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Show SIBBBITAT J VALLEY FORGE f ipeaks of Two Famous J Bsttlefiefds, fottysburg and Valley Forge 1 1 of Turning, Points in Amer-re(ji Amer-re(ji ican History. . I fQ Man's Life as Vital to Republic ' T 35 Those of WasllinEton . ll jvud Lincoln. ri .HltADELPniA. June 10. On tho ) historic spot at Valloy Forgcwherc -Washington and his "gallant boys ct '76" suffered In order that the pJtd states might become a Nation, ' II rtildent Eoosevelt today delivered a 2 ' ' laWe addres?. This -was "Evacuation j y and"thc annlversnor was celebra-i celebra-i appropriately in the little edifice ' f jjjs brcn erected on what is to be -site of the Washlnplon Memorial .j ;3rch. 11 was to add his sympathy ' A encouragement to the project of y , uyng the spot by a suitable memoir memo-ir d that President Roosevelt made his .A . ...... in? ,J,r the PrcsIdent the dQy WQS a busy k He spent the morning- in company LID. 'M Attorney-General Knox, lira. :. AT ivelt arid Mrs. Knox, In driving itr the ground made historic by Wash-vu; Wash-vu; !on, the President Insisting on pay-- pay-- ir the small fee which nil visitors are aifed for viewing the place. The IfA1 imp ground and batLlefleld were cx-IvVl cx-IvVl blned carefully. A visit also -was paid i (he first house in 'this country occu-. occu-. : led ly Audubon, the naturalist. A& iFrom Valley Forge the President and in? returned directly to Attorney-AM Attorney-AM tr.tral Knox's home. f,vi SJfe night was- passed without note-ufcl note-ufcl orthy incident at Valley Forge farm, rnrp heftealdpnt and party will leave the uc. irm tomorrow morning, talcing their y pedal train for Washington, s Tho President Speaks. '.:Savcral hundred persons had nasem- ri at the Washington Memorial i brl where President Roosevelt spoke . , lis afternoon, but only a part of them -' Ibid gain entrance ns Its capaplty Is tlmj limited. Tho Preaident .said in j 111 is a noteworthy thing that this Kite of Pennsylvania should have wlth-i( wlth-i( B Its borders the places which mark ! titwo turning points In our history V rittyaburg, which sav the high-tide of J k rebellion, and Valley Forge, which is- the gettlng-beyond-the-dnnger- e!ct of the Revolution. i'There have been two great crises In i cr history, two crises where failure T ' leant the absolute breaking asunder of -.) t Nation, one the Revolutlonar' war, m . tt the Civil war. - There have - ?n other crises than those which : tlmlnated In the great war for inde- ;'. fndence and the gre-.it Civil war; there IlC Ve 1)CCn Great statesmen and great HVi watother periods of our national hls-KT, hls-KT, but there has never been another wlso vital to the welfare of the Na- Ba as tliese the deetls of those who wifcied and the deeds of those who . d the Republic fThore never has been another man tmt life has been vital to the repub-, repub-, t sa-e "Washington and Lincoln. I It Is a good thing of these land-, Mrks of our historic-Gettysburg and' W Forge one thould cornmemo-' a single tremendous effort and the r what 1 think is on tho whole wntr more dimcult to do, a long sus- i Ud effort. d ncn with a touch of the heroic 7 , J- lbtm could have lasted out that three ; rtru;;gle at Gettysburg. Only men ? i ,wl rank wltl1 tnc Kreat men of. all " I' iEr1?"1 nav(? beaten back the mighty J i K5nt of that gallant and wonder-ir.i wonder-ir.i y Qt northern Virginia, whose ' Sr.wJireine ,?rrorL radei at the atone ; w on Cemetery ridge on that July day Btij-one years ago. Self-Sacrlflce in Crisis. )W t?atcr an- 1,a,d as It I to rlseYo Tf p,reme hcisliL of wlf-jjacriflce and .1 tm. . aL n Uinc" of crlHis, for a single Ift u Li8,0"' 11 is rder yet to rise to 1 ( Jv '"el ?c a crisla when that crisis 1 K ine fonn of needing constant, pa-6a pa-6a ui'r S. dy W0l'k- month after month, W S ?; er -vear' when. too. it does not - i u iaI a l.errlble struggle In a. glorify glori-fy t,Jr y nen It ..means monthn of W' 3 ,arid effort Btcaxlfaully endured g triumph wrested only at the very W ikMn,.lv:o lcs"s are both Indls- V D' semH hardly worth while to f '( t vl0,r; on oni u,an on the other. lU tm . k llut aa a People wo need 2, 2 ltajn thc" leaon of Valley Forge 1C Mih?11.?! !latof Gettysburg. I have l5 t i? Jlsht08t -clfty that this peo- in. Jin0,"00'1 should come in the fu-m0 fu-m0 Vln!1 be al),e t0 sl,oxv tne heroism. ?.T tPrenit c;'forL lhal waf shown at Ws grsburg although It may well be - "ttrnV. l!ld.npt'd ft simple two-years 35 H Ch0c"kered by disaster to lead - ' (M?liI;heiVU??.th,,,P for lhle Nation to cu'"vate the quallty Kb ?SUy sllwed during the lfiKfi Jallfiy Forse-ihe quality of 'mmhCi A ln th leet1' of dlscouraco--itEn LrVin difai5ter' nuallly that SWoJe haJ Js 8tra,St and decent. 1M,:,-ai' whi a great crisis comes. l() HEf ?ir,C1' at tlie end." Hift- adrewes were also made by At-J0 At-J0 tUrt. neral Wa"ne MacVengh and - . ) |