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Show A 3,000-Mi!e Unfortified Boundary Line gg, jy,, Iff w WASHINGTON. An -unfortified boundary line more than 3.000 miles long between the United States and Canada is the best testimony that the world grows wiser and better, President Harding said in a letter read at the dedication of a peace portal erected near Blaine, Wash., in commemoration of more than a century of uninterrupted peace between America Ameri-ca and Great Britain. The portal, on the International line, was conceived by Samuel Hill of Seattle. Se-attle. In recognition of the significance of the occasion the President wrote Mr. Hill as follows: "The ancient Romans erected a temple tem-ple to Janus, a dispenser of peace and war, and ordered that Its gates should never be closed while the nation was at war. In seven centuries they are said to have been closed but throe times. You have erected a temple of peace, whose gates are never to be closed save In war. Already it stands for more than a century of unbroken peace between Britain and America, and we all join in the hope that in coming com-ing times it may commemorate an era of peace much longer than the period of wars for which the temple of Janus stood. "Our century and more of peace witn the British empire, our relations of unbroken un-broken amity with Canada, the fact that a boundary line over 3,000 miles long remains unfortified these are the testimonies that the world grows wiser and better. All mankind looks to this example, yearns to follo.v it; and we are justified to believe tnat a time is at hand when it may take a long step in that direction. On the occasion of dedication of the Pacific Peace Portal I wish to convey to you personally my high appreciation of your patriotic service in providing a symbolic shrine to international peace, and in doing so, I would also thank the Pacific Highway High-way association (the builder of the portal) por-tal) for the fine co-operation it has rendered." |