Show wars hatreds no heritage of americans to those who have observed with thoughtful minds the changing character of the american celebrations of jar day there will come today a deeper understanding of our national ideals find a more mord illuminating conception of that essential that had set america apart in its ita alms and purposes from all the nations of the old world when the news first 1 pr 0 keu upon pona a war weary world eleven years bleur ligo ago that the day of pence had at last downed it was but natural that we should join with the other al lied nations naj our jur i brothers in tile the great struggle in exultant manifestations of triumph over victory ach achl toyed eyed as well raa no joy ja i 1 atthe happy termination of the years of storm and struggle but the wild exuberance of those first celebrations I 1 has diminished with each recurrence r aen ce of tile the anniversary of armistice day apy it la Is no do longer in america a day ARY of victory letory exultation but a day of tender memories and glorification glorifina glori fica pt of the heroic dead for whom the day of pence peace dawned in another world the malice and the hatreds of war the delirium of a conquest find and the vainglory of military triumph have passed bussed like incidents of an evil hour lit their thelt place lave corne the efflux effluence nce of those alma and purposes pu reposes 1 which were the lie corner stones of the nations hilti vils foundations which in f I 1 eiery every national crisis have risen ilsen to assort the themselves nisel yes as the true national ideals above the shouts of victory or oil the i transient lent glories of military successes success es it la Is in ill tills spirit that america proclaims proc lainis to the world tile the r ringing n g g truth that it Is not vt a militaristic t nation atlon but tile the worlds arbiter of i r 4 sa ema c S victoe victories V es 1 not celebrated at v tills note of charity und heating healing peace tins lins been of the aftermaths after lufter maths of all our nations great liars wars jeni jena and austerlitz trafalgar find fehd waterloo derloo are still names that comme commemorate ingrate military achievements abroad and monuments rind and arches of triumph and days of celebration still perpetuate victories of the th e past over there it Is churnet of the american spirit tilot we ha have not followed that custom cusi orn our greatest 11 monument attests a heroic defeat that thai of hunker bunker hill no national holiday has ever been set sel aside to commemorate me iner a a military victory yorktown new orleans orle ans buena alata gettysburg tys burg the appomattox campaign Santi santiago figo and manila may bay are still patriotic memories but they are perpetuated petua ted only in glor glorious lous history and not in days of exultation americas policy and spirit have always been characterized Y py y a charlei charitable able forget falness bulnes 9 of of war and the extended hand of renewed peace to the toe foe such was tile lost last word that washington le left ft to the young republic still cherishing memories of the revolutionary I 1 struggle it will be worthy of a free enlightened and atno at no d distant is period a great nation to give to I 1 mankind the magnanimous and too 1 1 ovel novel ex example timple of a people guided by ax at j exalted justice and benevolence intha in alie execution or of such a plan nothing Is more essential than that permanent inveterate antipathies antipa thies fagain at particular nations and pas attachments for others should be excluded land and that in place of them just josi and amicable feelings toward nil all should bo ae cultivated Lincol ns great message WI th the he ehll of the gortat civil war in sight kneif one if tho the most bitter wars vars 1 ever fought in his bis second 14 az sj inaugural address dd dreis V voiced the sinne same message with malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the he t na as god t ives us to see the aliet right let ej us ua on to finish the work wo are in to bind up the nations X s wounds to care for him who shall hall havee ha ve borne borde the battle and for ills ids ml widow I 1 and h lil oralian orp lian to do oil all which may a achieve achl eleand eve end and cheil cherish sh a just 4 and lasting peace 1160 bamo among rig ourselves itna with all i lotions 11 it was the bow some ot thought hought that found Z poetic expression in francis at M fincha tho the blue and the gray no mo more ahall the war cry never cover or the winding rivers run red they banish our anger forever when they laurel the graves of our dead under the sud sod and the dew waiting the judgment day love lova and tears teara for or the blue tears and love for or the gray soldiers heritage and so on this armistice day thero there cornea back a voice from the dead tile the voice or of a poet british born but adopted by the he world who died on the field before the down dawn of the day of pence peace to remind us that americas as well us as the worlds greatest gain from hie file war of tile the natrona nation sare are the memories of the hero dead and not the selfish glories of victory blow out you bugles bugle over the rich dead theres none ot of these theme go 0 o lonely and poor of 0 old but dying has haa made us rarer gifts than gold those these laid the world away poured out the red sweet wine of youth gave up the years to be ot of worl work and joy and that serene that men call age and those who would have ha a bee been n their sons sona they gave their immortal ity honor has come back as EL a king to earth and paid hix his subjects with a royal wage wag e and nobl nobleness eness walks in our ways way again and we have come into our heri heritage taga it la Is tho thoughts lights such no as these expressed by our own great statesmen and hy by tills his poet from across the seas that should blend blendin ln the reflection of our hours flours of meditation today into a forgetfulness or of all hatreds and a renewal of hopes forthal for that reign of pence peace which america Amerl cn as a notion nation has always va ya symbolized F from rom the ilia kansas city c ty star |