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Show ! HARDINGSPEAKER ftTELUnfll President-elect Gives Memorial Day Address to Throng at Bedford BEDFORD. Va.. Dec. i . Presldcnt-Klecl Presldcnt-Klecl Harding Snndu redeemed n i.roTiiiN-- to hi? boviiooi friend. Henry Stdwe, now a blind resident or iho Blka' nation"! home here nd practiced prac-ticed h;s n, ,i precepts of ''Memory h Reveal.rnenl in MlPWfW jj Friendships' h formed Ihe basis . an address delivered nt the annua memorial excises at the natlpnal home or thf lodge of KIkS. u mi at the invitation of mi Stowe, formerly n business man ol Marion Ohio that Srn,lr Harding i candidate foi th RS1. Kealdrnth.i nomln itton. agreed o deft de-ft verth" memortal services orntmn at ivn, nominated he rep ' i M" Pm" a Sunda i ' ' ' . '. declaring In the pros, i of f' "' J 3 of his youth that It l not given to $ .,u men to inspire great shafts, of ?1 k 'erartltc or tablets of btonae. but It is ' me privilege of even" Itrfaif being 0 I plan an aVer-btoomtng friendship In fcl ',,,o fellow breast nnd gather all the I ' roil It bears SPEAKS in on The oration waa delivered In the onen beneath the mild sun of an Indian In-dian BUmme, .lav. from the portlao Ol ihe national home while iwo thousand l-Ilkf and rrindn rrom all parts, OI red nla gi 1 " xerrlrs in memorv of fourteen brothera who had died di ring the war JUrater Harding vv-- Introfluc-...i Introfluc-...i s,. r.nni-l KxaHed Ruler u lllMUn 1 M Abbott, of San l-rnnclsco. Senator Hardies reached Bedford it 7 a m and l-f: In the afternoon at H 1 5? 5 o'clock' for Waahlngton where he H ' will remain for two days in eonfer- ence with senators ind other before H coin? to his bom- In Marlon Tues-I Tues-I day night H "Thr greatest gift t" Goda maater H bestowal upon man ! memory," H Senator Harding, MEMORY EVERY! IHN: 'It I the storehouse or everything I ,n ifr worth while. It fashion di n - j aeter and Inspires all hope, it take H I iiii the Impreaalona of human exist-H exist-H 1 . -' nco and by sonv alchemy of l r H I removaa the dross and make golden H ' -the cross of faith which Is the rosary to a very human prayer. i -One Mnnoi fancy a life fit Uva H i without the memory! revealmenta in H ! i .. low shipf and friendships; without H love and aitnchmenf. without eneeur- H agement? and endearments; wlthoul H insplratlone and the consrioun l88 of achievements, H j 'W are met In memory today: In H 'j grateful, fraternal memory, In behalf H of those who hav taken the fork Of H the road to' eternal pcaci Ours la net H i memorial of grief. Only happy H memories are becoming to ih- depart' H ed, only helpful memories are worth H while to the liiR. ll I ho r!rjiarten brethren could know i r momorlal, i if we could solv the greal mystery ot mi m-ateries and know that they knew. ; we should atill attune our memorial above the murmuring of sorrow. For i them the hook of life Is cli i INTEREST IS LIVING. -y "Sorrow has had Its b n ine presslons. but normal, natural Interesl I is In the living indeed w re hk' for tho living. Hue this meeting would be in vain. We are mt to remind onr-selves onr-selves that as we live, ao shall our memories andure. Wt come to a fresh conclusion today that in our dally lives wo are making memorials and ii la the privilege of every hum 111 being to leave such a mrnimy as lie would likr- to have recalled." Of the disappointment of public life, Senator Harding said: "How often lo we orttti lag harshly, when we ought to bestow I garland We do ll In private lfg and leave B wound where praise would be more becoming. We '.o r in 1 1 1 : hi' withhold from sacrificing public men the one oompeni Men that might ""H I lion |