Show lb tb Mot ITS BIRTH DAY v O i iO 9 x ti b ba bY by a Y f y 4 j 4 Y r w wd t wt d 4 What flower s th s that greets the morn lis iii hues from Heaven so 10 freshly born With burn ng star stor end flaming band bandIt bandIt It k all th the sunset lend lond londo o 0 toll tollus us whet Its nome name may moy be be- bej beIs beis j 1 Is th s the flower of I berty It Its It's s 's th b banner of the tho free The Tho starry Rower flower of I Oliver Wendell Holmes Ita ItaI I The Fourth Recalls Wars of the Past Q u HE liE Fourth of or July Iris his oc 1 J 9 an honored place H J Jon y on our calendar for tor aL a a L Jt j jlong long time and the V if L i t tion gro grows gross s to regard It y as a perfunctory gesture t L I In honor of an ancient ancient y f Ij II il deed 1 let et thero there wis never greater need of or realizing how dependent those old victories are upon present day courage The bat battIe battie battie tIe to preserve the freedom won In revolution Is a battle that never ends Independence day recalls to tous tous tous us with sith what difficulty and sut suf suffering suffering fering our freedom was first ob tamed and of how constantly It has been endangered both by domestic and by foreign foes The freedom which we proclaimed on that first glorious Fourth can cannot cannot cannot not last If It we se e do not tend any It-any It anymore more than a plant can enn grow without water and sunlight In domestic affairs restrictions upon personal freedom have grown to a dangerous heIght In foreign fields lIels w we are still Inclined to assume that be bo- because cause calico we hive ve a 11 primary material Interest as well weB as a strong moral belief bellet In peace as a guarantor of freedom the Interests and the mo morality of or others Impel them along the same path With a modest modesty which would be commendable un under under under der other circumstances many ot of otus ofus ofus us underestimate the Importance of AmerIca to civilization and the need for a national Insurance alent to all that we have ha at stake In the continued maintenance or of peace The Fourth of or July Is a valuable valuable valuable able occasion Indeed If Ir It carries our minds through the War of ot the Revolution the the Civil war and the wars or near wars which we have had with Great Britain France Germany and ond Spain It renews our present zest z st for tor liberty May It re- re remind remind re remind mind us that one neither gets nor keeps something for nothing In this World and that even en such a price priceless priceless priceless less thing as treed freedom om drifts away or Is snatched away unless a com community Is constantly vigilant l- l 1 New York Herald Tribune |