Every man's life is the center of a circle. Within its narrow confines he is potential; beyond he perishes. And if immortality be a splendid but delusive dream, if the incompleteness of every human career, even the longest and most fortunate, be not perfected and supplemented after its termination here, then he who fears to die should dread to live, for life would be a tragedy more desolate and inexplicable than death. Mr. John Walker, accompanied by the United States Navy Band Orchestra, rendered a cornet solo, "Abide with me." BENEDICTION The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery. D. D., pronounced the benediction: And now may grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit abide with us and keep us always. Amen. Memorial Addresses Remarks by Representative Tarver Mr. SPEAKER: The wave of grief which swept over the State of Georgia on the evening of April 18, 1932, when news went out from Washington that Senator HARRIS had died, was such a spontaneous and genuinely sincere tribute on the part of the three million people whom he had served to the sterling character and accomplishments of the man that the mere addition of words by one individual can add nothing to it. Throughout the news articles which appeared in all of the papers of the State at that time there ran one expression which impressed me deeply, and that was that in his passing the people of Georgia had lost a "friend." Not the accomplishments of his years of public service, many and varied as they were, received emphasis; not the numerous and high honors which had been justly bestowed upon him by his State and Nation; but the fact that in Senator HARRIS every man, woman, and child in Georgia had a "friend"-that was the outstanding feature of private and public comment. And it was the strength of the man, in his political career. It was not his, "the applause of listening senates to command." He made no pretensions |