Evening star., 1938-11-12
President Leads
u. ). Tribute
To War Dead
Wreuths Placed on
Tomb-Defense
Moves Urged

tributes to World War dead were
mingled with talk centering atten-
ton afresh on the problem of re-
building national defenses.
A procession of wreath bearers,
including the President, Gen. John
j. Pershing and Col Fulgencio
Batista, chief of staff of the Cuban
Army, paid homage at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier as the Ameri-
can Legion leadership urged that
Congress pass universal service
act for use in event of another war.
Throughout the land tributes to
those who gave their lives in the
war were coupled with discussion
of neV and greater defense meas
ures, foreign policy and contempla-
ton of possible threats to American
safety.
Rites at Wilson Tomb.
Washington churchgoers gathered
at memorial services at the tomb
of Woodrow Wilson in Bethlehem
Chapel Of Washington Cathedral
and in st. Johns Episcopal Church.
Concordia Lutheran and All Saints
Episcopal Churches.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and group
of cabinet officers were among
those who attended the services at
the World War Presidents tomb.
The Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, delivered an
address deploring the failure of
President Wilson's program for a
society of nations.
Isolation is both impossible and
immoral" Bishop Freeman said.
No nation liveth unto itself, nor
can it in this modern world, where
We are knit together so closely
through the medium of air COM
munication."
He declared, 1T is we'll on this
Armistice Day that We of peace
loving America give serious heed
to the part this Nation may play
In saving the world from another
conflict that may involve the best
and finest in our boasted Christian
clvilizatlon.'
Service Act Is Urged.
Speaking near the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier. Stephen F. Chad
wick. national commander of the
American Legion, urged that Con-
TresS pass a universal service act,
conscripting capital as well as man.
power for use if another war comes.
He also advised adherence to the
Monroe Doctrine.
Declaring such an act should be a
part of a proper program of pre-
paredness,' he pointed out the Le-
gion long has urged draft of capital
and industrial workers, as we'll as
soldiers. in the next war Such a
measure, he added, would avoid
some of the abuses and overreaching
which, regretably, characterized the
period of the World War Counsel
ing adherence to the Monroe Doc
trine, Comdr. Chadwick said:
IF unbridled ambition is to be
enthroned in other lands: if terri
torial aggrandizement is to be the
course of other peoples; if the light
of tolerance is by some to be eXtin-
guished, and the darkness of intoler-
ence and malice and racial hate is to
supplant it. can we close our eyes
and fold our hands and yet keep
faith?"
Protesting "tyrannists' monssros-
ities," Jewish war veterans of the
United States called on America to
preserve this country's liberty" and
pleaded that there be an end Ito
slaughter-an end to torture
This message was broadcast to
the Nation from Washington by
Isador S. Worth of New Jersey, ma
tional commander of the Jewish War
Veterans Capt. Robert D. Work
man, head of the Chaplains Division,
Navy Department, joined in the pro-
gram, praising the Jewish veterans
for their emphasis on Armistice Day.
Contribute Their Share.
Justly they remind all men in
these days Of wanton injustice and
cruel prosecutions Capt Workman
said, that they, too, are the children
of God and by His love entitled to
the blessings of life. Justly. too, they
remind all men that as loyal citizens
of a great democratic government,
they have contributed more than
their proportionate share of wealth,
hardship, suffering and death to the
defense and preservation of the
country they love"
Other speakers on the program
included Col. William R. Arnold,
chief of chaplains, War Department;
Rabbi Able Hillel Silver of Cleve-
land, national chaplain of the Jewish
war veterans. Prior to the broad
cast, a delegation of the organization
laid a wreath on the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier
Other garlands OF flowers were
placed by the New York branch, I'd
Division, American Legion, Post No
$50; the 1st Division, I'd Division,
Post No. %, District of Columbia;
Army and Navy Union. Ladies
Auxiliary of the I'd Division, Post
No. %, and the Young Daughters of
:he American Legion. The speakers
on the program conducted by the
District of Columbia branch of the
I'd Division Association, A. E. F., in
cluded Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely,
retired commander of the I'd Divi-
sion, and Israel kaufman, president
OF the branch.
Tells of Welfare Work.
Maj. George Marshall Salvation
Army divisional commander in
Maryland and West Virginia, in an
address at the Unknown Soldiers
Tomb, spoke of the seven agancies
which carried on welfare work with
the A. E. F..
The great World War in which
this Unknown Soldier fought to
end wars was only one large link
in miserable chain of human con-
fiicts to which millions of lives have
been sacrificed since he died. The
war to end wars failed of its pur-
pose as must all similar efforts fall
Maj. Marshall said.
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