Today The Guns Are Silent. A Great

Let Us Pray That Peace Be Now Restored To The World, And That God Will Preserve It Always.

Believe Me, Sir, Never A Night Goes By, Be I Ever So Tired, But I Read The Word Of God Before I Go To Bed.

We Have Known The Bitterness Of Defeat And The Exultation Of Triumph, And From Both We Have Learned There Can Be No Turning Back. We Must Go Forward To Preserve In Peace What We Won In War. A New Era Is Upon Us. Even The Lesson Of Victory Itself Brings With It Profound Concern, Both For Our Future Security And The Survival Of Civilization. The Destructiveness Of The War Potential, Through Progressive Advances In Scientific Discovery, Has In Fact Now Reached A Point Which Revises The Traditional Concepts Of War.

I Stand On This Rostrum With A Sense Of Deep Humility And Great Pride - Humility In The Weight Of Those Great American Architects Of Our History Who Have Stood Here Before Me; Pride In The Reflection That This Home Of Legislative Debate Represents Human Liberty In The Purest Form Yet Devised.

Few Names Have Left A Firmer Imprint Upon The Pages Of The History Of American Times Than Has That Of Ty Cobb... He Seems To Have Understood That In The Competition Of Baseball, Just As In War, Defensive Strategy Never Has Produced Ultimate Victory.