Evening star., 1945-05-30
Vinson Exhorts
Nation 10 Danish
Causes Of War
Arlington Crowded
As District Observes
Memorial Day
picture on Page BIZ


Fred M. Vinson, director OF
war mobilization, in a Memorial
Day address in the Arlington
Amphitheater, called on Ameri-
cans to pay their debt to their
countrymen who have died in
this war by working together
to wipe out the causes of future
conflict, and to guarantee to
common men everywhere the
freedom to live and work in
peace, in harmony with their
brothers."
The ampitheater was crowded. The
vast cemetery had been peopled all
morning with groups walking under
the trees among the graves. The
spring holiday with it's tradition of
laying fresh flowers on graves of SOL
diers had brought out many other
fathers, mothers and young widows
who were unable to get to their SOL
diers' graves-they were overseas.
The day was holiday except for
the quarter of a million Government
employees in Washington and those
employed in public services. Stores
were closed, streetcar and bus traffic
was light.
Veterans Sponsor Program.
Mr. Vinson spoke at the annual
services now under the direction Of
a corporation comprised of veterans
organizations of the Spanish and
World Wars. The Grand Army Of
the Republic. with only 240 survivors
in the Nation today, relinquished
sponsorship of the event last year.
The holiday was inaugurated IT
years ago in honor of their comrades
who fell in the Civil War.
Final triumph will be achieved"
Mr.. Vinson said, ''but the cost is
heavy. There are many dead who
do not lie here. whose bodies rest
in foreign soil, in France, Italy and
Germany, in Africa and the far-of
islands of the Pacific-Iwo Jima and
Tarawa and Okinawa.
1T is our tradition that we count
no cost too great if it will secure
to us and to the world the freedom
Of men. ""*
Death of Men Deplored.
/ "It is tragic thing that men die
because of the evil that other men
do. 1t is tragic that evil is allowed
to take root and flourish until only
the savagery of war can tear it out.
There is another way, and we must
ind it. Let us once and for all root
out of our thinking the idea that
wars are beyond control. s'*
I'VE have glimpsed prosperity be-
yond anything this nation. or the
! world, has ever known-by pro-
viding multitude Of jobs. But
there is something wrong when such
standards of living can be attained
only by production for war. There
is something wrong with US, with
the systems of mankind that have
caused war -
I'VE must create. in peace, a new
prosperity and greater oppor-
tunity for jobs than has existed be-
fore. We are nation of pro-
digious accomplishment and we can
do this job too. '''
Government Will Help.
Where government can help, It
will. But the task is, first and fore
most. the job of every one of us; Of
everyone within reach of my voice:
of every living man and woman Of
America and in the world. We
living owe it to those who have died.
We owe it to those who will return.
Let them see that we are PLAN
ming together, laboring together, act
ing together to wipe out the causes
of future conflict, and to guaran-
tee to common men everywhere the
freedom to live and work in peace, in
harmony with their brothers.
This is the least we can do; to
bring about the realization and the
fulfllment of freedom for the world
for which all of us have fought,
and some of us have died. Only in
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