Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1936, Page 8

Text of Roosevelt Speech Calls for Rededication of Nation’s Efforts to Peace and Liberty in Address Delivered at B3 the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 28.—Following s the text of President Roosevelt's speech at the fiftieth anniversary cel- ebration at the Statue of Liberty to- day: Fifty years ago our old neigh- bor and friend from across the sea gave us this monument to stand at the principal Eastern:gateway to the New World. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, ac- cepted this gift with the pledge that “we will not forget that Lib- erty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.” During those 50 years that cove- nant between ourselves and our most cherished convictions has not been broken. Four hundred years ago, in Eu- rope, as well as in Asia, there was little hope of liberty for the aver= age men of courage and good will, ‘The smbitions of a ruling class and the times alike, conspired against liberty of conscience, lib- erty of speech, liberty of the per- son, liberty of economic oppor- tunity. Wars, dynastic and re- ligious, had exhausted both the sub- stance and the tolerance of the ©Old World.. There was neither eco- nomic nor political liberty—nor any hope for either. Thep came one of.the great ironies of history. Rulers needed to find gold to pay their armies and increase their power over the common men. The seamen they sent to find that gold found instead the way of escape for the common man from those rulers. What they found over the Western horizon was not the silk and jewels of Cathay, but mankind's second chance—a chance to create a new world after he had almost spoiled an old one. And the Almighty seems pur- posefully to have withheld that second chance until the time when men would most need and appre- ciate liberty, the time when men would be enlightened enough to establish it on foundations sound enough to maintain it. For over three centuries a steady stream of men, women and chil« dren followed the beacon of liberty which this light symbolizes. They brought to us strength and moral fiber developed in a civilization centuries old but fired anew by the dream of a better life in America. They brought to one new country the cultures of a hundred old ones. Emigrants to America Not the Failures. It has not. been sufficiently em- phasized in the teaching of our history that the overwhelming ma- Jority of those who came from the nations of the Old World to our American shores were not the lag- gards,” not the timorous, not the failures. They were men and women who had the supreme cour= age to strike out for themselves, to abandon language and rela- tives—to start at the bottom with- out influence, without money and without knowledge of life in a very young civilization. We can say for all America what the Cali- fornians say of the Forty-Niners, “the cowards never started and the weak died by the way.” Perhaps Providence did prepare this American continent to be a place of the second chance. Cer- tainly, millions of men and women have made it that. They adopted this homeland because in this land they found a home in which the things they most desired could be theirs—freedom of oppor- tunity, freedom of thought, free- dom to worship God. Here they found life because here there was freedom to live. It is the memory of all these eager seeking millions that makes this one of America’s places of great romance. Looking down this great harbor I like to think of the countless number of inbound ves- sels that have made this port. I like to think of the men and women who—with the break of dawn off Sandy Hook—have strained their eyes to the West for & first glimpse of the New World. They came to us—most of them—in steerage. But they, in their humble quarters, saw things in these strange horizons which were denied to the eyes of those few who traveled in greater lux- ury. They came to us speaking many tongues—but a single language, the universal language of human aspiration. How well their hopes were justi- filed is proved by the record of what they achieved. They not only found freedom in the New World, but by their effort and de- votion they made the New World's freedom safe, richer, more far reaching, more capable of growth. Within this present generation that stream from abroad has large- ly stopped. We have within our shores today the materials out of which we shall continue to build an even better home for liberty. We take satisfaction in the thought that those who have left their native land to join us, may still retain here their affection for some things left behind—old cus- toms, old language, old friends. Looking to the future, they wisely choose that their children shall live in the new language and in the new customs of this new SKIN DRY 9 YOU NEED CUTICURAS SPECIAL CREAMY EMOLLIENTS Dry skin smarts and a woman'’s looks more than any other factor perhaps. But so creamy, so soft and so absorbable is the lightly medi. cated lather of Cuticurp Soap. thatsit does much to keep a naturally dry skin smooth and young-looking. The blended emollients of Cuticura lubricate and help protect—Ileave the skin soothed and always looking its best. Cuticura Ointment is just what Nature needs to help heal sensitive spots and ugly local irritations. Start this treatment today, Soap 25c. Ointment 25c. Buy at your druggist's. For FREE Sample, write “Cuticura” Dept. 25, Malden, Mass. "Statue of Liberty. people. And, those children more and more realize fr common destiny in America. THat is tru whethar their forbears came pas this place eight generations ago or only one. Bound by Hopes Ot Common Future, The realization that we are all bound together by hope of a com- mon future rather than by rever- ence for a common past has helped us to build upon this continent & unity unapproached in any similar area or population in the whole world. For all our millions of square miles, for all our millions of people, there is a unity in lan- guage and speech, in law and in economics, in education and in general purpose, which nowhere finds its match. It was the hope of those who THE gave us this statue and the hope -of the -American people in receiv- ing it that the Goddess of Liberty and the Goddess of Peace were the shme. _“The grandfather of my old friend the French Ambassador, and those who helped him make this gift ible, were citizens of a great #ister republic established on' the Principle’ of the democratic form of government. Citizens of all ‘democracies unite in théir desire for peace. Grover Cleveland recog- nized this unity on this spot 50 feyears ago. S & that Liberty En- lghtening .g@ would extend her rays from ti &hores to every other nation. = ‘Today -the symbolism should“be broadened. To the message of Liberty which America sends to all the world must be added her mes- sage of peace. Even in times as troubled and uncertain as these, I still hold to the faith that a better civilization than any we have known is in store for America and by our example, perhaps, for the world. 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If we keep the faith for our day as those who came be- fore us‘ kept the faith for theirs, then you and I can smile with con- fidence into the future, It is fitting, therefore, that this should be a service of rededica- tion to the liberty and the peace which this statue symbolizes. Lib- erty and peace are living things. In each generation—if they are to be maintained—they must be guarded and vitalized anew. We don only a small part of our duty to America when we glory in the great past. Patriotism that stops with that is a too-easy patriotism—a patriotism out of step with the patriots. For each gen- eration the more patridtic part is to carry forward American freedom and American peace by mmking them living facts in a living present. To that we can, dedicate ourselves, we do, re- Prosperous business conditions have become more marked in Luxemburg. th solid AitVen- teel DY BY FISHER i Topand NoDr t complete ! UNISTEEL 80 steel Turret’ jon. 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Sure it’s a Buick—the most stunning, sizeable, satisfying Buick that ever gladdened your startled gaze—but its good looks are literally the least of it. Wait_till you get into it,*try the room and ASHINGTON, D. C., SVON WOLFS CAREER RECALLED Late Jewish Leader and Philanthropist Born 100 Years Ago Today. Friends and relatives of the late Simon Wolf, philanthropist, suthor and Jewish leader, who died in 1923 after 60 years of public service in Washington, recalled his usefuf ca- reer today upon the occasion of his 100th birthday anniversary. The children who survive him are Mrs. Myer Cohen, wife of his former partner, and Miss May V. Wolf, both of Wardman Park Hotel, and Adolph Grant Wolf, judge of the Supreme | Court of Puerto Rico since 1904. Si- mon Wolf’s widow, Mrs. Amy Wolf, his second wife, also lives at Wara- man Park. Admitted to Bar in 1861 Simon Wolf was born in Bavaria, Germany, October 28, 1836, and came OCTOBER 28, 1936. to this country with his grandparents when he was 12 years old. He was educated in Cleveland and admitted to the Ohio bar in 1861, coming to Washington the following year. He practiced law here and early associated himself with educational, civic and charitable activities, He served on the Board of Educa- tion and the former Board of Chari- ties and took an active part in presi- dential campaigns from 1868 to 1900. He was appointed Consul General to Egypt by President Garfleld, Refuted War Record Charge. Mr. Wolf, in answer to charges that the Jews did not support the Union during the Civil War, went through the service rolls and published a refu- tation, donating the proceeds from the book to the Atlantic Jewish Or- phans' Home, his favorite charity. 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