New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1923, Page 5

VETERANS OBSERVE ARMISTICE SIGNING , Mttend Divine Services and Dedt- cate Memorial Athletic-Field Armistice Day was observed in this city yesterday by ex-servicemen, vet- erans of the Spanish-American war and members of the Grand Army of the republic. The program was car- ried out as'arranged although not on as large a scale as anticipated. Ex-| ' ercises were held in the morning at Trinity M, E. church, about 200 rep- resentatives of patriotic organizations being present with the veterans. An inspiring sermon was preached by the pastor, Rev. John L. Davis. In the afternoon a parade was held. It was small compared with | previous patriotic pageants but thous- ands of citizens lined the curbs to watch the boys go marching by. The day's program was completed with | the dedication of Memorial field nt | Willow Rrook park. Mte. Mary T.| Y'rean sang and the address was de- livered by Rev. J. Leo Sullivan. Sermon At Trinity Church Rev. Mr. Davis' sermon in morning was, in part, as follows: “This institution, this church and |°* all churches, stand for the things you men fought to preserve for us. It is the church that is to save elviliza- | tion In this time of conflict and con- \ fusion if it Is ever to be saved from wreck and run, no other institution is adequate to save the world. | “Another reason you men are here | is through gratitude and appreciation | and love for those who gave their lives in France that our nation might live and be free. We must never for- get the sacrifice they have made “Another reason we are here morning is that might re and have stamped, indelibly minds some of the lessons that the war has taught us. I do not know anything else to get out of the war, now that it is over, unless it is the lesgons we can get from it. One of | the great lessons that the war taught | us is that it is just as important to ! s make peace as it {8 to make war and | A war peace is just as responsible for conditions as a bad and evil war, When the war was over and Ger- many was licked, it was the wish | that some financial experts be called | in to determine just what Germany should pay. Ambassador Simmons estimated that about $11,000,000,000/ was all G&many could pay, but in- «tead of that England and France | were 5o anxious to get the reparation for all the costs of the war in every | way paid by Germany, that they in- sisted upon something like $38,000,- 000,000 instead of $11,000,000,000 for Germany to pay. Germany has laid down on the job. Now France and England wish we had had this mat- ter settled. by financial experts, for nfter five years, we have accomplished little, most of the time we have been in war and still are facing war, FEverybody. feels that France should | he paid as much as possible, but you | cannot get blood out of a turnip. | Criticizes Lloyd George | “Tdoyd George said the other day, ‘There 18 no use to hit a man when! he 15 down,' and yet he was one of those who wanted to put a gran there in the early days. It is just asim- portant to make the right kind of peace as to make war. As it is, America stands today where she stood at the beginning, the only successful way to do is to have financial experts determine what Germany can pay and | then make her pay that. “Another lesson wo have learned from the war is that the modern forts as they wers bullt mean nothing in modern implements of war. The| forts of Belgium and France mean | nothing against the German guns. | | the | this learn upon our we “If there is another war it will be | the most awful in the World's his- tory, because the poisonous gases and powerful flying férces could de- stroy the population of a whole city. It will be 100 years before we will wetl over the effects of the last war. We have learned another thing We Americans who always have lived in smug content, secure in the feeling that nebody could reach us from across the Atlantic or Pacific, know new we are not immunc, that an enemy could land here and nttack New York or Boston in two or three days. 1s0 we have learned that out of 54,000,000 men who we thought were soldiers and ready to fight and conld fight, out of 54,000,000 only 10,600,000 were fit for overseas work and only 13,000,000 were fit for the army and navy here in this country, That was a surprise for us. We have learned that we had millions who on aceount of defective feet, eyes and teeth were not fit for service of the country. We have profited by these lessons because we are beginning in our schools to take better care of our children, in egamining the eyes, teeth and feet of the children so they *will not grow up with these defects, which if taken carly enough can be caslly remedied “We have learped in America that all people living here are not loyal to | the flag. Tt was a great surprise to me to legrn that hundreds and thou- «ans living in the U, 8. had no use for the flag and In times of danger would go back and fight against the coun< try Now in the factories and in the schools we are pushing Americaniza. tion work more than ever before so that all races may be amalgamated and assimilated as rapidly as possible. larches, -U\fl We must not forget that many of the aliens in this country were loyal to | thHe country in time of war and we| sra glad they were, but their lot was | misunderstood. We know, that many hundreds and thousands do not fcel loyal to our country. When war with Germany seemed imminent, the high powers of Germany told Ambassador Gerard that we could not o to war with Germany because they though, ' had 10,000,000 Germans in America | ‘who would support their own country and would not be loyal to America. | Girard replied, ‘That may be so, but | we have 10,000,001 telegraph DOILS on whiclr we will string them up.’ “Another lesson we have learned is that when this war came on we were not prepared with army or navy. To- day we are more or less prepared. ‘We have the standing army, then we have the navy we have the national | guard and the officers’ reserve corps who in the last analysis are trained for immediate service and could trdin others, “Friends, we capnot expect wars are over. While the world is keyed up to such that if some one touched a mateh to a magazine it would go over into war again, if there was-anybody left in the world who could fight and had anything to fight with except | America. The dominant characteris- | tics of the nations of the world is | selfishness and as long as France | that whole a pitch thinks in the terms of France, Ger- | many in the terms of Germany, Eng- | {1and in the terms of Englani and Ttaly in the terms of Ttaly and Ameri- |ca in the terms of America, as long | {as we are thinking selfishly and only \nr ourselves, there is always a danger misunderstanding and of war.’] Father Sullivan’s Address At the dedication exercises at Me- morial field in the afternoon, Father Sullivan spoke as follows: ““When the legions of mighty Rome returned to ghe ancient capital in-tri- umph, the mistress of the world was wont to erect triumphal arches, un- der which her invincible soldiers proudly marched, ““Many of you hoys, during vour stay in Paris, saw the stately Arch de Triomphe, near the Bois de Boulogne whic the Bon “Here in cities Paris, h commemorates the victories of French general, Napoleo America our the manner of Rome and have triumphal commemorating the dpeds of our herofe soldiery, in every war from the Revolutionary down to the late war in Europe. ‘New Britain, not content with erecting that beautiful and unique memorial on Walnut Hill to the mem- ory of ‘Her Boys' goes a mighty step further, when she planned and brought to successful completion this magnificent athictic field, a fitting memorial to her sons, more lasting than the bronze shafts or marhle mausoleums of kings “If ‘our boys' could speak today, if we could summon them from that country ‘from which no traveller res turns,’ T know they would rejoice. T know they would commend us for in many of aftey we erccted coneeiving a memorial so dear to their hearts, so dear to the hearts of every true red.blooded young American “For next to the field of battle where has young America won the laure! erown so frequently, where has young Amerien distinguished himselr #0 gloriously as on the athletic field” “If the American legions, in the Jate war, swept across the western front with the irresistible onslaught of a tida! wave, or with the ecrashing power of an earthquake, it was no! because they were trained and tash loned within the mechanical walls of |a military school or barracks “¥ree man as he is, compulsory military training was ever a noxious plant that never thrived on America soil “And so in the exbllarating air of athletic field, the sun, the wind fand the rain, God's own elements {conspired to fashion and mould him IHI the American athlete has becom: |the despair of Kuropean contenders, “Yes, truly was the American sol- dier and sailor trained when the storm of the World War engulfed us in its rushing swirl; and Europe has yet to |recover from the shock she experienc- and the western ‘ough Boys' ran wild on the el when the ‘Devil Dogs’ front. “With trained tough ened, with minds keen and alert, once the objeetive was sensed, not all the furies of hell, unleashed by the tral empires, could halt their irresist ible advance “Religion and education have long since, here in America, realize the importance of athletic traming, as ar auxiliary in the rounding out of a well-balanced Christian gentleman “Furthermore, it lLas been proven from experience that localities, cquip ped with athletic fields, have gone a long way toward solving the problem of juvenile and adult delinquency “The war is over; the stage set at Versallles, some four five years ago, but the Ange! of Peace seems rather timid about appraring on the scene “Hatred and envy, strife and sensions, like a malignant plague hodiee and eer was | still devastating the fairest portions of Europe. “Billions of dollars that could I spent om reconstruction and r tion are being handed over to the god of battle, while the mills of Mars ate grinding away in a feverish cfiort to turn out new engines for the des struction of humanity “If Europe would take a page otir history (brief thongh it he) invest & fraction of the moncy squanders on her war prep: erecting athletic fields, and thietic contests, she might from and candy — made of sugar, butier. and cream ANNOUNCEMENT Jobm T. Croshy. Radio Expert, hne opened mew quarters at 111 Main Street (one flight up) where he will be gind to attend to the wants of the Radio Public. with a complte line of Parts as well as complete Ser< aml Servior., Crosby’s Radio Shop | 111 MAIN STREET ONE FLIGHT v We have 10 chances to get | | ready when he had one before. lighted | iiadny NOVEMBER 12, & Germany, recently witnessed scine violent street| | fighting. This shows a shop in that city, after a mad attack of the mob. There’s not much left but the walls. | somewhat the war-like tension has labored under for centuries! “Let athletic contests between the nations take the place of war {tween the nations. “Let the question of international supremacy_he settled on' the athletic field, by the athletes of the nations. Let us traig up a generation athletes instead of soldiers, and | coupled with the love of God, and love of neighbor will do more to usher in an era of peace and good- will than all the league of nations, world courts, courts of arbitration and other such subtle inventions cold-blooded, hard-hoiled politicians. “God intended man be happy but man, blunderingly and perversely deranged th of this of to Divine harmony God is still piness, and i suhmit children His theu i end of nd their concomitant evils. 1is field is a big asset to the hap piness of this community. Like the church it will have its in the up-building of the community, help- ing to produce, let hope, in our citizenship ‘a clean mind in a healthy body.' " His Him will be our wills t and let run ini- verse, there war place Cotton Prices Soar When Liverpool Shows Strength New Nov. 12 Following an excited very strong Liverp market morning, cotton prics on the York Cotton ¥xehang jumped fully $4 a in the first half hour of trading January ad vaneed 33.32, March 32.62 and May 43,85, with both Liverpool und mill interests heavy I-hu.l.\ York, and this New bale be- | | bury she Baker Is Named Jailer At Danbury’s Lockup Nov. 12. - Sheriff Simeon today appointed Al- pheus A. Baker as jailer of the Dan- | jail to fill the place made va- | cant by the death of David Wright Mrs. Wright has been acting jaller | and while the sheriff decided not to | appoint her jaller he will have her | remain for the present. 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