Evening star., 1932-11-12
BAKER SEES WORLD
HOPE Of PEACE PUT
IN KEEPING OF u. S.
Tribute to Soldiers Paid at
Cathedral Service by
Ex-War Secretary.
DENIES ARMISTICE RITE
EXALTS USE OF FORCE
Tomb of Woodrow Wilson Scene
of Commemorative Service
Earlier in Afternoon.

Earlier in Afternoon.
The heroic dead Of the Warld War
did not die in vain. This was the bur-
den of the address of Former Secretary
of War Newton D. Baker at an impress
sive Armistice day service in the great
choir of Washington Cathedral yester-
day afternoon. A distinguished con-
gregation, including representatives of
| the Government departments, the Army
and Navy and the churches of the
diocese, as well as delegations from a
long list of patriotic organizations, filed
all the completed portion CT the church
when Mr.. Baker rose to speak.
''Those who are old enough to re-
member Armistice day in Washington, y
he said, IT am sure, will share my men,
ory of huge, surging crowd, singing
songs of deliverance and happiness, and
engaging in all sorts of extreme and
sometimes fantastic manifestations, SO
urgent was the emotion that had def1ed
expression. But what went on here
went on everywhere. The civilized
world felt simultaneously the greatest
emotion that humankind can know. 1t
! Was JI1S cIlO VI q WAL
But still some people, particularly
young people, say to US of middle age,
Why should we celebrate Armistice
day? Does that involve the celebration
of war? Does it involve elevating war
to a plane of adn1iration?' They little
can know, I think, the emotions of those
who were part OF the great event
which eliminated then. So far as the
soldiers are concerned, the men VINO
were on the Western front, no one who
was not there can understand what
Armistice day means. 1t cannot be cut
into words. Nobody can reproduce the
long pain and suffering, the long
anxiety of the midnight fields of France,
Illuminated now and then by flares and
flashes which brought death, perhaps to
the companion nearest you, and seemed
reaching of deaths hand for you your
self. And then suddenly ON the 18th
day Of November providential interven-
| ton brought universal peace, and each
soldier could feel that his devotion had
been complete and entire, and yet he
had been saved from the fate which he
had witnessed strike down so many
others.
Memory of Great Faith.
"And no one, I think, who was not
Of adult years in those Gays can re-
member the completeness and single
mindedness Of the devotion of the whole
people of the United States. The army
in France was their army. In an at
tempt to express our pride and affec-
tion We called them Our boys Every
man, woman and child in the United
States worked at whatever their hands
! could do And the prayers that were
! hrco fhnI IN Yl1a
| day for the safe deliverance OF those
who were at the front and for our cause
were as deep prayers as human hearts
ever have uttered. And SO when Armi-
stice day comes it reminds us Of all that.
They are precious memories that do not
build war. But they do this-they re-
mind us of a time when we were at our
very best. The soldier thinks of it as a
time when he was willing to make the
great sacrifice, and those of lis who
were not soldiers but were sustaining
them with bowed heads and by grateful
hearts remember those days as days of
such conservation that we were willing
that the sacrifice should be made. So
we celebrate Armistice day because it
always will be a memory Of great faith
When we think of it we touch the
springs of perpetual inspiration.
1
continued, was the breaking down of
old traditions and old states Scarcely
a country could be found in which the
most ancient and fundamental objects
OF human confidence remained un-
shaken. Kings were displaced; princes,
| potentates, high ministers, legislative
assemblies, obedience to laws, all were
swept away as if it were in a mael-
strom. And the world ever since has
been struggling back to find some sub
| stantial thing upon which 1t can put
the foot of its faith to take a stand for
the new era. Happily, while we have
not learned all the lessons the war
should have taught us, nor made all
the practical arrangements which will
be necessary to get from the war its
greatest and most precious fruit, we
have made some steps forward.
The two most important things in
the world at this moment, humanity
| speaking, are the Disarmament Confer
| ence and the Lytton report. The first
would have been unthinkable before the
World War, and the second unimagi-
| nable. And yet in the few brief years
since the Armistice the thought has
matured that in order to save the peace
OF the world there must be constructive
and capable agencies to bring about
consultations, arbitration and adjudica-
| ton, separating questions of interna-
| tional discord into their constituents
and allowing great courts to decide such
questions as are corrigible by legal prin-
ciples, so that the contests of nations
may be soothed in their incipient stages
rather than allowed to go on until
collisions are inescapable and unre-
strainable.
CustOdians Of Hope for Peace.
eff we are to do our duty by the fu-
ture, we can have no higher example
nor better inspiration than to look back
to the America of 1918. On this Armi-
stice day I rejoice that the thing for
which so many brave men died is meas
urably nearer than it was then. 1t
would be too horrible to think of their
sacrificing and suffering in vain. But
If their death is really fertilizng the
soil out of which the seeds of perma-
nent peace can grow, then as we honor
them we can believe that their sacrifice
promises a world in which other gen.
erations can pursue the better life,
cultivate the more beautiful things free
from the terrors and the loss which war
entails.
1.-The striving of the American spirit
has built here great people. We are
the custodians of the worlds hope for
peace. We are the final and great gift
of an overruling Providence to mankind
in the quest for valid civilization"
The Cathedral service was conducted
by Canon Raymond L. Wolven, chap
lain of the Bishop of Washington. Les
sons were read by Col. Julian E. Yates,
chief of chaplains of the United States
Army, and Capt. Sydney K. Evans, chief
of chaplains Of the United States Navy.
Musical arrangements were In charge
of Edgar Priest, organist and choir
master of the Cathedral Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop Of Wash
ington, offered special prayers at the
altar and pronounced the benediction