The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-13
MEMORIAL FOR
SOLDIER DEAD
IS Held here
"Moral Disarmament" Is
Needed to Keep Pledge
Says Father O'Mara
CONSCIENCE SHOULD
CONTROL FOR PEACE

dhlIlS HlS ISAt 1IOli oOlliA Ii -
81, Rev. Father Phillip O'Mara
last night delivered a powerful
message to large congregation
at the high school auditorium, the
occasion being the annual Memo
rial service of the American Lee
gion.
The services were in charge of
the Ministerial Association, and
opened with the singing of Amer
lea. Rev. A. w. Lippard conduct
ed the invocation, DR.. L. T. Wilds
the scripture reading, Rev. c. b.
Moser the prayer, and Rev. W. H.,
Ford the benediction.
Special vocal selections were
rendered by Mrs. o. A. Meyer,
Mrs. Michael Schenck, and Miss
Kate Dotson, as a trio, and by
Mrs. H. V. Station, soloist.
Pointing out that the ideals OF
the common people had never IN
history been raised so high as
when the World war was fought
to end all wars, and seeking for
the reign of Christ and peace"
and to the pledge made the SOL
der dead that all wars would be
ended, in the signing of the Ar
mistice. Rev. Father O'Mara de-
clared that it would be vain and
presumptuous to praise our sol
dior dead as thew rest with God,
and continued:
what are the actual conditions
as we find them today? The stand
ing armies of Europe are greater
than in 1914, the chickering's OF
centuries have only been lntensl-
fed, nations for whom we sacri-
feed the flower of our youth now
scorn US, from the high idealSm
of brothers fighting shoulder to
shoulder for the common cause OF
humanity the world has dropped
to such a low level that common
honesty and decency do not pre-
vail: a nation with the greatest
gold reserve in the world refuses
to pay an honestly incurred debt.
"Where we had free and salts
fled people in 1913, today we have
relationships. The League of Ma
tons has proven itself incompe-
tent, The disarmament confer
ence recently broke up, saying:
We cannot agree on the means OF
promoting peace or on the limits
of instruments of death.
DAILY we hear of wars and ru-
mors of wars. Today 1t IS imam
cial and economic war. Tomor-
row it shall be militaristic and hu-
man destruction. The hope of the
world today rests not in the blck-
erings of international lawyers,
economists and diplomats, but the
hone of the world lies in a moral
Moral disarmament
demands first that there be q
knowledge, universally known and
accepted as a program of action
and preamble of all peace trea-
ties. 1t would further demand
that the individual conscience and
reason as we'll as national and in
ternational conscience of people
would prayerfully and prudently
balance the reasons and causes OF
war, then willfully decide that this
war is justified or that it is whole
sale murder. This places the de-
cision of war not with govern
ment, but places it finally with
reason and conscience of the com
mon people in the light of the
commandment: Thou shalt not
kill. ..,
"Moral disarmament further
demands that every means 1or
peace be employed. That the ag-
erosion must be morally certain
there must be no guess WORK
Moral disarmament would be the
substitution of moral right TOT
material force. compulsory arDlI
tration. an international tribunal
of Justice and family of nations
employing the practical and nee
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