LEST BLEST WE FORGET Nation Does Well to Honor the Memory of the Founder of Its Glorious State of In Ini In- In i dependence F we today lived In a colony colour ground IF down by unjust laws lawa our OUI passion for lor national life lite secretly and tragically tragically trag trag- burning if It Washington had hadl l laded failed bad died in vain for lb the cause which in fact ho be brought to looting lasting tr triumph tri tri- then then for poor sentimental humanity hu hu- humanity manity he would shine with a luster greater eater than now is his write whites Joyce Kilmer In the New York Times ills His cause triumphed the dream became a reality and therefore lost the charm of of the dream m. m Washington dying on his bis bed In his hon honored old ld age abre his S hopes bopes r realized is 19 a B noble figure egure But Dut Buthe Buthe Duthe he lacks the dramatic appeal of Washington Wash Wash- ington n bidding farewell Tazewell to his children at the foot toot of ot the gallows By some strange perversity of or human hu hn- man wan nature the cause we wo consider romantic ro ro- mantic and picturesque que Is always a aLost aLost aLost Lost Cause The names most deeply loved are those of the fallen taileD leaders loaders whose partisans met with defeat defeat Rob Robert rt t Bruce and Robert Emmet William Wil Wit liam Wallace Sarsfield and kl that fair and fatal king Charles I I. I and his persecuted and uncrowned heirs Children of ot Union soldiers thou though h we we may maT be our hearts beans beat more quickly at the thought of Lee Leetha than tha at the 1 thought of Grant W We rise when the band plays The Star Span 1 Banner but we rise and shout when It plays Dixie And ADd It mU must t also be acknowledged that a tr tragic death endears a statesman states states- roan mao to the Ule generations that follow him hm If It you OU are n a a great creat h leader er and want to be sure ure of pf Jt posterity's affection 0 see ee e that your our cause falls Th Then n the Ule conquerors will legislate late against the honoring o of 1 your r memory and arid that your lour fame tame secure ure But Dut if your cause succeeds then at least see that your year death Is b sudden sodden and violent Give the world a drums drama a legend Washington triumphed At Yorktown Yorktown York York- town he captured redcoats and put pat an ao end to tyranny on our shores It Is not forbidden to honor Ills Ida memory the wearing of ot the red white and blue Is II attended by b BO so perila per per- 11 ils ila And so we take things for granted grant grant- ed we ire we tor forget et the hideous hideout dangers through which we passed sed only some hundred and ond two-score two years year ago ugo we take for tor granted grunted our nationality our ourI I om and the fearless warrior the ned Ded statesman who gave them When Shen theo we speak of ot Washington d 6 of His Country we do so iJ- iJ r r with a n laugh us as if tho the phrase were empty rhetoric Instead of ot sublime truth Liege means more marp to us DB than Lexington and remembering Edith Cavell Covell we give ehe no thought to Jane McCrea We may well thank God that the war of American independence has not the of battles fought in vain that our freedom Is no lost cause that Washington's halo Is not that of at a martyr whose life lite and death were un un- availing To those w who io o look at nt the worlds world's events In true tree historical perspective per per- perspective without sentimentality and with love of at Justice and t freedom dom in their breasts the American Revolution fills th the most encouraging page e In the chronicle of the centuries But Bat for tor formost formost most of us It is Is' only In times of ot stress like the present that we can come to toan toan toan an actual sense of our ex exceptional privileges to a realization of ot the radiant radiant radi null ant truth of ot the stories we read In our history book in school This year the D Declaration of Independence takes ona on ona onis a is cle clearer cleater significance we know as DS we did not in bygone years what it means meaos to be tree free and Independent states absolved absolved absolved ab ab- ab- ab solved forever from all nil allegiance to foreign powers And so 80 this year Q birthday is t. no DO routine Holiday but A n 1 i o 1 In an yet jet ct Joyful commemoration a i l faY y on nn whiCh we honor with full tull h It him bun who Tho mode made OS Us a nation th the warrior WIO whose sw sword ro cut the bonds h of ur our thralldom the statesman who bud bud- us H us avoiding entangling entangling en en- tangling tro n our tr free way an independent republic no nations nation's sycophant sycophant syco syco- no nations nation's toot tool With malice toward none said auld W Washington's greatest greatest great great- eat eat- est successor R r with charity for all nit It wn WOoI n a summing up of or Washington's own poll political tI I r No lost caune how however r with the blood of or martyrs martYN seems today so 80 noble nobl as S th the still triumphant cause canse of American In In- dependence enee No modern hero bero fighting overseas U ix today coo o dear to os' os us as 88 our founder and preserver And to his examples examples ex lX- amples and his counsels we cannot look for guidance and look In Ln vats vain