a result OF lndlVldu-
atty Of temperament born OF tne
| frontiers of a new continent.
eff we look back over these $50 years,
we see our Nation marking prograSs
with every decade. From these com.
munities of 100000 people scattered
along the Atlantic Seaboard. 1t mas
grown to more than l20,00000O IL
has marked the full sweep of the con-
tinent to the Pacific ocean with mag
nificent cities, homes and farms. with
a degree of comfort and security hither-
to unknown In human history. 1t has
grown in education and knowledge
| from which invention and discovery
have been accelerated. with every year
bringing a harvest of new comforts and
inspirations 1t has unfolded great
experiment in human society. builded
new and powerful institutions born Of
new ideas and new ideals, new visions
Of human relations. 1t has attained a
wider diffusion of liberty and happiness
and more of material things than hui
mainly has ever known before. 1t has
attained a security amongst nations by
which no thought ever comes that an
enemy may step within our borders.
Affirms Faith in Future.
while temporary disloca:ions have
come to us because of the World War
we must not forget that our forefathers
met similar obstacles to progress time
and again, and yet the Nation has swept
forward to ever-increasing strength.
The unparalleled rise Of America has
not been the result Of riches in lands,
forests or mines 1t sprung from the
ideas and ideals which liberated minds
and stimulated the spirits of men. In
those ideas and ideals are the soul Of
the people. No American can review
this vast pageant of progress without
confidence and faith, without courage.
strength and resolution for the future"