Show t 7 MEMORIAL 1 DAY It is now nearly seventy years ears since the last shot was tired ired in tHat mac tremendous between between between be be- tween the North and south bouin which records as the American civil War The pItiful little of survivors o 01 of that great struggle are now old om ola men Hum IV Whatever hatred or bitterness bitterness bit bit- they felt for lor each other has long since been resolved b by bythe bythe the kindly soothing hand 01 time it Jt is not necessary here to go into the causes oi or that titanic struggle Leave that to the historians historians his hIS- anti ana interpreters will WUl not have in another seventy years fears nor in 70 times 70 10 their efforts to make the events of the L It tills till's US U'S s prove tHIS tins or the tile otner other ln fact remains that tHe survivors the descendants of ot both sides have equal cause lor for pride Ye We O believe we are right in saying luat an au t Ine Ile rancor all an the me seCtIOnal bitterness that that great struggle engendered and which hung For lor so long like a funeral pan pall over the reunited Nation vanished long Jong since It began to d disappear sapp r when the le sons of ot men who WilO had worn the Northern blue marched in the ranks in 98 those whose fathers lathers had worn the Southern grey its last trace disappeared when hen the the boys from Texas lexas and Mississippi l swung into action at Thiery Chateau-Thiery alongside their khaki-clad khaki brothers from Vermont Vermont Vermont Ver Ver- mont and Minnesota r On the day of last month all over oyer the North and in many of 01 the States O or of the south bouth the Nation paid again its annual tribute of remembrance to the brave men who fought for their native land in three great wars In some states there have been boon or are yet to be h held ld special memorial services for those who fought for the Confederacy But the tears that are shed and the wreaths that are are laid are all of them a nations nation's tribute to what we must still regard as the highest possible expression of the nobility of the human character which does not hesitate hesitate hesitate hesi hesi- tate to risk dear life itself not for any possible selfish gain but for the sake of others Under the sod and the dew waiting the Judgement Day Day Day- Tears and love for the Blue love and tears for the Gray JIM JIl HAM HAl ON COOLIDGE Tribute to the attitude of President Calvin Coolidge toward toward to to- ward lard the debt owed to us by other countries is paid by Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Jim Ham Lewis of Illinois a Democrat He says The Senate should say to these distinguished debtors that they must make no mistake in assuming that moves on the part of this government to collect the debts due are mere gestures for the purpose of politics Thc They must Joust understand that we are out but fulfilling the law of ot the lau lanu lo To use the words of ot the thc ex- ex Coolidge They borrowed borrowed bor borrowed rowed the money they ha have ve enJoyed enjoyed enjoyed en en- joyed the loan they should return return re- re turn it And we wish to them that we propose stressing m n a proper and legitimate wa way wa the collection of ot the debts and anu me ilic or ot the contract in Inn order justice may maJ be bedone done acne to our our Nation as well as honor maintained between ourselves our our- selves ann and those with whom venom we have e maintained kindly kIndly relatIons relations rela rela- trolls for lor years 1 am amused bythe by oy oythe the che daring of ol our former lormer Allies AUle ACID TEST FOR There has been a heated but nevertheless ss healthy discussion n ol of the National Recovery AdminIstration Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration since the publication tion of the Darrow report As the N RA was rounded on new and untried economic theories theories theo theo- ries it ils not surprising I there have been many inconsistencies inconsistencies In m its operation In Roosevelt's time there were slogans about trust bustIng busting busting bust bust- ing Today the Sherman antitrust antitrust anti anti- trust law is in moth balls baJIs If II the i u INK NI-CA NI A withstands he acid test to which it t is being subjected it will wul be modified The Darrow report Is s constructive constructive constructive con con- and its criticisms point out remedies to strengthen the theN N NKA HA program General Johnson has exploded and shown his temper as usual General Counsel Counsel Counsel Coun Coun- sel Donald has intemperate intemperate intemperate statements against the authors ol ot the Darrow report Evidently there is too much truth in the charge that some of the Jonnson organization think they own the Washington ashington expects there will willbe willbe willbe be reorganization of the this Summer and that the changes will serve to correct many defects that exist in in the set up There is nothing to be disturbed disturbed disturbed dis dis- dis- dis about in the present turmoil BEGINNING AT THE GRASS ROOTS Real recovery says ays the Moorhead Minnesota l Daily News must begin at the grass roots That opinion is shared by a sizeable army of economists In spite of the population drift fa to city that egan Degan after the war the bulk of th the population is still dependent on agriculture for its And the farm market is the greatest potential field for sales of manufactured manufactured manufactured manu manu manu- products ol of all types The government as as a matt matter r of fact has sought to begin at atthe atthe atthe the grass roots in pursuing its recovery Its have certainly not been completely completely completely com com- successful nor have hav been utterly a failure |