Show BOTH GREAT LEADERS names of lincoln and lee closely associated mot years anniversary the one humbred hun tred and sixteenth of the birth of abraham lincoln was unique tor for the coupling with it of a commemoration of robert edward lee formal exercises in honor of the two men were held in the hall of pame fame for great americans at new york university in which there have long been memorial tablets for them both it will not be overlooked either that steps have been taken for or the rehabilitation and of lees old home and the government Is planning the construction of a monumental bridge across the potomac leading directly from the lincoln memorial to arlington Arlinr ton it would be as aa foolish to expect the south to forgot lee or to cease to honor him us its it would to expect the north similarly to ignore lincoln it Is not unreasonable to expect both and all parts of the country to recognize and to honor the intrinsic virtues of them both each the indisputably best representative of the cause for which he be strove and we have no question that if in the elysian fields the mighty shade of lincoln to la regardful of what now happens in this world IJU he will WALL give benign approval to this commemorative coupling with his own name the name of its his onetime one time most formidable antagonist washington post |