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Show u LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY NEXT MONDAY The birthday of the Martyred President falls on next Monday. It is a holiday. Banks observe the day by closing. Few other places of business do. Schools generally have appropriate exercises which are instructive to the students, impressive and helpful. help-ful. They are far more fitting than a football game or an aimless day of vacation. This year it would be particularly fitting if some time were spent in study and meditation over the present day situation of this nation and of the grave problems which confront its President and its people. Are they not similar to those that worried deep furrows into the brow of the kind-hearted Lincoln who, like President Wilson, dreaded and hated war? True, there is the differ- -ence that the present threatened trouble is with a people not so near akin, but the difference is only in the number of generations and distance. It was well for this nation that there was a conscientious Christian Christ-ian man at the head of its affairs fifty-six years ago. It is well that there is such a man in the same place now. Politics are relegated to oblivion for the present pres-ent and the nation today is back of the President regardless re-gardless of creed or party. Let us observe the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington this month in an intense spirit of loyalty loyal-ty and patriotism to Our Country. n |