The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
AMERtCANISM NOTE SOUNDED
 AT CEREMONIES
Memorial Day Speaker Hits at Subversive F orces-
 Parade Makes Occasion

Sounding the clarion call of Am ericanism and striking out at those subversive forces which are aimed to destroy it Charles w. Hawkes. worth, Assistant Director of Educa- tion for the Bureau of Indian Af- fairs and Spanish War veteran, paid fitting tribute to the nation s hero dead in today's Memorial Day address which featured the cere- monies of the American Legion at the Elks Hall
 With a cloudless blue sky and brilliant sun giving natures color to the annual observance, the patrio- tic forces of the city cast the sol emn wreath of remembrance on the waters of Gastineau Channel for those who went to watery graves in the service of their land and gave appropriate eulogy and ceremony to the soldiers who gave their all in the cause of country.
 Urges Adequate Defense
 Opening with the services in the Elks Hall, in which the speaker urged vigilance in the cause of peace and declared that adequate 2 defense is the best protection to promote that peace and protest the nations independence, the days program included a parade, headed by the City Band under Jack F'argher, to the waterfront and thence to Legion plot in Evergreen cemetery.
 AS the band struck up subdued march appropriate of the occasion, the column swung off down lower Franklin Street after the oration at the hall with the Colors. Legion Firing Squad, Spanish War Veter- ans, Legionnaires, Legion Auxiliary, Boy Scouts and others in line. At the Winter-Pond corner it turned to the Pacific Coast Dock where the Junior Auxiliary under the direc- tion of Mrs. Alba Newman, Presi- dent of the Auxiliary, cast the wreaths on the waters for the sailor dead.
 Cemetery Services
 Continuing on out to the ceme- tery wreaths again were placed in Legion plot in honor of the soldiers, and the final volley with Taps sounded on the clean summer air, bringing to conclusion an effective Memorial Day exercises.
 Legion ritualistic services were conducted under the direction of Commander E. M. Policy of Afford John Bradford Post and Depart ment Commander A. E. Karnes, Post Chaplains with Lieut.. Frank Metcalf in command of the firing squad.
 Sounds Warning
 "It is folly for us to deceive our selves" Mir Hawkesworth declared in his remarks at the Elks Hall. Countless thousands of fine, stur- dy, clear thinking American boys have marched off to war and died upon the field of battle in order to bring peace to their beloved Am erica. In the World War we went out to fight firmly convinced in our then youthful minds that we are entering the war to end wars Though the crosses of the dead rise upon every landscape, war is not at an end.
 T hope we have had lesson enough to realize by now that we cannot settle the affairs of the whole world. Europe, and probably Asia, too, seem headed for another war. America can not stop that war. Our efforts should be, and must be, to keep out of that fight. It is not war of our making, and we want no part of it. We will not be forced into it if we take definite steps now to avoid the mistakes which helped, at least, to force us into the last great war.
 Disarmament Failure
 T give full credit to the sheer ity of purpose of all groups that are working for the maintenance of peace. I refuse to join that small minority which sees a red in every peace movement.
 Tt is self-evident, however. that the methods which have been tried in the past, and which most of the
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