Show INDEPENDENCE DAY National holidays arc losing much of theIr oldfashioned formality and routine rou-tine exertion and becoming more and morE days of relaxation and enjoyment There was a time when the Fourth of JUly and Memorial day were seasons sea-sons of oratory street parades and gatherings no less remarkable for the intensity of their patriotism than for the patience and perspiration which distinguished them But the change is taking place It Is more noticeable in Sunday perhaps than In any other day It is I losing the stiffness that used to eharactCfize it The complex artificial and strained observance of such days 15 vanishing with the Intel ledunL development of the race If there has ever been a time since the birth of the republic when its anniversary an-nIversary was not celebrated with noise and snlke history contains 110 record of the fart But If the boys and girls Df America like a racket which reminds them of war if the grownup patriots of the nation desire to smell powder once a year give them their liberty elS the celebration be a travesty upon Independence But the old style of uni i fOllIled men and women rIding or marching over dusty roads trying to look prIm and proper and the hardworking hard-working populace which hadnt any 11lgher conception of liberty than to sit en hard benches and listen to spread tlgll speeches on the glory of war and the tJr uiy of the mother country are passing While the day is observed and it will be so long as the republic lives there w1l1 be patriotic speeches and demonstrations demon-strations There should be But appeals ap-peals to prejudice and passion arc out of date The AngloSaxon peoples Understand un-derstand each other at last AU at tFmpts o arouse antagonism will henceforth be regarded as demagogy It can no longer pass as devotion to the flag And men will be left to enjoy the day as they please If oratory Inter In-ter ts them they may always have their fill If they want to go fishing or swimmingor wheeling or boating thue is i none to question their patriotIsm patrIot-Ism for the choice This is IndepEndence day It should be a day of independence |