Show i sik sf 1 I I 1 our weekly washington letter 1 w A M ajaj iii it 1 j jj a AA j ai fria washington I 1 D C I 1 june ath neath a c cloudiest clou ou diess sky standing in the beautiful white marble alphi theatre which adjoins the tomb of 0 the unknown soldier calvin coolidge president ot of the united states on oa Ikle memorial morial day may 30 paid a nations tribute ato 0 the men who have served their country in time olwar he spoke of the men who served in 61 of 0 those who participated in the spanish war he spoke ot of the soldier in khaki the sailor in blue and the marines in olive green he spoke of 0 those who had made the supreme sacrifice grouped around the chief executive ot of the nation were gold star mott mothers lers lathers fathers widows slaters sisters brothers and other relatives there were generals admirals and officers of 0 lesser rank there were privates and petty officers oltie ers the grade in which a man had served meant naught all were assembled at arlington the national cemetery to pay their respects to the comrades who had passed beyond general pershing leader 0 of the american expeditionary forces stood by the presidents side to the lett left were tile the white uniformed nurses brave women who nursed the sick and the alio dying old glory the nations flag re pecked in all its beauty tire the rays ot f the affer afternoons sun the ceremonies were simple but beautiful rul f and after the benediction had been p pronounced and the augers bu bug gers ers taps had been beeri oer the green virginia hills all present stood aith bowed and uncovered heads as a last mark of respect to the dead this la Is the day president coolidge said on which the american people each year acknowledge that they have such a debt it has been set aside that a grateful nation may do fitting honor to the memory ot of those who have made the greatest and most voluntary contribution to it here about us in this place 0 of beauty and reverence lies the mortal dust ot of a noble hot hopt to whom we have come to pay our tribute as thousands of other live gatherings will do throughout our I 1 land and in their youth on t h and strength their love and to loyalty y a alty those who rest here gave to their country all that mortality can give for what they baci sacrificed we must give back the pledge ot of faith to all that they held dear constantly renewed constantly justified doing less would betray them and dishonor us i 1 to such a memorial as exists here we can only come in a spirit ol of humility and ot of gratitude we can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor they were moved by a noble conception ot of human possibilities I 1 ties and human destiny but wo I 1 can undertake to find what was their inspiration and seek to make it our guide by that they wil be becom I 1 I 1 in speaking of 0 conditions existing throughout ghost the land ot of our duties to our government and to ourselves the president said ours is a new 1 land it has had bad an almost unbelievable task to perform and has performed I 1 it well we have been called to fit the institutions ot of ancient civilization to the conditions of 0 a new c country 0 ry in that task the leaders or of t the h un nation have been supported support id by a deep devotion to the essentials of freedom at the bottom ol of the national character has been a strain of religious earnestness and moral determination which has never failed to give color and quality to our institutions because our history shows us these things we dare make honest appraisal of our shortcomings as we have not tailed failed we have s succeeded because we have been privileged to rely upon generations of 0 men and women ready to serve and to sacrifice we have magnificently succeeded in the closing words of his address president coolidge pointed out that tor for the nation to continue on its successful way here must be respect and enforcement of the laws of the land 1 ho I said our gathering here today is is in testimony of supreme obligation to those who have given most to make and preserve the nation they established it upon the dual system of the state government and federal government each supreme in its our sphere but they left to the states the main powers and fenc tunc eions of determining the form a and course of society we have bernou demonstrated in the tinie time of war that un der the constitution we possess an ail indestructible union we must not tail fall to demonstrate in the time ot of peace that we are determined to possess and maintain inde tible states this policy can be greatly advanced by individual observance ot of the law it can be strongly supplemented by a vigorous enforcement tor cement of 0 the law laithe the war which established memorial day had bad for its in main ain purpose the ot of the constitution the peace which followed that war rests upon the universal observance of the constitution this union can only be preserved the states slates can only he be maintained under a reign of national local and moral law under the established by washington under the peace provided by lincoln the boys who lie noath neath flanders poppies and those who sleep in older fields they gave their lives tor for our protection and our liberty may their deeds and sublime courage ever live in the heart of 0 the nation tie they served so well wonders will never cease the democratic senators who tor for generations as a fundamental ot of their party belief belef have been sitting up nights bights inventing new nev taxes and the way to spend the public money are now announcing noun duncing cing to the world that they are about republic ro to invents system ot of economy 1 in public expenditures senator king ot of utah is heading a sacred little democratic democrat ici band the members of 0 which not only are tor for the reduction of taxes but they are already aeling among themselves as to the extent of 0 the reductions which the people deserve it is a holly possible that their arguments carried out to a logical conc provide for the abolition ot of all taxes and the payment ot of bonuses to the citizens at large it is all humorous the leopard has not changed its spots the democrats have always been and always wll aia be committed to the theory that there are more tax eaters than payers on taxing everybody in sight arid and then hunting out the few who may be under the table the change is because having realized as chairman butler of 0 the republican Nati national committee recently said in his hii philadelphia speech that they were now only torn and tattered fragments of 0 what once was a great party and that the people ot of the nation are for tile the president and economy they have adopted this course outwardly at least they are not tor for it because they tha th democrats believe in lc it but because they teel feel it Is politically necessary and then being democratic demo crati they have adopted the program of 0 trying to tool fool the people into the belief that they invented it in these dull days it if it was not for the antics of the democrats in such cases this would indeed be a sour world |